What If?

The other day I was looking at gifts for Christmas for my sweet daughter-in-law, who is a nursing assistant. And at one point I thought about purchasing her a couple of scrub outfits to help her out. But then I realized I didn't know if the facility where she worked wore colored uniforms, or simply white, and without giving away the gift... I couldn't very well ask!

However, it made me pause and reflect on the "what-if's" in my life.

For thirteen years I was a geriatric nurse practitioner, and spent most of my waking moments in a nursing home taking care of the elderly.

Just what do cheap scrub sets cost today?

I remember, at one point, with five small children, I actually made my scrubs out of Scotchguard treated bed sheets! Yep! I was dirt poor, and would buy a king-sized flat bed sheet and make two scrub sets out of it! [I was divorced, got no child-support from the children's father, and was raising those five kids without any assistance!] But I perservered and eventually the money thing took care of itself.

So, were cheap scrub tops really cheap now? Or was there even such a thing as a cheap scrub uniform?

So, I started searching online, just having to find out, for the sake of curiosity.

What I found was cheap uniform scrubs are available if you look for them!

All I can say is cherokee medical uniforms...where were you when I needed you???

Well, at least now I know where to purchase them for my sweet DIL....once I find out what color to get them in!