My Name Is Kelly: I Will Be Your Nurse Today
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My Name Is Kelly - Kelly Riemenschneider
My Name Is Kelly: I will Be Your Nurse Today
Kelly Riemenschneider
Copyright
My Name Is Kelly: I Will Be Your Nurse Today
First Edition
Copyright 2014 Kelly Riemenschneider
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-312-31859-5
Dedication
Dedicated to my dad who taught me the meaning of being gullible. When your dad says he is going to count to ten before pulling the string attached to your loose baby tooth, do not believe him!
My Name Is Kelly: I Will Be Your Nurse Today
Contents:
Chapter 1: No worries
Chapter 2: The right place at the right time
Chapter 3: We work together
Chapter 4: Homecare
Chapter 5: The law
Chapter 6: At the hospital
Chapter 7: Manners
Chapter 8: Testing the water
Chapter 9: Just for fun and the last laugh
Chapter 10: Slow down a minute
Chapter 11: Back to school, back to school
Chapter 12: It is better to give
Chapter 13: Just another day at the office
Chapter 14: If I was a sink, my drain has been pulled
Chapter 15: Back to the status quo
Chapter 16: It’s just hair
Chapter 17: It’s complicated
Chapter 18: It works like magic
Chapter 19: It makes perfect sense
Chapter 20: It seemed like a good idea
Chapter 21: Inquiring minds want to know
Chapter 22: A night that fairy tales are made of
Chapter 23: To have and to hold
Chapter 24: Graduation
Chapter 25: Renewed patience
Introduction
This is the second book of a linked story collection. My first book, Memoirs of a School Nurse: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
starts at my childhood and recounts humorous stories through the years from becoming a nurse to taking a new path in recent years as a school nurse. Many times if I hadn’t lived the situations I wouldn’t have believed them!
This time I recall what it was like working with hospital and homecare staff. In the seriousness of the job, humor is the best medicine. Read how I keep my nose clean, talk about good manners and being in the right place at the right time.
I know what you are thinking. My books aren’t very long. Anyone who knows me knows that I like things simple and to the point. They also know that I am the first one done with my Christmas shopping. I admitted before that I am type A. I do draw the line however at alphabetizing my spices.
I am starting my fourth year as a school nurse. I am ready!
Chapter 1: No worries
It is the Fourth of July holiday. Steve and I just got back from a week of vacation a few days ago. We took our dog Oliver. We had a great time! I am sitting out on the lawn at my friend’s house with four dogs cuddled around me. A couple of days after we got back I came over here to dog sit. There is unconditional love all around me. No worries! Steve and I celebrated another anniversary a few weeks ago. Where did the time go? Our daughter Nicole is grown and married. It will be two years this fall. While I dog sit, I go home during the day for a few hours to get some work done. Oliver is waiting by the door for me. I have to set everything in my hands down. He wants to jump in my arms, nozzle my neck and nibble on my earring first. Our cat Maddie is usually not far behind, rubbing my leg. Steve is off for the holiday weekend. He stops what he is doing and comes to give me a kiss hello. It doesn’t get much better than that. Then a few hours later it happens, the post-it notes come out. More memories come flooding back. I am not sure why this has happened. I thought after my first book the well was dry. My mind was blank. It is amazing to me how your mind can hold so much and pull it out of the archives after years. New memories are happening all the time.
I love being a school nurse. Over the summer vacation, I was busy making knitted blankets and scarves from donated yarn. I will give them away during school events. I collected more seashells for the Zen Garden Steve and I made two years ago. I made a couple of short videos of the ocean while we were on vacation. I added them to my Relaxation PowerPoint presentation. By the end of the summer, I will be ready for another school year.
The gas station signboard says, You never realize how boring your life is until someone asks what you do for fun.
Life can’t be fun all the time. There is always work to be done, bills to be paid and things that we don’t like to do. Life is what you make of it.
We are a society of worry. We worry when things go wrong, we worry when things could go wrong. We even worry when things are going great. Something is bound to go wrong!
As a nurse, we know too much. It makes a dangerous mix of worry! Every time we have swollen neck glands or have a sore throat, it is the worst-case scenario. We can reason it out but usually not until we have worried about it for a