One of my favorite resources in life is humor. I especially like to use it to cope with frustrating events that sometimes appear out of nowhere . As a nurse for forty years I was occasionally called upon to deal with an egotistical doctor. Now, this can be very frustrating when you are trying to be an advocate for the patient and the doctor doesn’t seem to be on the same page. One of these events happened to me many years ago, but I can recall it quite clearly today. I handled that situation by stewing for the rest of the shift, then going home and pulling out my pen and paper. I dropped the poem in the mail to a magazine called “Journal of Nursing Jocularity.” They accepted it and I felt tons better. I even came to think of it like this: the doc was gracious enough to give me some material so I could make a few extra bucks. The name of the doc in the following poem has been changed to protect the innocent. 🙂 (FYI – the “Journal of Nursing Jocularity” was disbanded a few years after this article was printed when the entire staff (all nurses) were traveling together to a nursing conference and was involved in a fatal car wreck.)
Next time you have a frustrating day, try a little humor.
Until next week…if you’ll keep on readin,’ I’ll keep on writin.’
