TY: Yes, we all went back to work in the hospital, the usual hospital. And then shortly thereafter I worked as a male attendant. And since there were a lack of nurses we did a lot of things the nurses did. For instance, like giving medication to the patients and taking temperatures and doing, taking blood pressures. And I wanted to do something -- I thought maybe I'd like to work in the hospital lab as a med-tech. So I approached the head nurse and asked whether I could possibly do that. And she said, "Well, if you're interested you can." So after about two days of training and preparation I had -- I remember taking blood from the first patient. I was so nervous my hand was shaking like this and I was thinking, I wonder what the patient was thinking. [Laughs] But after a few successful taking of the blood, well, I did okay, so I became a medical, med-tech and I took blood samples and I even did blood counts and things like that and I got about two months of training that was very interesting. I really enjoyed that part of it. I learned something, something really useful I thought, and I feel like I was doing -- make much better use of myself than pushing bedpans.

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