Qur'anic Reflections

Day 2 : Sabr

Assalamu alaikum wrb 💖

Pre script: Hope your Qur'an memorization is going awesome! Well guess what? Surah Rahman is such an easy surah to memorize! It figures...I mean we all listen to it so often and then most of the verses are short and alike and repeat themselves. 

With 30 verses in by now, I'm hoping to complete it by the end of the first 10 days? And then we can do another surah? How's that sound? In sha'Allah let's see how that works. 

Post pre-script (wut lol) 

I'm terribly sorry for being AWOL after such a hype. Thing is I had my night shift at the hospital and then I come home the next day with like, 2 and a half hours of  sleep in 30 hours and I sleep for another 2 when my mum wakes me up cuz my grandfather's sick and he's in an ICU now. 

Please remember him in your prayers. He's 80 alhumdulillah and therefore his recovery is slow but in sha'Allah Allah is the only healer right? Please do pray for him. 

So I came back home late last night and didn't sleep again because I was scared I wouldn't wake up for sehri lol. 

Soooo that's the story. I'm so bummed I couldn't update on time but pretty please forgive me? O:)

This is going to be an account of what I felt when I kept the day 2 thought in my mind while at work. 

Day 2 thought on its way! 

So day 2 was Sabr for me and it was also the day of my night shift. It was a Monday and Mondays in the unit I'm posted in are as bad as they can get. 

There are a crazy number of patients with zero patience (pun intended) plus the summer isn't really helping. 

My friend once joked that people like to examine their bodies on Sundays and realize they have a 5000 year old swelling on their body that they have only now noticed and that's why Mondays are so hectic. 

Only Allah knows what's wrong with these folks but back to the story. 

It's the usual rush, people waiting in queues for their aseptic dressings, some with cuts that need suturing, some with aforementioned swellings and many pus filled abscesses which need draining. 

And my co-interns decide to bail on me. 

Yes. So much for Sabr. 

And I just knew that this was Allah's plan to see if I'd really really stick to the Day 2 thought or not. :O

So it was hectic as heck, I had to do all the dirty stuff like debriding century old wounds (seriously what's up with people not caring about hygiene) and draining abscesses (kinda satisfying idk why) and literally everyone outside is giving me death glares because they have to wait for so long. 

And I'm telling you, at one point of time, I wanted to quit. I wanted to leave them all and go sit inside for a while.

The other intern didn't want to come out of the air conditioned minor Operating theater, one other had disappeared to Allah knows where and I thought why I can't I do that, you know? 

Why do I have to do all the dirty work and be so responsible and crap when clearly nobody cares?

 Everyone outside thinks I'm doing my job poorly but it's only so much I can do. 

I could just complain to the in charge and get the other interns reprimanded. I could just go sit inside and let the patients wait till the other intern shows up to do their debridement.