Real Talk: Compassion Fatigue

Compassion Fatigue.  If you work in healthcare, chances are, you have experienced this reality. It’s prevalent, misunderstood, and disheartening. Quite frankly, it’s a very lonely place to be. If you are constantly helping others, especially on the worst days of their lives, you could easily find yourself drowning in Empathic Distress. In addition, staffing shortages, high census, increased patient…

How Do I Do This?

This question has been heavy on my heart lately. How do I do this? How do I glorify God at work? Am I qualified to take on such a task? Real talk… sometimes I get frustrated and negative at work. Sometimes I participate in gossip. Sometimes patients ask so much of me that I shake…

How Did I Get Here?

“Life can only be understood by looking backward; but it must be lived looking forward” — Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Looking back, there were several things that lead me to Radiologic Technology, and eventually Radiation Therapy. I can’t say that I felt called by God, but I do know that I was unhappy in the place…

A Song & A Calling

I heard a song recently that changed everything for me.  Sometimes God reaches us in the simplest of ways.  The song is called “Rescue” by Lauren Daigle.  When I heard it at work, I knew immediately that something shifted inside me.  I felt the prayers of my parents.  I felt God’s presence.  I felt peace….

a Radiation Therapist: during Covid-19

I haven’t posted in awhile… for a few reasons.  Mostly, life.  Over the last couple months, I have relocated and am part of a new Radiation team.  Also, my last post was wildly loved, beyond anything I could have ever dreamed of… and I’m so grateful, but kind of intimidated. That being said, I only…

a Radiation Therapist…

I am a Radiation Therapist. My profession doesn’t define me, but it does say a lot about me.  It tells a story about who I am. As a retired Radiation Therapist’s daughter, I saw through my dad who I wanted to be.  I saw him coming home late because a patient needed extra care.  I…