Today Phil and I walked down to the drop-in for the morning, but today’s action did not happen until around 5:30 pm when Fred, our night guard, arrived for night duty after the weekend off. Charles came to the door to ask for someone to look at Fred’s leg apparently he had hurt it while riding his bike. I would say that yes it did hurt. His bike has one peddle missing and there is only a rod where it should be, no wonder he has difficulty riding it. What had happened is his foot had slipped off somehow and he had managed to stab himself with the dirty bolt. It went in a fair way as one could see muscles and tendons, or something like that (I’m not a nurse or doctor so that’s the best description I can give).
Anyway I took him up to the hospital to get it looked at, which was easier said then done, there is a person you see when you first arrive, but the people there in the day time had left already, but the person for the night shift was not yet there. But after they eventually came we were looked at and sent to Ward 3, the surgical ward. It was not quite like what it was back home, obviously all non-emergency cases are left for the day time, so Fred was admitted and the wound was redressed. They were going to explore and give him a tetanus shot tomorrow. The tetanus shot sounded good, but exploring sounded scary when you see the room where they redressed his wound. Anyway Fred was not too keen about staying the night in the hospital so I took him home to bring him back in the morning. The staff did not seem the least bit concerned even though he had been admitted. We did however manage to get a prescription for some drugs, which it was lucky for Fred that the chemist was still open in town, as how could you expect the hospital to carry painkillers or anything like that.
Charles the day guard was nice enough to stay the night and was actually quite concerned about his work mate, in his poor english he came and said, “Now that Fred is the patient, don’t you think he needs a blanket?” It’s good to see them looking out for each other.
