To a lot of people being a healthcare worker means being someone who just takes care of people or just gives them a diagnosis or just gives people medicine but that’s wrong. Being a healthcare worker is so much more than it seems to be and if you are one you know how hard it is in many different ways.

When you’re a healthcare worker you have to be mentally and physically strong. Mentally you have to be ready to see people suffering and give news to families that their loved one isn’t going to make it or you may even have to be prepared to get yelled at and treated like crap just because they didn’t like what you were saying or how you were doing something. You have to be physically prepared to work twelve to sixteen hour shifts lifting people and constantly on your feet. Being a healthcare worker is hard and draining but if you love doing it that wont matter.

The hardest thing is when you are taking care of someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s. You have to watch them slowly lose everything. It’s like they know who they are and who they used to be but they are trapped in someone else’s body and there’s no way for them to get out. It truly is heartbreaking watching them have to go through that and you have to watch them suffer because there is nothing that can be done about it.