Surroundings

 Today at the hospital is very quiet. Even though we have only a few staff members, here or there there's always a bustling sound of people going from one room to the other, going up and down the elevators. The construction workers doing a lot of noise. 

But today the tone is different, more somber. Looking around, there's only two people I can see. Two female guards watching videos on their phones, making a lot of noise the eletronic sound coming out. But I know in other room's there are more people. The doctors and the social workers. So I can hear pens being picked up and laid back down, typing on keybords, doors opening and closing. 

I commented earlier with another employee that the hospital was very quiet today. Turns out, a lot of people in the infirmary are not saturating very well. And the ICU is full. So the tone is somber because people are on the verge. So it's full hands on deck. 

The perks of working in a COVID hospital. 

No smells today though. But usually I do notice them. I think that is what I noticed the most. And I think, despite wearing a mask I can still smell this.

Sometimes it's perfume, or alcohol. It's either the cleaning producs they use at the hospital. Sometimes the smell of blood is so strong that I fear I may partly be a vampire because I can always smell it and taste it very dinstinguishedly. Sometimes is urine and you can always smell the pungent smell of sickness. Some patients here smell awful. They are bathed in bed, so they're not bathed properly.