what a day of having a mouth but cant communicate!!

talked to a patient who's deaf...

a very nice experience i've gained...

we first approached her and tried to intro ourselves to her as usual...

but she just stopped us by taking few pieces of paper and started to write...

i was wondering what's she doing...

and she started her first sentence on the paper with : i'm deaf!

and she double underlined it...

surprisingly, she's not upset or in a =( face...

she's smiling sweetly toward us...

and she started to ask us : what's the matter?

suen and i stopped the conversation when one of the H.O asked us to clerk a patient just in front of us that time while we were communicationg to the girl...

and again, surprisingly, the aunty can't talk too...

not because of she has speech problem...but she's semi-conscious with nasal prong helping her to breath...

obviously she has difficulty in breathing...we cant ask open-ended question since she cant even speak and just keep nodding head and shaking head...+ with the eyes closing...(we were wondering is she actually sleeping?)

we were forced to ask closed ended question by asking her to respond by nod head or shake the head if the answer is yes or no respectively...

she once a while opened her eye and looked at us...

i was struggling to ask for the actual answer and make sure she's actually responding and not simply nodding head...

ask again and again... i was a bit exhausted instead of frustrated...

the H.O cant get history and any info from her... i wonder if she continues to be like this, who can get the details from her then?

anyhow, at last, we reluctantly gave up and told the H.O what we got from the "conversation".




then we back to the deaf girl...

my colleague were talking to her...

then i started to notice that she gt one plaster on her left wrist...

one thinking hit my mind-- is she commited suicide?

and i asked my colleague to ask her where and how she got the wound...

and she wrote : trying to kill myself...

we were a bit stunned...

and they decided to stop the conversation and wanna BE-LAH alr..

but i still felt like talking to her...

and i again tried to approach her...

she's totally opposite of one that just committed suicide..

the smile at her face make us feel that she's very cheerful...



i dare myself to ask direct question on why she attempted to end her life...

she replied with quite long saying that she was having a big prob but she promised not to do it anymore...she claimed that she will moved to US to know more about deaf ppl and start her new life over there..

though the main reason of what causing her to hurt herself was not known, but from the conversation, at least, she kinda promise not to repeat it anymore which make me feel happy for her...

at last, due to scare of disturb her or make her recall of the pain, i tried to give her some courage and told her not to hurt herself anymore..not dare to say hurting herself is a stupid act, but i tried to send her a message of everyone around her loves her...

until she finished reading it, i waved my hand and said goodbye, with shaking her hand, wished her all the best and enjoy life at US...

step out away from the bedside, i felt satisfied of one's life has been saved though once it's nearly come to the end...

sincerely wishing her to have a new life there...

and then i realised, morning that time, before these two cases, i've met a chinese old lady who's really weak and nearly fell down when she went to the toilet, who also have communicating problem with us...

not because of she cant speak, not because of she's not conscious, but due to language barrier...

poh poh actually cant speak chinese and the only language she knows is hakka!! haha...

suen even tried to call her aunty to ask how to speak hakka..simple simple like :"why u were admitted to hosp?"

and it turn out to be very funny of two gals who dunno speak hakka trying to speak like a chicken, keep on " ni jor ma gai yip yi yuan??"

"the word "mao" is the best word to add on the last of the sentence to make ppl understand the whole sentence", according to suen....hahahaha!!!

what the.... end up "mao mao mao " there...

damn funny that i actually laugh while we talked to the patient...

but she's too weak to talk more with us...

then ended up, we left without much conversation...



what a day with a proper mouth, but cant communicate well!!

language barrier, not conscious makes ur mouth shut! lolz....