5th Post

Another day at the Emergency Room of Mount Sinai Medical Center. I have been volunteering there for roughly 11 days straight eight hours daily to complete my 175 required hours for the internship before I leave the country. The schedule has become almost monotonous to me, except that on many occasions I am tasked with new and interesting ventures. Like today when I helped the Triage Nurse who helps bandage people up. It was a rather interesting experience because I had to do different errands for her, such as go with her to wheel patients who had walking problems and resupply her office. I was then introduced to this blood sugar testing machine where a drop of blood is put on a strip of paper which is then inserted into the device which would later give the results of the test. I volunteered myself for some blood sugar testing that day and I found out that my blood sugar was 136, which was not to low but kind of high, though not high enough to cause concern. This information was interesting to me because before that event I did not know that there was a machine that automatically gave one's blood sugar score and that I did not know my blood sugar level.