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After living for a week in a hospital, finally I’ve been given a chance to sleep peacefully (without clumsy nurses waking me up in the middle of the night just to ask, “Doktora, naibigay na po ba ‘yung meds due ng 10?”) here at home. Well, it’s because I’ve got clinic hours tomorrow and I asked if I could just stay home for the night and then be back at the hospital to be Daddy’s hospital companion again after my clinic.

Daddy wanted me to be with him in the hospital as much as possible because of some bad experiences he had with the nurses in the hospital. One such experience is that when a nurse forgot to unclamp his foley catheter for 3 hours during his bladder training (weaning him from his foley catheter by clamping it so he could feel the urge to urinate). Poor Daddy, he had lower abdominal pain because of a full bladder and he can’t pass out the urine because of the clamped catheter. I wasn’t around in the hospital at that time because I was out buying medicines. He then called me on my cellphone asking me to come back because he can’t urinate and he was in pain. He really got mad with the nurse because the nurse thought he was to clamp the catheter for 3 hours every 4 hours (geez, didn’t he know that a normal adult can produce 1-2 cc of urine/kg of body weight every hour?).

Another bad experience we had at the hospital was that the nurses kept on getting mixed up with the medications. While I do understand that they can’t really memorize all the medications because of the number of patients they have and they are understaffed, it’s hard to really accept such mistakes when I’ve already given them a schedule of the medications myself. All they have to do is check the patient’s chart. What if I wasn’t a doctor and I was just an ordinary person who only has an average understanding of medications and is just relying on the nursing staff for the medications to be administered to my patient? With nurses like that, there is a high risk for wrong medications to be given to the patient. And that is a scary thought indeed. So I quite understand why my dad isn’t too comfortable if I’m away from his side, especially during medications time.

This experience of my dad being hospitalized has taught me many things which made me understand patients’ behavior more. I also realized that there are a lot of things that the average person still do not know about their health, which could make their lives better and easier, if only they’d take time to get to know these things. I will blog more about these in my next post/s.

So, see you again. Will have to catch up with my Zzzzzz’s.

Oh by the way, just a Daddy update: he’s still in the hospital now but he’s feeling much better. His diarrhea has resolved already and he doesn’t have abdominal pain now. His kidneys are now functioning normally (at least, acceptably normal) and his blood sugar is at manageable levels. He still has gouty arthritis, though. He’s able to sit up with some assistance but he can’t ambulate just yet. Maybe in a few days time he will. At least, the only problem left is the arthritis. Everything else is manageable.

To my dad’s well-wishers, thank you so much!

Tags: daddy update, nurse problems

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