03/07/2019
I suspect it’s hard to love anyone in the healthcare field. We get up early and don't have time to drink coffee over the newspaper. We come home late and are too tired to cook. We work extra hours because we know there are sick people who need us and we are all that they have. We miss events, holidays, birthdays, and our children's school sports games. We don't get too excited over your minor "boo-boo.” We’ve seen far worse. We think about our patients even when we leave the building, wondering did we help them in any special way because they depend solely on us for all their needs. We don't want to talk when we come home. We’ve talked all day. We don't want to move when we come home. We’ve moved all day. It may seem that we have left all our caring, our heart, and our love at work, then have come home to you empty. We probably have. But we don't tell you that many times at work we’re mired by anxiety and we’re scared; scared we’re missing something. Scared we will let our patient down, or worse. Our patients are our families, too. We don't tell you how some of our patients are dying and this makes us cry on the way to work; to do a job we love, but how we’re terrified too because it is breaking us down while putting the most vulnerable at risk. We don't share with you how our hearts melt when our patients give us that loving smile that makes our day. I suspect it is hard to love a healthcare worker, but know this: your healthcare worker needs your love, your understanding, and to know that you "get it.” We need to be the one taken care of every once in a while. We need someone else to take charge of the details because doing it ourselves constantly is exhausting. We need a shoulder to cry on when we can't even tell you why we’re grieving. We need you to do the hardest work you may ever do, which is to love a healthcare worker. This is our calling, to help our patients; our passion and our reason for living. I would like to thank those of you out there who love us and let us do this work, pursue this calling, and living this life ❤️
➡️ Copy and paste this if you work in the healthcare industry or love someone who does. ❤️
