Thankful Thursday | not wrecked

This week, I am thankful:

that I didn’t feel wrecked after my shifts

A lot of times, I feel kind of wiped out for 24 hours after I clock out from a string of three shifts.

But I worked five 12-hour shifts in six days, and oddly, I felt great on my first day off, which was yesterday.

I have no idea why this happened, but I will take it!

(Maybe my iron supplementation kicked in? Maybe it’s that I’ve been faithful about wearing compression socks lately? Maybe I’m just getting used to this nurse life?)

for how much compression socks help

I was a little hit or miss with wearing them at first, but I have been wearing them basically every work shift recently because they doooooo help.

My feet and lower legs hurt way less when I wear the socks, and my feet are not at all swollen after a shift. Amazing!

(Mine are nothing fancy: I have one pair from Amazon, and two pairs from a local scrub store that was closing.)

that I love my job so much

I love the work I do, I love my coworkers, I love meeting all my interesting patients, I love that I am challenged and that I learn so many things every day…and I know I am so lucky to feel this way about my job.

for the joy of having my own place

I don’t use Waze that often, and when I opened it up recently, I realized the “home” was still set to my old house.

I set it for where I now live, and when I saw the little house icon pop up on the screen, in my current neighborhood, with the “Home” label, my heart felt a little burst of happiness.