First Call
I cannot believe that I just managed a CALL.
I have just finished my bath with hair and feet still wet when calls started coming. 5 in a row. Freak... I didnt even have time for dinner. Had chicken mayo sandwiches and choc milk at 1130pm.
Mines a thurs call... which means I get friday half day off.... its my turn to be off this sat so woohoo! But its back to work on sun... its supposed to be a short day for sunday but SY is post call tmr.... guess I'll have to cover her side for her. Hope she doesnt have too busy a call for today.
Incesant calls.... that is what u would get during a call.... Is that why its a CALL?! Its the 1st time I had so many phonecalls in a period of 15hrs. Cant imagine in the past when they used pagers! You had to literally CALL the person back. Haha now I know why seniors told us they wanted to throw their phones away or smash it. Well I didnt come to that point yet... but it was certainly quite irritating when one is trying to do sth or speak to someone that the phone keeps going off again n again.
4am I got some time to sleep for a while thankfully. Around this time... the wee hours... feeling really tired, phone ringing all night long, still have plenty to do, barely-there or NOT-there veins with bruises all over from previous attempts by other people, oh no not ANOTHER contact precaution or TB where u have to gown up n use ur N95 .... yes u wonder "Why the heck am I doing this?"... I do understand why some seniors have become so disgruntled and jaded.
My call room was terrible. It wasnt on the level I was covering.... plus it wasnt even cleaned when I went in (blanket was everywhere and there was a stained towel on the chair)... have to call house keeping personel. Later I noticed that the ceiling was covered in mould, the A/C was dripping and I found a baby roach crawling on my bag at 4am. Though I'm quite afraid of roaches... there was no more fear at that point in time.... All I could think of is sleep... I just took a piece of paper and squished it. Think it was the 1st time I killed a roach. Just like that.
Ok come to think of I think I actually had quite a light call. Just that I'm new and slower in doing stuff. Gotta be more organised next call which is in 3 days time!! haha oh man... things will get better once we are used to way things work.
Time to go enjoy my SATURDAY!!
