Malaysia Life (2012-2013)

In 2012, i moved from Singapore to KL because I am not really happy with my work in Singapore that time. I'm a nurse by profession and I worked as a private nurse here in KL (Lingkungan U-thant). Salary is ok, work is easy but my patient died after 3 months. It is kinda stressful because it means that you don't have a job if you're patient dies. 

After 1-2 months i guess, I found a new patient at Pantai Dalam, a lung cancer patient and immediately i knew that this is a short term patient. The family is very good and treated me as a family. I travelled with them in Cambodia and i felt I'm included in their family. But after 3 months again, he passed away. Its sad, really sad because i didn't lose a job only but also family. I gotta move on and find another patient. There are many networks of private nurses and caregivers here in KL. Many professional nurses but majority are caregivers and others are force to learn the job because it is a high paying job. August 2013, i found a new patient, an Alzheimer's Disease patient. I thought i can handle him that easy but on this 3rd patient i had was a challenge that stretched my patience to its maximum capacity. Because of its condition background, he is behaviourally unstable and can tend to be very physical. The hardest patient i handled ever. 

I have to handle him 6x a week for 10 hours and always so anxious to go to work because the environment in the house is very chaotic. I need to listen to his shouting the whole day. All the banging of the doors, running around in the house and the challenging part is how to pacify him without medicine. It was very tough, very tough but I cannot do anything anymore but to continue my job if not i don't have anything to pay for my rent, food and for my family in the Philippines.

Unfortunately, he was rushed to hospital because of dengue and aspiration pneumonia. After his hospitalisation, my work went easy, he stopped banging doors and shouting. I didn't pray for it, now I'm less stressful with my job.

Being a private nurse is not an easy job, you are not only taking care of the patient but you need to deal with the families and the families may tend to be very strict, asking a lot of questions, lack of trust, installing cctv at work and in some instances they can be very rude. However in my case all the families i worked with are very nice and pleasant. They trust me and let me do my work independently. They treat me as a family and takes care of me as well.

However the hardest part of working overseas is that you need to work continuously, or else you will ended up hungry. Very tiring, sad, stressful, lonely and sometimes depressing. Lack of rest and sleep, missing home in the Philippines and aging so fast away from your love ones. All this experiences however made me a better and stronger person.

God, did not leave me all through out. Most of the time i forget about him, but truly he never left me.