2nd December (Wedensday) - It has been four months since my last update. The haze is gone, hurrah. No more masks, no more duck beaks, no more teary eyes, no more hacking cough and difficulty in breathing. Hello, sunshine, hello clear blue sky.
Many things had happened. I'm still with that spine surgeon whom I always assisted in the morning while running things in my original department in the noon. I suffered a few mood swings up and down regarding family issues, and gotten bullied verbally by some nasty patients, to the point where I was in tears til my doctor (aka boss) told me to cheer up and that I can't please everyone. He even went and tell the patient off personally cause when he got a lot of surgery and sometimes there's last minute planning. So I immediately block his clinic to prevent a lot of headaches for the patients, registration, the nurses, boss, and me (Unless it's a small case then I won't block, hence I often double check his OT booking, or double check with the OT staff). God bless, I swore I wouldn't go into tears, but the patient really gave me one hell of a bullocking, Thank goodness for nice bosses or else I might end up worse.
I been thinking, people often say my boss is scary, but I don't think so. Sure, he seems serious and quiet, but once you get to know him, you'll find out he's a really sweet guy. I admit, when I first assisted him, I was scared of him as well. And I never talked to him, seriously. Everyday was the same, hi boss, bye boss. Yep, you'll agree with me that this is exactly... no life. It was his regular patients who encouraged me to open up to him. "Your doctor is so cute, don't you want to get to know him? He's a very nice guy, you're his nurse, you should be talking to him." After a lot of consideration, they're right. Good working relationship between nurse and doctor has to be established by getting to know each other. Sure, we do talk about work sometimes, but we get to know each other lives as well. I'm still attending ongoing sessions with my psychiatrist and he was okay with it. Well, the psychiatrist session is only in the mornings,so is his, so usually I leave him a note if I'm going anywhere. Heaven knows, one man show ain't easy. But that's why I keep tons of sticky notes on my desk. He usually asks me whether I'm okay or do I need rest, I'm totally okay, except for the occasional mood swings, but I had never falter on my job, unless someone happened to be covering me and did not pass any of the important things properly. (Sticky notes, sticky notes....)
I finally plucked up the courage to tell my doctor that I write. Who would've thought? He's pretty knowledgeable about eBooks and Youtube. Uh huh. He went, "Hello? Youtube? You can learn a lot from it." Yep, how to pick locks and wearing yukata, tying an obi belt, zumba workout and illustration sketching, you just have to use it the right way,
Whenever I go back to my original department during noon time, most of my regular patients for dressing usually asked what happened to me. Well, since I'm upstairs assisting my boss in the mornings, I can't usually run off, someone has got to man the fort, if you know what I mean.The amount of patients who walk in were unbelievable. I don't mind walk ins, but it couldn't hurt to at least give a call, since my boss is super busy, I just go with the flow.
December is finally here, which means Christmas. Yeah! I already decorated my boss's clinic with a tiny Christmas tree to get into the festive season. No point getting a big one cause our clinic is not that big, and an absolute waste of money to buy a huge one if you are going to put it out once every year. So a tiny one will do, I can even re-use it back for Chinese New Year next February. I really got to start bucking up my folding skills.
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