Still Fallible (Nursing Knowledge; A Challenge)
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' Stories, Posted on January 25th, 2010 by adminNo Comments
What will happen if a warrior of health becomes a victim of unwellness? Such an unlikely scenario but, you see, not really new to our senses.
Being a nurse, I am well aware that prevention is paramount when we are talking about health; even a non-nurse knows that. Perhaps I was just so carefree about this concept. Just two weeks ago the weather wasn’t so friendly and I was starting to feel ill. I had a high fever and I blamed it on the lability of the weather. My parents started to panic when two days have passed and my fever showed no signs of going away and my sister was starting to feel feverish too. We were both rushed to the hospital and when laboratory results came, we were diagnosed to have Dengue fever. I was totally enfeebled by the disease and my queasiness grew even worse when the doctor announced that, by far, I am the first patient ever admitted in the hospital with a platelet count that reached 4,000 cells/mm³ (normal is about 150,000-400,000 cells/mm³).
I was so thankful that I recuperated well from the disease; I could have died. While I was convalescing I realized that my nursing knowledge could never separate me from frailty and susceptibility. More importantly, the experience somehow roused my noesis about prevention that have seemed to hibernate for quite a while.