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•I had a night shift the other day;
•I hate it;
•I still hate the routine after six
years of working with a night shift almost every week; it deprived of me more
than a sound sleep or time to rest; it is horrible which you can never imagine;
•Things worked out the way I pictured
it would be that day.
•I was busy from the time I got there
until 2 o’clock of the next day,luckily,there was no emergency; when i was about to sleep,a father with a 15-year old child who was
diagnosed as refractory epilepsy for five years came to the office and had a
chat with me;
•he told me that his son was
previously healthy and smart with a caring heart; they had a great
relationship; one day his son had a fever and then following a subtle change of his
character which he didn’t pay much attention to. He was busy with work everyday
and left his son with the grandmother to see the doctor; then he found him
dodged in the corner of the room when he had a visit two days later.
•He could tell that something was
wrong, even though he could not Figure out what exactly it would be; Immediately
his son was sent to our
hospital, while in the waiting room, he failed to recognized his father and ran out of the
room; he fell and struck head on the stone floor out of the blue and never come
to.
•He was admitted to the NICU for
failure of respiration and was discharged 40
days later with a diagnosis of epilepsy;
•He was alive for his heart beats in
the way known as
sinus rhythm, but the brain
stopped working in the right way;
•I had never seen a man cry in front
of me, and he didn’t exactly sit there blowing, but there were definitely tears
welling up in his eyes. He blinked them back the best he could and said he
believed that there was a chance his son might be healthy again. it was slim, but
there was hope, and he would hold on to that hope with everything he got;
he owed it
all to his son;
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Post comment Comment (3 replies)
- Reply teadrinking
- Doctor is an occupation deserved to be honored. As a doctor it is often required to take the night shift which is really very misreable when the one should spend the whole night with restless and tired sense. Somehow, it does harm health especially as aging it will be more vulnerable to suffer some health problem caused by the whole night staying up. So, it would be better to seize any time so long as you got free time to rest up. If possible, some slight exercises, yoga and jogging, could be also good for relaxation.
No one else wants to get sick, especially something hard to cure. That father definitely swallows that pain as his son suffers that disease. Just hope everything will be better as well.
- Reply sunnyv
- Nature intended and requires us to sleep at night. The sky darkens and everything goes quiet. Our brains are programmed to rest when night falls and our body repairs itself. Going against nature would always bring us harmful results. Night shifts goes against everything nature programmed for us.
However, in every job, we have to make some sacrifices. I also used to work 18 hours continuously for a few years when I established my own business and the result was problems with my eyes and anxiety.
Considering that you are in the medical field which is essential, you would have to make sacrifices by attending night shifts. I can see that you are deeply affected by these night shifts. This is your chosen profession and you would have to bear the disturbance to your personal life. Humans are quite adaptable to changes. Try to get used to these shifts and slowly you would find it easier to accept.
Working in a hospital gives you deep insight into unpredictable happenings in life. That is why I walk around the ward rooms when I visit hospitals. Nobody knows what could happen to us tomorrow. You are making valuable contribution to humankind. Keep up the good work.
- Reply shirleyytt2010
- I can not stand of nigh shifts working hours, no matter how much money I can make, it is just unaccpetable for me. But for some certain occupation, night shift working hour can not be avoided, some people have to sacrifice there hours to work at night. Just get used to it , otherswise you will always be in frustated period. That is not good for your health.
