a couple of minutes more b4 tuition starts..

the first week of surgery has passed. I'm totally drained. I really tired everyday cant do much reading, just konking out soon after i get home. Altho in that way i sleep quite abit but i'll get nightmares and stuff. btw just woke up from another one. shit. sigh.

monday had us all looking lost after the briefing before we managed to contact doc R frm the colorectal team. tt's the team me and py's attached to this week.

managed to go to the scope room and did 5 PRs at 1 shote... we could do it on everyone who came in :) dr S and dr R are really willing to teach us, and it was fun. It generally feels abit more exciting than medicine, the gungho doctors who maneouver the colonscope and yea some screaming patients. must have been uncomfortable.
lec was at 5-6 and going home at tt time was terrible. 95 is damn crowded and it's almost impossible to get on to the 1st bus u see.

we run to and fro cme sessions which can be quite exciting, hearing discussions of OPs and patients and radiological findings.

tuesday was short w pharmaco malay n minster's talk and i ended up reaching home nearing 11.. and missing my piano class AGAIN. this tue has the dean's talk at 6.. wat time ll it end? can i reach tampines by 8? this is ridiculous. i've been trying to find time to go piano classes.. and the school fees are actually rising, up to 80+ per mth, and i missing 20+/lesson like nobody's business.. no wonder my bank account seem to be shrinking exponentially. i kinda contemplated giving it up but oh well watching MNIKSS on tv and seeing how nice it is to learn it.. i kinda dont wanna give up just lidat.. but wat can i do sia? i can barely cope w school and school just dont seem to end on time. :(

wed was more exciting w a tutorial at the ICU ward and we went into OT for the first time.. were really quite loss haa but it was very exciting experience.. stood there for 3+ hr watching an anterior resection of a rectosigmoid carcinoma from a patient whom we manage to talk to the next day. it was a laproscopic surgery at the beginning but converted to using a handport in the end as the lower margin of the tumor is hard to determine from outside just laproscopically.. the nurses in there got me and py a stool to get a good view (thnx) and dr R was there giving a running commentary for us.. thnx so much! then we went off to dr A's clinic and learnt quite abit too..

thursday was a day we clerked quite a few patients and had nite call.. not as much new admissions as when we followed RC in AH but the HOs were really nice and taught us alot of things.. saw a couple of cases and went home..
oh ya and i feel down right in the middle of the food court beside some pple having their meals because of my shoe that lack friction.. haa i scare the poor patient and her family... n was q apologectic about it. O_o" and my polar puff few out of my hand scattering its filling all over and the cleaner uncle had to help me clean it up :p damn paiseh lor and he even came over to make sure i was ok after my fall.. haizzz

friday started off bad too i must say.. saw a pt in High dependency ward and went to clinic.. halfway in clinic i was shock to find tt i was actually holding a blue clipboard and to my horror i saw a pt's sticker on the top right hand corner and IT WAS HIS 4HOURLY PARAMETER CHART! omg. wat have i done? i was still trying to comfort myself that there's still 1+hr before 12, before the next time the nurse had to document something may no one ll realize tt it's gone. I WAS WRONG.. as i rushed back from KRW to the mainbuilding, as i was approaching the glass door there was already a nurse there waiting for me.. before i reached the glass door she pointed at the clipboard in my hands w horror and i knew it. jit pai si liao. haa i handed it back to her and went in to apologize nonstop to everyone... the docs were actually looking for it cause a pt must be quite ill to b in a HD ward right? haizz wat have i done. in the ward another nurse and a doc aft they realized wat i did, just couldnt stop laughing.. but i was shot a dirty and stern look from another doc who didnt seem q amused by my stupidity.
sigh. dr A and nurse S laughed q abit too when i return to the clinic and told them.
n i fell down AGAIN. as i was rushing to the grand hospital round, no one saw except py la.. so haaa
n we kinda joined dr G tutorial by accident and he was a good tutor... i came home early on fri i think and indulged in watching alot of tv cause i feel damn tired but this is no good :( must try to control sia.. ok it's 10 and my tutees are coming soon!

one more day to a brand new week w hepatobiliary w dr C.. i heard too many not so nice stories abt him. haiz hope all goes well because i'm all alone w tt team :( but well he seem like a good teacher so we see how it goes la.