Well its Monday its nearly seven thirty am i am drinking my second cup of coffee and eating two slices of fruit loaf , i have been shopping to our local supermarket and bought some fresh chicken tikka masala curries .poppadoms and nan breads also strawberries and a carton of double cream for tea.

The weather is still totally rubbish. Helen thought that her back was going to start giving her grief she use to get really bad sciatica and be laid up for months on end obviously her new job would more or less be out of the window if this happened , and would be a major set back to us both , and on the other hand she wouldn't be able to do any readings as spirit will tend to leave you alone if you are ill or in pain they are apparently very courteously and leave you alone to heal .




The picture above is the office i work in well its more like base camp , as i visit each department i look after on a daily basis i also carry a bleep /pager i look after the cleaning of the A&E department and see what police are in with prisoners usually they are blooded and cut up and are getting medical treatment before going to the station for charging.

Then we get the drunks these come in any shape,size, sex. and age , apart from walkabouts i also do waste audits check all sharps bins containing contaminated needles i.v sets are marked up to identify from which ward or department they are from and are correctly tagged with a numbered cable tie which are unique and are allocated and recorded to each ward or department.

As there is more than one hospital in Leeds but all waste goes to the same place for disposing some goes to land fill sites some goes for deep bury on land filled sites and pharmaceutical waste gets incinerated which is the most costly ,some of this waste gets disposed of through bins in bags that are coloured coded and then tagged domestic waste is in black bags clinical waste Orange bags pharmaceutical waste purple and yellow bags , these then all go in to separate waste bins if they get mixed up the hospital gets fined , if a sharps bin ends up on a local tip or land fill site then the hospital can get fined up to £75.000 per bag or bin.

I also inspect and record all cleaning of the areas i look after on my shift areas using a PDA to record scores and results which is down loaded to the pc , A&E as a cleaning team on 24/7 , Managerial audits are done to check we are checking correctly its endless.


I also have access on the PC carps controller this shows me all wards that need cleaning jobs doing for patients that have been discharge or moved to different wards any ward any time can list jobs these jobs are given to cleaners via a radio handset they have four buttons they use A,B,C, and D , A is to show they are available for work B= that they have accepted a job and our on route , C= they are on site and are undertaking the job, D = that the job is completed , they get the sister or nursing staff to sign a sheet that the job as been done times and that its been undertaken correctly , i do spot checks whilst cleaners are on wards as the computer shows me who is where in the hospital if they are working and cleaning on what area or if they are available for their next job it also show me the time scales so i can see how long some one is available and not accepting a job if some one is taking too long , if some one is on break , this can go mental and there is little i can do to manage it , as it all depends on what wards have discharges this comes in at two o clock in the afternoon until six the following morning and on Source isolation cleans everything is done and cleaned all windows and bed curtains have to be taken down and clean ones fitted .it is on a bad day ONE BIG nightmare ,as wards just add jobs that the ward house keepers cant be bothered to do.

i have to try and manage this on a daily basis and put it in to some organised chaos all source isolation's take priority and all ward nursing staff are responsible for cleaning bodily fluids these include vomit , blood ,and urine the cleaners on rapid response that i manage , don't do it unless its in a public area or A&E.

As you can see the office is without windows and we are situated nest to a bin holding area it is warm and we have a fan instead of air con and we have a kettle but no tap its dingy and dismal and the shortest time i can spend in there i do , i can move about we have roof gardens that look over the centre of Leeds and i can get outside when i go from one area to another , but that office is depressing its got to be one of the worse places to work , some theaters recently had new operating lights fitted at a cost of £95,000 , operating tables costing £110,000 other equipment for use in endoscopy and scanners costing a cool two million yet we cant even have a i-pad we have to use a shitty windows pda with crappy chargers and that uses infa red port to transfer data ,and thats my real beef lol.

That's why i like the sea and country side after a week in there you want to be able to breath , want to see a view , and hear the wind and feel the sun , i see people who are about to die or who are dying or who wont live to double figures , and you realise life is short and life is precious , i dont want to waste it , i want to do new things and go to new places and experience life , perhaps we should sell the house and just hit the road see where destiny takes us ,all the doctors , surgeons , professors , scholars and intellects , i come across at least i know one thing they know it it was not taught to me or any of us, is that you only life once.