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Saturday, October 21, 2006
So much has taken place in the past 2 weeks and I
This week is a lil different as I'll be going to Neverland only on Monday morning. That gives me the whole Sunday free! I've realised how precious time is here in KL. So I thought I would update a lil before this blog dies *snicker*
It has been over a month now and I am kinda settled down already. So here's a summary of what these 7 weeks at work and at a new town spurned out.
- I am still enjoying my job which till yesterday, you are kinda officially jobless/free after lunch. There you kill time by eating cookies, yakking, playing shoot baskets, Soduku or Sodoku.. however you spell it, go kacau people in other departments, frequent pointless toilet trips.. whatever you can think of.
- I love the place I am staying.
- I love it even more now that we found some new kaki's although I still don't like the girl who stays opposite me. She doesn't seem to know how to close her door. All she knows is to open it, enter and leave it to slam shut LOUDLY. The other day I nearly wanted to tie her to the door frame and have the door slam on her when she slams the door not once nor twice but 4 times in a row which of two I jumped out of my skin and nearly fell off the chair.
- I love Yee Lian's cookies!!! She has been feeding us with her wholesome freshly baked cookies ranging from cornflakes to chocolate, crushed Oreos and coconut. Ahhh~~
- Now that I have found out that there will be friends hanging around during the Raya break, I am looking forward to work next week as I am my own boss in the satellite pharmacy. Hehe. But of course, if there is any problems or queries or any warfarin counselling, then I am on my own and am screwed.
- I am still waiting for a helicopter to land (if ever) on the helipad in front of my block. They should build a food court there instead or maybe even a shopping mall.
- I am forcing myself to watch Buletin Utama so that I would know that the thick heavy thing that blankets the sky which I awoke to and thought was mist is actually haze. Because of the fact that I am too kiamsiap to buy newspaper and I do not have the Net over there makes me a really ignorant inhabitant of Mother Earth
- I lost weight thanks to the dinner concoctions or maybe.. it's the frequent aimless wandering around the hospital..
- There is less or no distractions there. So generally, even if you are filthy and stinking rich, there is no place for you to spend your money. You hardly spend no more than RM50 a week there. Neat!
- The best part is that thanks to the lab coat, you don't have to iron your clothes beneath (OOoooppss.. that's not me! I noticed some people lah). As long as you keep the white coat curry-stain free, no one cares what you are wearing beneath.
- The whole place is air-conditined so there will be no sauna therapy.. even in 3rd class wards. Phew!
- Staffs have 'secret' entrance to the wards.. hehe.. I kinda like those passageways.
- The people there are generally nice. Most of them.
- I get to wake up at 7.30 am and still get to punch in 5 minutes before 8am
- I get to fan my clothes dry the whole night.. literally.. with the fan
- My BM is improving tremendously (even Z said my BM is fluent already! haha)
- I am still trying to learn Mandarine. Felt real stupid when a Chinese patient speaks to you in Mandarine and all I could do was to ask them to wait while I fetch someone who can or resort to speaking a rojak of Chinese dialects which consist of Canto, Mandarine, Hakka and Hokkien.. all tah-pau into a sentence.
- Realised that Joshua 1:5 is surer than before. I might have said this before but time and time again it appears so clearly in front of me, as if to serve as a reminder everytime I felt hopeless and lost, that wherever He leads you, He will have it all planned out for you and He will answer prayers in His time and according to His will.
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Happy Deepavali and Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all~~
posted by Charis at 11:48:00 pm
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Sunday, October 08, 2006
My one month rotation at TDM has ended *sob*sob*
I really like it there. The workload is simply wonderful. I am so free to wander around the hospitals and wards and I could actually sit there and yak with the nurses, doctors, patients, and even the admin clerk. Whoever that will layan me. That is how free I was. And it feels nice whenever you suggest a dose change due to toxicity or under therapeutic range, it is heeded.
Am now in satellite pharmacy. We do screening, filling, bedside dispensing and discharge counselling. Workload here is fine too. At least time passes faster here and it's not freezing cold.
This incident happened 2 days ago. I was doing discharge couselling and dispensing to one of the surgical wards. Found the patient, and dutifully explained the drugs
Me: Selamat pagi
Her: Selamat pagi
Me: Saya bagi ubat. Yang warna kuning dan merah ini, antibiotic. Mesti makan sampai habis untuk bunuh semua kuman. Jangan dah baik tak makan tau.
Her: she nods
Me: (continuing) Ini warna coklat, ubat untuk tahan sakit. Makan bila sakit lah. Tak payah habiskan dan makan selepas makan untuk elak rasa pedih kat perut.
Her: she nods
Me: so, puan faham tak?
Her: She nods again
Me: Baik. (in order to fill up the counselling form, I have to ask her a few questions)
Me: Boleh tanya sikit soalan? Apa kerja puan?
Her: Staff nurse
Crap!
So embarrasssing...
There I was telling her how to take it and all those nonsense and she's a staff nurse!! She would had fed hundreds of patients with those and probably knows it better than me. Aiya.. so so malu le..
And I never learn from my mistake..
Moved to the next patient getting discharged and dispensed the same antibiotics and painkillers and explain all those layman instructions and found out she's also a staff nurse... working in that particular ward also!
Oh mann...
Two in a row!
I should really ask them first thing what is their occupation the next time I do discharge counselling.. in case they are some specialist or pharmacist being warded.
So darn embarrassing.
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There was this particular patient that I met who knows the name of his drugs at the back of his head.. he knows the generic name, mind you. The fact that he is on a dozen of drugs and he can remember it impressed me so much that I stood there and talked to him for more than half an hour. A patient who realised the importance of knowing what he is taking is like God-sent. They make things so much easier for those treating him and those who have to talk to them about their drugs. Hehe.
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I am transported back to being a student.
Not that I don't like being one. I like it a lot in fact.
Back then, being a true student, you just simply sit in lectures or in bad hair days, you just skip them, get to go home before the roads are jammed up, mistakes are permissible and are no big deal.. worse that could happen is that you fail that subject.
But now, being a student here is different.
It doesn't have all that was mentioned above.
What remained the same for those hey -days are presentations, case clerking, presentations again and attending presentations by others. We also have to do a full fledge research which I have no idea how to. I learnt statistics back in first year! I am gone.
Anyway, the new combo is the addition of this big thing called responsibility or rather accountability.
Whatever you do or recommend, if it kills... you'll be killed too.
Now... it sucks being a student.
The only consolation to it is that I am a paid student this time.
posted by Charis at 12:50:00 am
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
I can't believe this. They actually declared 22nd a public holiday!! No, you are getting me wrong. I am NOT happy about that. ARRGGGHHH!
Unfortunately, though I see it coming from the day I learnt about the whole on-call system, I knew I will be the
Their initial plan was that they remain here for the weekends and only drive down to KL on Monday evening. No point going home during the weekends and then again on Monday. So at least I'll have them around for the weekends. Since now they decided to be generous and grant the country another day off, Pahang folks will be enjoying a (almost) whole week off while pity pity me because for the love of the country and mankind, I am stuck in stupidland. I feel so sorry for myself. I know, self pity is pathetic but what could be more pathetic being stuck here?
I must admit I felt jealous. The week is going to be so…void! I need to take leave... soon... to compensate! So the not fair! And I don't even get extra allowances or OT for working at that time #^*&^#@#@!
posted by Charis at 10:05:00 pm
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