i have a habit of looking at the patient count board and the whiteboard
when i reach the workplace just to have a rough idea how the shift's gonna be like.
so when i came to work for my night shift,
i was greeted by the following at the whiteboard.
FCBs: *20/3, *22/4, 22/5.
one glance and i thought it was the FBC (full blood count) blood i had to take at 6am.
but no i was wrong.
zhangxin explained that it stands for Frequent Call Bells.
latheefa, on the other hand explained it as Fucking Cibais.
crude but i liked it cos they really were!
the whole night they were taking turns pressing the call bells
and at one point of time nalini and i comtemplated to just off the
call bells from the nurses' station.
like come on man. we're nurses, not your fucking maids.
odd requests like folding the towel into a PERFECT square and
putting it at the back, then decided that she wanted it a bit higher,
a bit lower, a bit to the left, a bit to the right.
in the end, it goes back to where we layed it.
what good are a pair of hands when you don't even want to pour
the water yourself? reason you gave was that the table was too far.
pushed the table nearer but were we called again to pour the water?
you bet, we were!
the most ridiculous had to be the one who called asking to get smtg for her
but just when i wanted to step out of the room, the call bell rang AGAIN.
SAME PERSON, asking for the thing i was supposed to get for her.
woman, it has only been 5 secs since i turned my back to get for you the thing
you wanted and you've called me again? did you think i can twitch my nose and
it'll appear before your eyes?
with all that happening, we had to deal with an MTPT (mid term pregnancy termination).
the abortus was already out but cases like this needed close monitoring just in case
the person's bleeder. thank god she wasn't.
settled the necessary documents, arranged for the abortus to be despatched to mortuary.
by the end of it, our heads were already spinning.
that was the second night.
when i came for my third and final night,
the FCBs were still around but nalini and i already had a plan in mind.
and it worked!
we got to eat supper and slept for an hour plus with the lights off even.
haha. no, we weren't so evil as to kill the FCBs.
the bottomline was that our plan worked. so yay us!