Monday, August 13, 2012

A Rewarding Day of Volunteering

So as you guys may know, I've been volunteering at a local hospital this summer. Now I've done this before and I've never dreaded going to volunteer, but have you guys ever felt like the work you do isn't getting you anywhere? Or you're actually getting in the way and making people's jobs harder rather than easier? Well for the first couple times I had gone to volunteer that's exactly how I felt. But as the weeks went on I started to feel more comfortable and the other nurses would come and talk to me about topics other than what I did or did not want to do to help them. I don't know if I'm just too sensitive or self-conscious, but at least those feelings and thoughts started to go away. I guess the biggest difference for me was understanding that people show their appreciation and gratitude towards others in different ways.

So now that I'm finally comfortable with what I'm doing and have fallen into a routine, I have to leave and go back to college. It's funny how life works like that right? Now I do have one more week of volunteering but I do have to say that the end of my shift today was definitely the cherry on top of my work. As you guys can tell by my bio and major, I want to become a doctor. And today while I was helping out a patient that I have a pretty great relationship with, he told me that I would be a great doctor. Now all I had been doing with him is getting him a coffee with one sweet and low and two creams and the occasional blanket or TV remote, so it's not like I was actually doing anything doctorly. But really for him to say that really made my day and put a smile on my face that didn't go away for a while.

Anyways it's always great to work with people who can give you encouragement. Especially when the patients that you help are fighting cancer and can still come in with a great attitude and joke around with the nurses and doctors.

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