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Working at my Mental Health Job.....
Stacey:
That's a super tough job you got there Pam. My wife worked for a while at a Nursing Home and that was pretty tough on her. You are right about your patients needing YOU! Even if they know it or not!
Silvia Martin:
Hi Pam,
I know, what you're talking about and applaud you for sticking with it. Those people need someone with a heart as big as yours.My parents were psych nurses.I spent a lot of time with them at their jobs.My dad worked in a "closed" house, meaning that the people weren't allowed outside unsupervised. I didn't like it there at all. A lot of them were tide to their beds and screaming profanities. Not a pretty sight fora little girl. I liked playing with my moms patients though. They were mentally on my level. It was hard leaving them behind when i grew up (mentally). This was a huge complex in Germany by the way. Hitler did a lot of damage there. He saw the mentally ill not as human beings. He sterilized the women and did experiments on a lot of the people. It is said, that there are tunnels underneath the complex where some courageous caretakers risked their lives to save there patients (I'm sure you would have been one of those brave people). Some of my parents patients had been Hitler's guinea pigs.Indescribable :'(
I worked at a big nursing home when I came to America. God taught me a lot there. It was a humbling experience. I've had Alzheimer patients, who asked were they "lived" every 5 min, got beat,scratched,bit,cussed at and yet God gives you grace every day to endure more and enlarges your heart to love those people. It is so amazing ,the things you thought you could never do and then God changes your heart.
I did have some fun there to though. There were some characters. One guy made up his own names for me. When I wore my white scrubs I was "Gloria" and had me married to one of the male aids. He kept asking me if my "husband" was treating me well. When I was wearing my burgundy scrubs, I was "Dave" :-\ . When I tried to tell him I was a girl, he just smiled and said, " no you're not". Then he pointed to one of the "girl" aids and said, "now THAT is a girl , Dave" ;D ;)
Well... I did have very short hair and a boy-ish figure; and the other girl had long hair and BIG :o :o :o :o ::). When his family came to visit, they grinned at me and said, "you must be DAVE".
He also kept trying to hook me up with his granddaughter ::).
Well...this post is long enough, so I better stop.
God bless,
Silvia
Linny:
Funny stories Silvia. :D On the Child Unit, we had a book that we recorded our funniest moments with the kids. Before I left, I photocopied it. I still go back and read it for a smile.
Many times we'd have to make a quick exit from a room to keep from laughing in front of the kids.
One of my favorites was when I was having to discipline a 9 yr old little girl who was VERY smart and an amazing smart alec. I was leaving her room and she had to get in the last say. So she says, "Linda, you are not NEARLY as pretty as you think you are."
That one required a quick exit.
Lin
daywalker:
--- Quote from: frecklegirl417 on January 15, 2010, 11:59:04 PM ---I wish I could get them to somehow understand there is no hell, but I guess that will come one day.
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Hey, whaddu know... there are millions of people with [mostly] perfectly-functioning brains who cannot [or will not] grasp this understanding...
Daywalker 8) ??? :D ;) ;D
Nelson:
--- Quote from: frecklegirl417 on January 15, 2010, 11:59:04 PM ---My biggest problem at work is me, I sit and listen and try to make their lives seem like their is nothing wrong and make them has comfortable has I can. I tell them has soon has "we" meaning me and them get them all better they can leave but I now sme of them will never get better and I feel for them. I feel for them more then the ones who have no family contact.
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Hi Pam,
Personally I admire you for what you do, I certainly couldn't do it. We must thank God every day for the gift He places in each of us, and if we need so many different gifts to help in society, likewise this is true of the ekklesia too. As for getting better, that most certainly is in the hands of our God,
* "And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away." Then He who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And He said to me,"Write, for these words are true and faithful."" (Rev 21:3-5)
* "If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth" (Col 3:1,2)
* "Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal [age-lasting]" (2Cor 4:16-18)
One day all these evil things will have passed away, but today is not that day. We wait with endurance in the strength that God supplies, you will most certainly be kept in the prayers of the holy ones.
Grace and peace to you and yours
Nelson
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