Another week has flown past...
Here I am, sitting at the clinic at Joo Chiat, wondering what to do next. Sigh. Came in this morning because my clinic assistant managed to lacerate her nose cleaning the clinic floor. Amazing. Stitch above CA's nose. Check.
Wonder when, if ever the clinic will pick up enough to resemble a decent practice. Wonder, if it's worth the effort.
The other clinic at Balestier is slightly more encouraging, as it is established as a dental practice and people know it exists. Still, it's pretty quiet compared to the other clinics I've worked at. Of course I know it takes time to build up a practice, but this is frustrating.
Patients arrive at ad hoc, even though we try and schedule appointments, but the nature of family practice in Singapore is as such. It's really quite tiring shuttling 2 places that are 15 to 35 minutes apart, depending on traffic.
3 years? 5 years? How on earth am I going to make enough for us to afford another place???!!
Sigh.
On a brighter note, Madison's speech is progressing at an amazing pace, she is speaking in phrases already and imitates much of what we say. This morning something really funny happened. We were in the bathroom while I was putting on my contact lenses and she wandered over to the toilet bowl. I said : " Bacteria, Madison! Don't touch !". She repeated the word "bacteria" very clearly and then thought about it for awhile. Suddenly she got really upset and started to cry. She kept repeating the word "bacteria, bacteria" while sobbing.
At first I didn't know what suddenly happened. I led her out of the bathroom and asked her what was wrong. She just kept saying " bacteria, bacteria " .. I really wanted to laugh but that would have been wrong.... so I got her to drink some water instead.... to kill the bacteria...naughty mama...
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