Saturday - Perspective

No running today - or cycling (got a road bike now!! :o) )

Just work.... and a smile or two for a particular thought about a particular person :o)

'twas a long day at work today.. sick patient.. lots to do.. not much that can be done
The lasting impression from today was one of a particular smell....

It is a smell that you only get from people who are slowly approaching the end of their days in this place.. a smell that, once experienced, is indelibly printed upon your life.

My patient smells this way...

And even the little steps forward that she took today can't shake from my mind that this family are not going to see a happy ending to this time..

Today was supposed to be one of the days I spent with my own children - but the Rota was well and truly messed up (for me at least) - So I'll have to drive down early tomorrow to see them just for a day..
Their Mother 'decided' not to drop them at my Mum's tonight, which would have meant that I could have travelled there this evening and tuck them in to bed, prefering instead to employ a baby sitter and hence increase my journey time and distance that inconvenient little bit more..

Nice!

You know - I am so glad that in my life there is something so special and amazing, that even such pettiness seems completely irrelevant..

My direction is crystal clear..

and it is truly wonderful