Steemit Engagement Challenge Season5 Week2 : My medical experiences.... by @imuniru38

Hello Steemians! Greetings to you all and to members of Colombia-Original community, hope we are all doing well wherever we are. Special thanks to @colombiaoriginal for the opportunity given to participate in the contest, we are much grateful. This week’s topic “My Medical Experiences” is a very interesting one to me in particular I want say, and this I believe is the best opportunity I have to tell you all about it.

Truly the hospital is not the place we will wish to see our love one’s visiting often due to their health conditions, it is feeled with sad, painful and sorrowful emotions. And to me, the hospital has always been like the fictional town “Derry Maine” to me. I don’t like the idea of going to the hospital for treatments when I happen to fall sick ever since I was child, it was even much worse at that thunder age. My first experience that made me develop this attitude towards going for medical care at the hospital as far as I can remember was a time a time I got hit by a motorcycle by accident. It was totally my fault I must admit, the details to that would be for another time. I got pretty hurt by the incident, mostly was a deep cut wound on my right eyebrow. I was quickly sent to the hospital to stop the bleeding and also for treatment.

That was when it all started, now that I know what procedures they had to take in other to treat me, I was given an immediate inject on my arm, I think that was supposed to be an anesthetic. It was my first time of receiving needle injection. I didn’t know which was now painful and scarier, the sharp needle that I was about to have pierce me or the amount of blood I had lost already. I was all screams and anxious that moment, my parents not still around at that moment I didn’t know whom to save me from this terror. All I did and could was scream in pains and fright.

Just when the bleeding had stop and I thought I was relief because I couldn’t feel any pain either because of the anesthetic I was given earlier, they brought in more sharp needles and bigger ones this time. They were to patch up the wound after the bleeding, though I couldn’t feel any pain during the patching up because of the anesthetic effect, I was still in screams and tears because I knew they was a needle being used on me. It was one of my scariest moment in life as far as I could remember. After days in the hospital, I was finally discharged much better than I came. Though still with a bandage on my face almost covering my right eye, I felt relief for now leaving the hospital and nothing felt better than that. My wound healed so well, but I do I have permanent faint scar of the wound on face.

My experiences in the in hospital became complicated growing up, as a kid traumatized by that experience, I later on developed the feeling of becoming a doctor myself. And I got even more fears in the hospital when I started working as intern in a hospital in my town. Needles or syringes were still my biggest fear, but I wasn’t afraid on using it others because I know it was the right they needed and I also do it carefully as I can to avoid causing too much pain to patients because I have an idea of how that would feel. And I worked and wanted to also test myself of malaria using a lancet to prick myself to obtain a sample, I realized I just found another fear of needles. Though I could prick clients with the lancet to obtain their sample for test, but using it on myself was the difficult part. I realized it seemed usually let my senior staff perform it on me, and it’s always quickly done. No pain at all, piercing myself is the hardest part.

These are some of my medical experiences that I wish to share with you as my entry, I still aspire to be a medical laboratory scientist and I’m on the path to that dream. I have encountered with most laboratory instruments and most of them I haven’t used on myself but I’ve used on others. So I do not have any fear other medical instruments.

Thank you very much for reading and much regard to @colombiaoriginal for the opportunity given to this contest, it sure has been memory draw back one. I invite @mukka and @kataali to also participate this contest. Thank you everyone, and peace!