You are a hand to hold when they need a friend, a shoulder to lean on when they shed their tears. You carry their suffering in your heart as you lift their weight on your shoulders. In helping them do the things they cannot do themselves, you keep them clean and safe and well. You bring a smile to those who want to smile, and strength to those who need to be strong. It is your job, your duty to care for these people, but it is also your passion. To help others in any way you can, an angel of mercy. What you do for those people under your care is nothing short of a miracle. You give them a bit of their humanity, their dignity back. It is not always welcome, and there are times when it is thankless. You come home bruised and battered, exhausted and dirty. But you go back each day, put on your scrubs and do it all over again because of those moments when you get to touch another persons heart, to heal someone’s pain even if only for a while. When you sit there and calm someone down, while you hold his hand as the tests are being done and his world is revolving around a hospital bed, those are the moments that make it all worth it.
So thank you from all those people who don’t know the troubles you go through to care for those people that we cannot. Thank you for your patience and your strength. Most of all, thank you for your compassion and your heart, that you share with those people who need it the most.
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