Yesterday morning I finally got to the bottom of the large plastic bin of loose photos and added them to the separated piles of photos on a table in my office--now I can begin the task of getting them into albums. There was a pleasant surprise at the bottom of the bin--my last work photo ID from FGH, stuck in a badge holder to which was pinned my gold five year pin, my pin for a course I took and passed to become an RNII, a United Way pin, and a Caduceus.

I also found my nurses cap, my original Mississippi nurses license and my Texas license, and RN name pins. You know what finding those items made me feel like? Like I had once been a real person. One of the first things anyone asks when they meet you is "What do you do?" Now I'm retired, but I used to be a real person, with responsibilities; respected and well known in this neck of the woods. These mementos are going into my safe deposit box--glad I found them.

susil