BATTLE CITY



Remember that Nintendo Family Computer game we used to play as kids called BATTLE CITY? (Yessssss... I'm sure you played FamiCom games too! I am NOT THAT OLD YET! LOL XD) Well, to my delight, some wiseass actually decided to nickname the PGH Pedia ER as BATTLE CITY! ROFLMAO XD

I was Pedia ER reliever yesterday. It was actually my second time to relieve those Pedia interns on actual ER duty, but since yesterday was a weekend, I has to go on a 13-h reliever duty instead of the usual 9-h weekday reliever duty. My partner Rona and I dreaded going there so much, but duty calls forced us to go. And upon arrival, BATTLE CITY DID look like BATTLE CITY, with so many wailing kids and yakking moms all over the place. We were immediately greeted with a pileful of lab requests for gadzillions of blood extractions. Woohoo. T.T

So like the tanks in the BATTLE CITY game, Rona and I "fought" our enemies, "blasted" those tanks, "moved" around the place and "protected our camp" (translation: we argued with mothers, hooked IV lines and extracted blood like crazy, hurried all over the Pedia-ER to monitor those yapping kidz, and made sure we completed all our tasks). We fought hard and long (from 2pm to 3am), and we were badly beaten and bruised till our bodies went numb from head to foot because of the extreme physical pain and emotional drain. I was amazed that at 2AM, Rona still had the strength to smile sarcastically at the complaining father whose son we were poking with a gauge 23 needle. I was already so tired and so pissed off. I no longer had that patience. If Rona didn't keep her cool then, I would have probably done two of these things:
1. walked away without saying a word,
2. poked the damn needle on that ranting dad and tell him to shut up.

I'm still in my right mind though. I would do option #1. But good thing Rona was there, and we eventually completed the task of extracting arterial blood from that kid.

*deep sigh* I AM PEDIA INTERN!! And I hate it so much!!! If you go back to around 1 year back, you’ll be able to read the part where I broke down during my clerkship year. And that was during my Pedia rotation. u_u

It’s not that I hate kids. I think they are cute and all. But I don’t like them when they are sick. I don’t want to line them. I don’t want to extract blood from them. Because those are two of the most difficult things in this world to do! And in addition to that, you get a ranting mother (or a hard-headed grandmother or a nosy neighbor) at your side, going all hysterical and blaming and pressuring you for inflicting pain on her child. IT’S NOT LIKE I WANT TO DO THIS, DAMMIT! T.T That’s why I will never go into Pediatrics. NEVER. Absolutely ZETTAI NEVER!!!!!!! I don’t want to treat patients I don’t want to treat. Children should never be sick in the first place. Sometimes, it’s the irresponsibility of parents which leads to such unfortunate consequences. And those are the parents I'd just love to poke with a gauge 23 needle and yell, SHUT UP!!!!

After this week at the OPD (plus one more ER reliever duty this Friday), I will be Pedia Ward intern already for the next two weeks. Good luck to me cos I’m the Hema-Onco intern, one of the most detested posts, which means all my patients will probably need blood extractions day and night. On top of that, I will be celebrating (as if there’s a cause for celebration) my birthday in the ward, because I happen to be on 24-h duty that day and, as if life just keeps getting better and better, I will be endorsing the entire Ward 9 the next day during the conference. And if I survive that, I will catch babies for the next two weeks in OBAS/LCB/Nursery, then the last two weeks will be my REAL fight in BATTLE CITY. Yes. The final two weeks are my official Pedia ER duty schedule. And we will have NO MORE RELIEVERS by then, which means the battle is all ours.

*tone dripping with sarcasm* Yehey. How exciting. I just can’t wait.

Trina forwarded me this quote from Grey’s Anatomy. I don’t watch the series, but I can truly relate to this:
“The key to surviving medical training is denial. We deny we’re tired, we deny that we’re scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we are in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works.” (Meredith Grey)

It has to work. Or else no freaking person can ever survive this kind of horrid lifestyle.

Sometimes I wish I was just an “ordinary” person. Nobody told me I need to be a superhero.

Labels: internship

RANDOM PIFFLE PICTURE NO. 5

Nakita sa isang boarding house:

Hmmm.... *isip*
Ate, ang ibig mo bang sabihin ay,
"NO LITTERING, BAWAL MAGSULAT"? XD XD XD

Labels: piffle thoughts and randomness

WHEN YOU THINK THAT NOTHING COULD EVER GO WRONG...

Think again.

NAWAWALA SI SHAORAN!!!!!!!

*wails loudly and starts throwing tantrums*

I've searched all over my area in our room -- NADA! I have upturned my bed, flipped my bedsheet, arranged my boxes, looked over and over in the pockets of my bags, gone through my trash, and searched every nook and corner of my area -- BUT I CAN'T FIND HIM!!!! *cries*

ONE WEEK NANG NAWAWALA SI SHAORAN! nyuuu... u_u I remember taking him off when I used my flash disk, but since I was too groggy that time, I don't know where I placed him! And since I fell asleep on my table that time, I might have unconsciously flicked him off my table (assuming I did place him on my table), and he might have went into the bottom of my cabinet, which is the same as saying goodbye to him forever, since it's impossible to even take out the uber-thick dust gathering underneath it. nyuuu... T.T

*bangs head on monitor*

Misakichan wa BA-KA! nyuuu... u_u

I'll do anything to have him back. I'll give anything to have him back.

I don't think I'll ever be the same again without Shaoran.

*extreme sadness*

P.S. Just in case you are wondering, hehehe, "Shaoran" is the cap of my 512mb flash disk, which I have been looking all over for more than a week now. It is so named because it has a sticker of MY Shaoran on it. But now it's LOST!!!! nyuuu... u__u

Labels: life

ON BENIGN ROTATIONS AND BISHIES GALORE

I’ve just finished my two weeks rotation in Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) aka ENT (Eyes, Ears, Nose, Head and Neck Surgery). It was one of the rotations I actually liked when I was still a clerk, because I like suctioning out impacted cerumen (eew! XD) and removing foreign bodies from the nose. But now in internship, I realized that there is no way that I will tread that path and lead that kind of life. I have no plans of living the rest of my existence picking on the nose or poking people’s tonsils with the laryngeal mirror (that’s because, misakichan, you lack skill and that “delicate touch” – in short, you were born a brute with big and reckless hands XD). I applaud the department though for having a certain sense of discipline and order in their residency program. I think it would be nice to train in ORL residency in PGH, but I think I’ll pass. >.<

Now I’m in my first week in the Department of Ophthalmology, which in a sense, has a world of its own too. The practice is a skill and interest acquired only by a few gifted(?) individuals, unfortunately excluding me. XD It’s my third day and I still can’t get my fundoscopy right. *sigh* I remember my clerkship days when I suddenly (LOL) developed super fundoscopy powers, and I can see all of my patient’s maculae, cup-disc ratio and retinal arteries/veins. Well, those were the days of the past. The talent has long faded away, and I’m reduced to this inept intern forcefully (and awkwardly) shining the red light of the ophthalmoscope into my patients’ eyes. May the heavens have mercy on their poor souls eyes. XD

It’s a relatively benign rotation though, and we get to stay in Sentro Oftalmologico Jose Rizal (aka Sentro, aka Spain XD), that grand, circular, glass-encased building just a few meters away from my dorm. XD Since the building is new, we take joy in the coolness of the airconditioning system, the crispness of the facilities, the sparkle and shine of their hi-tech operating rooms and post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), etc etc. I was basking in the PACU yesterday, practically doing nothing the whole day, watching over non-toxic patients who were all hooked to cardiac monitors. It was extreme bliss, to actually monitor 3 beds without having to use my borrowed sphygmomanometer. XD

Well, since it’s a benign rotation, I figured it would be the best time to start studying already for the boards. I’ve even started reading PharmaKOWAI (roflmao!), I mean, Pharmacology yesterday (ngeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!!!!! T.T) Every one of us is scared to our shitty pants thinking about the upcoming exam of our lives come August. I keep receiving text messages asking me where I’m going to review, how I’m going to review, and when I’m staring to review. The truth is: I HAVE NO IDEA. So please stop asking me! I’m as ignorant as everyone else. u__u

I do know one thing: Besides Hana Yori Dango season 2, perhaps the next most interesting j-dorama to download would be Nodame Cantabile. XD I’ve seen first two episodes of the anime. It’s sooooooooooo much fun! XD



But I have to seriously study already. No more time for my luvluv bishies. T.T

Labels: anime, dorama, internship