Hi, you are “face to face with Shell”.
I am going to continue the series with another little “funny” story, whereby, I fought against my health professionals and lost…lol.
Have you seen the other videos? If not, please click on the links below or maybe you would just like to see them again:
BURN SURVIVOR AND HEALTH CARERS (PART 1)
BURN SURVIVOR AND HEALTH CARERS (PART 2)
BURN SURVIVOR AND HEALTH CARERS (PART 3)
BURN SURVIVOR AND HEALTH CARERS (PART 4)
BURN SURVIVOR AND HEALTH CARERS (PART 5)
Please watch this video and/or read on:
The next story I am going to tell you happened while I was still in the Burns Unit. I had been taken off my “feeding tube”, which I spoke about in the last video. I was underweight and my care team were trying to help me to regain my full appetite. There were days that I just didn’t feel like eating.
The Nursing Officer visited my room one morning (I take it she had heard that I wasn’t eating that well). It didn’t help that I was not a great fan of cereal and especially not of milk.
So, she had come into my room to make sure that I was going to eat something for breakfast. I can remember it was rice crispies. I was not for eating them at all. She asked me if I would eat three spoonfuls for her and I refused. She kept trying to persuade me and then eventually said, as she sat herself down in a chair opposite me: “Well, I’ve got all day, I’ll sit here until you have eaten three spoonfuls”.
After a little while, I could see that she was not going to move, so I ate the three spoonfuls and said: “There”! She said: “Ok, I’ll see you again tomorrow”…lol. She did come back but I soon realised that it was much easier to just actually eat the cereal.
Again, this was being done for my own good, and yet again, I will say that I shall be forever grateful to these people who encouraged and helped me along my road to recovery.
Stay strong and we’ll chat soon.