The most spiffiest day ever......Amber

I was sitting down tonight after eating suppr and I realized that I would give almost anything to relive this day. It was AWESOME! I had my last day at my peds clinical and my patient was from Nunavut! HOW COOL IS THAT?!? He was only 2 months old and the mom didn't speak much english, so I ended up sitting in the room in silence. I hear that some inuit people will just sit together in a room in silence...not doing or saying anything. It's so incredibly intimate and I think I was much more uncomfortable at first than the mom. Ah! I fell head over heals in love with my patient! He was SO beautiful! And then we did something called Tele-health and it's basically like a web camera except higher tech, with bigger screens and much more power. So the mom and the pt got to see this hosptial room up in Nunavut and all of their family members and talk to them! There was like 20 people all crammed into this room and they were speaking in thier own language and laughing and it was such a moving moment! I could see the tundra in the background (outside the windows) and the waves crashing on the shore. And then all of these happy faces crowded together!
Then I was talking to this girl who was in the hospital for Anorexea Nervosa and she ended up teaching me how to play crib and I taught her how to do the bridge when you shuffle! She didn't have any crib pegs so I went downstairs and bought her some. We had some good times today. It's so encouraging to have good times in such tradegic situations. like a 12 yr old starving herself to death.
But I really miss my patients and my instructor talked to me about having theraputic relationships where you cut them off when the job is done (even just mentally). Like I probably shouldn't have bought that girl those pegs. And I can't stop thinking of my little nunavut baby. So much attachment!
Then I was stuck in Winnipeg for an extra 4 hours and I wasn't sure what I was going to do. But I ran into a friend at Starbucks and we hung out and just had a blast! We went to Safeway to buy baking supplies and tried to make brownies by memory! It was just so random and delightful!
Thank you Lord SO much for this day! Help me to focus on tommorrow!