With you not around...
...it's a little bit more than I can stand. Hee. So crazy about this song. Krystel shares this crazy hobbit obsession. Haha!
Baby, I'll wait for you. I'm ALWAYS waiting. I wonder when this will all finally end. Haha!
What's new? I decided to go to work while school's out. So that means, I'm working tomorrow. On Good Friday, nonetheless. What can I do? There's no such thing as a religious holiday in the place I work in. And besides, I'm saving for a Florida getaway when someone comes over. :) HAHAHA hindi naman halatang excited noh.
I'm so happy my sister and I are back in action. We kind of had a fight (don't AKS, long story), and didn't talk for a month. Can you believe it? It was painful though, I've to tell you. But yknow you can only ignore each other for so much time, especially when the person is your other half, best friend, and sister. A lot of people envy our relationship (not even being conceited, they tell us themselves), and it's exactly because what we have is extraordinarily special. We got each other's backs no matter what, even when other friends people try to break that bond. It's different. Friends can easily be replaced, but you only got one family. And they're the ones who'll be there when everything else collides.
What can I say? When you love someone, over time every wrong thing they did becomes irrelevant and easily forgotten. That's love. You take them back without any questions asked. As if nothing really happened.
Tini Lau, I'm glad nothing horrible had to happen to one another (like being stupid enough to get a tetanus shot, WURD.) before we patched things up. I've to thank my Smart cellphone though. I love you! Shopping (both for real and wishful-thinking), pigging out, getting broke, taking pictures, surfing Multiply albums (or ALBUM? Haha!), watching DVDs, and late night kulitans are so much more fun when it's with you. =] All other "friends" can go crazy around Myspace and take us off from their top friends, but yknow what? I DON'T CARE. 'Slong as I got ya. I gotcha maaa! <3
Since I haven't read as much books as I intended to this year, I tried to compensate. Key word is TRIED. I loaned three books on nursing, and that book above was the first book I read. (I'm only halfway done with Trauma Junkie. The next one's Nursing America) I have to admit that even though our professor is too flamboyant, our Trends of Nursing class really took me to the next level in my nursing career. For the past few semesters, it's only been school-hospital-school. Sometimes, in order to become a really good nurse you have to be out there in the community and experience firsthand what it is to be one. It's been fulfilling. Sure it's nothing like experiencing a woman give birth in the labor & delivery unit, but the experience is exhilarating when simple ordinary people from the community thank you for spending a minute or two talking to them about their high blood pressure, what to eat and how to cook their food, and what their "pills" really are. Little things.
Anyway, I've been meaning to write this long post on nursing days ago but I never got around to it. It's basically my mission to get people into nursing. I know it's cliche (especially in the Philippines), but Lord knows we don't need any more doctors or lawyers! (Haha, sorry guys.) I was actually telling the boyfriend during one of our conversations that at this point, I don't care as much as I used to if people did it for money/practicality/whatever. I honestly believe that people who don't have the passion for it won't be in it for the long haul. (Sorry, ang tamaan wag magalit.) I've seen friends drop out of nursing school. The desire for money is not enough (but good Lord, thank You for a profession that is fulfilling both emotionally and financially! HAHA) That alone doesn't make you stay in a profession like this. Let me tell you why. I've witnessed firsthand the ramifications of the nursing shortage when we go to clinicals. IT IS CRAZY. It's honestly not like nursing in the books. Yknow, the kind where the nurse actually has time to talk to the patient during her shift. Hell, she doesn't even have time to eat or pee. It is that crazy. And so all the more, I hope people get into nursing. And I hope each nurse doesn't shun people away from a profession that badly needs manpower.
I think as nurses and/or future nurses, we should all go out and tell the world. Become nurses just like how it's really supposed to be according to Nightingale, mah lady. Haha! Srsly, I hope we don't become nurses who simply go to work and go home without being out there. (Krystel, CULTURE na ba?) That's REAL nursing. Taking it out to the streets. Being a nurse even when you're not in your ugly nursing school uniform or your chic scrubs.
And as for you other people who haven't considered nursing, I hope you do. Haha, it entails a whole lot of sacrifice, but there's nothing more fulfilling than taking care of another person's needs before taking care of yours. This wasn't really meant to be a nursing recruitment post. I actually meant to say, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. Go to a doctor regularly. Get your annual physical check-ups. Watch what you eat. Exercise. (Me too.) Because if you take care of yourself, then that means lower prevalence of the horrible diseases/conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity and hypertension. And yknow what that means for us in the other end. Yep, less work. Yknow, no matter how superwoman we nurses look like.. We still have stomachs to fill when they're hungry, bladders that need to be emptied, backs that'll eventually weaken, and legs that'll abound with varicosities over time.
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I'm quoting what you said here, by the way. :) Kasi nursing dito sa Pinas shouldn't be only perceived as A MONEY MACHINE CAREER. Sabi ko nga, you have to have the HEART. You can't focus on the pay alone. You have to actually LOVE WHAT YOU DO. And ako, I'M ALL HEART. :d