The day was actually yesterday or a week ago today or even months ago today depending on when you read this but the actual date is 19th of March, 2024. I’m sure you’re wondering why it’s such a special day to write about, after all it’s not not my birthday neither is it a perfect date like 02/02/2002 or 03/03/2023 but stick with me, will you?
Okay, I woke up quite early this morning and I had spent my first few minutes in the toilet because something I ate the day before doesn’t just sit right in my stomach. After which I talked to God and got ready for work. My youngest sister was around because she needed to see an ophthalmologist but she was returning back to school that day and I was quite happy because I don’t have to share the room again and I had shouted a few times more when she came home than all the times she wasn’t around combined so I needed that serenity, again. My dad and I went to drop her at school and I was very sure I was going to be late for work but I didn’t mind this one time because everyone else also come late sometimes even if I was moving the car faster and shouting at other innocent drivers who were also probably running late too in my head. I had planned to immediately apologize for coming late before they even mentioned anything about me being late. I can’t tell if it worked cos my matron didn’t say anything about it.
Work went well, thanks for asking. I would actually say it went really well except after I had a conversation with this doctor, there was a shift in my perspective of whether it went well or not. There were no patients initially (for context: I work in emergency section of O&G so chances are 50/50 on most days) till a patient came in and the work got pretty intense. So when he asked me how the shift was going, I told him it was going well till the patient came in. So he asked a simple question; what if during my service or after the internship, it was just me and my matron on duty and the doctor(s) around is/are not competent enough what happens then? His point was that I should wish for more patients so I could learn. I thought it was a make sense point anyways afterall I’ve pledged my allegiance to Nightingale.
to be honest, the advice was a good one but it may not really matter much for me in the long run.
It got a little more busy after he made that shift in my brain and if you ever read this, thanks for the advice!
While I was less busy, I had actually read a few conditions and asked my matron some questions and I also stumbled on the medium page of Tamilore Jenrola and I binged read just a few of her articles and they were good good. The kind where you see a new restaurant that no one really talks about but just because you don’t like your stomach enough to try out food from any restaurant, you go in there and taste the food and it turns out to be one of the sweetest food you’ve eaten all your life -- That’s how I felt reading through her articles.
In between laughing my ass out because somehow the doctors and nurses always put on a comedy show when there are no patients around and realising that my crush never passes the room without him turning back to shake me or give me a chop knuckle (because he did that today) and turning deaf and dumb because someone was been teased because of me. It was a great day actually. I feel like I’m living a different world than I always thought or imagined but guess this is real life!
Lest I forget, the bike that took me home from work was honking at other bike men and even cars with his mouth. Now I’m worried about the people that were on the other bikes everytime he did that cos why are you not laughing sis? Don’t you find that funny? cos I did and I laughed everytime he did it.
Did I also mention I only had Eba throughout the day because my stomach was acting up and removed my clothe in the middle of the night because the heat was too much? Yeah, there’s that too! I can’t end this without telling you how I was on X for about 20 to 35 minutes filling myself up on the gist of what SR’s and Reg’s are doing to their HO’s because I’m a very nosy person and how though some of it happens where I work but not as ridiculous as that, how some doctors think the nurses don’t do much in hospital except to document (and just projecting their own insecurities on nurses) and all the gist on Minister Theophilus’s engagement and how someone said “No love for Nigerian women because we are wicked”
Thank God I’m not a Nigerian sha
To be very honest, you may think it’s not that deep; I think that too, I just wanted to share my excitement.
If you read up to this point, thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing and living the day. Please like and subscribe if it pleases you (please be pleased)
P. S: I don’t want to hear anything about my crush in the comments else I will report YOU!
Till next time,
Xoxo, Damilola
Take home:
Florence Nightingale: Mother of Nursing
SR, Reg, HO to mean Senior registrar, Registrar and House Officers. They are all doctors. The House Officers being the fresh out of medical school then the registrars and the senior registrars. I can’t give all the explanation to this because I myself can’t understand how it really is but yeah.
What’s new?
I’ve written this since 20th of March(a day after) and I like that the memory is still somewhat fresh
I was off social media the other day for 5 days and it was a good idea.
I’m starting to let out my inner child because I recently took an interest in painting. you can start calling me Picassola (pun intended).
As for the crush? We await the unveiling🌚
I think your writing style is one to applaud, I definitely stayed glued till the end