You've been social worked!

Over the weekend I spent time learning how to build this:

"You've been social worked!"

In HTML, except I was trying to get the text on the image (it worked in other settings, just not in Blogger!). Then I got GIMP and just wrote the text on, except it won't save in a format recognizable as an image. (I'm sure there's a very easy way to do that, but I only had a little time after getting home and before dinner.) It was a fair amount of work for a simple output, but I enjoyed it.
My friend, Sara, and I came up with "You've been social worked!" as a saying. I think most of us social workers wish we could say it sometimes, rather than more commonly not really getting to see the effects of the work we do. I understand why we never hear someone say "It worked! I have been social worked indeed." It's very painful to tell someone how much they've helped, and honestly, for me at least, painful to hear someone tell you that you've helped them. That may seem strange but it's true.
When I left Polaris Project, we had a big lunch for the fellows to say goodbye to the clients. It was a moving experience but part way through it was too much. Many of the clients had cried. They brought gifts to us, that I felt very uncomfortable accepting, but would have felt even less comfortable returning to them. When they told me how much I had meant to them, I wanted to either say "I really didn't do anything" or burst out in tears. Neither was appropriate, but I'm not sure I handled it any better. I said thank you, but I doubt was very gracious. The relationships we build with our clients are so unique but yet strange that they can't really be summed up in one ceremonial goodbye or sentence or card. 
However, as I begin termination at my current job, I can't help wishing I could wrap it all up by striking a pose and saying: "You've been social worked!"