Happy New Year!!!
I woke up this morning no different from any day that I wanted to take photos. I planned last night that I will atleast go to Daytona Beach to take the first photo of the year. A nice beautiful sunrise was in my head, without checking what the day would be today. And of course, as I wake up, the sky is blanketed with overcast and thick fog- so no sunrise for me; that prompted me to just call my family in the Philippines. I promise that I will take a great photo this week to welcome my new year.
I chose to work yesterday- the last day of 2022. When I went to work, I have hoped that my day would be easy; after all, I have the same list of patients I left from the previous day’s assignment. But at the beginning of the shift, I was greeted with patients that is hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) and one needing an immediate antibiotic infusion with no IV access; and my day snowballed from there.
wisdom from the fortune cookie last night. 12/31/2022
When I got home from the long hard day at work, I tried to eat something for dinner. Not a fancy New Year’s Eve dinner that most people I know were having; just a left over from the day before. After all, I was too tired and drained- and all I want is to shower and just hit the sack or the sofa to be comfortable. After my last bite of my left-over plate, I took a fortune cookie that’s in our bread basket- broke it and read the aphorism written on it:
“It can’t rain all the time.”
That brought smile on my face. I left that piece of paper on the counter and went to watch CNN NYE telecast of the ball drop. The segments in this TV special always make me laugh, so it is safe to say that I headed to bed after midnight with a smile on my face.
This morning as I re-organized my day because of my derailed photoshoot, I came across again with the fortune I had from last night that I left on the counter.
I try to find the connection of my last night’s fortune to what transpired in my day yesterday and early morning today. Yes, I had a very challenging day yesterday and cloudy morning today- but it wasn’t all about the challenges at all. During those busy times, I comforted a sobbing daughter of a severely demented patient who’s hip was broken. This change in her mother’s condition leaves her clueless on how she would take caregiving (to a mother who’s physically hurting and suffering from memory loss at the same time) to the next level. Another time was during shift change, I have to pause from giving report to one of my colleagues as I noticed that she’s in distraught. Apparently, she is having some personal issues that couldn’t make her concentrate and eventually broke down. I gave her some comforting and tight hugs, and my two cents that somehow calmed and made her felt better. I reassured her that she is a valued human being before I left.
My fortune cookie was right- It can’t rain all the time. It is up to me or to us how to find that glimpse of sunshine in the midst of the rain.
Looking forward to a very exciting 2023!
sunrise at Sanford a couple of days before Christmas Day. The last I took for 2022.