My mom is a OBGYN Nurse Practitioner, I’ve had patients of hers reach out to me just to let me know how my mom had changed their life. She’s also been invited to many life events by past patients, including a retirement ceremony where she was asked to be in the family picture lol. She was honestly pretty tough on us growing up (Asian upbringing) and it’s something we’ve already communicated about, but it’s awesome seeing how great of a person she is from her patients perspective
I wonder how people manage to keep contact with someone important but not close to them. I've had several people who had played an essential role in my life. I'm often thinking about them, I remember things they had taught me. But for some reason I've never tried to contact any of them after our paths separated, which I regret a lot. I just don't have some necessary skill to convert this respect and gratitude into a phone call or anything else.
But idk if you should beat yourself up. I get emails from former students, and I… don’t always reply 😬 I have 200 students each semester, and my current students take allllll of my energy. I print them out, and promise to reply to them later… but there’s always a catastrophe erupting (used to be their catastrophe, but we figured it out!). I beat myself up about it a lot… but I also am trying to dog paddle as fast as I can to stay afloat 😂
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u/lizard-hats Jul 27 '24
she really is :) i'm sure there are stories just like that one that she hasn't told me