Saturday May 8, 2021

Good morning everyone, today is Saturday May 8, 2021. Well we made another weekend, isn’t it a shame we wait our whole lives to get these two days off at the end of the week . Many people put off doing anything until Saturday and Sunday. What a waste of time that is. I can say that because I was victim to it for most of my working years. The real sad part is I’m so conditioned to it that now retired I still tend to do it. Why can’t we go out to dinner Wednesday night , because we had work in the morning. I’m trying to break that habit still now but that mindset is not easy to crack. Don’t be like I was enjoy everyday to the fullest, I’m trying to follow my own advice.

Now I made a great error this week, with everything going on, anniversaries, teacher appreciation day I completely overlooked an extremely important day to me, Nurses Day. I have always had the highest regard for nurses and the work they do. I guess I got that from my mother being a nurse, but the reality of all they do really struck home when I was sick. Doctors are wonderful and thank god for their knowledge and skill but when you are in the hospital you wait all day for their 10 minute if that long visit once a day usually unless you are really sick like I was, I saw them more often. It is the nurses who are with you all day, they comfort you, educate you, clean you and 1000 other things, without them you would be lost. Over these past years I have needed them at times desperately and they always are there for you, many a night at 2, 3 in the morning they would hold my hand as anxiety set in. When I no longer could stay in the bed they would help me up and walk me in the chair sometimes just to sit at the nurses station. When the pains were so bad they always figured away to relieve it. So I will say God Bless nurses and the profession.

My parents actually met in a hospital. Italians are great and wonderful people with true love of family as I am sure all cultures do but I have to speak of what I know. But no others can hold a vigil for a family member in the hospital better than we can. Just to have my family present gave me relief. As the story goes my fathers uncle was very sick, and it was a Sunday and he wanted macaroni and gravy, and of course the whole family sent him a dish but he was unable to eat it, so my mother the nurse saw all this and said he could not have it and threw it away, all the cousin had some choice words. Later in the day as everyone sat in the waiting room listening to the World Series of course the Yankees were playing on the radio , my mother again intervened saying you are too loud and this is not Yankee Stadium if you want to see the game go there and shut the radio off. Again some choice words were said. Later in the day my father went for a walk in the hallway when he passed the Nurses Station he saw my mother listening to the game on the radio, he knocked on the window and when she opened it he said This is not Yankee Stadium,if you want to hear the game go there and walked away. As they sat in wait they encountered her a few more times finally they all made a bet which one would have the nerve to ask this sanctimonious nurse out on a date, my father lost the bet and the rest is history. I could just picture her in that white starched uniform and cap.

Well it’s time to say good bye for the day. I’m sure there is a lot of preparations to do for Mother’s Day, I was smart this year and did a lot of it the other day. However, the gift which they promised overnight delivery Wednesday has not arrived yet, the person on the phone yesterday said you still have tomorrow, I guess they don’t know what overnight means. Enjoy your day it is Saturday so plan some fun, remember little things count sometimes even more. Talk soon Til Tomorrow!