What a way to start the day!
How often do you wake up from sleep, totally disoriented in time? Well, that happened to me this morning. I went to bed at about 11:00PM last night and I slept well, I did dream but can’t remember about what. On waking this morning, the first thing I thought to myself is that I have to go to work, so I turned and looked at my bedside clock, it said 8:20AM, “KUCF”, I said aloud, thinking about how late for work I was. Then, I realised that the clock was wrong, the battery needs replacement. So I looked at my watch, it was actually 5:30AM. Phew! Then I remembered that today is Saturday, I’m not on call, hence, I’m not going to work, and today is my Aunt’s funeral. But something that we have become accustomed to in the last ten days or so was missing…….the place was very quiet, the sound of rainfall on the roof was missing! I instantly jumped up and looked through the window, it was a bit dark because it was early but I could make out clear skies with some high cirrus clouds, which, if I remember my Geography corectly, usually indicate good weather. Suddenly I became very happy, just the thought of not going in to work made me feel this way, as I have a patient under my care who is beginning to test my patience. She is not very well, but is one of these Jamaican patients that love to act out, WOAY, WOAY, LAWD HAVE MERCY, Jesus, Me a go Dead! This is her typical behaviour and this type of acting on her part does interfere with our ability to clinically assess her. What I’m trying to say is that she loves to cry wolf. She has managed to test all of us in our unit, including my boss. Knowing that I will not have to see her on the weekend is quite a joy. (Please don’t get me wrong, this is not my usual stance when it comes to my patients.)
So I got out of bed and headed for the kitchen to put on the kettle for my usual cup of tea and headed outside to pick up the newspaper and here I am, updating the blog. So from waking up and starting the day off with foul expletives (I really must try and curtail myself), my mood has changed to one of relative happiness. This is mainly because up until late last night we were starting to have concerns about the burial part of my Aunt’s funeral because of the miserable weather that has prevailed. Anyhow, I will hope that the few rays of sunshine that I can see just starting to show themselves, will continue.
I think I’m going to see if I can catch a part of one of the football matches (I was so disoriented on waking that I even forgot about the World Cup!) Have a good weekend and I hope the weather remains sunny despite the forecast of further rain that I see in the Gleaner this morning. Respec due to all.
June 1st, 2002 at 2:55 pm I do hope that everything went well at your aunt’s funeral. Its good to know that despite the farewell that was ahead of you, Your spirit found it possible to soar to another level. More power to you Dr. D and continue to keep the faith.
June 1st, 2002 at 2:58 pm Dr D, I hope all went well with Aunt Gwen’s funeral. I know how hard you worked to plan things with our cousin in Stony Hill. God bless you both. Hope the weather stayed clear for you, too. Keep up your spirits
June 1st, 2002 at 5:48 pm Rufie and Krueger, I was at the church ceremony and that went very well indeed. Unfortunately, I had to go to stinking work, so I was unable to go to Dovecot, but that too should have been alright. Nuff, nuff sun deh bout.
June 1st, 2002 at 9:07 pm Well Rufie, I have to endorse what my bredren Mad Bull said, all went well and the sun shineth!