I want to go ice skating on the lake with him.
The lake that is frozen solid to the bottom,
from days of minus freezing temperature.
Positivity breeds positivity.
We all choose our own missions in life.
What have you chosen?
If only I was actually able to work, Id be able to do overtime through this snowstorm. But as it is, I am barely getting my full paycheck, only 66% because I am on workman’s comp. So, with 10 inches on the ground in Virginia, I’m not attempting to go into work tomorrow because I am non-essential staff. It sucks to be on “light duty” because if i had been on full duty I’d have been able to be paid for staying overnight and then for all the time I am trapped there in the snow because new staff can’t come in if they cant get there.
I think to understand why this happens I need to explain where I work. its a psychiatric residential treatment facility out in the woods. For children aged 5-14 who have been abused and taken from their families because of their unsafe behaviors. I teach them daily life skill. I am a direct care worker. I’d like to eventually be a therapist whenever I get back to graduate school, but for now I am happy working directly with the kids for long periods of time. We form bonds. We play together. And occasionally I have to put them in physical holds.
Physical holds are basically to maintain the safety of the individual being held and also to maintain safety between that child and whomever that child was targeting. I have to wrap my arms around them and squeeze as hard as I can. I have been bitten, scratched, punched, kicked, smacked, spit on, peed on, and one of them shit in their pants while i had them blocked in a corner.
Most of the times these things don’t happen. Especially since i feel like the high profile clients are being referred out of the facility. (The ones who get into the most holds).
I wish I was with him so I could go skate on the surface of the frozen lake.
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