Goomba38 wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:07:01 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Bummer. Sorry to hear that you have to work on the holidays while
>>> everyone else is home with their families or out partying. My son
>>> almost had to work Christmas Day, and figured that if he could not
>>> get enough time off to come home that he might as well spend the
>>> day with other people who had to work than to sit at home while all
>>> his friends are with their families. Luckily, his boss offered him
>>> a week off so he could come home.
>> Well...hospitals don't shut down on holidays, and people keep on
>> having babies on those holidays... So this nurse has to help man
>> the trenches, so to speak.
>>
>> Christine
>
> I'll be there tomorrow night too, Christine. Sadly, the trauma victims
> we get this time of year of often the "out of towners" who are
> traveling to distant cities and states when bad things happen. It
> complicates things. Wear your seatbelts folks. Travel safe. Godspeed.

My wife, Jill, is a pediatric nurse and will be working the night shifts
both today and tomorrow. I always do the holiday meal cooking and she'll be
home for the gift unwrapping, so at least she'll be able to participate in
some of the highlights of the day.

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Dave
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