My daughter Regine caught a rather bad cough so the doctor prescribed medication through the nebulizer for her. I do not know what the drug is called, all I know is – that shit is expensive. And because the nebulizer would churn out the med into gas in a constant manner, most of it (about 40 – 50%) would evaporate into the air.
That was why when Regine was trying to talk too much during the inhaling session, I sternly told her to “Stop talking and whiff the gas”. The reason is simple – the more she talk, the less gas she inhale, and more gas gets wasted. May not be significant, but at least it spares me from the psychological misery having the impression that I’m paying a lot for something to let off into the thin air.
But one of the shapeshifter nurses heard me (asking Regine not to talk), and came into the booth we’re in wearing this smarmy pedophiliac fake smile, and told Regine “No it’s ok. You can talk.” then turned to me and said “In fact, we encouraged some children to sing.”
Big mistake. First of all, it was rude of that nurse to interrupt my private family conversation. Secondly, I was offended with the fact that she was trying to overwrite my authority as a parent by speaking directly to my child. Thirdly, she’s being a motherfucking retard to ask my child to talk during an inhaling session (why couldn’t she just mind her own goddamn business??). That was why I decided to lash out at that nurse,
“How the hell is she going to inhale the gas if she’s talking??”
“Yes, one can definitely inhale while talking.”
Well, that’s something new – I thought. Maybe she has that special ability that no one else has.
“Ok, can you show me how do you do that (inhale and talk at the same time)?”
She didn’t/couldn’t show me. But she heard me, and came up with this lame ass reply,
“Oh we can definitely do that. We actually do it automatically.”
Automatically. Yeah right. Like an automobile gearbox? Or was she inferring that she could breath through her corrugated folds of wrinkled skin like a fucking frog? Nobody knows. I didn’t bother to further continue the conversation and waved her off – because I knew it would be a complete waste of my time.
It just pisses me off when someone stupid tries to act smart.
Its depends..usually its the mix between Ventolin and saline water.
Yeah, I think that’s what’s inside her head – Saline Water.
how rude of the nurse ! i will get pissed off too if that happens to me. geezz …
Maybe what happens is that when they talk more then breathe more, but the fucker shouldn’t have overridden your authority. Go lodge a complain and get her sorry ass fired.
Not like you getting Regine to stop talking would be life threatening.
You breathe more or less the same amount of air when you talk more. You’d just draw in more air to catch up when you finish talking. But because the nebulizer lets out the med in a constant volume and with finite amount, depending on the timing, you might miss out the last few whiffs… if you get what I mean. That’s why I asked Regine not to talk when she’s suppose to inhale her med. She can talk all she wants after that.
“It just pisses me off when someone stupid tries to act smart.”
classic
Kinda reminds me of when my sister n her husband to be had to go to a govt. clinic to get the compulsory AIDS test done before they got married. The fucking nurse had blood on her gloves n when my sister asked her (very nicely!) to change the gloves, she just gave a tulan kinda face n mumbled “Banyak songeh la minah keling ni!”, then just grabbed my sister’s hand and took the blood sample!
This is what happens when you allow uneducated kampung fuckers to get jobs that should be reserved for educated people.
Mike,
I kind of agree with you about the state of our nurse quality, knowing some of them had to do the job due to lack of qualification, or as last resort to no job. That in some way not making them liking the job, but rather had to put up with the job. In fact, I thought nurse has a rather noble job, risking their lives in the front line from time to time fighting deadly diseases.
On the use of nebulizer, I have a slightly different thought.
The proper way of using ventolin or steroid based with mist delivered medication , would have been breath in and hold for a brief while.
I used ventolin before, most effective way is breath in and hold 30 sec~1 min, another way would have taken deeper breath of air, cyclical (thus encouraging intake of the mist).
Some kids may get scared by the mouth piece coupled with the noisy machine, she (the nurse ) probably felt that way, and instead is to ask the kid to behave as normal (talkative as usual) , or even sing (singing increases air uptake) , I know probably you missed the psychological part of it. In fact, sometime, it is good to trick the kid into behaving as pilot driving a plane (happily).. when they are happy, it boosts the body resistance & immune system.
Hope your Regine gets better.. have a nice weekend..
-woody
Woody – I disagree with you on 2 things. First, ‘state of our nurse’ quality. I have nothing against the profession as a whole. So, that’s totally your opinion to think that ‘our nurse’ (whatever that means) sux.
Secondly, hold 30 sec – 1 min? As I said, that thing dispenses mist in a finite/constant manner (1 ampoule). The session would have been over in less than 5 mins. Hold 30 sec? She would only get to whiff in 6 – 8 times max, >60% of the med would have been wasted. It’s all common sense. (I’ve been using this nebulizer shit many times before. This is not new to me either. The most effective way to use it is breathe normally.)
And by the way, my kid’s not scared of no mouthpiece and she’s not upset in anyway. She was actually laughing and joking with us (that’s why I had to hush her down). I don’t see the need for that nurse to calm my kid when she’s already calm (so much for that psychological bullshit). And how do you explain the ‘being able to inhale while talking’ part? 2 words – she’s stupid. (One thing I did not mention – she also forgot to tighten the canister resulting a spill. The session was over in half the time – the med was wasted anyway… that fucking nurse)
Mike,
Nice reasoning, :)
Oh ya, I have added a link to your blog. I hope you are ok with that.
Thanks
-woody