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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Service / Giving Back
  • Published: 05/08/2012

The Secret Love of a Nursing Assistant

By Joseph Carrasco
Born 1958, M, from Nelson Ave, United States
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The Secret love of a nursing assistant


Hi, my name is Joe Carr. I work as a nursing assistant in a nursing home in New York City. I’ve been doing this for a little more than 2 years now, doing the job ok, but the work seamed real hard at first. after I got the hang of it then it got a little easier, but some of the residents were hard to work with. This one resident in particular, let's just call him Tommy, by law I can’t use his real name anyway, any time I went in to Tommy’s room he would get real aggressive and he would start swinging at me. I would have to duck away from being hit, some of the other nursing assistants would tell me to stay away from his right side to avoid getting hit by him. They would all tell me the time they got hit. one young lady assistant got a black eye once and another got a real bad scratch on his neck, and I myself got a bloody lip. So any time I went in to his room to work on him and give him care I would have to bob and weave like I was a boxer. Any time I had this resident I would cringe at what was going to happen this time, and it really sucked. Until the day I got introduced to the law of attraction through the movie called The Secret. It was all new to me but I was intrigued so I looked more in to the law of attraction. At that time I started to apply the principals of the law of attraction along with the love from ho-oponopono (an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness), but it was the law of attraction that really started to make a difference. All I did was think of things that I wanted to happen when I went in to Tommy’s room; I would stay in a good mood and just think positive. well it was like magic. When I would go in to his room I would no longer be afraid that he would try to hit me any more, the aggressiveness stopped, and he would have a look on his face of astonishment like 'what is happenning to me?'. Even the nurse’s were stunned. "what did you do Joe?", they asked. I said, "all I did was think about what I wanted Tommy to be like and it happened". "Okay, right," she said, and didn’t believe me.

All I can say is that now when I go in to Tommy’s room all I think about is love and happiness, and we get along great now.

Love Joe Carr
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