Shi Hwee

Friday, October 19, 2007

end of geron posting

today is e end of my 3 weeks geron posting...overall...i enjoyed this posting actually...though it is tiring due to intense travelling...but i really learnt a lot of things...especially at SACH la...it is really a nice working environment there...friendly staff and cute patients...haha...then these 2 days i am posted to bb polyclinic...at first thought i will stay at e PT OT there only...then no lor...i am posted to e home nursing thinggi insead...so had to travel around...in total went to 11 houses...haha...work supposedly to be 8-4...but we only start like 9.30 (reach 8am in e end sit there like dozing off)...and end at 2plus..haha..

i dunno what to say la...looking at sick old ppl actually is quite saddening de....i mean if u are lucky...u get to stay at home and be taken care of by maid or family...tt is still not tt bad la...but those at nursing home or similar places...it is really sad lor...it is indeed true tt it is very difficult to be e caregiver of an aged...especially an ill one...who is dependent on u for almost everything...so no choice had to put them in nursing home...but it is not what e old patients want also...they also dun wan to be sick...talked to an old lady during e posting...actually her family jux went away for a while to makan ba...then she thought tt they are dumping her there because she is of no use le...then she said tt she is really upset tt she is so weak...upon hearing all this...i really dunno what to say lor...hmmm....actually old ppl are mostly very nice to get along with...they can joke with u and tell u lots of stories...so i really dun understand why some ppl will dump their own parents in nursing home...somemore mostly are chinese patients...e concept of filial piety is diminishing le ba...all only say say only...i think what these patients really need is e love and concern from family...not spending money to put them in homes instead...

haix...sometimes i really think i am in e wrong course le...being exposed to so many illness and death does not make me immune to them...instead i am more fearful of it...knowing tt all of us are at risk for certain illness in times to come...i dunno..i dun even dare to think about it...recently there are some deaths in my family too...though i am not close to them...but it is sad to hear this type of news...i am sad when my patients passed away...let alone relatives...life is so vulnerable...death seems so far yet so near...i dunno...i guess e most frightening component is e disease process ba...e most feared word of all...cancer....is so common now among ppl...e treatment process...so difficult and tough...and yet we can rarely recover from it totally...i fear not death or illness in me...but rather in my loved ones...i cant imagine any of my family or loved ones suffering in illness or wad...i really hoped nothing of this will happen...so like i said...if i am not in this course...if i am rarely in touch with hospital settings...i will not be so fearful or worried ba...i mean..this type of things...it is better to know less ba...at least to me...then maybe i wont think about it tt much...ha...but e reality is always cruel...i just hope everyone around me will be fine healthy and happy...really...from e bottom of my heart...

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