Well, I hope Rhonda and other nurses can read this.
Some of you guys know I've been running to the hospital almost
daily to visit my future MIL eh.
You know, I've never thought of nurses this way till you see the
missies in action in the high dependency wards.
until I saw them change and clean up a patient with involutary
diarrhea 5 times in two hours, until I saw them clean up vomit and
bile time after time with nary a complaint, until I saw them
respond so patiently to frustrated relatives trying to find out
more (the docs are quite God like; you know they are around, but
you just don't get to see them).
Until I saw them patiently teaching the home caregivers how to
flush a stomach tube and clean up involuntary rectal explosions
without causing discomfort to the patient. Until I saw them putting
up with the smell and gore that made me gagged.
Whatever MOH is paying nurses nowadays, it's not enough.
Sure, doctors get more glamour and money, but to me it's the
nurses that are right in the trenches, getting down and dirty.
fatumnette and I are thinking of arranging a gift basket to the
ward nurses when everything is finally over.
