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The BEACH has ALWAYS been MY place…MY Calm
When Drew got home for the summer, he would go to the BEACH and run.
One day I tagged along………so did RY and then NIc…..
We R Back to the BEACH!!!
BTW Ryan has an EYE for great BEACH shots….
Most of the photos are his 
and
FINDING the PERFECT sand dollar!!!
BLESSED with BOYS…My hEART is SO FULL……
We became friends in an emergency.
One of our patients was having a code blue and Jen and I were the assigned nurses.
WE bumped into each other, we tried our best and we bonded.
25 years ago, I met a work friend who became my life friend and who on most days, reads me better than I read myself.
She calls me on it, loves me when I don’t love myself and supports me everyday.
Some days, I can be the margarita to her martini, but through thick and thin….
SHE is the first person I call when I need advice.
Thank you JZ for 25 years of friendship.
YOU mean the world to me………
I am SOOOO THANKFUL for all my friends…….
Mother’s Day at an amusement park…YES that was my IDEA!!!!!
BEST idea EVER!!!!!!
I never LAUGHED so hard……
THIS mouse…
led to THIS…..
I COULD NOT stop laughing……..
THIS boy BROKE the bank on basketballs and my heart……
We ARE MORE alike than he will EVER admit…….xoxoxo
These boys SMILED before the drenching of White Water Rapids…
that was worth the price of admission…..
THANK YOU my 3 beautiful boys…YOU made me the Happiest, Proudest MOM in the park and the world……….
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY BOYS!!!!!
Ok, classic book….classic cover, but can she go from 0-60mph in 10 seconds flat?
That is what my coworkers can do
We save children’s lives quite literally………
It happened twice last week……Nurses making the right call, fighting for their patients.
We are at the bedside 12 hours…..we watch…….we hover…….we intervene……..
we call doctors until they stay by our side.
We are cool like that….
I SALUTE on this NURSES WEEK my hardworking coworkers and
ALL nurses who have the passion and purpose to be the BEST patient advocate….
I KNOW our job is not easy…..there are some real challenging days, but at the end of the shift it’s all worth our energy.
If I could ONLY make these treats for everyone one of my nurse friends…I would……..
This month UCSF will honor me for 25 years of service (it’s actually 26 in July) but I’ll take it.
It has been the BEST 26 years and I am so honored everyday to be a NURSE!!!!
I LOVE THIS!!!!
After working an over 40 hour week, I felt a little out of the news of the world.
The boys kept me posted on the tragedy of Boston and I was very touched by the photos.
I was also touched by the above quote.
HELPERS!!!!!!!!
I have LOTS of those at “505 Parnassus” which is where I tell the boys I will be when I am at work….I LOVE my coworker HELPERS!!!!!
We work SOOO hard and meet families in the face of crisis and its a lot of HELPING!!!!
It took a couple of lemondrops with a favorite friend to help me recover from some TOUGH shifts…………
It also took some laughs from special friends and looking at beautiful things like this guy who Ryan and I follow on Instagram and coincidently BOTH picked this shot as our Iphone screen saver
FOLLOW HIM….he will make your sad days better…….
Or there is one of my favorite photographer coworkers who took this shot from the 15th floor at UCSF…………COOL
She’s fivecorndogs on Instagram
I am starting this post out with a picture of SERENITY in my book.
I wish my last week looked like THAT.
I would walk and walk…..
Instead I got to spend time in the hospital with THIS kid……
Can you find the fracture?
Yes, my youngest Ryan rounded first base in baseball and landed oops on his ring finger.
It required 2 pins placed in the OR to keep it together.
There could be a separate blog post about my LOVE for orthopedic surgeons, but they are all married ……Darn….
I still drool over the surgeon who put Drews elbow back together……….
Anyway on to the week…….My car broke, the boy fell, I had repeat ultrasounds for my breast cancer scare as I do every 6 months, challenging patients at work, a new opportunity for me, family drama, TO DO list getting LONGER
YOU get the PICTURE…….
WELL THIS is a BETTER picture of my one-armed buddy helping me be in AWE of my FAVORITE margarita mix ON SALE
OK ……….so maybe I like to STOCK up……Don’t judge
Bring your own limes and I’ll share
I took lots of hot showers to regroup and cry sometimes
HERES to a BETTER Week!!!!!
thevintagepearl
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