Success!

I got the position I wanted. Openings were available in ASU, OR and Recovery. I want to be a scrub nurse. I'm not quite sure how I circumvented the usual progression into the OR, but on May 22 I begin my orientation as an employee and shortly afterwards as a scrub nurse.

It's a rather intimidating prospect. Slicing into human beings does not bother me, I have dealt with that and worse in wound care. I will likely not encounter the kind of putrid stinking foul wounds I have dealt with over the past ten years ever again. From here on out, a gangrenous limb will simply be pruned off.

In a lot of ways, that is fitting. I am starting over, from almost ground zero, learning new tasks, new ideas and new concepts. I am ridding myself of a career that has turned sour, and accepting one with bright prospects. I have already told my little girl that Daddy will be going back to school with this job. I expect that, and I look forward to the opportunity to learn and grow.