Hello... I am back in school... After a long tiring week of working it sure feels good to put my legs up to rest... I really need to put them up... I have been standing too long and I dun want to get varicose veins... They are very ugly... So I must try to elevate my legs to relieve the veins from forming... 

Today I had morning shift... it was actually quite an ok day... Nothing really bad happened... Haha.. thank god.. I really prayed b4 working like Minto told me too,... I really love taking care of my patients ... Haha... No matter how reluctant i am to wake up to go to work in this ward i must still do it... on the way to my ward I saw Sandra, another of the Health care assisstant from Ward 64. Even the HCA in that ward are so willing to teach and so knowledgable... Haha... I was really happy to see her and she did make me happy a fair bit...

Today, I was not so blur in this ward as I was more used to this ward routinethan b4... haha... When I go there I know straight away have to give them gargle.. Haha... Then I was put in the other room opposite. The nurse there was nicer... Haha.. And he is really willing to teach... I was in a good mood today so I can naturally absorb better... Haha... Anyways I think I do the bed bath and shower baths really slow... I believe tyhat if you want to do something must do properly and try your best... Dun just anyhow do... Haha...

After all the bed bath and showering I had to feed one of the patients... He was a bit mentally unsound I have to say... With a habit at scratching and spitting at the nurses... The nurse there told me he was actually ok b4 but one day he went to the cemetary and something happened to him that made him become so insane... Feeding him required alot of patience... His body was so limp and his head and had no support... Even his head to be supported... I had to feed him a soft diet of oats and soft boiled eggs... but I think I took about an hour standing there trying to feed him... Why i was so persistant... They say that if he did not eat anymore they would insert a N.G tube and I know tube insertion is very uncomfortable... Good thing I manage to feed him 3/4 of his meal... Sometimes when I feed him he would spit it out... and in the end had to change his pyjamas again... A group of student doctors came to see him... and they tried helping me reposition the patient as he kept on shifting... I think I had to change his bib and use a bunch of tissues as he was spilling food everywhere including playing with it... Haha... actually wanted to observe one of the enrolled nurse doing dressing on a chest tube sight... But this is also part of my job... It really trains my patience...

After that the day went farely fast... I was sent back to my own room... I did Oro- pharyngeal suctioning on a person with a tracheostomy...cause he had lots of phlegm in his throat and I had to suction it out... When I was doing it I refuse to look at the patients face cause it was really uncomfortabl... I know he was in pain but there is nothing much I can do.. Because I know if i dun do the suctioning the patient would feel worse on long term basis.. After that the patient thank me cause he felt more comfortable and signaled to me that I did a good job... Actually this is the first time i do Oro pharyngeal suctioning... I mean I learnt it in school but I never reallly do it on a real person... But there was this nice staff nurse that was willing to guide me... haha... Thanks to that staff nurse...

This ward is really busy and I only went for break at 12... i suppose to go at 10 something... There is alot of charting and documentation to be done... The good thing is that when I went for my break I found out Alina had bought lunch for me and even had a drink ready for me in the fridge... so caring...haha... (ACTUALLY i LSO DO THE SAME THING TO HER)... In the staff room Amy and me had a nice talk about our comments on this ward and I think now we are closer (since she is my partner for this attachment... haha... ok... I have to go for my taekwondo class liao... haha...