had cancer. I hate cancer. I'm sick of cancer: Emotional and it's OK
Read the latest in our friend Rachel Shaneyfelt's journey as she shares her emotional transition in to the newest chapter of her life.
On July 2nd of this summer, I started my new job as a family nurse practitioner in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Univeristy of Alabama Birmingham - the only comprehensive cancer facility here in the state of Alabama. It’s the first full time job that I have held since the dreaded diagnosis of mesothelioma. This direction was an odd path that was chosen for me, as I didn’t want to work with cancer patients. I had cancer. I hate cancer. I’m sick of cancer. I don’t want to deal with cancer. I hate the word cancer. CANCER SUCKS!!! Now that that is out of my system-- where was I?
Being a previous registered staff nurse at UAB placed me in a position of being recognized as an “active employee”, although I was on medical leave and I had to surrender my previous position in cardiac care. Returning to active employment as a family nurse practitioner was a very different ball of wax as there were no cardiac NP jobs available. So when my nursing recruiter called asking me if I would consider bone marrow, I said in my best fake happy voice, “Of course I would be interested. I can’t wait for the opportunity”. I was up for finding a job in this horrible economy, but what was God up to?
On July 2nd of this summer, I started my new job as a family nurse practitioner in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Univeristy of Alabama Birmingham - the only comprehensive cancer facility here in the state of Alabama. It’s the first full time job that I have held since the dreaded diagnosis of mesothelioma. This direction was an odd path that was chosen for me, as I didn’t want to work with cancer patients. I had cancer. I hate cancer. I’m sick of cancer. I don’t want to deal with cancer. I hate the word cancer. CANCER SUCKS!!! Now that that is out of my system-- where was I?
Being a previous registered staff nurse at UAB placed me in a position of being recognized as an “active employee”, although I was on medical leave and I had to surrender my previous position in cardiac care. Returning to active employment as a family nurse practitioner was a very different ball of wax as there were no cardiac NP jobs available. So when my nursing recruiter called asking me if I would consider bone marrow, I said in my best fake happy voice, “Of course I would be interested. I can’t wait for the opportunity”. I was up for finding a job in this horrible economy, but what was God up to?
Read more: http://www.mesothelioma.com/blog/authors/staff/i-had-cancer-i-hate-cancer-im-sick-of-cancer-emotional-and-its-ok.htm#ixzz24NxtuGgc
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