gainer

It’s sad. 

The nurse was nearly 2 hours late. 

I told her to take her time. 

And she definitely took it! 

I’m not complaining. 

I try to practice gratitude. 

But gosh almighty. 

What has become of nursing!??

The family says the night nurse 

Keeps the lights on all night 

And talks so loud on the phone

She wakes the family up. 

She sings all night, too:

What can I say 

What can I say

All the good things 

the Lord has done for me. 

This goes on all night. 

And she’s loud. 

I imagined poor Jesus 

Running around, 

Tripping and fawning 

All over Himself. 

Frantically trying 

To get all the details “just right”

To please Miss L. 

In the first few hours of my shift, 

I have the lights off, 

And the Quran playing. 

She don’t care. 

She just blurts on through. 

To hell with every one else. 

I joking told the family

That if they move to Denver,

I would move with them. 

I was only halfway joking. 

A typical day for a home health nurse- 

Keeping Baby Brother from eating 

Mommy’s Diabetic Lancets. 

The Baby has this on her wall. 

I’m quite sure she laughs at me. 

We have a silly idea 

Of what we need. 

But we really don’t have a clue. 

Gotta love apps. 

They’ve come a long way. 

I had very little pain at work. 

Just brain fog. 

How can it be 

That sometimes it takes an hour

To get ready and you’re still late. 

And sometimes you wake up late

And get to work early? 

Life is an illusion for sure.