It has been 1 week I am posting at hospital after school reopen. This is the first time I step into the ward and know what exactly a dietitian' role in the hospital. We are not treating patient like what the doctor did, we also do not take care of patient like what the nurses did, we are monitoring the patient's diet and help them to obtain the nutrients requirement as much as possible.
My first patient is a 1 year old boy. He was diagnosed with cerebral abscess due to ear infection. As the disease was affected his nervous system, he was unable to talk, eat and move. When I saw him, he was very thin, just left with skin and bone. He can able to tolerate 90cc of formula milk each time. but the next two day when I follow up his case again, I was informed that he cannot tolerate milk and even water. He has already fasting for more than 24 hour. I was worry, how can he survive his condition still not improved. However, the worry of the health care givers would never more that the patient's mother. She was so so worry when she look at her child who have nothing go into stomach for so long time. She started to purposely talk very loud to her son, asking whether he feel hungry. I know, she did it purposely to tell the nurse to give her son something to eat. This is so called the love of a mother. However, from my view of point, I feel that she is a very strong mother. Even she is so tire, so worry and so stress, she still always smile to us and to her son. Pray hard for him and hope that he will recover very soon.
