Neil has a bash at surgery!

Ok so a lot of excitement just occured while I was writing this. Jenni heard a squeaking from the next room so we tentatively went to look.under the desk we found a rat in thefinal throes of death from rat poison. However when we found him he started moving around. Since he was in distress I decided to dispatch him in a swift and peaceful manner. We trapped him the waste paper basket and carried him outside. I then took a hoe and smashed it down on the poor creature cutting him in half. Unbelievibly he was still alive and was in more distress so I smashed his head a few times for good measure. We must have made a bit of noise during the excitement as Shubro and the night watchmen came to see thinking we had found a snake. The night watchmen disposed of the rat and we returned to our peaceful evening. I feel the situation has only served to strengthed my opposition to the assisted dying bill.

Anyhoo, on with the blog I was writing before I was interupted.

We just packed away the audit for the night. At 318 patients its already the biggest audit we have ever done. We are looking at rates of epesiotomy in the hospital which are way too high. We finished our audit on gastroenteritis and will present that next week. We are both very pleased with this work amd we hope it will make a difference to management. The data we are collecting at the moment is lovingly written down by sister bokkit. she sits in the office and peers at you through thick round glasses as she fills in the labour record. She can't be older than 70 but looks 100.

Its been a busy day here. We started off with usual baby checks. Some were jaundiced, some had murmers and some just looked a bit odd. All the babies need winded and we have no idea what the bengali word for winding is ( or if there even is one), so our conversation when translated is something like "after your baby eats milk you must..." and then we put the baby on our shoulders, pat his back and imitate the noise a baby makes when winded. The mothers seem to understand but are nonetheless confused and tentatively have a go themselves. Unfortunately the patients are rarely in the hospital so get a good feeding and winding routine established and mother in laws are invariably useless (at most things) at passing on their mothering skills.

I am still a bit shaken up from the rat incident so I feel it is time for dinner.

Neil