I started working for a wealthy family with a Dad who had Lewy's disease. ( a form of demetia ) I grew to love this man. At all times there were 24 hour nurses and aids. I was one of the aids. Unfortunately the female nurse did not like me.For reason unknown to me at the time. The man I took care of still had his mind and knew what was going on. He certainly was my biggest fan. He loved me and so did the family. I spoke with the female nurse to see why, she did not care for me. She said I remind her of her mother. I look like her mother, I wore my hair like her mother etc. Her mother had passed away. I asked her if she like her mother, she said I love my mother. Ok, what was the problem??? I said too myself. It was not about her mother at all. The family and the sick man liked me much and always complimented me. The nurse felt very threaten by that. It was not a good thing for the man to keep saying nice things, but he did. I could not do anything right, by this nurse,she was constantly on me. At one point I said to her, I feel like I cannot do anything right, she said thats not my fault. I knew this was coming to a end, when, I did not know. They made me do things that were not legal, they made the job tougher, find fault with everything I did. I put in 15 hours the other day. My hours were 6 am-12pm. I had a doctors appt. They told me I had no choice but to stay and drive into Manhattan. We did not get back until 3pm. I had to be back for my next shift at 6pm.-12am No lunch, no breaks. I have to pay for my doctors appt, because I did not cancel 24 hours prior. Because they claim I had no choice but to work until they said so. This was not in any contract. I stayed and followed directions, even though I had to pay the doctor, however it was not good enough. I was called today by the agency I work for, and they said the nurse got me fired. Not to go to the job today. She claims it was a safety issue with the old man. That is a big lie. God knows the truth and so do I. It is very sad when you have such evil people in the world with many issues and one of them is wanting to be in control. She did not win the fight. It was not about her, it was about the man who was sick. It was about personalities, and not principals, with her. Did she really care about this man, and how compassionate I was? She did everything she could to get rid of me. So, she had to lie to the family. However the family told the agency to tell Peggy we will miss her. I cried all day. Only because I grew to love this man and vise versa. This was so unfair, but life is unfair at times. And sometimes God has other plans for us. Maybe it was time for me to move on. Maybe I was only suppose to be in the man's life for a short period. My job was done, and I did it well, I am proud to say.I loved my job, I truly did. The injustice is to this man, because of the nurse who has issues, who could not put them aside. She did not win. I will move on tomorrow to a yet another care-taking job. I am sure someone else needs my love and care. Just to add 3 girls were fired before me. The maid said she is crazy and causes problems. However they cannot keep nurses, so they, the family were kind of stuck. I truly understand there position. Since the man knows this nurse well, even though he yells at her constantly, to get away from him. She is careless with him and puts all of us in danger when she puts him in a car in the front seat to calm him down, and he is screaming and opening the door while she is driving. The back seat you cannot open the door, how smart is she? And yet she claims it was a safety issue with me, because she could not come up with and other reasons. Thanks for listening and reading my sad story. I say sad, because I will miss Sam, and I can no longer comfort him. He is denied all the good things I provided, yet somewhere in my heart I know God will provide him with another loving person.
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