The life of a healthcare worker

There are those days that make you really sad and bummed out when you work in the healthcare field. So today I participated in my first code. Don't get me wrong I have seen people die plenty of times and most of the time they were DNR patients so we didn't have to start CPR and most of the time they come to us as comfort care patients which means most of the time they are non responsive but don't get me wrong there are those that aren't like that. Well anyway there was a patient that was up walking around and talking two days ago and seemed to be ok, than today that all changed when I heard the code bell start ringing and we had to start CPR. It was a good learning experience for me and what we needed to do in that situation. It is moments like that that make you realize how short life really is and how fast it can be over granded the patient was older and had some health issues. I feel for the family. The relative later told us that the patient was DNR and that it was in their living will but they didn't sign a DNR piece of paper so we had to do the CPR until we had that news. Lets see what else happened today, I had really heavy patients today 5 of which were pretty much total care patients and every single one of them needed cleaned up at six o'clock and I amazingly finished it and was out of there on time I was honestly in utter shock I was sure that I was going to leave late. One of my patient's family members offered me a part time job on the days that I don't work just so I could help her if she needs and she offered me more than I am getting paid now. I gave her my number and told her to call me if she needs any help and that I would come and help her even if that means coming and sitting with him if she has to go somewhere I am hoping she follows up with that offer because it sounded pretty good to me but then again if she is getting home healthcare from the hospital she may not need me we'll see how it all works out. Mike and I are doing ok. He wants me to quit my job and just find another one he doesn't like me working all the way in Scottsdale I told him that's not going to happen because I like only working 3 days a week so if I wanted to get another job I could. I think he just doesn't want me working two jobs but I want to just so we don't have to struggle so bad. Well these are my thoughts for today...