Double, Triple, Quadraple

29th November (Saturday) - Noon -> Double (Morning plus noon) -> Morning
I'm so sorry about the late update. Because I was on doing noon shift on Thursday, but because we had a shortage of staff, I was requested to do double shift for the next day. Since there's not much people on duty, and I happened to be free, well, why not?
For the past few days, I've been taking care of Datin, well, I used to do the normal way of cleaning her legs, but this time it's totally different. Instead of normal dressing, now it takes up to about an hour.See, now that her legs condition have no improvement, we have to do an alternative. Now we have to soak her legs in Potassium. It sounds easy but I can tell you, it is not. It involves a lot of getting on to your knees, backaches and knee cramps because, first, you have to fill up her super large basin til it's half full. And the basin size, it's about more than sixty centimetres wide, and it takes a while for it to fill up. Once done, the maid and depending whoever is the one who do the dressing, will half drag, half carry the basin to Datin. Then, armed with two bottles of Potassium, the person will have to pour from small to moderate amount at a time. Depending on the colour, you're going to have to pour more or less, a little like hot and cold guessing game (Kweh. Kweh?! KWEEE-EH!!!) Okay, bad pun. When the water turned into a rich shade of purple, that means the amount is correct (Roughly estimated about half a bottle, dilute in a half-filled basin) Then you have to soak her feet in it for 20 minutes, and water her legs form the knee down while putting gamgee pad wools on her thigh. A very tiring task especially when I have to pour all over her legs over and over to make sure it is thoroughly soaked. And after that, to apply a lot of jelonet layers til all her broken down skins are covered, then wrapped in a large rolled gauze and crepe bandage. I am actually very thankful to Datin is she actually appreciate how much time I spend for her to make sure her wound is improving, occasionally she shares me some of her oversea stories. Sigh, if only I had money to visit my twinnie...
Okay, about double shift is no fun job, not even for the money. God knows, but throughout my whole double, it was tiring and exhausting. Jumping after professors, preparing most of their patient for operation that are in the coming morning, tons of discharges at the same time, together with admissions. Oh, mayhem!!! We don't even have enough people to do observation but nevertheless, we managed to pull through. With five to six hours of sleep, I proceed on to morning.
Today it's morning, and okay, we are all busy with our many op cases. With discharges rushing in. The good thing was most of our patients, we already sent the folders for interim, so mostly they are just rounding up final adjustments. It's an overall repeat of the double shift day so there's nothing much to add, except that my back and shoulders are aching from yesterday pre-op shaving, especially for privates. No joke. Some obs and gynae profs are strict to the point where if you miss out or didn't shave clean (And I do mean CLEAN), they'll make you come down and shave for the patient, or get your name from the folder and sing an orchestra. Since I nearly got into the orchestra as well, I made sure that it's CLEAN. Technically it wasn't the shaving part but stockings. (Nearly have to write a very long apology speech but thank God the crisis was averted.)
So tired. I felt as though I just done four shifts in a row with every patient commenting why do they see my face every single day as though I never go back to sleep. Zzzzz.