2 posts in 2 days, too much?

Since I have a spare moment this evening, I thought I'd give a quick update on life here at the dream centre. Today was a bit of a strange day. This morning, Ruth and I went to the fourth floor to help the nurses out. We both ended up helping the nurses wash some patients, but we were with different patients. The guy I ended up with was in a bit of a bad way, he was quite confused, he couldn't really do anything at all for himself and he had a huge lump on his arm which looked really raw. We tried to remove the bandages but they were stuck on. Then the nurse went to go and see if the patient bathroom was free, and while he was gone, the man grabbed my hand and held on to it. We then took him to the bathroom, but I had to stand outside, since there wasn't much room. The whole washing process was fairly brutal, they just use a hose on the patients and then use a flannel and soap to clean them and then hose them down again. The patient just looked scared and confused and kept reaching out for my hand, but I couldn't go in without getting in the nurses way. Afterwards, we had to dry him off, but since this place has no towels we had to wring out the flannel and use that and a sheet. We then put him back into bed, and I had to leave with Ruth, since we were supposed to be joining the doctor on ward rounds, but we couldn't find her.
I then went to the laundry with Tiara to go and help Elvis out, which really cheered me up, since Elvis convinced Tiara to push me around in the laundry cart. We also went to help the pharmacist count pills, which may have been a tad repetitive, but it was fine. I then went out to the garden with Ruth where we met an ex-patient called Ned, who was delighted to find out we were english and then kept telloing us how much he loves Phil Collins. He also informed me that global warming was God's vengeance on us all and that when the icebergs melt Jesus will come with a giant eye accompanied by angels with claws. So that was nice. There was another guy in the garden called Chief, who loves colouring in, and started doing an impression of the porcupine he'd just coloured in, and it was probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Afterwards Ruth and I went to Sassa, which sort out grants and ID books for everyone, with a patient called Npomelelo to get her grant, which luckily only took about an hour. Usually people can be waiting in line there for up to seven hours easily.
After we got back we had to prepare for bingo, which we moved forward to today so we didn't have to do it tomorrow with the strike on. Tiara and I had to go get Sbongile again, and the nurses were royally unhelpful. It took them 20 minutes to try and organise helping us, and then they all left, so we had to get her into her wheelchair by ourselves and then afterwards we had to put her back into bed by ourselves again. It was pretty tough, but we managed it.
Anythewhy, I'm going to have to get off now and have a nice shower, since the showers finally have some heating back in them. Instead of having ice cold showers, we can finally have lukewarm ones! How brilliant. And then I'll need to be off to bed, since we have to be down in the kitchens early tomorrow to help prepare all the food, since the strike means that barely anyone's going to be in. Should be fun.
Until next time, doei doei! xx

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