The hospital

                Yesterday John and I finished painting the pool and got a lot more done on the girls house.  Nick’s finger is healing.  He ran it through the table saw on Monday while he was repairing chairs.  It has been the source of much laughter.  He got seven stitches, and I have not heard him complain once. I am  quite impressed.

I slept most of the day today.  Last night I helped with night shift at the hospital.  I learned a lot. Jessica, one of the nurses, taught me how to administer antibiotics through an IV that was already set, and I watched her pull staples and she had me tape up the scar.  Just being around her you learn things because she will explain everything to you.  I enjoyed myself immensely .  Beth, the pastor’s wife, Came in in the middle of the night to get one of the doctors.  Beth is a midwife student and delivers babies often.  She had brought a young woman who was having her first baby to a hospital to get a c-section because she was having difficulties.  The doctor there was horrible and mean to this girl. I will not go into details because they are to graphic.  Beth said he was treating her that way because she was poor, and that he seemed to get enjoyment out of it.  She told me that she had never seen anything so cruel before.  The medical staff there would not let the girls husband in and told him that they would have him removed if he tried to come in.  (they have a no visiting policy)  Beth ended up leaving because the doctor promised her that they would do the operation.  But later she got a call from the girl’s boss, the girl had called him because the medical staff had just left her there and gone home without giving her the c-section.  Beth got the doctor and they dressed up in scrubs and tried to look official so that they could get the girl out again and try to get her to another hospital. They were able to, but the other hospital made them trade the C-section for two normal births, one of which ended up having the same problems as the other girl so they had to take her back to get a c-section.  The first woman is back at our hospital now with her baby where we can look after both of them.