I'm quite exhausted.
Yay. For the first time in 6 weeks I arrived 10 minutes early for social work lecture =D and promptly settled into the seat I've sat in for the past lectures.
Today's lecturer was quite funny. She looks really young but she's at least 40 years old and she's got lots of experience with working with people who are on the brink of death.
We talked about the chronically ill today :) Reminds me of pediatric psych. heh.
Interviewing a guy and his wife next thurs for social work project. He's got multiple sclerosis and his wife have been taking care of him and the three children for the past 10 years. Think it'll be interesting to listen to how the wife draws strength and how they manage to stay together and go through the ten years with their children who were still young at that time:)
Do you know that if you have HIV and you're treated of it before it develops into AIDS, you actually can live till a very long life? So actually babies who contract HIV through the mother actually do get a chance to live.
The lecturer talked about a guy who was very unpleasant. He treated hospitals like a hotel, in which he'll get himself drunk, get checked into the hotel (and because he has no place to live in, his hospital bills can be paid for by medifund) and refuses to take blood test or medication (oh.. he's sick too. just can't remember what he was down with). he was also mean to nurses and medical social workers:P and gouged out the eye of some healthcare officer before :S (so friendly)
so i guess listening to her talk about unpleasant pple is quite encouraging :)