Dear Diary,
As much as I'm thinking about changing nursing services, can I seriously consider it? Imagine people working there with respect and common sense. What am I supposed to get upset about then? That's not possible.
Somehow I can't get rid of the feeling that my excitements are repeated.
In order not to do anyone an injustice, I will allow myself the following joke. I'm going to write down the things that annoy me the most. These are all things that I have already said countless times that they bother me. And in my opinion, it should be more than enough if I have to say it once.
And then we'll see what happens for a few days. I'm looking forward to the first day without any trouble. I'm guessing it will be a day when both day and night shifts are taken over by temporary staff (mini-job) or when my favourite nurse is back from holiday. Sad, I know, but that's how it is.
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accusing me of forgetting something that I have not forgotten | 2x | 1x | – | – | 2x |
| Look into my screen and read what I am writing without being asked | 1x | 2x | – | 3x | 3x |
| Fiddling with my mask uninvited and destroying the previously good fit | 3x | 1x | 1x | 7x | 3x |
| Not letting me finish, interpreting the wrong thing and doing something wrong | 2x | 1x | – | – | 6x |
| Turning my head completely unnecessarily (acute shortness of breath and immediate mucus) | 14x | 8x | 2x | 1x | 8x |
| Getting caught on my PEG, bladder catheter or ventilation | – | 1x | – | 1x | 2x |
| Ventilation hose too short or pinched so that it distorts the mask or the hose comes off. | – | – | 3x | 3x | 3x |
| Continue, even though I say stop.... | 2x | 3x | – | 1x | 4x |
| ...and injure myself bloody (e.g. bleeding soft palate after suction, bleeding tongue after the announced spastic biting if the catheter is not removed immediately). | – | 1x | – | – | 2x |
| Care interrupted for handover | 1x | 2x | 1x | 2x | 1x |
What a lot of action here! I would have assumed without joking that I always exaggerate. You know, because of quotas and all that. As I wrote at the beginning.
Not in my dreams would I have thought it very likely that I was underplaying. I didn't even know that I was born with the ability to understate. Well then, here we are. What do I do with this surprising and devastating result? To be honest, I'm giving it some more thought. Because that's not possible at all. What do patients do who are no longer quite so fit in the head? They get the wrong antidepressants and painkillers, or what? And when, hopefully, a relative notices at some point and complains about the inadequacy, the nurse leaves in a huff, or what? That's what happens to me regularly when I complain because my face and mask are being fiddled with uninvited and unwanted, for example.
Anyway, the result, I'm really flashed. This calls for more pseudoscientific analyses, don't you think? I find it highly interesting and surprising.
