Never a dull moment.

What happened this week? Not a whole lot really. The interesting story to share would be one of the staff was almost stabbed on her neck with a sharpened pencil by a resident. This took place during the day when I was not there and informed of it when I came in the evening. This resident has been battling/struggling with many issues for a number of years and only recently was she discharged from the psychiatric ward. Needless to say the cops were called and she was arrested and sent to jail. To the best of my knowledge, she’s now back in the psychiatric ward seeking treatment. Because of the potential assault, she was emergency discharged from the facility and her parents took her stuff out of room the very next day. I’ve said this before, you never know what to expect from the residents and you do the best you can to protect yourself. Anyone can snap at any moment and you just hope and pray when that happens, nothing is done to another resident and/or staff. Something else that I went through my mind was the fact that some staff are on a power trip and talk down to the residents and don’t treat them with respect. In my most humble opinion, that’s the worst thing that could happen. I do my very best to treat the residents the way I want to be treated and I’m not saying that’s going to keep me from getting assaulted, but at the very least, I’m not burning any bridges along the way with the residents.

On a much more positive note, I had dinner at Ann’s on Saturday evening and it was an amazing meal and conversation. We caught up with one another and her birthday is Wednesday so I was able to celebrate it albeit a couple of days earlier. It was such a fun evening and I always look forward to dinner and conversation with Ann.

The week and days go by much faster because of my second job which is a good thing I guess. This week, there will be three holiday parties that I’ll be attending. On Thursday, the office will have our holiday party in my building’s community room. It should be a fun evening. Since I’m on the committee, a number of us will leave the office early that day to decorate the room and make it all festive. There are two parties to attend on Saturday. The 2nd Sunday will have its annual Christmas party and we normally have a blast then later that evening, I’m headed over to a friend’s place for her party. We both went to Drake at the same time and her older sister was one of the people who recruited me many moons ago to be an active member at St. Catherine’s. As the saying goes, the rest is history. She’ll be at the party so it’ll be great to catch up and meet her again.

That’s the week ahead for me. It’ll definitely be more eventful than this past week.