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Even thou I’m currently on leave. I woke up at 6.30am this morning. I guess the long 3 months training had been doing me some good. And I found sleeping for long hours makes me more tired, instead of replenishing much of my lost energy.

Today was spent eating breakfast at home, going for a movie (Sherlock Holmes) with my brother, tea (ice-cream and chicken chop, ya i know, pretty heavy) with Cyrena, dinner at home with family and at night for some beer and alcohol at Ah Gui’s birthday (yea yea, that guy was born on Christmas eve).

Even thou on leave, my mind kinda wonder how is that person taking over my place is performing. I wonder whether she could finish her job early and go home for Christmas eve. I wonder whether there are a lot of patients in the ward today. Hmm.. I should stop thinking about work, at least for some time.

A lot of friends that meet me back home ask me whether I have adapted to my job.

I wonder what should I say.

Adapting to the environment and job seems to come fast. Because there are some other more frustrating and important things to take care of.

The job by itself is demanding in term of time and attention. It gets worse if you get a ridiculous family member or a ridiculous patient.

Take this special case for example.

There was this patient who got admitted but due to all beds are full, was placed quite far away down the ward.

The family of the patient demanded for first class as they are entitled to, but was put on hold because all the beds were full. On the first day, the nurses have to restrain the patient as she was found getting down from bed and occasionally almost fell down and bump over things, but when confronted and explained, still refused to stay in bed. The next day, when the son saw his mum all tied up, was furious and almost barked at me, who at that time know nothing of that for doing so.

A lot of explanation was given. And after that because he was strongly against it, we apologized for doing that. However, based on the story told by the nurses, her mum wasn’t fit to walk around and it is better to be kept on bed.

The 2nd day, she fell from the bed, and later on was restrain by the nurses on bed. The son who found out the second day, almost yell at me that morning.

Yea she fell. And I think she fell because we didn’t restrain her. We kinda let that happened because we listened to him. And yet we are to blamed?

He said that we should have keep an eye on her all night long.

He said that we should have check on her from time to time.

He said that we should have put her in first class.

He sounded so righteous, so filial, so concern about his mum.

So I proposed something.

“Why not one of your family member stay back and look after your mum. One person is allowed to stay over, sometimes even two.”

He kept quiet.

He said ” I know… that’s what we can’t do.”

Yea.. so much of being concern and filial.

The daughter gave an even more ridiculous excuse “I can’t do it, I have dinner tonight”

And I bet everybody there has an excuse in mind.

There are 39 patients, 3 staff nurses at night, 2 Housemen.

And there is 1 mother, 6 children.

Do the math. How much can we do as care-provider?

And until now, none of her children stayed back to look after her. They would continue to complain and demand and complain again and demand for more. But they never take care of their mother. If she is weak until she can’t hold her own cup, then the children should be there to feed her water.

So much for wearing a happy wesak day t-shirt.

Boo-yah.

Anyway, I should start writing more optimistic things since the end of the year is coming. Looking forward for a more productive day tomorrow!