{"id":6619,"date":"2019-12-20T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:55:08","slug":"the-invisible-night-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/?p=6619","title":{"rendered":"The invisible night shift"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Genevieve Turrell, PSW\/UCP<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the dead of night when the stars are bright<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the rest of the world is sleeping tight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I sit dreaming away <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about the light of day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night shift life is the life for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my eyes see what no ones see<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wanderers, the falls, the unexpected calls<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sick, the dying, the lonely and crying<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some that live here don\u2019t even know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The life behind the shift they never see show<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m gone by the time they are bright and awake<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except for some pills I might wake you up to take<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your wet in the night I\u2019m here for your bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clean you up ,change the sheets and try to settle your head<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s one thing the world doesn\u2019t seem to comprehend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that little jobs hide themselves around every corner and every bend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just because your mom is sleeping doesn\u2019t mean she always will<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the amount of love and care I give doesn\u2019t show up on the bill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just because your sleeping doesn\u2019t mean your mom is well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And doesn\u2019t mean she may not be putting me through the slightest bit of hell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I say this to remind, not to be harsh or mean<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I just want you to remember what\u2019s there cannot always be seen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I monitor them all and run to every call but what you will never know <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is my work load is a hustle and only continues to grow <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more you care the more you share what time you have on hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juggle people the best you can I hope you can understand <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That just because this world is quiet doesn\u2019t mean that I am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For I am the one looking after your parent, an invisible hologram <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Genevieve lives in a small town in Ontario and has been working in gerontology for 9 years including four years on the night shift. She wrote this poem about her experience working in a retirement home setting.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Genevieve Turrell<\/p>\n

Volume 14 No 4 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1235,1303],"tags":[1306,1305,1308,1304,1307,1309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjni.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}