Monday's Missives

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  I love this boy- he impresses me more everyday. I've said it before, but when I came home from downrange a baby would have been high on my list of things I thought I did not need. I just didn't know what I needed.
  
  
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• My last patient was a nurse in her working life- always nice to care for a fellow nurse and I'm very sure they generally get the extra TLC they deserve when they become a hospice patient.
  
  
• Another recent patients family was plagued with denial issues which continues to mystify me. How can you not see and grasp this person is dying and in fact not seem to get that we all die?
  
  
• Cigarette smokers as a rule are way more likely to have trouble accepting they are dying, will do everything they can to prolong their lives, blame their impending death on everything but their own behavior and their families more often than not follow suit.
  
  
• My eldest son's senior ring will be in soon. Speaking of denial- I cannot believe circumstance forced me to say that.
  
  
• Patients and/or their families always try to give me things especially books if the patient was a reader.
  
  
• Score: brand new looking The North Face fleece jacket for 4 bucks. My guess is it was something more than that new.
  
  
• Dilemma: I want an e reader- I need a GPS system for my car.
  
  
• Still love my Seiko chronograph, get as many compliments on it as any watch I've ever owned and I'm very sure one of my grandchildren will own it someday. It is obviously very high quality even as Seikos go and feels it.
  
  
• I get what someone means when they say, I'm more than sure, but isn't that a bit like a football coach saying, Give me 110%... ?
  
  
• I could not even make fun of it when a local person sold me a rubber bracelet that read, Save A Life- Be An Organ Doner, but man I wish I could have proofread it for them before they submitted their order.