Chronicles Of Nurse Atutupuyoyo....

Things are happening  Oooh.....

This Blog kept me sane throughout last week.....
It was a very stressful and demoralising week for me
Just want to share my experiences.....

Last Monday, my attention was drawn to a pregnant little girl sitting at the bench with other pregnant women.
Omo I had to ask her her name, kukuma went to get her folder so I can personally clerk her myself, I wanted 1st hand info.

That was how I started with her bio data, I asked for her age and she said 17, hmmm I was already angry, why will a 17 years old girl be pregnant, that was when she told me she was married, she was in SS2 but had to stop school because of the pregnancy, she is the last child out of 7 children 6 girls and a boy, her 2 elder sisters are married, 3 are unmarried, so I was wondering why she the last had to marry.

 I thoughts he was forced into the marriage because she got pregnant, but she told me she got married last year and got pregnant this year... (this young girl's menarche was last year). What pained be the most is that she has cephalopelvic disproportion and she is at risk of having VVF.
I thought early marriage is something in the past especially here in the East..I am just sad for her.



2nd story.
A pregnant girl was rushed to the emergency unit on Friday, she was having severe headaches,hypertension, her urine was positive for protein, blurred vision(pre eclampsia) she was 36weeks pregnant but has not booked for antenatal in any hospital.

 she is an HND 2 student o, so she is not ignorant of it. When clerking her we discovered that her baby daddy told her he was travelling and never returned, her parents live in the north and don't even know she is pregnant, she was brought to the hospital by her friends, the issue now is that she don't have money for herself not to talk of a baby, biko my fellow BVs will you advise her to give the baby up for adoption or keep the baby and look for how to raise him or her?.



3rd story
During ward around I discovered that a patient we discharged 2 weeks ago was still in the hospital with her jaundiced baby because she can't pay her hospital bill of 160000 naira, I asked her about her husband, she started crying, that since she gave birth the man has refused to see her because she gave birth to a girl again, that she hasn't eaten since morning, I was in shock,didn't know this kind thing still dey happen, had to buy food for her.




4th story

A woman came to the hospital 4cm dilated, but remained in 4cm for more than 8 hours, we told madam that she was having prolonged labour, let's give her a Cesarean section, but aunty refused that she must give birth like Hebrew women, later she reached 6cm eventually her baby developed foetal distress, after much persuasion from the doctor, she later agreed went for cs but the baby was in foetal distress for so long, he had birth asphyxia and eventually died. Just wondering why some one will stupidly kill a baby after caring him for 9 months out of  stupid belief....