{"id":58,"date":"2024-06-02T19:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/?p=58"},"modified":"2024-06-02T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:12:00","slug":"week2-a-goblin-yet-again-2nd-experience-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lastjasmine\/2024\/06\/02\/week2-a-goblin-yet-again-2nd-experience-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"week2–a Goblin yet again; 2nd experience blog–"},"content":{"rendered":"

week2–a Goblin yet again, 2nd experience blog–<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

experience blog #2<\/p>\n

content warning: puking, hospital, medical stuff, Jesus.<\/p>\n

I feel I have not been keeping track of the days. Being sick twice will do that to you, I guess. I spoke too soon, in regard to my other blogpost, I was indeed a goblin again.<\/p>\n

My hours at the hospital were interesting. I remember Jon sitting across from us, calling Emergency SOS. For a moment, in my sickly state and delusion, I truly thought Jon was Jesus. Anyway, when we went to the clinic (or hospital? still not sure), we were quite literally hopping couch from couch, office from office, doing our best to keep our shit together while being examined by a rotating round of people, nurses, doctors, and specialists. First, there was Ian, he was kind of like our advocate I think, he kind of guided us around and knew what was happening, so naturally we followed him. Ian was with us for most of the night. Then there was the three nurses, it seemed one was in charge and the other two were anxiously training. They put some devices on my fingers, listened for my breath, took my temperature, touched my stomach a bunch, and then I puked in the corner.<\/p>\n

Later on, we got ultrasounds done in one of the upper levels\u2026 that was interesting. No pregnancies but a full bladder and an inflamed gut. A few other things happened, blood tests, samples (of which I shall not name here), an IV, and a few naps, but it all happened relatively quickly (I think).<\/p>\n

The hospital itself was full of Jesus imagery. There was one mural in particular that depicted an ongoing surgery and Jesus is guiding the surgeon\u2019s hand. Quite a visceral image, especially if you\u2019re \u00a0seeing it after\/before being operated on.<\/p>\n

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In the lab, there was a shelf with a small statue of Jesus and other knick-knacks, I believe it had a rest for kneeling so that one could pray, (I could be wrong about this though). There was a lot of other stuff, but I can\u2019t quite remember. My time at the hospital was mostly me being cold (because they leave all the doors open) and trying not to puke on the floor because they didn\u2019t let me puke in the garbage cans.<\/p>\n

All of the staff communicated through whatsapp, I think. Everyone was on their phone quite a lot and I think some had multiple phones. The lab was locked when I had my samples ready and so I stood there for quite a while\u2014holding and concealing my precious samples in my hands\u2014as Ian was on the phone with someone, trying to get the lab tech in.<\/p>\n

The religion on display at the hospital was very interesting to me. I\u2019ve never seen it so blatant. Perhaps the only other time would be at an old folk\u2019s home, but for some reason that seems much more homely to me than this.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Jon and San Daniel especially for taking care of us, (Daniel held my hand as I was being poked with needles). Thanks to everyone else for thinking of me as I went through one of the gnarliest 24 hours of my life. Hopefully I will not become a sick little goblin again during this trip, I have puked enough for the next 10 months!<\/p>\n

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