Hey everyone! I am Erika Smith. I am
from Van Wert, Ohio. I am currently going to Rhodes State College, this is my
second year, I love this school, and how the teachers push you, and you to
learn everything you can in the short time period you get to learn it.
I will
be majoring in Occupational Therapy Assistant. The reasoning to this career was
due to my grandparents and a librarian at my high school, which was Van Wert
High School. I just love the thought of helping people and just being around people
in general. Just like right now, I am currently working at Van Crest Health
Care Center in Van Wert, as an STNA in the Rehab part. Many of the residents
are very caring and I love seeing them heal every day they are there. It is
nice to think about and to say that I helped that person heal and become
healthy again.
I am
also from a BIG family; I am the middle of nine children. I think it was always
nice having someone to play with when I was younger and it was easier having
help clean the house since there was so many of us. Honestly, I do not know how
my parents put up with all of us! There are six girls and three boys! So let us
just say the girls ruled the house!
When I was
in high school, I was in cross-country and track so I love run and being
outside. Some of my hobbies I like to do are doing puzzles like word search, Sudoku
thanks to my grandma. I also like to be TV and have fun! I also love hanging
out with my boyfriend and our families. I have been with him for a year and a half,
he is great to me, we love joking around, and laughing at the stupid things, we
do together.
Hi Erika! I think that is awesome that you are helping out at Van Crest Health Care Center! My grandmother is at a Van Crest Center as well, only she is in Delphos. Its good to know that there are some people who actually care for older people out there. Most of the nurses or aids that work where my grandma lives are not nice at all and barley care for the old people that live there, which breaks my heart. But that must be interesting being the middle child of 9, i always wanted to have more siblings but i only have an older sister and that is it. That must be nice growing up with lots of sisters and some brothers i really wish i had a brother growing up. That would have been nice for a change, for someone to look out for me! But its nice to get to know you!(:
ReplyDeleteHi Kari! i love my job which is not what most people say but the only thing bad about working there is that were always short staffed and hiring new people and training them. So many of the residents are so sweet and love to joke around with us and there families are so nice, there is even a resident that told me one day that he wanted to call me his cousin because we became so close and we make jokes and tease each other all the time. but it sucks with someones dies that you were close to it just breaks my heart cause i just think what could i have done better or differently and it just takes awhile to get used to them not being there and that people die everyday and every second. Being in a family of 9 the house was pretty crazy but it means more friends and we have fun times together. I am the oldest one living at home right now so i feel like i never see my other siblings because i am either at school or work or sleeping most of the time. Its nice to have brothers most of the time! but when there is alot of girls there has been many fights over whose things are whose.
ReplyDeleteI can see where that is bad when you are short staffed, and with training. I have that problem with my job as well, it sucks and can be fusterating a lot of the time. But that is good that you actually like your job! I really dont but that is because i am at a pizza place which sucks most of the time. IT is because it is not what i want to do. I bet it is hard when you get close to residents and then they die, i would be the same way really heart broken. But that is awesome that you do your best to make them feel at home. My grandmother goes to a nursing home and i feel that some nurses just do not care about the residents and it breaks my heart to see my grandma upset with some of the nurses. But agian you are lucky that you have 9 siblings i just have one and me and her are 6 years a part so we were never that close like we wanted to be. I always wanted a brother, and i think that is why i love my boyfriends little brothers and sisters because i feel like that they are my siblings to. I understand the fights with sisters because me and my sister fought all the time when she lived at home. But once she moved out we turned out alright, and we started getting close agian. Sorry that i did not respond right away, i havent checked to see if you responded or not! (:
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