Friday, May 05, 2006
Toxic
yesterday, i was unbelievably slaved! i ended up with a bad case of migraine. sleep and 2 ibuprofens later - i was no better. couldn't move my head, had to squint my right eye (i had right sided migraine), i thought i was being punished in advance for something that i would have done today (gone off sick).i was at the office really early. LC, our secretary was telling me i would be having a really slow and 'boring' day. i had 8 patients booked with me and 6 of those are just for follow ups. the waiting time for fu is at 100-something weeks. if they were having problems, they would have called and requested for urgent appts. so if they were able to sit it out, then that means they were coping well.
we were wrong! i had 2 patients with dual sensory impairment (blind AND deaf) - one for a fu and the other for bilateral fit. i over ran my appointments. bless their hearts, not their fault though but the appt. duration should have been extended! but heck, no.
i also had 2 pts. who were given 2 moulds but were only fitted one aid. they were also wondering why the 2nd mould was posted to them and never got the fit 2nd aid appt. tsk! tsk! and obviously, they were having difficulties as they've only got 'one' working ear. i over ran again.
i had one patient who's got a profound loss but is wearing moderately powered aids. it would have helped if she was wearing them together. but no, she doesn't like the sound of it so opted to just wear one. of course, clarity won't be as good and she's not getting the power she needs. i explained that the aids are barely giving her the gain that she needs and if she'll only wear one, i'll take one of the aids back and upgrade the other to a stronger, more powerful one. but that would mean upgrading her to a 'bigger' aid. that scared her! readjusted to her targets (which btw is just barely there). she said the aids sounded better but obviously, she's still struggling. people! why do they have to be so vain?! isn't it better to hear well than being called daft?
everything that could go wrong, went wrong - pt's carer going antsy bec. i over ran... i threw my pt's. mould in the bin as i was changing the tube (which meant i had to sanitise it and wait some minutes to get it done)... blah blah blah... yada yada yada..
o well, that's life. off sick naman ako today... was that a fair deal?
