Mirror, Mirror On The Wall
“ Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we will ever do” -Brene Brown This is one of my most painful memories of being in the hospital. I have made a few attempts to write it, not easy for me as it was an emotionally painful experience. Early mornings are the most stressful time in the burn ward as the patients and nurses need to prepare for the doctor’s visit. Depending on the instructions of the doctor the day before, some patients are required to take bath. After the doctor’s visit, dressings of wounds will then begin. This means, a burn patient will experience pain 3 times in the morning. When the bandages and dressings are removed, during bath and when dressings are applied. After nearly a year at the hospital, in one of the mornings that I was required to have my routine morning bath before dressing is done, I looked at the mirror after I unbandaged and remove some of the more