That’s why I like geriatrics

There was a little thing happened in my patients which made me laughed, even though it’s a small thing it reminded me why older adults are so funny.
One of my patients down in the ICU wanted to call her sister, so I offered to help and ask for the phone number. She tried to remember, and all of a sudden her next-bed neighbor, who came back from surgery and having a lot of pain and getting morphine for pain control, raised her voice saying “288…”. We both looked to her direction, with a curtain in between we were puzzled what’s going on. So we kind of ignored it and my patient started saying “it’s 262, uh let me think…”. And immediately her neighbor once again said “it’s 288…”. At this time, I looked at my patient and we both laughed hysterically! I said “don’t worry about it” and gesturing don’t mind her so she could remember the phone number. She tried real hard to remember and wasn’t very sure but gave me a number anyway. I dialed that number for her and the other end said I got the wrong number. So I told her what I heard, and her neighbor once again, with a more assertive and louder voice, said “I told you it’s 288…”. This time I laughed real hard thinking that these elderly ladies were so cute and confused at times, but my patient was kind of bothered by it and complained she made her unable to concentrate in remembering the number.
In my mind, I thought this lady must be dosed by the morphine pump and responding to whatever came across. And the both of them skinny old ladies in their 70s just talked back at each other over the curtain made me think that they are the most adorable thing on earth! So my patient once again gave me a slightly different number for me to try, and this time her neighbor insisted that the number she gave was correct. This time I wondered, would they by any chance related? So I asked “you know her sister?” And she said, “you are looking for Katherine, right?”, with her eyes half opened and looking at me drowsily. Then I smiled and said, “she Clara, not Katherine.” Until then she, “oh, then, never mind!” and closed her eyes and went to sleep.
This is so funny, even though may not be as funny as it was during the actual occurring, brought myself a bit of joy for the day. I like them old people.

Merciful Lord

祂實在是慈愛憐憫的主，常給我話語作指引，和解答心中的疑問：

我 聽 見 耶 和 華 的 聲 音 、 身 體 戰 兢 、 嘴 唇 發 顫 、 骨 中 朽 爛 ． 我 在 所 立 之 處 戰 兢 ． 我 只 可 安 靜 等 候 災 難 之 日 臨 到 、 犯 境 之 民 上 來 。

雖 然 無 花 果 樹 不 發 旺 、 葡 萄 樹 不 結 果 、 橄 欖 樹 也 不 效 力 、 田 地 不 出 糧 食 、 圈 中 絕 了 羊 、 棚 內 也 沒 有 牛 ．

然 而 我 要 因 耶 和 華 歡 欣 、 因 救 我 的 　 神 喜 樂 。

主 耶 和 華 是 我 的 力 量 ． 他 使 我 的 腳 快 如 母 鹿 的 蹄 、 又 使 我 穩 行 在 高 處 。

~ 哈巴谷書3:16-19

May be I can live till 100…

If I’m like my patient, tough and determined! She is a hundred-year-old lady who came to the hospital with some weakness. She was quite “pissed” when I met her the first day saying that you people are not treating me the right way just because I’m a hundred! I was kind of caught off-guarded since I did nothing disrespectful to her, actually I considered myself being really patience and kind… I was sort of scared off by her first impression but gradually understood her determination not to be looked down or treated differently just because she’s a hundred years old. Her feisty little temperment probably also coming from the fact that she is hard of hearing, I have to almost scream to get her hear what I said and I am not good at it. After getting to know her family, I saw such family ties webbed tightly between them, how wonderful is their love and care for each other. I think it’s ok to live a hundred if I could be like her…

Dells

Planned to go to Wisconsin Dells with my relatives, so we took a long drive there. Even though I have worked twelve hours the day before, I enjoyed the drive because I got good companies. It’s been such a long time I haven’t really enjoyed anything. I was bothered by my emotional life for the past few months, and wasn’t able to bring myself up to anything at all. God has been very kind to me, giving me words of comfort and affirmation. It’s me who don’t have enough faith to trust His will, so was kind of wondering in the mood of unsettling. After having a long talk to my friend and having my close relatives in town, brought great excitement and joy to me since yesterday. It’s kind of like a paradigm shift, things are the same and also changed… It’s me or something else? I think it’s God been found, and again we meet again. I hope that His Word in me will continue to take root and stand fast in me, so His name could be glorified through my life. He loves me for sure and so do I