#practicing gratitude

[dyingroses]

[stupidmansuit7]

Yesterday was like, a real rad shift. My tech bought me a big ol' energy drink, not knowing I'd given them up in light of my kidney stone fiasco...but the fact that he thought of me, made my heart happy. The social worker sent me home with some of her molasses cookies, swoooooon. The nursing students dropped off fancy donuts for us, too!

My patients were all really cool, and because of my reduced assignment, I really got to talk to them. Yesterday took me back to my roots though. I got to do pin care on an external fixator, lots of wound care, worked on some ostomies, JP drains. It was like I was back on my old ortho/neuro unit again.

These shifts are so rare, that I try to really appreciate them when they happen. I wish the higher ups would put more emphasis on reducing the nurse to patient ratios, instead of profits to pad their own pockets....because these shifts would no longer be a rarity, but the norm. Overall satisfaction scores would improve, not just for patients but nurses too.

[ardans]

saka return, saka goal, bukaio backhug. there were wins.. there were wins..

[catucino]

The Glad Game #3

I am glad to have an endless supply of books, I am glad for libraries, I am simply glad for books!

[raspberrybesitos]

spamming everyone with flowers today bc i feel like it

you get flowers! you get flowers! everyone gets flowers!!! 💐💐💐

ily all, thank you for following me and putting up with me and my bs 🫶🏼

i hope your day shines brighter tomorrow 🩷

[asleep-and-afraid]

proof i have never had an original thought ever:

i developed this little idea/way to live called “small joys” where you basically just pick one upcoming thing, a very small thing within the day or the hour, to look forward too. anxiety’s been a bitch lately and i think it’s contributing to my existential dread and how i feel absolutely purposeless and directionless because rn my life is an endless cycle. so i tried to start living by picking a “small joy” to look forward too when im feeling shitty about life. like a hot shower, or talking to a person i like, or hugging someone, or eating my pumpkin spice cheerios, or talking to my guinea pigs. really anything small. because if you are like me and tend to zoom out of the world and then start feeling like there’s no point in living anymore, then you need to start zooming IN. don’t look at the next 5 years, look at the next 5 hours. idk, it works for me. but the funny part is that my therapist asks me one day after i describe my zooming out issue and then my “small joys” strategy if i have ever tried practicing gratitude… turns out it’s almost exactly what i’ve been doing on my own to cope with life 😭 not exactly but very close

[grateful-little-shit]

I am sorer today than normal but some of it is that good muscle ache because you used them and I haven't felt this in a long time. It is glorious.

[yagrldes]

“it’s about the journey.”