Full Speed Ahead

15th September (Monday) - Hello and I'm in noon shift again. To start things off, at first things were a little slow, but then it became fast. First, I was assigned to be a runner. And there are only two seniors with four juniors, including me. This is because tomorrow is a public holiday, so there are many who took leave; in the morning there were 2 MCs, so So after sending the uncle to the gym for physio, I rushed to help off a CBD. It was my first time but I know the process. Prepare a pair of gloves, a syringe and a yellow bag and you are all set. Put the CBD into the yellow bag, aspirate the balloon with the syringe and slowly pull the whole thing out. Of course, since the patient is a child, she screamed and screamed, but when thee tube finally came out, she kept quiet. The good news is 15 minutes after I removed the CBD, she's able to void in the toilet. Well, that's a relief. The thing that I'm worried about is that she wasn't able to pass urine once I pulled out the catheter, otherwise she'll have to get another tube inserted and it'll be traumatizing.
Then, I was just about to sit down for my 15 minutes break, and the senior was sorry to disturb me because it was already 5 pm and I needed to fetch uncle back from the gym. Since there's nobody to fetch him, I just put my meal aside and went to get him. Since the usual way I used is locked, I have to make a big run to the gym, lucky I followed the first round earlier on or I wouldn't be able to find my way. When I got there, there's only one person left, the physiotherapist and she was waiting for me. I rushed over and she asked me, "How many people does it take to carry him?" And I answered, "Four." She then asked me why four, and I said one to support the front, the back, and two on either side. She then said she tried making uncle to stand, but he somehow ended up a little bow-legged. Even so, he's now riding the bicycle to train his legs to walk again. So, after a few miss and turns, I found my way back to the ward, and immediately start sponging him with some of the staff, using a new cream that his wife bought for him. A strawberry cream that looks like yoghurt and smells super nice, like strawberry smoothie or strawberry ice cream. Once applied on uncle's skin, he smelled exactly like strawberries. Good thing I fed him early too, cause his wife and children and friends came to visit him.
Then, a patient called because she needed someone to change her Redivac bottle, you know the thing as well as I do now, double clamp, unscrew, new bottle, reverse the process. And another lady called because her dressing was soaked. This one, all you have to do is cut the gauze into halves (not fully), and then slot each one of them up and down on the tubing, and secure the whole thing with an Op-site. Then it's back to feeding the uncle and call it a day. Whew.