How To Wear Hospital Gowns For Dummies 101

So, according to patients of many different races, shapes and sizes, there are many several ways to wear a hospital gown. That is, a gown (material or paper) roughly knee length (or floor length for shorties) that have two even holes on one end of the rectangular shaped material.

THE PROPER WAY:

Slip both arms through the only two holes on the gown (that way is up).
The opening of the gown is at the back, which is wide enough to overlap and cover the patient (most patients).
There is a waist tie at the front which goes around the waist and ties at the back to keep the gown ON.

VARIATIONS:

- Head in Hole Style
These are the type of people who feel like they need to feed their head through something in order to "put something on". So find the first hole they can find and try to squeeze their head through that arm hole. And whatever's left of the gown, just drapes down to cover the rest of them. The gown is held on by the lop-sided waist tie.
This method is actually not too bad as it somehow does it's job, that is to cover up the patient.

- Apron Style
This one's a classic. I rofl with this one ahaha...
Ok, it was a female patient who managed this one.
Basically, in the middle of the rectangular gown is the waist tie. And at the mid point, the patient folded the gown in half and tied it around her waist. This was only because she needed her pants off, so i guess she figured that only her bottom half needed covering up. Fair enough...

- Frontal Openings
This is when after you've instructed them to have the opening at the back, they always manage to skip that "opening at the back" part and just have the gown open at the front with the waist tie barely holding the gown closed at the front (showing their cleavage...nice - NOT!)

- Frontal Openings and Hanging
This is a blokey thing and an old grandma thing. They just dont care.
Gown opening at the front and hanging loose with the ties not tied.
So basically, they'd wear it like a coat/jacket - sometimes with no undergarments underneath...

- Boob-tube Style
Same folding pattern at the Apron Style but this time is applied above the boob level - worn like a boob-tube...

- Tarzan Drapes
This is where one slips the gown through one arm and not the other, with the opening posteriorly. This style is intentional for such procedures as a shoulder injection.

Some patients just don't have the creativity or the sense of how to put one on. So they just sit there and wait and tweedle their thumbs.

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to put on a hospital gown, pls feel free to add to the list. There are some really creative ppl out there.

Ain't Nothing Better...

...than a bitching day at work.
Can't live without it, but yet can't stand to hear it.

Bitch, bitch, bitch (not about me, thankgod - no...thank myself, sorry. i saved my own ass from being bitched about :p)
- took too long for lunch
- rocked up late to work, always!
- always leaving early (for hair appointments, massages etc)
- you're a lazy ass, do some work!

It's just another day at work...bloody work politics

I'm Craving ...

...A big sleep-in...

Oh how i wish i could sleep in this Saturday...actually, its every Saturday (and Sunday...and preferably every day of the week :D)

I dream of sleeping in the next day, everyday after work, when i get home and walk into my bedroom *sigh*

I dread it when my day has to start before 10am! (the ideal time would be to wake at 11am then roll around in bed for a bit)

Love to peacefully wake and hear the rain absolutely pouring outside.

Love the feeling of being warm and all snug in bed and not having to think "i should get up now, gotta do this, gotta do that...before the day ends"

So, tomorrow's agenda (the reason for not being able to snooze forever) is a stoopid CT Conference. A GE User group meeting to be precise at RPA.

Well, i could learn a thing or two from it. But why couldn't it be from, say 12pm til 5?

I guess morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea does make up for it.

Cruise-y At Work

I got up this morning and geared myself for a physically and mentally exhausting day. Made sure I ate a hearty and filling breakfast so that my stomach wouldnt start grumbling at 10.30am.

It is Thursday today and every (Tuesday and) Thursday is a "Rowden" day at Southern Radiology, Hurstville. Judging by Tuesday's damage...i prepared myself for round-two (for the week) of stressing and rushing and waiting and running in and out of rooms etc (u get the drift).
The Rowden in "Rowden Day" refers to a particular Doctor (named Dr. Rowden - obviously). Dr. Rowden specialises in knees (he consults, reports, diagnoses, and fixes - surgically - knees) and on Tuesdays and Thursdays he sends patients down like water running from a leaky tap.

Its always a pleasant surprise when those days are not so busy. He's either on holidays or has called in sick :p
We spent the whole day doing what gals do best...vege out and bitch! (and bludge) ahahaha, instead of doing a whole series of back-breaking knee x-rays comprising of 50 views! on patients who are near invalids.

She's Such A Baby!

Haven't been so close to a baby since...17 years or so?Got to meet my little niece a couple of weeks after her birth. She is just the cutest...her little fingers, little toes, tiny tiny ears and lips and her puny eyes.

Shes actually quite a good baby (in my opinion, though her mother might beg-to-differ). You won't hear a peep from her, apart from the occassional "i'm hungry, feed me right now!!!" wail, or the "clean me up!, i just pooped" cries. A quality that comes with all babies. Chloe's a little boring at this stage, but then again, i could just sit beside this always sleeping little baby and get hypnotised by her teeny-weensy features for hours on end. When she's all wrapped up in endless amount of blankets, she still manages to wriggle her arms out of the blankets and rest them above her head...without fail each time! How cute!

Only about a week after i left Perth, did i hear that she has started to smile and laugh...awwww And how she has grown...her eyes have definately opened up wider, her cheeks have gone chubbier, and shes able to prop herself up on her elbows - getting ready to crawl in a few months...

Can't wait till she starts to talk...

Leonardo Of Vinci

A physicist, an artist, an inventor, an anatomist...
To think, one man could accomplish soooo much in those days, is just amazing.

How can anyone fathom all that knowledge, and actually apply them all and succeed?
Entertainment Quater at Fox Studio, Moore Park showcased a range of machines and artwork by the legendary Leonardo Da Vinci.

He designed and created contraptions to aid in battles and wars. With his skills, he developed many different war ships with various arrangements of cannons - the sole purpose to defeat and/or defend at all angles.

He played with the laws of gravity and created props that allowed people to walk on water.
He put together a few ensembles to enable flight!
He studied the human anatomy extensively.
He mastered the art of painting and sketching.

Was a short but interesting exhibit and to think that such a person did exsist - wow

Mid (Twenties) Life Crisis

Gosh, i feel like im still twenty years old!! i wish..."dream on" says Fang.

Where have the past five years of my life gone? I think i must have been drifting in and out of deep sleep.

Started Uni, and i got too comfortable at home. Not a care in the world, lived life on a day to day basis. Only goal then was to finish uni...and i did that...

Somewhere in the back corner of my mind, i had this thought, a timeline - if you will, of when things were supposed to happen. It goes something like this...

• Finish uni
• Work
• Earn enough money to travel and travel and travel
• Married by 25
• Have all my babies by 30
• Couple of decades of hard hard mother-hood
• Go back to work on a part-time basis
• Do more travelling
• Start up a business and retire
• After this, its a blurr

Well, i think im lagging, just by a little bit.

Don't think ive taken on that much more responsibilities. Maybe a little more wrinkles here and there, but still very energetic. I'm sure it'll hit me hard, when i reach 30. Can't wait!!