Keeping things in prospective

Just a few moments during the last few days

I visited Amanda and Maren Tuesday for the first time in months which was a lot of fun. During the visit I got to see Maren's beautiful baby Annie. I realized 1. I am ridiculous^10 around babies and 2. That I want to have one of my own so much that I'm willing to keep dealing with the horrors of dating.... I guess dating isn't that horrific and there will be plenty of other good things about having a marriage relationship, but I decided seeing Annie was a good way to keep momentum.

Tonight I resulted a Stat test that was normal and thought nothing of it. A few minutes later the Pathologist informs me that he had been called in for a CBCA Review and that the patient miraculously was testing normal. The abnormal test results the physician had expecting to see again had vanished. The patients family had been crying, grateful that the patient didn't have leukemia. It was one of those moments where I remembered how important my job is. Usually I'm grateful for the buffer that protects me from being emotionally drained, frustrated that there are so many people suffering here. However, it was nice to lower that shield for a split second and realize how much that autofiled CBCA result mattered to some family I'll never meet.

Well, time to get some reading done. Good night!