Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Continuation
They were fine up until one day when the husband calls Juliet and tells her that his wife fell and it seems like she's dead. As a social worker you need to learn how not to become so emotionally attached because things like this could happen to any of your patients, but she dashed out there and made sure the husband was alright and they had called the paramedics. They said they wouldn't take the body because they had no where to put it in the morgue. Juliet had to call everywhere to be able to have someone take her body. She said this was one of the hardest cases because they were both in it together, and now it's just only one.
One of her first cases
In the case she told me about, which was when she was first starting out to be out on the field. She talked about a married couple and how both of them were sick. They needed to have financial aid and receive money because they couldn't always make ends meet with the few hours they could work. They had moved out and found a place to stay in and they were perfectly fine for a couple of months. My mentor, Juliet, would go do random checkups to see how they were doing.
Case
As my mentor was talking to me about certain cases that stuck through with her and made her want to quit and just give up. It made me think and realize that maybe this isn't the major I want to pursue in life and maybe I'm not cut out for the job. But when thing that she told me about this was that all her hard work and all her determination made staying as a social worker worth every bit of it because the feeling of helping someone was the most rewarding thing . It's not about the money or how high of a position you have, it's about what you do to make a difference in someone's life.
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