And I know I'm not alone in this healing game.
Seems a smidge easier when you know people that went through the same thing.. feel the same way, and still have a lot of processing to do too. ❤️🩹
I see you, hear you, and stand beside you.
Sending ❤️🩹 from Detroit.
@rn_critcare
There has been a lot of talk about ‘resilience’ among health care workers. I am not a fan of this term. Resilience is defined as an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. ‘Grit’ is a better word.
@rn_critcare
Grit is showing up every day, no matter how hard it is, or how tired you are, or how scared you are. It is putting on PPE when the skin on your face is bruised and broken. It is adding on an extra shift because we are desperately short on staffing.
To all my dear colleagues in health care right now, who are in the many places that are drowning in covid. Please know ... we see you, hear you and stand behind you. This is excruciating! Know that you ARE doing a good job.
#NurseTwitter
#MedTwitter
❤
And, when we ask you to wear a mask, it is not for our personal or political gain, it is because it could save lives.
"If you know us, or see our faces, you understand.
We are exhausted, scared, and shaken. Because, after all, we're human."
Probably someone not racist or an Islamophobe
But since you want to know, let's do a social experiment shall we? I hope people can join in answering his question
"Who'd want to even know a Muslim?"
RETWEET if you'd want to know a muslim, & if u don't know one already follow ❤
@rn_critcare
I’m not sure that any of us have recovered from our experiences over this past year. And when we do, we will never be the same. But we have grit, and we will persevere.”
— Nicole Agee, RN
@colleenmfarrell
Do whatever you need to do for yourself to heal. Don't beat yourself up, try not to feel too guilty (easier said than done) and BE KIND to yourself. You are doing a good job! Sending ❤ from Detroit.
@rn_critcare
Grit is showing compassion when you have nothing left to give. It is smiling when it seems like there is nothing to smile about. Grit encompasses passion and perseverance.
My son told me today "felt like you didn't like us today". 😭
I was yelling A LOT.
Sat him down him down later and said " I have something important to tell you. You might not understand it".
#NurseTwitter
When I say.. the JOY I filled with this morning.. seeing an old transplant patient, being in the right place at the right time.. she & her husband FILLED MY CUP TO THE BRIM! 7 years out & I've missed her every time she's come back to visit/appts. MADE MY DAY!❤️
(with permission)
Pt came up to me this am & I saw
@RanaAwdish
In Shock on the bed w/her. Asked the team she was w/ if they had left their book..to then find out it was my pts book. Later she was able to tell me, it should be required reading for all drs & that it was "a beaut".
(W/permission)
”work in the ICU, where it’s like a war zone, and I go out in public and everything’s normal,” she said. “You see death and suffering, and then you walk into the grocery store and get resistance. It feels like we’re being ostracized by our community.”
🚨I wrote about what Delta is doing to Missouri. Some hospitals have accrued as many COVID-19 patients in 5 weeks as they got in 5 months last year. Almost all those patients are unvaccinated. HCWs can't believe they're being overwhelmed *again*. 1/
Good morning
#Detroit
! What a spectacular
#sunriseintheD
this morning!
This was just the tail end of it. Drove into work with skies of pink over the city. Was truly wonderful!
Have a good day.😊
Told him that I was more frustrated, angry, yelling, more tired bc was I still struggling with everything I went thru taking care of the world bug patients in the spring.
He said "I don't understand all the way, but I understand a little". ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
#NurseTwitter
All in a few days work
@RanaAwdish
! Strong work. Hoping this will help bring a good change for Walt and the rest of the Northville kids..and peace of mind for the parents. 😊
Did get out FINALLY with my little man past dark for a run. He didn't want me to go alone. ❤ We rocked out 2 and looked at some Halloween lights. Started reading The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse. And sat with him & stroked his hair while he fell asleep.
🚴🏿♂️🏃🏻♀️🎃😴❤❤❤
I LOVE this man! My heart, my everything. No one else that I want to do hard things with. Thank you for loving and supporting me
@BoyBlue392
. I know the last 4 years have been hard on you too. Thank you for helping me through. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Got to spread joy this week and it really uplifted me. ❤ The 1st and 2nd graders at my kids school chose our MICU as a service project. They made 12! Tubs of goodies for all 6 pods (for day AND night shift) with handmade cards for the ENTIRE MICU staff.
I ❤ palliative AND hospice.
Found out this weekend that RNs can order palliative consults now. We ordered 4! 1of which resulted in pt transitioning to hospice. Was so proud of my teammate for that.. advocating for the pt. And that the pt was able to make the decision.
Don't remember my first covid day. Not any of it; my assignment, my team, etc. Except that I was team leader that day.
Monday March 16th.
Therapist told me. Not all forgetting is bad. Some times we are meant to forget.
I don't think I am supposed to remember that day.
ALWAYS talk to your patients (even if they are intubated or can't respond); let them know who you are, what you're doing, what the plan is, what family had come or called, the day and time, what the weather is like, that they're doing a good job. Combine with caring touch. ❤️❤️
A patient who was intubated and sedated told me today that he heard a lot of conversations during that time. And wishes people still greeted him when entering his
#ICU
room. Even though he could not show a response, he wanted to be included.
#MedTwitter
#ICURehab
#CriticalCare
Emotional watching this video. Sad to say that I was looking for familiar faces. We took care if so many of these people, whose lives were gone too soon.
What a beautiful memorial.
Much ❤❤❤ to all the family and friends.
900 portraits set up by families in Detroit to memorialize their loved ones killed by Covid. Seeing these faces brings home the tragedy of numbers. We can never forget those we've lost.
It is such a special relationship between a granddaughter and grandmother.
So privileged to be able to spend almost 45 years with her.
So happy my kids knew her, spent lots of time with her, and felt her love.
Forgot to post this 1 yesterday.
Just 3 days before she passed, my siblings and I were able to take her out for a walk. She loved going for walks. So grateful my sisters were in from WI & CA & that we were all able to spend time with her together.
We love you Grandma. ❤️❤️❤️❤️