ayuyu's Xanga

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:15:35 GMT

I saw the smiling face in the dark dark sky yesterday, when I was off work with a tired body and soul.

: )

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:27:55 GMT

I seem to adapt to the work in paedi now.

and it's good that we have much less new cases recently.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:07:57 GMT

Working is paed is so tiring...i haven't had the chance to enjoy yet...

June and I were being called very frequently everyday by C6 ward, C6 day centre, J8, K7, K8S day centre and the clinic.

Argh.

And I just hate being called that frequently.

and walking that 'U' shape route to and fro.

Inter-divisional Competition

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:22:26 GMT

The competition has finally ended.

To me, it's a miracle this year.

We went through so much on the way...in the end we decided to go on 2 weeks before the competition.

We only had time enough for 2 or 3 days serious practice (holiday, typhoon, etc.) and we were only able to have the full team 21 cadets at 6:30pm practising for 15 minutes the day before competition. The practices were never perfect, we couldn't even get the wheeling right 2 days before competition. But at the moment when 21 of your were all together, it's a completely different world. The spirit was so high and I was really moved.

And the uniform...for so many years we spent weeks and months to perfect the items but we were ever able to get a prize. This year, constrained by time and manpower, everyone has to prepare their uniform on her own, and we only iron them. But this is the best year i've seen.

Thank everyone for your effort, especially joyce, gigi, siu wai and tze ki.

Thank you so much.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:49:40 GMT

i don't ask for any miracles. i merely wish everyone of you would enjoy the whole process and with the same goal we strive for the best!

wong siu ching nursing!

Friday, August 01, 2008

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:00:46 GMT

had my first CPR and defibrillation two days ago...complicated feeling

saw one patient on chemotherapy...she looked so much older and weaker in less than 1 month time. um.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:26:33 GMT

currently post-call....after working 36 hours (luckily not continuously as i manage to sleep 1 + 0.5 + 2 hrs)

performed my second BMA+trephine...still tremor a lot during the procedure...hope the poor por por would have less pain soon...

have been seeing a lot in the ward...

a middle-aged women deconditioning quite significantly after start of chemo...

an old old husband of an old woman came to see her everyday...the patient was stroke and GCS only 6...unable to respond....and after knowing this his wife may not have any chance to recover...he was sooo disappointed and helpless. ai.

a lot of important things in one's life happen from time to time in the ward...

i don't really know what to say... i just want to write down some feelings of mine.

hope everything goes fine.

Work

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:51:21 GMT

finally i'm offically working... as an intern in QMH.

Acutally i think the work i do everyday now is very similar to what i've learnt during medical school, only that you have much more trivialities to deal with, such as printing labels, filling in forms, doing ECGs...

and my drip setting skill is going on a down-hill trend during this week...i don't know why..but my failure rate has climbed up to almost 100% during this week...and that really bothers me. hope i can set the drips right later on.

work has been fine. the nurses are nice and they work very efficiently. Hopefully i could adapt better la.

Pre-internship

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:51:16 GMT

I just had the first day of pre-internship which was a call day. I was assigned to ward E3 and while for night call ward E3/B1. The people in these two wards are really nice. But we won't know which ward we're going to work till later.

The housemen were very nice too! They let us do all sorts of things - venepuncture, drip, arterial blood, ECG, printing labels, admission, etc. etc. Being a houseman has much more to do then I had expected -- it's not about how much medicine you know, but really, how careful you are and how tough you could be. Working alone at night is quite a stressful experience, as you need to deal with everything on your own FIRST, of course at the end of the day you still have your MO as back-up.

um.

This is really a challenging work, hope we can all adapt to it quickly and safely.

Graduation Dinner

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:11:08 GMT

finally! the graduaiton was held at Renaissance Harbour View Hotel, Concord Room. It was a fabulous night. Every one was dressed up gorgeously and for some I can't even recognize properly at first sight. (!) All girls looked soooo pretty! and all boys too, they looked very nice!

Taken many pictures with my classmates, but it's a pity that i didn't have much with the teaches as many of them left quite early. but anyway, we all had very happy time walking around, grabbing people to take pictures and chat a lot too! the food was very nice too, with my favourite Haagen Daz ice-cream.

the programme was quite good too! We first had speech delivered by Prof. Ricky Man, Dominic, Prof. Patil, then we had the dinner, then lucky draw with gifts to everyone. Andrew made us a standing comedy which is sooo funny! haha. tho i don't have much idea who he's imitating :p. Then we had a performance by Tony, Carol and Charmine, second lucky draw (top price was an iPod touch!), and a performance by Christina. They all did their performance very very well!

The grad book is good too! i spent the night reading and reading it over. There're lots of pictures which remind us of our days in med school. the articles were interesting too!

and the souvenir bag...lots of pens and little equipment for our internship -- i found 10 tourniquets there!

let's enjoy the 2 weeks left and prepare ourselves well for the upcoming challenge!