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Mr. Ayior nas round no barriers to male nurses at Culpeper and that’s the way he likes it. “I do total care,” he said, men, women and children, any ward in the hospital, including obstetrics and gynecology. “My favorite is pediatrics,” he said, “Hike children ”
No, women don’t object to a male nurse, but he has another problem. “My biggest problem is that patients think I’m the doctor and I have to tell them, no I’m not the doctor, I’m the nurse,” he chuckled.
Mr. Aylor’s winning ways come through in a story he tells. A deaf mute, 19 years old, was in labor in the obstetrics ward and when the young doctor tried to examine her, she bit him. Because she was mute, she could not cry out or tell anyone when she was in pain. Someone remembered that Mr. Ayior knew the sign language of the deaf and called him in.
“I told her the doctor would examine her and I talked to her and gained her confidence, staying with her from 4 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. and each time she had a contraction, she would put her arms around me and kiss me - right here - on the carotid artery. I said to myself, if she bites me there, I’m in big trouble.” The woman’s long labor ended in the birth of a healthy baby grrlJ ” '• “In the afternoon 1 took the'baby to her for feeding and told her she’d have to stimulate it and wake it up! I told her to make sounds to the baby and she would say ‘B’ ‘B’ ‘B’ ‘B’ and you could see the little girl bonding to her,” says Mr. Ayior.
His nursing colleagues are generally women, much younger than Mr. Ayior and some of the doctors he works with are more than 20 years his junior. But with the security that age brings, he isn’t bothered by that difference, for he treats them like anyone else. “I’m honest with them. I respect them and they respect me,” he says.
Mr. Ayior admits to a trial-byfire, a crisis of confidence. One night not long after he went on the wards, three patients wanted out. They got out of their beds and began removing dressings, all at the same time. “I was the one that lost control - I was ready to call it quits,” he said.
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