So I've been on placement for the past three weeks at McMaster Children's Hospital in the acute care ward. It's really interesting and challenging, and I am enjoying it.
This week I sure realised God's looking after me, because there was 20 confirmed cases of rotavirus (really nasty gastro flu, basically comin' out both ends nonstop for 24-48 hours) on one of the floors I work on. I'm not on that floor very often, but even being there and touching door handles, charts etc puts you at greater risk.
Wednesday morning I got into work a little early because I wanted to be a keener and have the patient lists printed off and to have checked the referral books, just because I'm usually there just on time. I wanted to make a good impression on my preceptors. Usually I start work at about 8:30, so I showed up in enough time to have everything ready for 8:30. Well 8:30 rolled around, then 9 o'clock came and neither of my preceptors showed up. I was a little confused, and I didn't really know what to do. There was a message on our phone, but I didn't know how to check it. So I paged one of the other PTs we work with and found out how to check messages. It turns out BOTH of my preceptors had come down with rotavirus, and there I was, healthy as can be!
You might say that's just luck, but it's the second time in less than a month that I have been exposed to a nasty gastro flu and been totally fine. About 4 weeks ago Tim got REALLY sick with Norwalk that was going around at his work, and I stayed home and looked after him for two days, and was totally fine.
All I can say is that I am very grateful that I haven't gotten it so far, and I really believe it's God looking out for me, because right now I can't afford to be missing placement or school.
Just thought I'd share my fun story. Hope you all are well.
Blessings
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