done...

I'm more than a little depressed. Its only been 9 months into cancer nursing and I'm burning out. It's hard to separate my life from my patients. I feel like there must be something else I can do, something to stop the pain, the nausea, the diarrhea. But nothing changes and people keep dying. I comfort for the inevitable. I keep wondering what good I'm doing, what purpose I serve. What kind of life have I made for myself that this is the career I've chosen?

Perhaps it's the combination of working the night shift for the past 7 weeks and missing the sun that has got me depressed. I don't know what to do to get out of this funk.