T.G.I.F?

22th August (Friday) - Fridays... One of the most dreaded days in my line of work. Because as mentioned in my previous post, Fridays are the time when patients get admitted so that they can do operations on Saturday mornings, rest on Sunday, and if all goes well, discharge on Mondays. The day started off with me setting my bags down while some of the nurses were eating some Raya cakes. They offered me one but I politely declined, since I don't really like cakes much. Then the prof came and they offered him some, which he took. Then he asked why are we not wearing black. Then I asked him whether is it because of the National Mourning Day and he said, yes. I told him we can't wear black, otherwise the patients might get a panic attack and say we're not nurses, and everyone laughed. Then one of the nurses jokingly told the prof, "If you are doing a delivery at 1030hr, what are you going to do, prof?" And the prof jokingly replied back, "Why, I'll have to stop the delivery for a minute." And all of us laughed. Use your imagination to imagine the scenario... Of course you can. If I tell you the whole thing, it wouldn't be funny. ^^
What's so special about 1030Hr, as mentioned, today is National Mourning Day in Malaysia, as it is the day where all the bodies from the MH70 tragedy are coming back. At 1030 exactly, everything stopped for a minute. The funny thing is, in the hospital, instead of the activity in the ward being stopped, the Internet stopped. So no admissions, discharges and bookings for a moment.
Remember what I said about Fridays being a super busy day cause of the rush of admissions and discharges, well, today, besides 2 discharges and admissions in the morning. Well, not today. After lunch, and settling one patient's bill on my own, there's absolutely nothing to do. Really, nothing... I expected patients to come flooding in like tsunami, but strangely today was quiet. I went a few rounds at the admission front counter and there's not much people in sight. Huh... I sat there for more than an hour, clicking on the computer aimlessly since I'm not allowed to do any nursing stuff when I finally get the chance to do more filings. Best way to kill off time since I was busy filing each papers with concentration. :)