Shalom,
my first days of work. After I got known to my head nurse, we went to our department. I am working in the biggest floor of the hospital. With 31 rooms and two secretary stations, I have a lot to do. My responsibility is to keep everything clean, before and after using it, making beds if needed, play with the children/ go outside with them, get medical stuff from A to B, giving food to the patients, bring the patients to other treatment rooms, like the EEG Room, making sure that every time and everywhere is enough equipment to work with and at the end, just being to running boy for the nurses. Classical volunteer, but I knew that, so I am not disappointed. On the contrary! My head nurse (Sigal), as I told is very nice to me and does everything for me to gain as much impression and experience as possible. Every time something special happens, she calls me. She (and all the others) can speak English, more or less, but they do not want to, because they want me to learn Hebrew as fast as possible. Sigal also make me watching as many operation as possible and with free days, she is very flexible and just wants me to travel whenever possible! She likes to talk, that is why I know, after 2 days, everything about her children, her husband, her divorce, her political view and more. So I am in very good hands and I am very happy to have the choice to gain this much.
After I was introduced to everybody and had to answer the question about the origin of my name nearly 50 times, after meeting German people who loved to speak German again and told me everything about the escape of their parents from WW2, (because when you meet a German in Israel, you have to tell him about the escape of your family. It is like an unwritten law.), after talking about some rudimental things in the department, after all the introduction part I got finally to work.
Schlomid is a "Kochesel". That is really the Hebrew definition of somebody, who is no nurse, but responsible for the department as well. This job does not really exist in Germany. She is responsible for food, equipment etc. Schlomid does, what I have to do, just better. She is the one I should support this year and with that, she is my direct work colleague. I met Schlomid this day too and she introduced me in my work. She is very nice too! The rest of the day in the hospital was just about getting known to everything.
I am sorry, that I can not put photos on this blog, but I am obviously not allowed to talk specific about my work or to put any kind of Photos in the internet.
After work we all had been very tired and our minds were full of informations. Of course they was no other topic in the bus, then the others department. We compared them and spoke a lot about them .In the end I can say, that I am very lucky and happy with my department. A lot of volunteers complain about, that their is nothing to do for them. Well I have a lot to do, but that good. I also think, that with the time the others get more to do too.
The next day I had to get up at 5:30....Everyday...I hate it...I just told Sigal, that I want to do as much late shifts as possible, but the morning shifts are sadly the most important ones. I got told, that one of the "Kochesels" won't be able to work the next month, which means more work for me...yay...It was not a special day. I got introduced more in my work field and I played a long round Monopoly with a 7 year old girl, who definitely cheated. The kid version from monopoly is a bit different and I can not speak Hebrew that good, so she explained everything ( in English) and it seemed like she explained what was good for her and bad for me...That is how I lost all my money... That is how you get broke by a 7 year old girl.
Today (Sunday) was on the one side a very good day, but on the other side it was horrible. After just 2 days of work, I am able to do many things by my own and so I did. I got a lot of work and was happy about it. I had to go in the EEG room with a little girl and I should stay there until she fell asleep and the EEG was over. It took a long time until she finally fell asleep. Nearly 1 1/2 hour I waited for her to sleep, in a dark room. Maybe I fell asleep too...maybe....the room was really dark...
After the EEG I went for lunch and after that I went back to my department. Their starts the bad part of the day. I can not write much details, but in the morning I got known to a nearly new born child, who fights for his/her live. In the afternoon I saw her dying in front of my eyes... I do not want to write much about it and about my thoughts, but you can imagine, that this experience ruined my day.
In the end I was expecting experiences like this, but when they are finally going to happen, it is way worse.
You just have to stay positive, enjoy what is good, deal with what is bad and learn from both.
Lehitraot,
SK
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