Hope all had a good Thanksgiving weekend.  I worked all weekend and that is okay.  I usually do, so that I can have Christmas Day off instead.   Being a Canadian living in the US with an American hubby, I still feel weird having Thanksgiving in November instead of October, and I also hate the thought of DH spending Christmas alone.  Don’t know why it doesn’t bug me that he spends TG  alone, just doesn’t, but I don’t want him to be alone on Christmas.  But this year was great cause he flew to the mainland and spent TG with his family.    LEAVING ME ALONE FOR TWO GLORIOUS, WONDERFUL WEEKS!    That are sadly coming to an end tomorrow.  He will be back home tomorrow afternoon.  Ah well, it is time I suppose to share my house again :)

But I did have a bit of turkey on Thanksgiving.  The hospital where I work gives free turkey and all the trimmings to all the employees that work on TG.  and it is good and tasty.   And pumpkin pie too :)    But it was a busy and rather depressing TG as well.  Hence the bitch of my blog………

TG night a young mom, five days post partum from a C section with twin came to ER because her heart gave out.  This should not happen to a young mom.  We ended up intubating and flying her out.  She is now on the heart transplant list, and two babies don’t have a mom at home.

Yesterday a nine year old drowned at a birthday party because no one told them that our waters are so dangerous.

Today one of our nurses was run off the road by a drunk driver while she was on her moped.  She has multiple trauma injuries and is going to OR.

Now tonight a young man who was involved in an ATV accident just blew a fat embolism and is fighting for his life….

Sometimes I wish my job was not so beat me up and beat me down.  But it makes me appreciate the sunsets and the sunrises, it makes me appreciate the fact that my DH is coming home today, it makes me greatful that today my family was safe and healthly because all that we take for granted can be over in a heartbeat, sometimes there just is no tomorrow……..