TGFIO

Thank God Friday Is Over.

Somedays are just shit. Or, at least, they remind you the world can be shit.

You listen as a coworker learns, over the phone, that her mother-in-law, ill for years with cancer, had her liver fail her this afternoon. You watch said coworker, normally the most stoic person in the world, cry and even accept a hug as she makes plans to drive to North Carolina with her husband quite possibly to watch this loved one pass tonight.

Your patient is taken to a doctor at the cancer center in the morning because--surprise!! to her!! she might have cancer. She spends her session with you 1), telling you it's hard to be around her fiance because he thinks she is the same person she was before the stroke and she knows she isn't and may never be again, 2), crying when you try to straighten her fingers to put her rubber isolation gloves on, and 3), throwing up from her medication.

You hear your patient who has had a massive brain injury secondary to drug use recount the story of her teenage only daughter's death in a drunk driving accident 7 times.

Your patient refuses to participate in therapy because, troubled both by the fact that one of her two casted legs may have re-broken and by the endless phone calls to her grandmother whose son is trying to steal her money, has had a panic attack and she simply can't stand to be awake right now.

Your coworker who has proven her excellence at her job for multiple years tells you she may lose that job due to a corporate decision that mandates she suddenly have a professional license that she does not.

And so on, and so forth.

The world can really suck. What can you do about it?

Eat too many cookies.

Go home and dance like an idiot around your living room. Recommended playlist:

My Life Would Suck Without You, Kelly Clarkson
Love Don't Live Here Anymore and Looking for a Good Time, Lady Antebellum
Let it Rock, Kevin Rudolf and Little Wayne
Bad Romance, Lady Gaga.

Rub cat bellies.

Go out and drink massive margaritas with friends.

And finally, be glad TGFIO and hope next week's day is better.

xoxo.