Never Been Burnt..Just Kidding

I worked in casualty again today. The plans for working in other wards weren’t official yet, or Estelle still had to finalize everything, so I came back for one day. Estelle is the cutest thing ever; I am so glad that she is our hospital contact. She is so sweet. Nothing exciting happened, just the same old things that I saw last week. Lauren got to go work in triage with the nurses (she’s just finishing nursing school), so that was cool for her, and Miles stuck around with me. During the mid-morning, Miles remembered that he wanted to put his earrings back in (the ones that he “took” out Friday morning), and since things were pretty slow, we went to go do that. In one of the kitchen areas close to where we keep our things, there is a hot water “maker” I guess you would call it. I was pulling the lever to pour hot water into a mug so that Miles could somewhat sanitize the earrings before putting them back into his ears, and water splashed out and burnt my right hand a little bit. This scared me, I jumped and in response my left hand sort of threw the mug into the air and the boiling water came down and splashed ALL over my left hand ): I was screaming and half laughing at the same time. I was only laughing because earlier that morning, there was a burn patient in the ward, and I was telling Miles that I’ve never really been burnt before. Obviously this wasn’t as serious, but it was still ironic.

Miles’ ears had already started to close because his ears are quite newly pierced. And, he also sucks at putting earrings in (especially the backs!), so he couldn’t really get them in. I helped practically re-pierce them, and put the backs back in for him. But, at least we got them. Soon after this once we returned to casualty, Lauren came in telling us that she had been informed that there was a substance abuse lecture going on, pretty much starting right then, so we headed up to the auditorium to check it out. Drugs are quite a huge issue here, which is why we thought it would be good to attend. The lady presenting was helping the hospitals introduce and implement a new ‘program’ to help prevent drug abuse rather than treat it. They were going to try and do screenings for at risk patients, to help prevent abuse of non-users by informing them of the harms that it can do, and get help for casual users to assist them out of using and also informing them of the risks of use. I think it was a start in the right direction, even though tackling the huge problem isn’t going to be an easy thing and efforts won’t make a dent at the beginning.

It was so nice and sunny and beautiful today, which made me very happy. Even when the weather is nice outside though, the hospital is still always FREEZING. I freeze my butt off almost every single day, and there’s nothing I hate more than being cold. I try to layer up but I still seem to be cold almost without fail. I need a better solution..