#inquiry {ask}

@bcrnt-petcls 

“But, but–”

Gaster tried to protest being assisted to the bathroom, but he was just too weak. Mara practically carried him from the bed, the taller skeleton’s arm slung over the shoulders of the smaller fire elemental.

It was a blessing he was so lightweight.

But it was also embarrassing.

Even though he was too weak to do it himself, he would have preferred to have Asgore help him. At least the boss monster had already done this for months on end, so often it was nearly normal.

But now it was Mara. Asgore wasn’t here… and someone had to help him bathe.

“I could have used my wheelchair…” Gaster said softly, resigned to the upcoming scenario. “It would have been easier on you.”

Though he should have been using his walker, some days were better than others, and Mara had taken the initiative, leaving all his assistive devices in the bedroom. 

WH– WELL– THAT’S JUST–

//SO!

Basically it’s very simple. When Bread Loaf was born… She was no bigger than half a loaf of bread!! 🍞

She was so tiny Gaster could hold her in both his cupped hands…

Gaster created (for lack of a better word) Sans and Papyrus and raised them into adulthood before falling into the Void. They now live down the street from him and Asgore in his normal Canon verse.

He couldn’t breathe.

His Soul was going to quit.

The professor felt his legs lose strength, his vision went dark, and he fell.

Oh! Thanks! I made this a few months back and I really love it!

Bonus:

They were (are?) going to be Gaster’s new icons but my muse has been super low and my hands have been hurting ;w;”

If you want reality, you’ve come to the right place. 

I want to start out saying that I won’t include lots of details simply because every healthcare setting is different, so I will share what being a caregiver means to me. These are my opinions and personal experiences and as such I hope you will not judge to harshly.

Ahem. *shuffles papers*

Let’s talk about Media. Although media gives us several different views of what being a nurse or doctor in hospitals is like, they either gloss over the gross stuff, or make it impossibly exciting.

Honestly, most of my shifts have gone without much comment. What you spend 50% (if not more) of your time doing is charting; documenting what you’ve done so there is proof you’ve done it, because if there’s no proof, it didn’t happen. 

Then, you have to stay within all the laws and policies put in place by the state (or country) and the facility/company you work in/for, and remember them all. In media, they tend to skirt the laws or break them entirely and it magically all works out because the patient lived, but when I see a scenario like that my brain sees all the things that could have gone wrong. In reality it’s not safe to break laws and policy because they are put in place to prevent errors which could lead to death. This might sound like a “duh we know” but you’d be surprised...

And yes, you have to deal with “gross stuff!” Patients are sick. That’s why they need a caregiver! Whether it’s vomit or blood or poop or unidentifiable yellow goop coming out of a wound, you have to deal with it all as a nurse-- AND on top of that, school your features into a blank expression, no matter how much your nose wants to crinkle at the stench coming out of that ulcer. Your patient has to live with that on/in their body! You only have to deal with it for a little while.

That also has a lot to do with my next point. Have you ever been sick? Are you the best person you can be when you’re hurting or in pain? Probably not. You’re probably horrible company or become very needy or a mixture of the two. Have you ever been in an awful situation where you had no control? Well, it’s likely that if you’ve had to stay in the hospital in any fashion it was not by choice, and certainly not within your control.

People can be difficult to work with, and even more so when they are in desperate situations. If you had to miss your sister or daughter’s wedding, miss a court date to fight for your house or your children, or had to have your 14th surgery on your shoulder because complications continued to arise, you might just be bitter and angry and take it out on your caregiver.

Most of the time however, patients have a general sense of kindness and even if they do lash out, it is only momentary and we get along in the end. Some people just need someone to listen to their story, to feel validated in their emotions and concerns, and so you have to have some level of empathy.

I could honestly go on for ages about what is hard about being a nurse/caregiver but I won’t. Most of the things I would say are hard to understand simply because you would have to experience them to grasp the impact of it all, but I will say that there are many, many aspects that come with having to deal with people that are magnified by sickness and desperate situations.

In conclusion you have to be willing to care for others despite the hardships that come with dealing with the scared, the sick, and the injured. You have to let go of any bias and prejudice you may have. You have to be kind when you’d rather be anything but. You have to learn self-satisfaction and to tell yourself “good job” because not every patient is going to see you has having done so, despite your best efforts. You have to be willing to serve, to care for, and to defend the person under your care as if they were a loved one.

So is being a caregiver easy? No. Is it rewarding? For some. Would I do anything else? Probably not, even if it’s harder than I expected since starting out.

//I totally stole the background from Sun and Moon but HERE THEY ARE!!! Gaster’s Pokemon team: Gogoat, Aegislash, Umbreon, Cubone, Ralts, and Riolu!

Along with the asks, previous choices came from an old meme reply.