RollingAcres

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Halo is our housepet/farm dog/companion/spoiled brat! She thinks she’s supposed to go everywhere we do and loves to go bye-bye! Super smart and sweet.
I’m beyond ready to have several LGDs. Just waiting to hear the litter is on it’s way. Wills tart with one and probably add one yearly for now. Not sure I’m brave enough to do two LGD pups at one time...
My new job is going well. I’ll have more weekends off and I’m making more money. I worked there before and had to give it up to care for DD2 when she was little because my commute is an hour one way. It was time to find a different profession or go back. Will see how it all works out. Not thrilled about the drive but not sure if I’m ready for a new career field.

Good to hear that Halo is being spoiled, as puppies should be! lol
2 LGD pups at once, I'm sure if you do it, you'd find a way. You always do.
Glad your new job is going well. When you said new career field, does that mean you're not a nurse anymore? Or I mis-read that?
 

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@Devonviolet and @RollingAcres

I’m still a nurse. The ICU that I was working in had become more of a detox unit for alcohol withdrawal and drug overdoses. I’d dealt with several violent patients and family members. I have enough stress in my life that I was ready to take care of medical patients again. Going to try this and see how it goes. I’m on an ICU stepdown unit now.
 

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Haha we both posted at the same time and I just asked her as well. Kinda sounded like she's not in nursing anymore right?
HAHAHA! I was just noticing that when you posted about it. Yes, I am curious! I did live being a nurse, but it can be stressful. Burnout is common among nurses. Hence, the need to change to different areas. I did IV Nursing, Area Internal Medicine Nursing (a Mayo Clinic Primary Care Clinic, with 24 doctors. I worked under 6 of those doctors) Hospital Nursing, hospital Rehab & Home Health, before I retired, due to Lyme Disease/Epstein Barr Virus.
 
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Going to try this and see how it goes. I’m on an ICU stepdown unit now.
Good! I'm glad you're staying in nursing. We need more caring Nurses, as I'm sure you are. I loved floor nursing. Rehab was my favorite. I had to take a sabbatical, though. I was exhausted & didnt know why. I took 5 months off. But felt guilty, not working. So, I got a job as a home health Nurse. Loved doing that too. Then one of my patients had Lyme. When she described her symptoms, I realized she was describing me! So, I went to her doctor, and he diagnosed me, with Lyme too.

That was the end of my nursing career. My Nurse Manager begged me to just take time off, and go back when I felt better. But, I knew how sick I was, and that I had an uphill battle ahead of me. Little did I know how bad it would get, before it got better - five years later. :(

My step-daughter is a patient tech in the Orthopedic unit and has gotten punched in the face by violent patients before.
YIKES! I can't say I ever got clocked by a patient!
 
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We were at times tying down 6 out 6 patients. Finding syringes and needles that weren’t hospital issued in beds. Patients testing positive for drugs 2 weeks after being in the hospital.
:ep
Ah, the loving and caring friends and family.

I like @Devonviolet's idea of changing "careers" within your nursing career. Has to help with burn out. Glad you've gotten away from the high stress and (it SHOULD NOT happen) dangerous ICU.
 
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