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Sonia’s
boyfriend had a tender and painful lump on his leg. His mother was
too "grossed out" to examine it with tweezers, but Sonia
was not. Sonia took the tweezers and examined the mound more closely.
She discovered that the lump had a simple cause: three ugly, but
not dangerous, ingrown hairs. Using the tweezers (and rubbing alcohol),
Sonia extracted the hairs. The pain went away almost immediately.
And the boyfriend and his mother were so thankful to Sonia. Sonia
later thought about the day’s event with a glow of pride. She
had:
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successfully
analyzed a medical problem |
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determined
what needed to be done |
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performed
a simple task that ultimately made someone feel better |
The gratitude the boyfriend and his mother
expressed for her efforts was the best part. She liked this feeling
and she wanted to keep on helping people.
Sonia has since graduated. She’s working
part-time and attending her local community college with plans to
transfer to a nursing program at a four-year school. She says she’ll
probably work in pediatrics. She may even go on to become a Nurse
Practitioner, later. "But for now, I’m going to check
nursing out as an RN and see where it takes me."
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