Monday, November 22, 2004
Today I feel soooooooooooooooooooo happy.......... I also dunno why... Today my attachment is in the Gynaecology ward which is the ward for woman problems that have to do with reproductive system or after delivery... Haha!!! But i feel there is nothing much we can do... haha... its more of an exposure for us... cause most of the nurses there are specialised in midwifery, gynaecology or obstretics ... so i have to admit i am pretty blur in this ward... haha..
Just now a group of us nyp student nurses went into the nursery... unfortunately there was only one baby boy that was 3 days old ... haha... Then we were all looking at the baby... Cannot touch it as we must wash our hand b4 that... Then he started crying and i tried singing and humming tunes to him... haha... (i know it sounds stupid cause i could see my friend all look like this
-____-"...haha... )... But then after i hum the baby stop crying... then when i stop it will start crying again... Haha... Then the staff nurse was bottle feeding the baby and she ask me whether i want to feed it... haha... I felt quite honoured... Haha... but she ask me to wash my hands and wear and apron first... Haha...then she sort of guided me the proper way of holding the baby. The the head was resting on my arm and i did not really dare to move my arm so much so it ached after a while. I bottle fed the baby... haha... I can say this is my first time holding such a young baby... It is just such a special feeling... and he is so soft, fragile and nimble... like any moment he is going to break... so i held it like holiding a piece of gold... haha... Guess I was a bit stiff ... haha... but alina said i look very cute when i holding it... haha... both the baby and me... Then I kept on humming tunes and on the other hand sometimes i will say... "Wah ... how come you take so long one huh!!!!" then my friend said i sound very impatient but i was just joking... I think the staff nurse was quite amused by me... muhahaha... Then after that I burped the baby... Haha... it took quite a long time to burp it though... Haha... I now know why so many ppl especially nurses want to work in nursery or in KKH...
Its just that when i was carrying the baby and humming to it i felt this very strange feeling... Like i wanted to be very gentle to it... haha... (off course i wun use my tkd moves on it)... haha,, like I never knew i could be sooo gentle... Then I was thinking though it took 9 months and sooooooooooooo much pain for the baby to be conceived i am sure the parents have no regrets and will be very proud of the child no matter wat happens in the future... Haha... or maybe this is just a maternal instinct that ppl have... I am sure my parent felt that about me... When I am a baby Jolyn I am sooo pure but then I come into this world and learn all sort of weird thingys... haha... that make me a bit polluted...
I was thinking next time after my student days i dun mind if they post me in the nursery but i always wanted to do something different that less ppl will do... like go IMH, cancer ward or maybe if by 30 i am still single i will go and join my friend on mission trip giving medical and health care... but i have to work hard now... haha... but now a bit hard to say... I will just live a day at a time... muhaha... each day is a present already...
I encourage all those like Alina to try out taking care of the baby ... it is really a nice feeling... like so xing fu... =)... my friends think i am paranoid... haha... but i am just soooooooooooo happy!!!! I want to try out bathing the baby if i get a chance... haha...then next time if i really have a child of my own ( i am saying if... haha) then i will know how to take care of it really well... ok i shall cut the crappy stuff and talk about some other things...... haha!!!
Anyways one other thing i want to see is the delivery of a baby... But have to go to the labour ward... Its a real delivery... I know it must be very bloody... i felt so groused out when i watched the movie already... I think real life must be sooo dramamtic... with all the screaming and blood... Oh dear... the nurse in the labour ward said there was once a student fainted b4 when she was seeing the delivery process cause there was sooo much blood... the whole bed was soaked of blood... I think the labour ward is free most of the time ... cause maybe in one day there are about 3 deliveries but the rest of the time the staff are free and easy... haha...
Haha... basically today I am quite tired already when i went to work... as i did not sleep well for the whole night... It is quite sianz working in the gynae ward since most of the patients are ambulant... then care of the patients is also different in some ways... but the staff are pretty nice there... I must thank god for giving such a nice attachment experience this time round... Most of the patients have had surgery on hysterectomy (which is the taking out of ovary, fallopian tube and uterus) or post natal or maybe problems in with repro tract such as cysts or cancer... I am working together with Alina and Zion this time round... haha... and basically there is nothing much to do in this ward... haha... maybe can help the doctor in some procedures.. but i also not too sure about gynae procedures... haha... Then the charts in this ward are quite different from normal medical wards... and there is one thing i got to mention... it is that the pads that the patients wear or post natal women to control bleeding such as menstruation have to be tied around the waist.... its the type that our grand mothers use to wear... haha... it think must be soooooooooooo uncomfortable... oh dear... and not very secure also... All because in hospital they dun encourage the wearing of underwears... haha...
Ok... I gtg off now... Hope no one found my entry boring... haha!!! =)
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