Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Politics of canteen buying and some
Righteousness aside
I have forgotten to address few questions that quite baffled me on rabies. The thing on hydrophobia, if the reason happens to be laryngeal spasm, why does it have to be so liquid-specific. Laryngeal spasms itself cause inability to swallow, then it may also include the solids. If liquid’s resemblance to saliva perhaps explains it, then neurologic-defect bound anxieties enables them to reject liquids. I also have come to know that difficulty of breathing, swallowing, and the feeling of strangulation comes with the combined spasmodic effects of the diaphragm and larynx. I have this realization in the past on the real essence of the nurse’s work – that it should have been disease prevention and treatment in the first place. If it’s otherwise, we would just be the same as everybody else. No professional meaning can we grasp from what we do, if we make the fundamental the most essential, discounting that exclusive knowledge we impart that makes us put more feathers in our cap. It’s the high-end that delineates us from the average. However, it was on rabies that made me realize that the fundamental remains to be the most essential. If the goal of health care is independence, then we must bank on our efforts towards equating independence not with the management of diseases, but in the consistent observance of health being the primary target. To nurse is mutli-tiered, so we also put prime to prevention and treatment but only if the limelight fails to power enough energy. A bite to death makes me recall Snow White’s careless indulgence to the witch’s apple, but contemporary times (in the rabies sense) put careless complacency drawing closer to Travis’ deadened left. It is the same complacency that adds more damage to the damaged in every aspect of pathology. Therefore countering this potent reclusion from what science can give calls for putting the same compelling persuasion that we can offer. The local barangays must intensify its information dissemination about when and when not to touch dogs, what must be done after getting bitten, and that each is responsible for propagating and actualizing the knowledge acquired. It is also in the same light that responsible pet ownership must be practiced, and that stray animals must be rightfully placed to sheltered agencies. I feel so ambivalent injecting medicine to people. While I gain experience, they gain their life back, but the trauma remains. While I rejoice for every bleb I formed on their deltoid regions, God knows what they’re minds pull off from the pain. It’s anachronistic the way life spells the check and balance sort of practice. Our experience is their life’s uncertain direction (this realization being optimized in critical wards in the hospital).