It's a rollercoaster kind of rush

Today was day two of work experience, and I walked into my ward feeling confident and radiant in the morning. Unfortunately, this particular morning, I witnessed two showers and a sponge bath so by break time I was traumatised, scared of women and far from radiant. Oh the sponge bath.

The woman who was getting sponge bathed started talking to me, which was pretty awkward. Her name was Anna.

Anna: So what nationality are you?

Richard: Korean

A: Really? My daughter in law is Korean

R: O. Right.

(Nurse turns her over to bath her back, and her ass is showing)

A: Her name is Ah-Joung

R: That’s nice...

A: Did I mention she was from Korea?

As I said, very awkward.

After break was the exercise session, and all the patients were walked out into the exercise area. That took thirty minutes:

Richard: Come on there, Mr Wells, only around 5 more metres to go

(1 minute later)

R: Almost there now, only a few steps left

(10 seconds later)

R: There we go, all seated

Wells: Boy, I’m tired *wipes sweat*

Obviously I was bored sick, so I tried using those wheely frame things that they used to walk with, and it was SO FUN. And they’re so much more convenient to walk with :D

Yeah and this is usually the funnest part of the day. I played quoits and darts with the old people, and watched them struggle to lift 500g dumbbells.

All that exercise made me starving, so I hurried off to lunch and wolfed down my sandwich. Hot chips were selling for $1.80, so everyone bought one but couldn’t finish it all, so many chips were left over. Enter Geoffrey. No chips were left over.

After lunch was bludge, so I did some interviews of nurses and patients (stupid Westmead booklet). Then went to visit Adrian’s ward and watched him steal bites of a cake that was left in his tearoom o.O

Fun day overall, but feel that enthusiasm may be coming down, and lunch slowly coming up

NOTE: Charlie Sheen from two and a half men only dates 20 year old women. Why? He claims that although the body stops growing, the ears never stop growing. By the time a woman is 50 or 60, the ears are HUMUNGOUS. Out of curiosity, I observed all the ears of the patients that I saw. And yes, THEY ARE HUGE. And OUT OF PROPORTION. I seriously only saw 1 normal sized pair of ears in the entire ward. And those normal sized ears belonged to a tiny old lady... GET AWAY FROM ME! STRAIGHT INTO THE CRAP PILE!

CRAP PILE: old people’s ears

And I remembered the title of the song from yesterday. It’s called 99 red balloons

Floating in the summer sky, 99 red balloons go by...

rkim