:: BïtS 'N' PiëCÉS ::

mercoledì, settembre 21, 2005

:: sleep duty ::

and so it goes:

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us: hi, dr xyz, actually we're the yr 4 students on night duty today, we were thinking we should report to you.
MO: oh (surprised), oh. (resigned... why u have to do night duty today? i want to watch my 'axis of truth' and 'chien lung dynasty' dramas...) i see....
both: (awkward pause)
MO: er, actually i'm trying to conserve my voice... (ha! she knew we were abt to bug for tutorials!) i can teach after oct 3... but right now... you guys finished your deliveries right? maybe you can study now more, since kk is more of practical work... and go to clinics and if you have any queries can ask us. i'm actually praying for a quiet night, so i hope you guys aren't praying otherwise!
us: ... (but she is actually very nice la...)

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when the 830pm ward round did not happen... (anyway, no sense conducting a ward round in a ghost town rite? only one deluxe rm occupied and the husband in that rm can take gd care of the wife anyway... heh)
ew: hi dr... (i'd like to call him the snicker-er) we're the yr 4 ... ... ... we should report to you.
him: oh, actually you all can do anything you want, i don't really care what you do.

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at this point of time, with nothing better to do, we decided to roam the hospital. actually it was starting to thunder and rain, and i really wanted to check out hidden places in the hospital or um... that supposedly haunted path to KRW? but EW prob thinks i'm odd, evil and wuliao. haha... took ourselves to the peaceful wards where we met a HO who was aghast at the fact that we intended to spend our night sleeping. hehe...

note to all: 7eleven is 24/7, not from 7am to 11pm. (unlike cheers @ AH: it's very important to stock up food at AH while on nite duty. there's NOOO food to be found anywhere...)

note to all: the dry rations in the delivery suite are kept under lock and key. do not think of raiding the fridge, they've only got weird stuff like bottles of sauce and peanut butter in there... if you're nice, at about 11+, 12 midnight, the midwives might offer you their own microwaved yam or sweet potatoes.

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IMPORTANT:
midwife said that the spot-checker will enter via the back door, ie. next to the beds you guys will be sleeping. if there's nothing happening in the ward, then u'll safe while you sleep... or else... hehehe... evidently they dun like him intruding into their ghost town too.

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ard 1150pm, mrs doc delivered!
ard 2+am, we were aroused by a woman screaming blue murder. her tortured screams did nothing to help her evict the source of her pain... after 2 agonising hours, she finally stopped screaming. (i suppose the babe came out)

note to future mothers: pls keep yr mouth SHUT and PUSH... or ur baby won't budge an inch!

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there was a lot of padding around the place we were sleeping. maybe it was EW trying to strap a CTG on me or something. pad pad pad... almost half the night, but well, i think if i want to sleep nobody and nothing can stop me lor.
from 4+ am to 6am, someone or something knocked pretty hard into my bed... causing it to really tremble... and vibrate, waking me up from a nice dream where i was in a mall (i'm so pathetically deprived of shopping i now dream about it), that was collapsing due to an earthquake! so exciting! oh EW, i forgot to tell u, u were in my dream too! but u poofed real quick when the quake came... abandoned me manz... :P

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at about 645am, two very awake, very refreshed, very CLEAN (we're proud to say we bathed TWICE each) students turned up for breakfast and QnA looking like very diligent students who'd spent the whole night delivering/clerking/monitoring patients... when actually all we did was sleep duty...

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