Steemit Engagement Challenge Season5 Week2 : My medical experiences.

Accept my greetings and wish you all a healthy life and sound season of engagement challange .it is my pleasure to participate in this challange through an interactive theme of My medical experiance

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Are you afraid of any medical instrument? Ex: syringes, sphygmomanometer, stethoscope, etc. Tell us why.

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Medical instruments are the basic tools through which medical professionals carry out investigations or interventions to fix our health. Being a wife of a doctor, I am well-versed in basic instruments but I am afraid of syringes and surgical blades.

During my childhood, whenever I had some illness my mother quickly rushed me to a chemist's shop next to our home and get me medicines. I remember during my childhood chemists were injecting medicines in gloss syringes with long needles. Plastic syringes were not very common. The needle of those glass syringes was longer than the needles that are used these days. It is the experience of those days that has created a phobia of syringes in my mind and that kept persisting till these days.

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Surgical blades are also frightening because of their sharp cutting edges. I have seen our local chemist using those blades for incisions on skin etc. As any intervention with blades causes blood to trickle out, that is bothering me.

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Are you afraid of any medical specialist? To which? we would like to know why.

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Medical specialists are always working for the betterment of our health. Different specialists have different job designations and whatever they do that's always done in good faith. I am not afraid of medical specialists because I know they are very nice people.

As for my experience or interaction with medicos is concerned, I am afraid of paramedical staff especially nurses who inject medicines into the patients. I know that the nurses do not perform any intervention on their own but they just obey the commands of medical specialists. For patients , it is the nurse who causes pain to him by injecting medicines. So despite my fear and an understanding of the designation of paramedical staff, I am still horrified by nurses wearing aprons as they don't feel pity for patients while injecting medicines.

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Do you remember any uncomfortable, painful, funny or unpleasant medical experience? Share it with us🙂

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Most of my medical experiences are unpleasant as they involved some sort of bodily pain. For the sake of this question, I'll share one experience from my school days.

I had corn on my left foot on the planter side. It was very painful. For some time I kept bearing all the pain that was caused by it. At one point in time I had to disclose it to my parents. One day my father took me to a hospital. I went with him with the hope of getting some medicine to be applied locally at the site of corn to dissolve it. I wasn't aware of the trouble that I'll have to go through.

As I reached the hospital, my father took me to the doctor. He wrote something on the prescription and sent us to another section. I thought the doctor has written medicine and we are going to take that medicine and apply it at home. As we entered the room, I was taken to bed and the staff there got a syringe and filled it with an anaesthetic. As they started injecting medicine into the corn, I begin to cry loudly. It was very painful because the skin over the sole is very hard. They didn't inject me only once but they did it multiple times. However, during removal later on I couldn't feel the pain. During injections and after removal, it was a very painful and unpleasant experience for me.

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Did you experience any medical trauma in your childhood? Could you share it with us?

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I think as children, we all experience some trauma. The severity of the degree of trauma may vary. During my class 10th, it was lunch break. In our school, we had to have lunch on the terrace of the school for which we had to climb wooden ladders.

One day while climbing ladders, I missed one step of the ladder and fall down the ladder for about 8 feet. I only know that I had fallen but what happened thereafter wasn't known to me. I fainted there and then. Later my teacher called my mother to school and he had taken me to the hospital where I got my left foot plastered. Our exams were overhead those days. I had to attend the exams while my foot was plastered. I couldn't study well due to pain. I was also advised to rest So my studies as well as my health were affected due by that trauma.

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Have you experienced an accident or illness considered serious? What teaching did this experience leave you?

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I was fortunate to have been born into a family with two-wheelers at home even during my childhood when two-wheelers were scarce due to the poor Economic condition of people those days. One day it was raining, and I woke up late as you know sleeping during the rainy season is one of the best feelings to experience.

As I woke up, the school bus had already gone. I was a very regular student during my school days. My mom told me to sit at home but I refused. I finally called my father on his office landline from our residential landline as mobile phones weren't there. I told him that I had a unit test at school and I have missed the school bus. So I requested him to come back and take me to school.

My father drives very roughly even nowadays. My father came and took me with him on a two-wheeler As it rained, the road was slippery and my father was a rough driver and the roads were not in a good condition those days. I left home happily to spend the day with friends. Shortly after leaving home, as we reached a down-sloping road, there was some obstacle, my father was driving fast and I fell off the two-wheeler and broke up my wrist. As I fell I screamed. My father stopped about 100 metres away from the site of the fall and then he came back and took me back home and then he took my mom with him. Then they took me to the hospital and got it plastered. I learned the following lessons:

• Obey the command of your parents as they are more experienced than us.

• Never lie to your parents or anyone else for any matter.

• Always drive carefully keeping in view the weather or condition of roads etc.

• You never know your future and so keep your life as simple as possible.

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