So today was my second day volunteering in the recovery room at the hospital. As you know, I am a Nursing major at Brigham Young University. There are many things that I have really been looking forward to doing once I graduate and become a nurse. With that said, there is one thing that I've been scared about, and that's the work shifts. I get tired very easily, and have often been afraid that I wouldn't be able to handle the 12 hour shifts that most nurses are required to work. I'm glad to say though that after today, that fear has been eased a little bit.
Although I got pretty tired after being at the hospital for ten hours, honestly it was the patients that really kept me going. For example, I had one older man that started crying when he woke up after coming out of back surgery. But the wonderful thing was, these weren't tears of pain, but tears of joy. The man told me that the intense pain he had been dealing with in his leg for the past five years was completely gone. He simply couldn't keep the tears back because he was so happy. How beautiful the moment was. It really is times like these that I'm reminded why I'm doing what I'm doing. How blessed I am to have the opportunity to be a part of it.
