16th September (Tuesday) - Happy Malaysia Day, and yep, I'm working, in the morning. I rushed into work with 7 minutes to spare, but turns out I was quite early, compared to the others whom came in at 7 sharp. The night shift girls went, "What? You all came in just in time because it's a holiday?" Then we got down to business, report, ditto. Then the night girls wished us a happy working day and we are off to bed-making and showers. Spongings... Most of the patients are already okay compared to the first post op day, so most of them are able to walk and shower. Some were even kind enough not to disturb us as they said they can ask their family to assist while we attend to other matters. And most of them are also being discharged so they are walking around to help themselves. Some were concerned for us that we are working in the holidays but as I mentioned to one patient, "If there's no one, then who's going to take care of you and the other patients?"
So there are Redivac bottles to change and the occasional minor dressing to change, the only thing that's keeping us busy are the discharges. Not much admissions, but tons of discharges. And when I checked the system, tons of discharges just kept coming in. I know everyone is keen to go home, but we only got 2 people working in billing, and discharges kept piling up.
So there's not much, besides the feeding that I often do. Oh, and patients gave us tons of crackers and fruits in case we were starving. Guess that's one thing I don't have to worry about whenever I'm out of food, except I'm a picky eater.
The only good thing that comes out of it is I get to claim a PH for working today. :)
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