Hello, today actually I was suppose to go back to my poly to collect my clinical diary and change the sticker for my name tag but I refuse to go cause it is only a trivial matter ( not as if they can't pass it to me when school reopens). I do not want to waste my time and money spent on transportation to go all the way to school just for that. Anyways I just gave Alina my name tag and ask her to get my new year 2 clinical diary... Haiz... time flies so fast...

Anyways yesterday Fiona sms me say she got into nursing... She must be very happy... I am happy for her...

I feel so inspired to write about one of one of my patients... He is a Singh that is suffering from diabetes and he got both his legs amputated. Sometimes I have to bring him to the toilet to shower by trasferring on the commode but he is quite independent. He is on Peritonial dialysis which has to be done 4 times a day... Peritoneal dialysis is a different kind of dialysis from Hemo-dialysis, the one with the machine that takes out your blood, cleans it and transfers it back into the body. Peritoneal dialysis is a cheaper method and can be done at home wheras Hemo-dialysis has to be done in the dialysis centre... He says he was on Hemo-dialysis at first but he could not stand it as it was very painful and his veins became big and some of his veins were destroyed... Under Hemo-dialysis he always felt weak...

It is very sad cause he told me last time he used to be a policeman but now he is reduced to this... so he told me must not be too serious about life... He also had 2 children and one of them died of cancer 2 years ago... He says it is still very painful in his heart to think of her death...

In spite of all this he still faces life strongly... He is very chatty in the ward and always picks up conversations with the other patients... He told me he had the encouragement of his wife who is very supportive...Although it was an arranged marriage by his parents and he found her ugly at first... she was the most caring and kind woman in his life and he never regretted marrying her... Thats so sweet...

During the time when the staff nurse was taking out the stitches of his amputated leg me, Alina, Jiang Yan and Aifang were all watching and when he was in pain we all held his hand... He said he felt very relieved and encouraged...

Yesterday is the last day we would get to see him in hospital... This is good news... He said he treated us (me, Alina, Jiang Yan and Aifang) as daughters and even gave us his address to visit him cause he said he was at home everyday... Thats so nice... I must go and visit him when I have the time...

Seeing him made me feel that everyone will get sick sooner or later... We just hope later than sooner... It is how you pick yourself up after the sickness... This world might not look at you the same anymore and might even give you weird stares but in the end it is how you look at yourself that is the most important... It is also important to have family memebers and friends to support you...