Diary of your favorite nurse

 "The Egyptians you see today, you shall see them no more!"    If you're a christian in Nigeria and you don't know this line, I'm going to have  your christianity checked asap!!  The "amen" that usually follows can best be described as  thunderous and ear-splitting. Enough to actually send the Egyptians into extinction.    But  erm *clears throat* , you see the Egyptians I saw today, even my pastor will want to see them again. What I'm trying to say in essence is *clears throat again* , I won't be joining y'all to say amen again to that prayer point, no please, not after the  kind of fine guys I saw today🙈.  You mean this is the level of handsomeness we have been praying against?? Haba no now (o wrong now 😋😂) And please, don't attempt to convince me that we were manufactured from the same Sand, you'd be wasting your time, "honezzli"🤣 Theirs must have been sharp sand. These guys are sharp!  I was admiring one that seemed ...

 I bet you never knew before now you always thought each time a woman takes in it's called pregnancy. I thought so too but today I know better and guess what , I'm about to school you for free!😜. Let's roll!! Usually when a patient comes to labour ward, history taking involves asking the woman how many times she has been pregnant. The reply most times is "I don first get 2 children, this one go make am 3". So we go further to explain that it includes miscarriages, abortions and stillbirths, that's when we get our actual answer. This day I had a patient so  I asked her the same question. She answered "this is my sixth pregnancy" so I went further , then she answered "abortion shuuuuu, that na normal thing" . It was at this point she schooled me. (Feel free to get a pen and "jot things down *in josh2funny's voice*) "The one wey we get for husband house na pregnancy, but before husband house when we dey do guys that one na Belle...

 It's hard for me to exactly pinpoint what lesson I'm bringing out from this story. I'm even uncertain who the story revolves around— the new mom, her husband, her mother in-law or 🤷. I think I'd just tell the story. One day while on duty as the only nurse in neonatal unit , a baby was brought from the labour ward, freshly delivered, new to planet Earth. Unfortunately she wasn't in a great condition. I'm going to try to describe the situation as good as I can without using any medical jargon. Her temperature was subnormal, her sugar level was ridiculously low, the level of oxygen saturation was scary, you could hear her labouring to breathe— she was grunting, the palms and sole were somewhat blue.   Her situation required immediate attention , so I sent the father to get a case note while I  swung to action with the unit doctor. There's probably no way I would have discovered all those abnormalities if I hadn't started attending to her. The sugar test w...