Just a bit of rambling as the issue popped up today...
Working in a (mainly) geriatric practice can definitely have it's ups and downs.
And having worked here as long as I have, you tend to become familiar with patients you see year after year....
You deal with people who are not in the best health, and thereby being in the the best of moods.
You lose patients on a weekly basis.
You see people "decline" due to age related medical problems... Including dementia and Alzheimers...
. . .
Had a patient come in today, whom we've been seeing on a yearly basis almost as long as I have been here... A wonderful lady... Her outlook on life so positive. Her attitude ever pleasant... Just a few years beyond her early retirement... Barely 60... And dealing with MS. All of the problems this debilitating disease cause... All of the ways it is quickly, and harshly effecting her life... When she should be enjoying her "Golden Years" with her newly retired husband... (and watching as every 6 months or more she comes in and you can tell how the disease has progressed) And even more amazed at what a bright person she continues to be despite all of her aches, her pains, her frustrations...
We should all aspire to live life so fearlessly, and to enjoy what has been given to us~ because you never know when that special gift, that is life, will be taken away...
