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October 13, 2007
This Week In Tragedy
Sorry for the long blog absence. Well, relatively long, for me, as I am usually reliable for daily or at least every other day entries.
This week has been rough. I found out within the space of 36 hours that the daughter of one of my nurses died in a horrible accident, that one of my close friends has a serious illness that while not life-threatening is debilitating, and that a friend who is not close to me but definitely more of a friend than an acquaintance has a life-threatening illness. MR's parents were in town and I feel bad that I was a bit of a downer at our Thanksgiving dinner. At least the food was good!
Then I went up to Scranton for membership meetings, which went well. We've now launched the membership campaigns on both of the twins... within a week of each other. (For those of you who are just joining us, the "twins" are the two campaigns we won this year within two months of each other. It's very rare to win two major RN campaigns in hospitals this close together, so we call them the twins.) So now we're doing two intense campaigns at once... a different kind of intensity from the organizing campaign, but contract campaigns and membership campaigns are hard too. I feel pre-emptively exhausted.
We're going to the viewing for my nurse friend's daughter tomorrow evening. She was 23. I am in tragedy overload.
Last night I went out with a couple of friends to Tria, our favorite wine bar. Drank too much, ate too much. Not good CR, to be sure. But bouncing back fast enough. I need to spend the next few weeks focusing on work and good CR... otherwise I will go insane. I have this vague hope that I may make it to the Harvard/Yale game this November to see all my college friends again... it's probably ridiculous, as I will no doubt be a prisoner of my work at that time. But I'd love to reconnect with the gang like I did at the wedding last weekend at the wedding. I'll keep hope alive, and keep working to win good contracts so these nurses can have the working conditions and standard of living they deserve, and I can... maybe... possibly... in an alternate universe... have a weekend off!
Posted by april at October 13, 2007 8:15 PM
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I enjoy the blog, and am sorry for your difficult times.
Yale sucks, though :) Hope you end up making it to The Game.
Posted by: S at October 13, 2007 7:32 PM
Hi S...
Giggle!
I've actually never attended the real Game... I understand that there's a sporting event of some kind, but I just go for the parties and the socializing. I leave as soon as everyone goes into the stadium. But this year I doubt I'll make it... I'm under house arrest in PA until we settle the contract on the youngest of the Twins.
But perhaps next year when it's in Boston I'll make it up and we can meet for some green tea before the tailgates get started!
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Posted by: april at October 14, 2007 7:05 AM
Would be fun! Indeed, I hear the green tea is good for you...I was into it for awhile, when coffee was upsetting my stomach.
The sporting event aspect of it all is somewhat dubious. My friends and I meet up every year for it, and at least 1/3 of them don't even buy tickets for the actual game. The football is never very impressive, sadly.
Posted by: S at October 14, 2007 7:35 AM
>>>>a friend who is not close to me but definitely more of a friend than an acquaintance has a life-threatening illness.
Hmm. This is me, I'm guessing.
Stop worrying! I'm O.K.!
The odds are good, treatment prospects are very positive.
O.K. So CR doesn't stop cancer, but it sure as hell slows it down a lot. Things could have been much worse :-)
Posted by: Lindsay at October 14, 2007 12:08 PM