Saturday, October 31, 2009

That was close...

So today was inspection day, meaning a doctor from the government comes and tells you what you are doing wrong. We had be preparing for this for the past two weeks and since he only comes once every 4 months we had 4 months of paper work to make sure was complete. Over the past three days Richardson, Ramesh, and I wrote over 200 address of patients in a book and completed a lot of pending charts. I cant say that I've eaten a whole lot this week because I've been at the hosptial, adding that I've been sick this hasn't been the funnest week. Although I love Ramesh and Richardson so that makes it a little bit easier. So he came and looked around, went through files, and then did rounds and all together it took about 7 hours, luckly I got to be with the patients instead of listening to the Inspector.
Something fun that is going on this week is Cricket. Australlia vs. India and man do they get excited over cricket, but now that I know how its played I think its pretty amazing too. I wish we had cricket instead of baseball. Actually right now they are playing and I believe that Australlia is going to win, but India is ahead in games won so it doesn't matter too much.
Something not so fun that happened today was me almost killing a patient...
This morning I was hooking up some ciplox iv and giving a voveron inj. and I though that voveron was Iv/Im when really it was strictly IM. I was just about to push it through the veinflow when Ramesh said wait what is that. I said voveron and he said you almost just killed the patient. Needless to say I didn't kill the patient but the patient does not trust me anymore and I dont blame him. I am definatly going to make sure I ask whether its IV or Im next time.
This afternoon I was sitting with Laxmi, one of my favorites who probably wont make it much longer, and all the sudden she showed me her veinflow was ripped out and there was blood going down her arm. I instinctively grabed to stop the bleeding forgetting that she had AIDS. So I got her blood on my hand and when I realized I ran to the sink to wash it off and used surgical scrub then put gloves on and went and stopped the bleeding. I know you might think its not that big of a deal, but I have open bug bits all over my arms from mosquittos so if her blood would of gotten in they hospital would of been a little caotic. Luckly it didn't. Pray for her if you have the time, she has severe jaundice, billiumin of 9.56 and it can't get much higher than 10 until you die.
I also found out that Sushila and Mukesh, they are from my earlier posts, they died last month in there house, so that was pretty sad.
All in all I am still loving it here, the people are amazing and I am celebrating a Hindu festival with my Indian family on monday which will be great. One of my big prayers to God is that I'll never be put in a position where I'll be worshiping another god. I always make sure to pray more when I am having communtity with Hindu's in the way of celebrating one of their festivals.
Well now i have to go and watch some Cricket, give some inj., do some paper work and try and get to bed before 11.
Goodnight,
I miss you all!

1 comment:

  1. we miss you too. but not much longer! and mom will be there soon! and i'm sending stuff along with her-including a book, nail clippers and tweezers! and some other stuff.
    im really glad you're not hiv positive...please wear gloves!
    and dont let the board of nursing at npu read this...you probably wont be let in :)

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