A Weekend Twist

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They are closing the clinic I am working  in soon, The state is saving money taking away something needed  from the neighborhood and combining us with an older clinic in a more run down  building, further away in a different neighborhood.   Reluctant retirement papers in.  Decisions to be made.  Praying a lot about the situation.  I have some good friends there I don't want to leave them.  I can do without the ever increasing red tape and paperwork and with the working &  personal style of the people above me.  Lots of ponder.  Where are my twists of gratitude? 

Actually there are plenty.  As I look back I think of  the Garrth Brooks song "the Dance". did you ever hear it?  It is a  break up song   "I could have missed the pain , but I would have missed the dance"  Thats how I feel right now.  I am so grateful for the opportunity to have met my first team leader at this clinic .  He has been a  teacher and mentor. I have met very few people with the integrity my first team leader has.   I can call two of the doctors at this clinic I have met friends. One of the social workers who now works a different location  brings me the Polish Opatek every Christmas.  The administrative assistant/receptionist and I share most of the same world view and a love of dogs. Finally the senior nurse and the office manager have become  good friends, dear friends, partners in crime.  Oh the sarcastic memes we have shared! I am not sure what will come  next career wise. plans made, bumps in the road, being scared of the unknown; financially and otherwise. I do know my life would be less if I had not met these friends along the way. My twist of gratitude for early Saturday morning.

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