Steemit Engagement Challenge S5-W4: My 5 Senses

Hello Steemians, It's another wonderful time and I'm excited to join the diary contest organized by this community under the Engagement Challenge whose topic is My 5 Senses. We know there are five sense organs which are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. Each of these organs plays an important role in our lives and our day-to-day activities by informing us in every given situation. Today I will be sharing with you all the uses of these 5 sense in my Wednesday 02/11/2022 activities.

My first observation of the day goes to the weather, Immediately I stepped out at 7:00 am to go to work, I noticed that the day was not as bright and clear as it supposes to be instead it was a cloudy morning, my first thought was that has harmattan started already, the weather was refreshing and cool which shows harmattan has not begun yet, because harmattan always brings coldness and harsh weather.

Another thing that I saw today that amazed me happened at work, I got to work at 7:57 am because the driver was queuing to buy fuel on the way, I was glad I still got to work 3 minutes before the normal time which is 8:00 am but what I saw that amazed me was the queue of students I met outside.

Furthermore, getting into the center and realized they have started sample collection which normally should start after our devotion at around 8:20 am, since it has started I also quickly went to drop my bag, wore my apron and took one of the sit assigned for phlebotomy and we were able to collect 120 samples before 9:30 am.

Another incident was a student that came for drug screening and when the security man followed him to the toilet, he urinated only for the security to catch him adding some substance to the urine, he denied it and the urine sample was collected from him and he was giving another bottle to produce another urine and when he eventually did under close monitoring, the result comes out positive and we were asked to test the first sample he has substances to and it comes out negative.

I was shocked because this is the first time I'm seeing such though I do hear that there are substances they do pour into the sample to neutralize the hard drugs so that their drug test will come out negative even when they are on drugs and today I was able to witness it even though the guy refuses to tell us what he poured into the urine bottle.

Lastly an alert of #5,000 gift from one of my friends who is also like a sister and co-worker from my previous place of work.

The first thing I heard was the sound of my alarm which woke me up at exactly 5:30 am, after that I heard the sound of my phone's ringing tone which was from my mom, asking about my well-being and saying a few words of prayer to me. I missed a call from one of my co-workers and when I returned her call, I was able to hear that the government paid the hazard allowance they have been expecting since last year and she sent me a token as a gift.

An emergency sample was brought into the laboratory for some investigation from the ward for a girl 16 years old who was a sickle cell patient, and when releasing the result I heard the lady refusing to speak to her parent saying "I don't want to talk to them, they caused this pain". I felt bad for both the parents and the girl because nobody deserves such pain and no parent would love to subject their kids to pain but directly or indirectly they are the cause of her pain.

Now I would be listing what I was able to smell today below:

The first thing I was able to taste and drank was a cup of warm water very early in the morning, it is a normal routine I love doing daily, after that another thing I tasted was my breakfast (Rice, Stew, and Beef) which I ate late at 12:10 pm because of the change of plan they did to our work.

Furthermore, I tasted two apples that I bought when I was coming from work and lastly I tasted my melon soup with Eba as dinner.

I was able to touch many people that I collected blood samples from though I was on gloves, I also worked on those samples by doing blood grouping, Urinalysis, Hepatitis B, and Packed Cell Volume (PCV) investigations on them.

Urinalysis is simply the combination of two words Urine and analysis, and it can be defined as the physical, chemical, and microscopic examination of urine. The physical aspect of it was to examine the color, clarity, and odor, the chemical examination include the use of chemically composed strips with some parameters which can be used to test for some parameters which I will be listing below with their health implications.