Wow! Looks like the foodie in me finally got through… *sigh*… he might be a hungry fellow, but he does have good analogies. Till now, I seem to have given all of you almost the entire dish of my hospital journey served fresh. But in all my hurry, I seem to have forgotten to add the most important, unnoticed and underrated ingredient. Salt. If you haven’t guessed it already, I’m going to be dedicating this log to those people in the hospital who are the most unnoticed and yet are perhaps some of the most important people there. This log is for all of my nurses and support staff in the hospital who added the “Salt” to my “Dish”. All of the other spices are good and fine, but you can’t eat a dish if it’s without salt… no matter how much spice you add in.
Let’s see. Apart from the fact that they are the reason the hospital runs smoothly, they mean a lot more to the patients in a hospital than most people would believe them to be. Nurses? To begin with, they have an amazing presence of mind… which was more than necessary in my case (with all of those seizures and other issues posing a risk). And above all, they did their role with utmost sincerity and perfection, making sure each and every patient was taken care of at the right time, and attended to each patient’s (possibly slightly annoying) relative’s queries and (obviously) complaints. The most surprising thing I found was, that even amidst all of the patients and their schedules which they had to keep a strict track of, they worked tirelessly and effortlessly all throughout, almost unfailingly, making sure each patient was in the best of health and that the doctors’ orders were being followed right down to the last drop of ink. The nurses’ roles are more serious and game-deciding than most people would believe them to be. For those patients who don’t have an accompanying relative, the nurses would have to take care of everything.
The support staff, too, have quite a contribution that is more than often left unspoken for and unaccounted for. They were responsible for so many things that are the kind of things that actually run the hospital (apart from the doctors and nurses). They have all sorts of tasks, right down from hygiene (which prevents further diseases), which kind of makes them doctors in their own sense, to the shifting of beds and patients, even helping them excrete, delivery of medicines, all the way to admin and security tasks. I guess I can safely say now that all of the people with whom I came in contact with in the hospital, right down from my doctors, therapists, fellow patients, nurses and even support staff formed such a unique bond with me that we have formed a huge family outside family… few more Logs to discharge folks, We’re almost there… Complete the hospital journey along with me, see you next week folks J