After graduating from high school, I enrolled in the nursing department of a medical university, as I had hoped.
After graduating, I was assigned to the Department of Surgery.
The other day, a young male patient with a spinal cord injury from a car accident was admitted to the ward. The attending physician said that for a patient with spinal cord injury, if paralysis can be avoided from occurring, he will be able to stand up later, in order to say that it is the efficacy of drugs, but also the credit of careful care. The boy had to be nursed every day when he was lying in bed, pooping and urinating. I was responsible for wiping and turning him and helping him urinate and catheterize every day. However, what is somewhat irritating is that every time I wipe his perineum or catheterize, his penis gets an erection. Although I know it is a reflex erection and he doesn’t mean it, it is still very embarrassing for me, an older girl who is not yet married, to encounter it.
“You’re going to be in bed for the rest of your life, and you’re going to have to engage in ‘sexual harassment’, which is abhorrent!” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. “Harassment of other married people can be forgiven, but sexual harassment of our ‘Ching-ge’ head, really no eyes.” “Qing’er, tomorrow go to the head nurse, replace the person!” The first time I saw this, I was able to get to the top of the list.
The next day, when I was wiping the boy, something unexpected happened: not only did the boy’s penis get erect, but he suddenly ejected a sticky, sticky fluid with a special smell onto my hand. My face was suddenly “sunny to cloudy, cloudy to cloudy”, and I was so angry that my whole body trembled. The young man, like a child who has done something wrong, was also frightened to open his mouth and could not say anything. I suddenly remembered the “trick” that Kiki taught me yesterday, just when I picked up the square plate of long flat tweezers, ready to knock down the head of the boy’s penis, a gentle voice rang out behind me, “Let me, Ching Yee, answer the phone.” It turned out that it was the old head nurse standing behind me, and after she had distracted me, she gently reassured the lad who was also shaking all over with fear, “It doesn’t matter, it’s normal, it means you’ll be fine soon, you can still be a father in the future.” The young man did not say a word, his eyes kept leaving hot tears ……
I was called into her office by the old head nurse, and instead of comforting me or criticizing me, she said calmly, as she usually did in her lectures to us, “Patients with spinal cord injury can have no penile erection at all, or they can have a psychogenic or reflex erection. Reflex erections are caused by stimulation of the penis and surrounding skin by touch, or by stimulation such as bladder filling, urination, or catheterization. The presence of an erection in a patient with a spinal cord injury indicates that he still has relatively normal sexual function. Every physically healthy man attaches great importance to his sexual function, and for a male patient who will perhaps spend his life in bed, having sexual function to him may be an important evidence indicating the existence of his life. Ching-er, imagine if your ‘trick’ is a fatal blow to him, he may not have erectile function for the rest of his life. The car accident and the spinal cord injury have already made him psychologically fragile, and if you add this blow to his mind, it will cause serious damage to his mind and make his existing erectile function disappear completely.” Finally, the old head nurse gently patted my shoulder and said in a serious tone, “Qing’er, it’s not enough to have rich theories and delicate techniques, you also have to have love, love from the depths of your heart.”
Today, sexual harassment is like a rat in the street, everyone is shouting at it, and I am going to take care of it carefully. Isn’t that a bit silly, or a bit out of fashion?!