Best complement ever...

I went in to see one of my patients yesterday at the beginning of my shift and introduced myself. He looked up at me and said, "Wow, you don't look like a nurse".

"Oh, I don't do I?", I said (expecting him to reply back and say that I looked too young to be nurse or I look like a 12 year old or something).

He replied back, "No, you look like a movie star".

I was of course very taken aback and half laughed. I told him that I'd never heard that one before and wanted to know who paid him to say that. "Oh, nobody paid me," he said.

"Well, thanks" I said.

I of course went out and told several staff members how my patient told me that I looked like a movie star and I felt all glamorous for about an hour or so.

Then I went to do my hourly rounds on my patients. The nice gentleman was sleeping by this time and I went over to his bedside table to quietly clean off some old food and trash. When I picked up a napkin, I suddenly saw something sitting under it that made me quickly come back to reality...

...He hadn't been wearing his (very thick lensed) glasses when he talked to me earlier. I remembered that he wasn't wearing any at the time and there they were now sitting on his bedside table. Oh well. Nonetheless, it wasn't a bad way to start the work week.

Grumble, grumble...

I'm not voting Republican this next Tuesday based on one very important fact: They obviously don't care about the plight of the night R.N.'s who need their valuable sleep because they send their solicitors to these R.N.'s doors at 9:45 a.m. to campaign! Not only door bell ringing, but door pounding too. I wish I'd known who it was so I would have crawled out of bed to answer the door and yell at them. However, I did have Oscar to give them a piece of my mind...hopefully the solicitor understood dopey, howling black lab/hound language....

...This afternoon I angrily tore up the propaganda (which also let a draft into my house because it prevented the storm door from being shut properly) and placed it in my recycling bin.......Now I'm crabby, tired, but at least environmentally friendly....