Changes

I've been holding my breath for six months.

Six months since I returned from my last assignment in New Hampshire. Six months of waiting for my back to heal. Six months of little progress.

I'm tired of holding my breath, so I'm going to exhale. I have little control over whether my back decides to heal and allow me to return to the work I love. So, I'm taking the reins in areas of my life that I can drive. I've decided to take a part-time position here in La Crosse and return to graduate school in the fall. I don't know when or if I will be where I was before my injury, but I'm moving forward and making the best of what I do have.

This ends my adventure of travel nursing, hopefully just for the time being. It has been a hard decision, one that took many months to come to, but I feel at peace knowing I have a plan. The job I have accepted is telephone triage and the manager assures me it will provide me with not only expanded nursing knowledge, but many good stories as well! Graduate school should take me a little over two years to complete, after which I will be a clinical nurse specialist in oncology.

I may continue to post here occasionally, when the mood should strike. In the meantime, I have photos to post from my most recent trip to New England as well as photos from my session with the Gray family at the Boston Commons. So stay tuned!