Walking the path

I had a
wonderful date with a model on this Valentine’s Day. 

Early the
morning we met, and we get straight into action. Today’s drills involved getting
dirty, wiping her dry, sucking, blowing, lubricants, and cotton dressing for tying.
My aim was to get her heart racing then make her cry!!

I had a
date with the plastic model for Neonatal life support training. The drills involved
the resuscitation of wet slimy newborn baby. Newborn resuscitation can be messy
business.

The basic
of the drills are, wiping the baby dry. Check for colour, tone, breathing and
heart rate. Open the airway, suck out any foreign body (eg. meconium) if necessary,
give ventilation by “blowing” using beg and mask. Lubricants may be needed, to lubricate
the ET tube for intubation. Chest compression was also taught. Cotton dressing is
used for tying the umbilicus while securing umbilical vascular access.

The objective
is obviously to have a pink, crying baby with good (fast) heart rate at the end
of resuscitation!

What a
productive day.

Sometime
when you’re feeling important,
Sometime
when your ego is in bloom,
Sometime
when your friends keep on saying
You’re the
most talented man in the room; 

Sometime
when you feel that your going
Would leave
an impossible hole to fill,
Just follow
this simple instruction,
And see how
it humbles your soul.

Take a
bucket half fill it with water,
Put your
hands in it up to the wrist,
Pull them
out- and the hole that’s remaining
Is a
measure of how much you’ll be missed. 

You may
splash all you please when you enter,
You may
stir up the water galore;
But stop:
and you’ll find in a minute
That it
looks just the same as before. 

The moral
of this is quite simple;
Do just the
best that you can,
Be proud of
yourself but remember
There is no
indispensable man. 

-Anon- from  a fwd  email  many years ago.

The bottom
line is, give 100% at work. When it is time to go home, go home. 

There is
more to life than just working! It is important to have work-life balance to
enable us to recharge our batteries. Life is a marathon we cannot afford to be
burnout too early in life.

PS written
after working 2 weekends in a role, i.e 20 days in a role, no break.