it just doesn't mix

i did a liver cleanse this past week...what was i thinking? i'll tell you what I was thinking. a good number of the nurses in the infirmary were doing it, and i let them talk me into it as well. i honestly thought i was past the stage in my life where i would give in to peer pressure. looks like overestimated myself. so you're suppose to mix 4 tablespoons of Epsom Salt into 3 cups of Grape juice and divide it into 4 servings. You drink one. 2 hours later you drink another one. 2 hours later you go to bed and just before you do that you have to drink 1 cup of olive oil with a 1/2 cup of grapefruit juice mixed in. Then when you wake up you drink the 3rd serving of grape juice. 2 hours later you drink the last.

and then the fun begins.

what they didn't warn you about is that you should plan this when you're not at work. there frankly is no bathroom far enough away that won't cause you a horrendous amount of embarrasement. my regrets to the housekeeper.

i started my dialysis training last week. another nurse and I are being sent to New Jersey to receive training on how to perform dialysis here at Beth-l. it's been interesting to say the least. i'm being trained, in part, by a French-creole, middle-aged woman whom i can barely understand. it's not so much her accent, but it's her scattered way of thinking and poor ability to teach, and she is quite abrasive. the other nurse training with me forgot a step in setting up the dialysis machine so i was about to say where i thought we went wrong, to which she abruptly stopped me and said, 'Don't think! Know!'

ok then....i'll try not to think next time.

Then she said something and neither of us responded right away to her, so Frenchi proceeded to clap her hands in my friends face to get her attention . I was like, no you did not just clap in her face.

anyway, it's been entertaining to say the least. we just try to roll with it and not get worked up.
I have to say the best part about this new assignment is being able to spend so much time with the older brother we're performing the dialysis on. He has been at Beth-l for 50 some years and often times treats us to stories you would never get to read about in any publication, not to mention his gems of advice he always has to offer. he'll get up on a little soap box and just start talking away about something. normally when someone talks and talks i tend to get a little bored, but i don't dare blink my eyes when he's talking because i might miss some precious gem or peice of truth that he always has to share. he has so many! he doesn't even know how much we love him. our dialysis treatments are about 3 hours in length. it's a lot of time to talk, or rest, but either way it's been a privelege i'll never forget.