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DN of a nursing home for years before that. We go through this shit everyday as we vent to each other about our work to unwind.
We each have just silently agreed to let the other go off and get it out, then we go on with life, the only option we know of.
The stories I have heard over the last ten years would break any normal person's heart a thousand times over. I find myself thinking about them the next day, or longer, and we both have become somewhat used to it I guess. We both are the heads of our respective jobs for the corps we work for in a major US city, we are on our own to lead everyone else and make sure they show up to do their jobs and the shit doesn't get so thick in their heads they just give up and move on to an easier job where they don't have to deal with it anymore. We don't always succeed in that, and as such we are also processing new people in to fill the vacancies, but, unfortunately, we have somehow got good at it I guess.
She was a Dem long before I met her, and would actually like to see social med happen too, regardless of what that may or may not do to her pay. But one thing that really gets to her in her job is the people who insist on making gomers full code. (Keeping the Shiavo types alive at all costs) She is the nurse who sets with you and tells you all the options for your loved one, a job I know I couldn't do, and helps to get people over the fact their loved one is gone.
The whole system must be reevaluated and Americans will have a hard time with any system that says your loved one is not going to pull through, so we can only do comfort measures for them.
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