Lalala... today was the last day of my early mornings torture... although i have to say that i quite enjoyed this placement... i had a nice supervisor... can u believe that she's only like 2 years older than me??... anyway... since this was the last day, me and the other student decided to give them a card and bought chocolates for them...
this morning... went up to the ward again to do a shower assessment with this elderly male patient... the ward was still under quarantined... so we had to gown up and wear gloves... and whenever we see another patient even if it's within the same room... we had to change into a new gown and gloves... and according to my supervisor... those were not cheap at all... one box of gowns cost like $200... wow...
so after helping the patient undress and sit on the shower chair... my supervisor suddenly turned to me and said, do u want to do this?... i was like what???!! how come never tell me beforehand? so that i can be mentally prepared... but of course i said yes... so... i was standing there watching him wash himself... luckily he did not require much help... only with his back and legs... still not quite comfortable with watching and helping someone shower, and a male patient... and the patient was taking such a long time shaving... till his whole jaw was red and bleeding... my supervisor was like be careful... but he still kept on going... ??!!
so after the shower assessment... i had to dry him and help put his pants on for him... i think with practice and more time... i will become more comfortable with this...
after that... we went to complete my clinical evaluation form... well... i passed my placement...
and after that... we had a talk in the stroke unit and we were also provided with free lunch... upon arrival... found out that the free lunch was vegetarian sandwiches... yuck... no choice but to take one and eat... otherwise paiseh... and my supervisor had to leave even before the talk started... so i was left there listening to the talk on diseases of the muscles... i think it was supposed to be useful... but it was so seriously boring and i dun even understand most of what the speaker was saying also... i almost dozed off... the talk was so long... in the end... i was so miserable and tired already... hungry and sleepy... and there was not much to do in the ward...
so in the end... i was asked to do more orientation charts for the other OT who needed some for their confused patients... and then went back to the ward, wanting to conduct the cognitive test on this patient but she was fast asleep... so my supervisor said try waking her up and see how... in the end... although she was really talkative but still very confused... it was obvious that she was concentrating on the questions that i was asking her... so we had to stop the test halfway... alamak... and then we had to ask ard to see if the other OTs need help with their patients...
finally... we got to do an initial interview on this elderly male patient who actually was ready to be discharged... so it was quite an easy interview... we finished the interview within 10 min... the other OT was so impressed by our efficiency... actually my supervisor's efficiency cos she did the interview... i was just an observer... after that... nothing to do already so i was sitting in her office reading the upper limb treatment tools when kathryn came in and said her supervisor let her off early... so my supervisor also said i could go early... when i was about to go... like it was the last day already... but i really could not think of anything more to say besides thank you... and afterwards... i felt like i should have said something more rather than just thank you... after all... she really taught me lots of stuff and really nice to me also...
oh and today... after the shower assessment and after doing the documentation... there was nothing much for me to do right... so i was just standing there when my supervisor started talking to another OT and the SP there saying that she was dumped recently and she was feeling really depressed... and then they started talking about their past experiences with failed relationships and abt their ex... some of their stories were really funny but i was like hmm... maybe i should not be listening to this cos i dun noe head or tail right and would seem as if i was eavesdropping... but then again... if i leave... where should i go and what should i do... so in the end... i just stood there listening to them comforting my supervisor abt her break-up and stuff... i felt really 'extra'... but she also never tell me to leave or go somewhere else and they were talking quite loudly too... so i was pretty sure that the whole ward now knows that my supervisor got dumped...
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