Accepted to the Military
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Accepted to the Military
After I graduated I went back out to Calgary
and I was working in Calgary.
This may sound a little conceited but not really.
I was working on a very busy floor and
if you were competent and doing a good job
they knew you could handle more patients so
they give you more patients.
Of course the more patients you got the less
time you had to do your job the way I was
trained to do it and I figured the way I was
trained to do it was the way that I would want
to be treated as a patient. So when I didn’t
have time to do that I said I am not going
to keep nursing doing that so I quit.
And so a friend of mine and I went out to
her parents place in Kelowna, B.C. for a month
and we went back to Calgary and walking
around downtown we passed the recruiting centre.
We said, “Let’s go in!” So we went in and
filled out the application.
A couple weeks later I got a phone call,
“You’re accepted!” By this time I had forgotten,
I said, “Accepted for what?”
So the rest, came back on my bike to Calgary,
got sworn in and off to Halifax I came.
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