Friday is my last day at my current job. This is my yesterday - the sun has risen and set for me at my current job. I still feel very confident in my decision. I will begin my new job on Monday. This week I am tying up loose ends, finishing up reports, typing up "what to do" with the tasks that I do that nobody else knows how to to, and last but most important, I am saying good-bye to my patients and families I have been taking care of since July. This is the hardest part!
It seems almost cruel to leave hospice patients and their families to be introduced to a new Social Worker in the midst of their dying process, but there isn't really anything else I can do. I know I am making the right decision in leaving, but this is tearing my heart out! Some of them have cried when I told them the news and all have wished me the best of luck in my new adventure.
Good-byes can be so hard when people mean so much to you. I hope and I pray that the new Social Worker who takes my place will love and care for these patients with all the dignity and respect that these precious patients deserve.
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25:34-40
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