Hey guys,
So I am going to talk about the experience I had at the hospital on October 18. First I just want to say that I was so incredibly nervous! The week before all we had done was see where everything was at the hospital, but now we were going to be actually interacting with patients. It was definitely intimidating to me. I felt like I was going to say something "wrong" to the patient or not know what to do.
The day ended up being an AMAZING experience. I cannot believe how God worked through my patient to remind me why I want to be a nurse. I am having such a difficult time right now even trying to figure out the words to say about the time I had with my patient. My patient loved talking and was so open to talk about his life and everything he was going through. When I initially walked into his room and introduced myself we got talking right away and he even told me, "you can practice all you want on me" as he opened his arm acting like he was going to get an IV put in. Right then and there is when I decided that this would be a perfect time to do my humanbecoming paper.
As I was asking my patient about his hopes and dreams, he was cracking jokes like there was no tomorrow and was telling me all he wanted from me was a pizza from Pizzahut! The thing that my patient said though that made my heart feel amazing was when he started talking about God and how he was a Christian. He told me this story about how he is no longer in pain from his cancer. I was in shock when he told me this because I did not believe it, but then he told me the story behind it. He told me that when he was first diagnosed he was in so much pain. Then he prayed to God and asked Him to take away the pain he was feeling, not caring about the diagnosis. The amazing thing was that he said since then he has had NO pain at all.
I was in amaze of his story and his strength as a Christian. It was great to just sit there and listen to his life, he told me a lot about his life and family and it was good to know that he was so open to just share with me.
He was a cancer patient who had such a strong faith it was admirable. As I was with him I remembered why I wanted to be a nurse and actually got to be that to someone. I want to be an oncology nurse because of my family history and I got to practice that with this patient. It was amazing because it reinforced my belief that I want to be a nurse and I want to work with cancer patients. The whole time with my patient was such a God experience that I definitely needed!
