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My horrific clinic life as a student nurse

Cleaning the doctor’s office, making breakfast, cleaning the restrooms, cleaning the patients’ rooms, helping the doctor, making lunch, helping the doctor, cleaning the doctor’s room, being yelled at all day long…and I was so exhausted.

When we were cleaning the doctor’s room, Okusama came into the office holding her dog.

She was talking about something with the doctor, and it appeared that the doctor was going to go out that night.

Okusama and the doctor left for their house which was just next to the office (I’ve never seen their entire living space) and we finished our cleaning so we went back to our room.

Finally, I could sit down.

I asked Senpai 1, “Senpai? Today a small injured boy came in, didn’t he? He was given anesthesia but why was he crying so hard like that?”

Senpai 1 turned to me and said, “Well, the doctor tells us that the anesthesia is working, but if he started to stitch the boy up so soon, I don’t think the anesthesia had started working yet. That was why he was crying so hard. It was painful.”

I said, “Then it is a terribly pity, isn’t it? I felt the pain with him, too. Senpai, were you okay?”

She replied, ”I’ve gotten used to it because it wasn’t me who was getting the stiches. You have to get used to it, too.”

I didn’t think so. I really didn’t think so. Anyway…

All the other nurses started to gather in our room.

The head nurse said, “I wonder how late it will be tonight.”

The other older nurse said, “I hope it won’t be too late.”

I asked them, “Excuse me, but what are you all talking about?”

The head nurse said, “We are talking about the doctor. He went out for drink, you know. He often does that and then comes home after midnight. Till then we can’t take a bath.”

I said, “But we used the bathroom last night..do you mean that it’s not only for our use?”

The head nurse said,” No, the bathroom is shared with them. That was their bathroom and the doctor uses it first then his wife. We take turns after that and whoever is last needs to clean it.”

No way!!!!!!

The head nurse added, “Besides we have to check all the patients at 9:00 pm. Two nurses spread out to the east and west sides of the building and then check each room.”

I asked, “What? Does that mean we have to check the rooms alone?”

She said, “Right.”

Scary!  I didn’t want to walk around the patients’ floors by myself in the dark. It was too scary. Even though there was more than one nurse on the other side of the building, the patients’ building was connected with some kind of ghost stories. The light was off and it was really dark. What should I do? Oh, what should I do?

But here in the hospital, your requests never go through. You have to do what you have to do…no matter what.

And it appeared that any seemingly reasonable request made in this place would be twisted into a personal, selfish favor, and the Okusama would have a long conversation with you.

And when Okusama gets angry, somehow her neck becomes really red. And her face is like a giant snake. You could easily imagine her swallowing you from head to toe.

When checking the patients’ rooms, I learned that we needed to check to see if the patients were comfortably sleeping or not and check if any of the patients’ conditions had changed for the worse.

But usually all of the patients slept during the daylight hours so most of them were wide awake at night.

They would be waiting for nurses to come visit so that they could have a chat with us.

But the nurses were not allowed to chat with for too long so the patients needed to create imaginative reasons to keep the nurses longer. Their back hurt or their leg was sore or their head suddenly began pounding.

Even if we started to check them from 9:00pm, we would usually finish around 10:30pm or when it was later, the clock would read 11:00pm.

The time the doctor returned that night was a little after midnight.

I was sitting in a chair asleep.

Senpai 1 shook me to wake me up and we went to the bathroom for our turn to take baths and prepare for bed. On that night, we were the last ones, but Senpai 1 advised me that “When you have someone after you, you shouldn’t soak in the bathtub because the water gets dirty. All right?” Even on the coldest winter night, we couldn’t soak in the hot water.

It was after 1 o’clock in the morning, and after 4 hours and 45 minutes, I was going to have to get up again…but before that thought registered in my mind, I was fast asleep.

To be continued…

MR.BIG / THE WORLD IS ON THE WAY

4月7日(木)　大阪城ホール(Osaka Castle Hall)

1. Undertow
2. American Beauty
3. Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy
4. Green-Tinted Sixties Mind
5. Take Cover
6. I Won't Get in My Way
7. Stranger in My Life
8. Once Upon a Time
9. A Little Too Loose
10. Road to Ruin
11. Still Ain't Enough for Me
12. Just Take My Heart
13. Merciless
14. I Get the Feeling
15. Where Do I Fit In?
16. The World On the Way
17. Voodoo Kiss
18. Carry On
19. Around the World
20. All the Way Up
21. As Far as I Can See
22. Addicted to That Rush
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23. To Be With You
24. Colorado Bulldog
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25. 30 Days in the Hole

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