Sunday, June 26, 2005
my fourth week till my seventh week was in ward 44... a surgery ward...
the first week at ward 44 was actually quite boring actually... we still don't know the ward flow of things... one funny thing in the first few days was that i mixed up the casenotes... i put casenotes in different trolley... when the nurses found out i just keep quiet... hehe... the second week was alright... nothing much happen... then the third week we start to get busy... i look after the male ward in my sixth and last week at 44... during my sixth week i finally got a malay patient... a 28 year old man who got intestinal obstruction... he is sooooo funny... the doctor was supposed to see him and you know wat he did??? he went down to the kopitiam below to get a magazine with his friend... i actually went down with my friend to find him... one thing about my third week is that i came near a patient who was critically ill... he had nose cancer and his nose was bleeding and he was only able to breath through his mouth... so he was unable to talk... he was still young... i was working in the afternoon shift when i was first saw him... that day he suddenly become so ill that the registrar even came down to talk to his wife and sisters... they agreed to let him go if he collapse in a do not resuscitate (dnr) situation... the family members must be inform of this everyday until the patient get well or suddenly collapse... that day the registrar sign the form already when he had spoken to the family members... that night when i left he was already stable... it was tuesday... the next day i was also in the afternoon shift... when i came i was surprise to see him so alive and stable... but things went for the worse when the staff nurse was putting on morphine for the patient.... i was inside the cubicle with two of my other friends... he was relaxing... his wife and sisters was outside... then suddenly he signaled for me to gve him something... i don't know wat so i called in the sister... he was pointing to a plastic bag with soya bean drink packets inside... then the wife came in and said he needed the plastic bag... when we gave him the plastic bag he started coughing and blood started to come out from his mouth... he was coughing blood! we panicked... i was wetting tissues to give the staff nurse who was already sensing that something had gone wrong... we were running out of the cubicle like mad women... my friend and i.. then the last few pieces of tissues that i had wet... i was ready to give it to the staff nurse and u know wat??? the staff nurse called the patient name... my friend did the same... but he did not reply... he started to drift off... his eyes closing slowly... his wife was crying so hard..... the other staff nurse in the ward started to come in and doctors were called... they tried to revive the patient and then they saw the dnr note... the note was dated the day before and dnr note need to be filled in everyday... they didn't know wat to do... then the patient drift off and there was no more pulse... when the doctors come my friend and i were standing outside of the screened bed... our hearts hitting our ribcages very fast... then we know he was no more... the wife was so sad... she became weak until needed to be carried to the nearest chair... i felt so sorry for her... may he rest in peace...
loved // Siti Ihdinaa // 6/26/2005 01:15:00 PM