Pea-n-Me
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Thank you, bobbi, your words mean a lot. We have the posters, too. I started seeing them at a different hospital when my FIL was there years ago. I think they’re helpful, and they’ll mean something to the rule followers among us. (Isn’t that always the way!)
I’ll tell you about a good friend of mine. When I met her she was just starting nursing school, in her 40s. She studied for years, all the way up to a master’s degree in nursing and was working in a hospital, all was good. Until she went in one day when they were short staffed. She was helping an elderly patient when he attacked her, out of the blue. She went out, and actually woke up in the ER after being resuscitated. She suffered from PTSD and never went back to work as a nurse after that.
Another friend had a weapon pulled on her when she went to protect her patient. She also was traumatized and left the profession.It gets disheartening. Nurses also don’t always report these incidents as they should, either, so statistics are worse than they appear. (Just last week I asked someone I work with who was hit whether she reported it and she said she didn’t, because the patient smiled afterward, like she was ‘kidding‘.) When DD was still working as an aide she was kicked in the stomach by a patient who was a physician! Staff pulled her out of there and the next day the director called her to see if she was ok, etc. I’ve seen nurses who are pregnant have the same thing happen - in like, feet aiming for the belly!
This is how it was for DS when he was kicked in the head, too - the patient aimed for his head, and connected.
Pea and Bobbi, too! Thank you both for sharing and Pea, of course, for looking for me as well.
Please take carecof yourself always in general, you knowcthat, and by praying abot and looking into retirement along with both more enjoyable part time paid and volunteer oportunities.
Fun. Prayers always for Mia and you to, you know that. Feel better, my friend.
Glad you heard back from the people you were hoping to hear from! Looking forward to hearing about your Dad’s special time.
) Since we had to spend the night at the airport in Baltimore in October, we’re trying really hard to stick with non-stop flights (as we usually do, anyway, but to Arizona there weren’t many). So glad you were able to get on Mine Train and Tron! In December we went late in the day to MK, last minute, and Tron wasn’t an option, but next time maybe. So where and what did you eat, tell us! And pics if you have some! I’ve heard that L&D units can be tough, too. I worked at Boston Children’s for several years. Such special places to be, sometimes I miss it, especially over the years when I had to bring my own children there. 
We’ve decided to go since we’re feeling better, I just pray I don’t get sick again!
I don’t even know what to buy anymore. (Use an iPad Pro primarily.)
She's a standard not a miniature Bull Terrier, however she is very much on the small side at just 38 lbs.
) seem to bounce back a lot faster after getting neutered. Trying to keep them still or chilled out is darn near impossible. 
