First Day of Wound Packing
Posted 05-28-2010 at 10:47 PM by EmmyNoether
This morning I woke up later than I intended. I ate matzoh with margarine for breakfast. Not because I'm Jewish (I'm not), but because after growing up in a Jewish neighborhood my whole life, I grew up wishing I could have of had matzoh every once and a while. So today, I did it.
Right after that, a visiting nurse came to change my mom's dry-pack. I had plenty opportunity to explain to her that any bodily fluids make me want to hurl. This was actually only to ensure the visiting nurse service that I was not up there to do the deeds they had been hired to do. Note about our health care system: even though my mother's doctor wanted her dry pack to be changed at minimum 3 times per day, the most she could get a nurse to do (out of the hospital) was 1 time per day; of course if I was there doing it, they would feel not needed, therefore my mom wouldn't get the proper medical care....
Long story short, I watched, I learned dry packing... and then I went directly to learning what I needed to learn in order to read the paper my adviser set out for me to learn. I did well: Yes, I could have plugged slightly more through, or else I could have missed important details of multiple concepts. Now, I got the fundamentals.... I should be in prime (math pun intended) condition tomorrow.
On a more personal note, for someone who has watched "Grey's Anatomy" religiously, I did phenomenally well for my first ever dry-pack. My mother (yes, she's my mother so she'll say anything positive) said I did as well as the surgeons... wheew. I know I caused her pain, but at least I can also help for the most good that can possibly be done for her time of need.
Honestly, when I started this blog I never imagined this kind of drama as part of my last year. I don't know what is worse, reporting that I'm doing work when my mom is in this kind of state, or reporting that I'm not.... Either way, this is what I signed up for. This is part of my last year and this is what building defenses is all about.
Right after that, a visiting nurse came to change my mom's dry-pack. I had plenty opportunity to explain to her that any bodily fluids make me want to hurl. This was actually only to ensure the visiting nurse service that I was not up there to do the deeds they had been hired to do. Note about our health care system: even though my mother's doctor wanted her dry pack to be changed at minimum 3 times per day, the most she could get a nurse to do (out of the hospital) was 1 time per day; of course if I was there doing it, they would feel not needed, therefore my mom wouldn't get the proper medical care....
Long story short, I watched, I learned dry packing... and then I went directly to learning what I needed to learn in order to read the paper my adviser set out for me to learn. I did well: Yes, I could have plugged slightly more through, or else I could have missed important details of multiple concepts. Now, I got the fundamentals.... I should be in prime (math pun intended) condition tomorrow.
On a more personal note, for someone who has watched "Grey's Anatomy" religiously, I did phenomenally well for my first ever dry-pack. My mother (yes, she's my mother so she'll say anything positive) said I did as well as the surgeons... wheew. I know I caused her pain, but at least I can also help for the most good that can possibly be done for her time of need.
Honestly, when I started this blog I never imagined this kind of drama as part of my last year. I don't know what is worse, reporting that I'm doing work when my mom is in this kind of state, or reporting that I'm not.... Either way, this is what I signed up for. This is part of my last year and this is what building defenses is all about.
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why do you feel like you need to have a wall (defenses) up?Posted 05-29-2010 at 03:00 AM by razorbladesmiley
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get comfortable being uncomfortable, life is not easy just keep going...meaning that's just you be comfortable being you it'll tale sometime for that phaze to pass. but for now just accept who you are.Posted 05-29-2010 at 01:29 PM by Ivelis
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It's taken me a while, but THANK YOU! I'm definitely learning who I can be through all of this. I'm not anyone who would have ever reacted to ooze, guts, and bodily fluids (at large). Now, I feel like I really am growing beyond my expectations of myself. Thank you for the support.Posted 06-23-2010 at 09:07 PM by EmmyNoether
