mercoledì, marzo 30, 2005
:: allergic contact dermatitis wenky? ::today i spent 8 hours behind the surgical mask, not that i'm home, it still feels like i'm wearing a mask. it's the feeling you get when you have been swimming or soaking at the beach for 3hours and when you're on yr bed, you can close your eyes and imagine u're still floating...
suddenly a thought struck me, what if wenky's also allergic to surgical masks? imagine the red circle around his nose and mouth areas? euwwww...
lolz, looks like sanzhu after she plays her tuba! hahaha.... only the circle is ard the mouth only! ;b
PS: JSJS told me yday that he thought 'wanky' was 'hs'... no wonder there were some misunderstandings recently!
:: the big bash ::
first, my high spirits took a bashing when the nurses told me my tutor was OFF duty. apparently, he and this other doc switched duties. hmmm... but the other doc, who's superior in terms of looks and probably humour, agreed that i could be his 'shadow' today. anyway, next up is a bashing in the areas of the orthopaedics, medicine and surgery!!! i've totally forgotten aspects of the history, physical examination, and those characteristics of such diseases as pseudogout, cluster headache, tension headache, and what nots. just got grilled and grilled CONTINUOUSLY from 8am to 1pm. where both of us were quite exhausted, me from brain strain and him from brain strain trying to get me to answer his questions... finally, i was so concussed i cannot find the needle i wanted when it was lying right in front of me... took some blood, thank goodness it was successful, at least i'm not as useless. sigh. he just dumped me to set plug and omg, i ALMOST succeeded! but when i was pulling out the needle and pushing in that plastic, the darned thing for STUCK and everything came up, followed by generous bloops of blood all over the place. thankfully the patient was nice enough, in fact, he was more concerned about dirtying the floor than the bloody state of his hand. sigh. thereafter i decided not to risk damaging the other vein on his hand, and got dr to do it instead.
i think it'll be cool when i finally become one, (though right at this moment, the prospect seems to be only possible in my dreams)... cuz the sounds of dr **** still ring in my ears... (the doc's name is similar... i'm gonna be soooo jealous of his tutorial grp!) today the other docs on duty were the one with a blog and she is really easy-going, friendly, and funny! :) and lively... i'm also gonna be soooo jealous of her tutorial grp! the master of antidotes also a very humourous person, heh heh, a bit evil too. ooooh...
some cases i saw today: (mostly P2, only one P1) WHAT A DISAPPOINT! (gd for pts not gd for me)
- unstable angina (tt's the P1 case, put her in resus rm, cardiac monitoring, pulse oximetry, ckmb, tropT... ECG.. doc took a look at the ECG, then called cardiologist, then nothing liao...
- woman with a junctional tachycardia and supposed thyrotoxicosis... but appeared with normal ecg today... under obs then d/c.
- quite severely anaemic man, now warded, i'm supposed to do a write up on him, got ESM at LSE (I MISSED! aaaaaaaRRRRGGGGGHHH!) *bang my head on the wall*
- old lady with a closed # of great trochanter of femur, warded too, maybe i'll write up on her (her # was relatively ez to spot BUT i couldn't spot the trabeculae displacments and mal-alignment, and that was impt, cuz that is the evidence of #... if it's occult #, go do MRI)
- lady with atrial flutter with transient block also warded, must go chk her cardiac enzymes tomorrow
- guy with bad bad headache, that's when i got quizzed about the 5 dx for headache, at the end of which, i was suffering from a low-grade tension headache too!
- guy with sudden swelling of wrist and elbow joint, and that's where the most severe bashing of the day took. bbbs... apparently, my ortho knowledge is damn lacking. sigh. i feel so stupid!
- a guy with 'down and out' left pupil - CN III palsy
- now this one's corny, this ENT personnel, apparently too bz of sth, decided not to see a pt with blocked ear (cannot hear well) cuz of earwax! lolz... it's pretty funny to see a doc irrigating someone's ear in the A&E area for P2 pts. LOLZ... and have the pt walk out in the pink of health. nb: usually they dun irrigate like that, cuz if it's an impacted earwax, can cuz bleeding (quote ojj), they use this (i cannot rem what) to soften the ear wax, takes abt 2 wks.
- saw x ray of chronic diaphrammatic hernia (bewtiful) + apical patchy opacities (could be TB)
- saw a lot of ECGS... bah, real life ECGS are like so ugly... saw SVT, VT, AFl, and peaked T waves... impt manz... peaked T wave seen in RENAL patients who default on dialysis... why? coz HYPERKALAEMIA! this is v v impt, cuz if u miss, the pt can go into all other kinds of cardiac disarhythmias and then it'll be hard to get him out of it, and even if u did, if u don't treat the underlying cause, u're probably gonna lose the guy!
oooh, the interesting one...
a man came in, cannot close his mouth, cannot bare his teeth, complains of weakness in lower limbs, slurred speech. one hosp's A&E had diagnosed him as having had a 'mild stroke' (sounded like 'mal sook' when the man tried to tell us)
the master of antidotes decided it was actually a TMJ dislocation, and ya, i got to feel the gap there too. and later learnt to read the xray. unfortunately, i missed the reduction! he had to do it when i was away at lunch lor... wasted. (Ps tt goes to say, the reduction was done under 20min!)
i'm so tired, i collapsed into the taxi and woke up close to home.
the docs and nurses mostly agree that the doc with the big nose is a bit kiasu, go cast my leg for a sprain... i think splinting would be enuff... or at least a half cast... the docs offered to saw it for me if i wanted to. heh i shall think abt it. :) i want to have a hand in sawing too!
martedì, marzo 29, 2005
:: results ::best lor, i did better for pharmaco thea cofm! ha... i lack empathy eh.
too tired to blog... but got stuff to blog though... maybe tomorrow...
peeps, have fun doing BCLS!
:: episode 7 - the near miss ::
Balancing precariously on a stool that slips upon the wet bathroom floor, cast leg wrapped in towel, plastic and elastic band and propped up onto the toilet cistern (ie. higher than the level of the stool), dopey attempted to hold on to the shower head AND adjust the heater at the same time... so as not to become a charbroiled lobster... when the stool skidded and her toe bumped into the ledge. OUCH! it so happens that dopey has abnormally long middle toes. As a result the middle left toe suffered the brunt of the attack! ouch! hehe but no fracture la... lolz... sorry to disappoint u guys!
hey hope no one gets rib fracture from CPR or bruised visercal from heimlich tmr! oooooh! too bad won't be seeing the rest of my ex-cg! always fun to hang around with u pple!
domenica, marzo 27, 2005
:: episode 6 - dopey the 'se4 gui3' (that never was) AKA episode 6 - the one where dopey cries 'yuan1 wang4'!!! ::The second most common response from people when they see my leg in a cast is 'oh looking at shuai4ge1 huh?' (the first being 'you fell?') WAAAAAA... ... dopey being accused of ogling?!?!?! @@ <- this is how big my eyes are! in neurogenic shock manz! has dopey ever ogled at guys? NTU got shuai4ge1 meh? hahaha... funny lah.
it gets a bit boring though when pple keep cracking the same joke. *YAWNZ*
maybe i should reply: 'nah, nowadays no shuai4ge1, i'm looking at the gals instead, more eye candy'... :P
abt 15 more days to go... my ankle still feels wobbly and i can't stand on the right ankle. i hope i dun have to wear a splint... tried kneeling today, it was AWFUL... scrapped my other knee and twisted the casted one, i guess i have to give the BCLS a miss, maybe i could join the last team of emed pple?
heh, on the last day of radiology posting, this is what the doc drew us... Dunno if it's entirely true, i'm almost certain part of it's modified/'honeyed' to attract us bees to it. hia hia hia... though i do agree with the plots of the surgeon and the physician.
radiology - any takers?
sabato, marzo 26, 2005
:: all you wanna know about the laugh ::HAHAHAHAHA = hearty laughter (when something's really funny)
haha = usually a mere filler, pls do not use indiscriminately. for eg. if someone's telling you about her unfortunate sprain that required her leg to be casted, do not use 'haha' intermittently because she'll give you a virtual kick to your balls (if you're a guy) or a nasty brazilian wax (if you're a gal).
ROFL = rolling on floor laughing, sounds very dog-like.
LMAO = laughing my ass off
ROFL + LMAO = ROFLMAO (if you can't figure this out, you're not fit to laugh)
hia hia hia = evil laughter; if high-pitched: evil cackles
tee hee = trying to be cute, aka vinny the little vampire
heh heh heh/hei hei hei = evil-funny laughter / 'hei' seems to be the prefered way of spelling of the mainland Chinese.
hur hur = usually contains a tinge of sarcasm / Eugene's laughter?
aha! = this is an exclamation not unlike *eureka, but the discovery is not as significant as Archimedes'.
ha. ha. ha. = sarcastic laughter, or laughter used for something that is not funny at all.
hah! = scoffing laughter
hee hee hee = gleeful laughter
lol = laughing out loud
lolz = i still dunno why pple add a 'z' at the end
lolx = this is usually a typo error, it's supposed to be 'z', for meaning, refer above to for meaning.
hohoho = copyrighted to Santa Claus
hiihii = an alternative for heehee
buahahaha = evil laughter/gloating laughter
muahahaha = evil laughter / ahleong's laughter
hic hic hic = drunk laughing
huuu huu huuu = liang po po laughing
ha haa haaa haaaa aaaaa ha haa haaa haaaa = wenky's laughter?
hehheeheehehehehhehehhheehehehehe = laughter of one with ventricular fibrillation (provided he/she can still laugh)
hahahaahahahahaahaahahahahaa = the one with the Mobitz Type II phenomenon
hhahhahhahhahhahhahha = the one with the 2:1 heartblock
finally, one of the most controversial of laughs:
heh
1. sth like an 'afterlaugh' like an 'afterword', ie. after one types/writes out what sth, he/she finds it funny (to him/herself) and adds in a 'heh'.
2. lazy people who don't bother to add in an 'e' after the 'heh'.
3. conveys the idea that one is self-satisfied with one's remark (finding it funny to him/herself)
initially i thought it might carry some notion of sarcasm, but i change my stand, i think it doesn't after all.
*Eureka: 1. (cap.) I have found (it): the reputed exclamation of Archimedes when, after long study, he discovered a method of detecting the amount of alloy mixed with the gold in the crown of the king of Syracuse.
2. (used as an exclamation of triumph at a discovery.)
3. a copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient
:: final MBBS from the POV of someone-who's-probably-a-reg ::
Att all soon-to-be HOs out there, especially those who were examined at CGH for surgery pls go read after math.
Then all those who have the MBBS looming ahead in a year or two, you could do well to read after math and the final countdown!!!
Stay cheerful! E med ahead!
i dunno y i'm just very excited about E med, the only thing that's preventing me from bouncing up and down in excitement is the heavy cast and wobbly ankle. heh.
venerdì, marzo 25, 2005
:: 18 more days - today i shall be evilllll ::yday i found out about a fellow cg mate's mr right ;) ooooh... I shall refer to her as 'Eowyn'. (sth just struck me about the way eowyn is spelt...) so being a loyal cg mate cum good friend of the potential mr right, i muz let him know that my dear cg mate's idea of a mr right, is a horseback riding, swash-buckling, hero - FARAMIR... of Gondor.. aka the less favoured son of the Steward of Gondor.
To put things more directly, you got to be 'one whom no Rider of the Mark would outmatch in battle', you have to learn by hard all the volumes written by Tolkien and then got to take up horse-riding, leave your hair to grow like Ivan's plus curl it, and dye it a nice hue of blond.
Unfortunately, i heard from your good friend that you've somehow gained a new nick that is affiliated to Legolas? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!! Eowyn doesn't like fair, long straight-haired elves... sharp ears some more! Must trade your curare-tipped arrows for a sword asap k!
thank goodness it's a long weekend, i expect all the wrath on poor hobbling dopey to be over by Monday, eh...
PS to leong ge: Wei you want to sign on my cast? a bit hard lah, how about we make you BK no. 3? then u can design your cast keke... (*kidding) see u evil pple on monday!
giovedì, marzo 24, 2005
:: when the going gets tough, the tough gets laffing ::
my footprints!
Let's see how many smartypants can guess what these prints mean. heh.
in view of my recent mishap, i've decided to make the 19 more days of itchiness, heat and having to walk, sleep and BATHE in awkward positions better by simply being funny or evil. preferably the second.
episode 1: dopey's hobbles at NUH 'D' Clinic:
Eunice (the motherly receptionist): oh dear, what happened to your leg? still injured? not ok yet? aiyooooo then u still have to do the ECG and the urine tests... how? got such a long journey to hobble.
Me: (@$^&%@^#%$@#$^#@$%) Aiya what to do...
Eunice: U want a wheelchair?
Me: hmmm better not, the clinic is so crowded, very hard to navigate, later crash...
Prune face: come let me take your weight...
Me: [sticks out leg with cast] very heavy leh... better not...
Prune face: oh.
Nurse at ECG station: [fumbles with my pants, feeling up the cast...]
Me: it's a below knee cast... i think the leads got to go like at my knee? can or not?
Nurse: hmmm ok... tries to pull up my pants-leg
Me: @@ STUCK!
episode 2: dopey's run-in with the prof (ps: prof T is looking younger and younger by the day, i've got to ask her for the anti-aging formula soon! who wants as well?)
Prof T: what happened to you?
Me: mumbles about evil step at NTU where lots of other pple have suffered at
Prof T: You should go complain!
Nurse: prof... how come u keep enocouraging pple to complain...
Prof T: nothing to do la...
Me: *blink blink* what's the world becoming?
episode 3: dopey's spontaneous tutorial with mr taxi man.
taximan: oh u sprained your leg huh...
me: ya lor, one small step, din see, then kena liao.
taximan: aiyo, muz be careful mah, so young sprain liao, must take care or else lao liao very pain leh.
me: ya lor... that's y doctor said cast lor...
taximan: gal ah, i teach u a way, last time when i was young right, i always kena sprain la and all that... at night hor, after yr this thing take out liao, you should do this exercise... you turn your feet ten time to the left, ten time to the right then up n down ten time and then u slowly increase to 20 time... sure will work one... very strong next time...
me: ya ya... (sounds like physiotherapy)... ya lor, better try. thanks uncle...
taximan: you try la, sure can la, last time i fell from top of lorry and kena sprain also work for me, u muz take care, dun walk too fast, dun run... pain then use wheelchair k...
me: oh i see...
episode 4: dopey finds new members of her club... aka the Bai Kar Society (BKS)
the BKS is a club for people of all ages, all races, nationalities and sexual orientations... (sorry, the last wasn't very necessary.. anyway)
The first member is a banglaboy who got a fracture at the construction site.
The second member is an Indian lady who's got a toe fracture.
Lady: Hi, you got a fracture?
Me: No, it's just a bad sprain, but quite bad so must cast up. How about you?
Lady: I got a toe fracture.
Me and Lady: how come mine/yrs is a sprain and needs cast and yrs/mine is a fracture and there's no cast? Not even a bandage...
episode 5: dopey at the angiography dpt (TTSH)
Me: How, the cast is too big! Can't fit into any of the clogs/slippers there!
Reema: Here, try this.
Me: Oof*... cannot... too small...
Wenky/Reema: hmmm... let's ask them...
Me: Hey maybe i can put the shoe cover over my cast shoe?
Reema: Great idea!
Me: Oops, cast shoe is too big!
Nice OT nurse: aiyo what you all doing? like a circus like that... Too small? ok i'll go get you the shower cap.
Us: Ok... thanks...
Me: Oh, that's really nice and BIG and it's PINK (and fluffy!)
Finally, I hobble into the prep room to get ready for the procedure... :) thanks pals, W & R.
Wenky's getting very evil, dunno what happened, he wanted to like shove me off the escalator or something, or i think he was thinking of placing me in the wheelchair and shoving me somewhere or something... SO EVIL! but i'm not to be outdone, i could shove the crutch up *somewhere* *evil cackles*
To Be Continued...
martedì, marzo 22, 2005
:: 20 more days to go ::argh, i'm trying to keep myself as CHEERFUL as possible, afterall, when BK was confined to crutches and ranger-sth (sorry, i forgot AGAIN!) he was still very resilient... so me, as the Bai Kar No2 must keep up this tradition! hmmm... i wonder who's no. 3? *cackles* radiology is actually QUITE interesting, i never would have thought so... hmm... but i still can't believe it's been listed as the 2nd most suitable speciality for me.
hmmm using the crutch is a tough business, the cast is heavy and the crutch is even heavier. then the inferior shoulder gets all bruised and my poor axillary nerves and dunno which part of my brachial plexus gets compressed... causing all kinds of aches and weakness. currently, my deltoid is kind of affected. bbbs. interesting part, my left abdominal muscles are aching too! it's as if i did sit ups on only half the body. lolz...
just 20 more days, lalala... i can do it!
lunedì, marzo 21, 2005
:: casted ::Went for a review today, i was so looking forward to just having to wear my ankle guard for the next two weeks or so... till... dr X(um... i had to ask him for his name coz i only rem his big nose) dr X went into machine gun mode and shot out something like CFL, A..., A... dunno what... SO FAST la... anyway, there's at least 3 ligaments probably torn, and since the bruise and pain was spreading up the anterior aspect of my ankle, he thought a cast would be best. =(
i got casted! woohooo it was an interesting experience, so now i have on fibreglass cast and have to keep it on for the next three weeks. sigh. there goes my social life (if i had one before i got injured that is...) bbbs!
immobilised! who would have thought so?!
domenica, marzo 20, 2005
:: fed up! ::i'm so FED UP staying at home... can't stand it, irritated, tempers flaring, blood pressure arising, sarcasism level mounting, friction increasing... and shooting out at all my net pals... :/
i've probably become the most undesirable netizen. :(
just now i was shockingly, unexpectedly rude to a well-meaning neighbour. oh, i feel rather bad now, but all the same i'm still pissed at people telling me what to do all the time, especially people who don't know what's going on. i know i should be tolerant, or else, how can i work properly in the future? but somehow, today i just erupted and probably shocked the living daylights out of her-who-have-never-seen-me-but-in-the-sweetest-of-moods.
what to do?
secretly, deep in my wicked black hard, i rejoice at the freedom of expression i just had - the freedom from being suppressed. don't you find it hard to just always be nice, cool, polite and haiz... i just want to break out... but i know, i'll probably regret this in the long-run. sigh.
:: i'm a low-ranking nerd! ::
38% scored higher (more nerdy than me), and
62% scored lower (less nerdy than me).
My nerdiness is:
Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but low on the totem pole of nerds.
sabato, marzo 19, 2005
"Erm, folks, apparently our project received the 2nd lowest grade of all the groups. Those groups doing smoking and osteoporosis and breast and cervical cancer screening are helping out with talks and seminars and such with HPB... which apparently, helps to push up grades or something. The grade did not have anything to do with the trend of using prevalence rate ratios versus our (read: BOM's) insistence on using odds ratios; it has to do with relevance to the community... which explains the smoking one..."Now this is an excerpt from EW's blog. i almost wished i hadn't read it... my heart is all crushed and i'm really pissed with the PEOPLE UP THERE. In my interpretation, it seems like we just scored low grades because we didn't choose a topic that in their view, was relevant to the community.
The precise reason why we're actually doing this project is to raise awareness of a problem (chronic pain) tt is PREVALENT and VITAL to the community? Isn't 31.4% prevalence of chronic pain actually relevant enough to the community? Or are we just supposed to choose a topic from ah hem, some kind of pre-approved list made by the 'people up there'? If that's the case, why not just give us the topic then... if those people up there cannot open their minds to the fact that chronic pain IS a problem in our community, and the implications it has on medical care, patients' needs and singapore's economy, then how are we ever going to be able to acknowledge new problems in our community?
It's as if with all the info in front of them, laid out nicely, 'those people up there' apparently aren't taking notice of it... prefering to adhere to the fixed opinion in their minds that chronic pain is but a triviality in society... i'm sure we all remember this nice cofm teacher who admitted to us that she thought the prevalence of chronic pain in the community was a mere 3% or 1% or perhaps even less.
Seems like their minds are kind of closed... ah well, shan't bother too much about them, at least i felt we did a good job, though it may be nowhere near international standards... if only our article could get into an established journal that is not the one starting with S... and doesn't have to be the big 'p', it would show them all... garrrr!
:: what is love? ::
check this out!
:: a new record ::
today, i played shapeshifter again, incidentally, lulu also got addicted... heh but i think she's stuck at the auspicious level 8. mmm... i played and played until suddenly, the game just slowed down to a crawl... (yet the timer didn't slow down at all)... it was all just a plan to get me to fail... GARRRR!!! quite irritated, i'd rather just die (an honourable death) in the game than be stabbed in the back like this. see my level... i saved it just before the timer went out... tadaaaa...
giovedì, marzo 17, 2005
:: when the bored get going, the going gets boring... ::i was so bored i spent dunno how many hours on this stupid game called 'shapeshifter' on msn. and look tadaaaaa:
:: A maths ::
i have been teaching my cousin A maths... after not having spoken to her for my whole life! (seriously, my mum's family is so huge that i haven't seen some of my cousins before... incidentally, i met my second aunt's younger son who is utterly *hot* but that is another matter for discussion another time, like next CNY would be good)... FOR FREE... charity mah... aiya the bad thing about tutoring your relatvie is you don't get paid. *sobs* hmmm at least it's emotionally rewarding teaching her? i think the rate she absorbs is not bad, quite serious and when she doesn't understand something, she'll always clarify! serious, studious, anxious to improve herself. very good attitude! i really hope i can help her into pulling up her grades for A maths. think i'll be contributing some input into the bio sector soon too...
:: the great vein escapade ::
just yesterday, i was at NUH to get my blood sucked out by the technician from the dental fac who was in charge of geting enuff blood for a renal panel, a lipid panel, crp and c-peptide... he wasn't sure if 3 or 4 tubes of blood were required so he sent this other person to go check. that lady took such a long time that before she was back, he had already taken 3 tubes of blood... as we settled back to wait (imagine, settled back to wait!) the tourniquet was released and the needle was still LEFT IN MY VEIN! ok... tick tick tick... 3 min... technician starts gossiping with nurses... [laughter... and needle in my vein moves every so slightly to the left and right and in and out]... ok... and then... another nurse went to check.. ok need one more tube of blood.. [poor moi!] so.. they had to put the tourniquet back so it would flow. but ms butter-fingers, poor gal, she's really quite nice, just couldn't buckle the tourniquet properly... wa by then... got 7 hands (2 trying to fasten the buckle, 2 trying to do manual compression, 2 flustering around providing evidence that 'too many cook spoil the broth' and 1 of the technician trying to help). oh manz... finally i said: USE THE GLOVE! (in a rather strangled sort of way) meanwhile my dad was steadily turning an awful shade of green behind... he had to leave the clinic i think. lolz. sigh. finally buckled! and blood taken out. AND THOSE PPLE STILL DARE TO LAFF! maybe they thought it was very funny.. they're so lucky i was in a relatively zoned-out state cuz i hadn't had breakfast yet. goodness!
martedì, marzo 15, 2005
:: episode 2 ::decided to go to NUH cuz the pain just wasn't getting any better. i was really puzzled at the NUH entrance coz there wasn't any wheelchair left for me. i think there's some kind of high demand or i dunno what. anyway, i wasn't too offed until... NO ONE PAID ANY ATTENTION TO ME OR MY DAD... those dunnowats, um.. porters? at the taxi stand there are supposed to help find wheelchair or something right? so my dad was like where can i get one? they just said, oh no more already and just proceeded to go off to dunno where... so bz meh? then finally my dad got a wheelchair but it was kinda stuck, cannot open... then i was looking around for those 'porters' (there were around 3 of them walking around), and then they just like faked didn't see me or what? and my dad actually asked one of them and that guy just ignored him?! WT**** i was really pissed and then i hollered at the guy who was ignoring my father and made him come over! mph. turned out it was spoilt, and then this guy at least had the conscience to say that my dad could go to A&E to get another one.
*boiling with fury*
A&E... hmmm very pleasant place, nicer than SGH coz it's fully air-conditioned... the nurse at the triage was SO NICE! :) made me feel much better... the wait wasn't too long, or maybe it was ok cuz i was devouring 'dracula' very voraciously! such a wonderful book, will blog about it soon. the doc at A&E was very nice too! :) then later on went for xray, even the nurse at xray was very nice! and then this lady came over to ask me to participate in a telephone survey about the A&E services, so i just agreed, anyway, she was nice mah... finally the nurses who bandaged up my ankle were also very nice... and didn't cause any additional pain. verdict: no #, just a really bad sprain (evidenced by the huge swelingSSS), next monday i'll be back to visit our 'friends' at the ortho clinic, mmmm maybe i'll get to see prof das de... or maybe the sports guy. then i think i'll be down for physio.
*back to taxi stand*
after throwing numerous dirty looks at the porters, i got into my cab and went home...
so tiring... zzz...
and... worse, tomorrow i still have to go back to NUH for my annual review blood tests.
lunedì, marzo 14, 2005
:: oscar award for two roles played by one person ::medical student: MS
pt: patient
MS (me): hi, what happened to you?
pt (also me): i sprained my ankle... missed a step.
MS: oh. how unfortunate... must have hurt! may i take a look?
pt: sure, here...
OSCES!
MS: waaaa... are you able to walk? (there is a 5-cm diameter swelling over the lateral malleolus, and a smaller swelling over the medial malleolus. there is no skin discolouration or open wound).
pt: not really
MS: hmmmm, can u wriggle your toes? can feel my fingers?
pt: *wriggles painfully*
MS: (oh, no neurological deficit), i'm going to feel your ankle a bit... it might be a bit uncomfortable...
pt: okay (with doubt in eyes)... ouch... ooh.... ooof...
MS: ok, sharp pain at the medial malleolus, diffuse pain over the lateral malleolus, distal shin.
pt: i also feel a lot of pain even when i don't move my foot.
MS/pt: oh manz... just very painful la!
to be continued...
dunno need x-ray or not... haiz
domenica, marzo 13, 2005
:: insomnia! ::in the wee hours of 4am, i was tossing and turning in my bed, okay that sounded vaguely elegant, i was getting tangled up with the sheets and just couldn't fall asleep. (NB. why is it 'fall' asleep? and not 'lie' asleep or something else?) there was just this feeling that something i had done wasn't right. so i was thinking.... did i switch off the lights? check. switch off the modem? check. brush my teeth? (just kidding) and then i realised...
shing.
no i wasn't thinking about shing... (what would i be if i were thinking of her at 4am?!?!) i thought of something she said to me a couple of weeks ago...
i think i had a special connection with a friend... we'd known each other for almost 3.5 years now and for the first two years at least, there was a special friendship between us? i think. or rather the friendship was a special one; it was very formative. kind of opened my eyes to the world out there and taught me to set my sights 'far and wide' and just don't be limited geographically. we got along rather famously... i define 'rather famously' as anyone who can b*tch along the same lines of thought as myself. we hung out quite a lot...
fast forward to present... i decided to try to recall every single scrap of fact about this friend and our friendship, and i realised, i could probably name more stuff about it as compared to other people who've had a 3.5-year friendship with me. implication? it was either special or i had a crush...
anyway, things went a bit wonky once i started to 'go steady' with nico... and that friend kind of kept away... ok... it was me. i think i kind of kept away fr that friend, and attempted to make things more um... platonic? ok... i neglected my friend!!! i'm so sorry about that!
before i fell asleep, this kind of came into my head...
empezamos como almas gemelas, un cristal perfecto. pero no abracé lo que teníamos en mi pecho y ahora, se me queda nada sólo los pedazos de un corazón descuidado. y no hay nada que pueda arreglarlo...
and in the words of one of my favourite songs...
Ay si regresarás a mi, encendería el sol mil primarveras. Si regresarás por mi sería un milagro cada beso que me dieras, pero hoy te vas y no hay vuelta atrás...
sabato, marzo 12, 2005
:: diarrhoea ::see now i'm suffering from blog diarrhoea... and also real-life diarrhoea. i've been getting stomach upset every morning and at least a few times daily for 2 days :( and my stomach feels so ooky! i keep thinking of H. pylori happily infesting my gastric mucosa...
anyway just an incident worth mentioning:
yesterday, a non-uniformed man approached my flat... and my mother answered the door. he claimed himself as having been sent by HDB to inspect the door for safety, and requested that my mother open the door for him to conduct the check. he also claimed that HDB has specified that all homes have to have their doors checked (like the time we all had to have our window grills checked). luckily my mum 'got brains' k...
first she asked for identification,
he didn't have it... he just produced one of those flyers that showed how doors could be unsafe and so on.
then she asked why wasn't he carrying any tools with him?
he said they weren't needed... and insisted my mother open the door to let him in.
then my mother said, ok, i'll have to call up HDB to verify this.
he immediately said, ok that's alright, i'll come back again some other time.
i've never met a liar as lousy as he was. no uniform, not even a fake id, no tools...
a chill goes down my spine when i think of how guilible people eg. maids and the elderly in my block might just open the door for the 'wolf'. either they get fleeced or they get robbed...
:: organisation ::
finally found a way to organise all my knick knacks. i especially like the way my earrings are arranged... convenient and tidy, all those dangly ones won't get entangled!
i NEED order in my life! Hmmm i used to thrive in chaos... maybe things are changing!
earrings!
look mengqi, i found a place to put this! it should be secure enough, hope the hook doesn't give way or it'll crash to the ground!
finally found a nice place to put this!
other stuff, finally cleared it all out...
knick knacks!!
and lastly!
extraz!
i feel very contented and satisfied now! :)
:: Will & Grace ::
Finally! i watched Will & Grace! Ok, i admit, i'm not as hooked on it as the guys... i suspect it's got something to do with the exalted theme of homosexuality in the sitcom. Not that i'm against homosexuality, just that i'm not as attracted to it? (as them?) Hmmmm ok... here're my fav characters, i like Jack, and yes, he's a homo. He's a homo with child-like tendencies and is just soooo adorable. Makes me feel less like a fool if there's someone like him acting like that. Karen is my other favourite character, she is so heck-care, so tactless, so selfish, so everything-not-good, she's just like Lucy (from 'Peanuts', only meaner)... haha... she totally expresses my inner desires when i meet pple i don't like. I like it that she's not bound by moral obligations and not being nice to people just for the sake of being nice. she's so EBIL EBIL!!!!! i think lulu would lurve her too!
Grace... hmmm, i think she's a control freak? she doesn't like to be seen as 'not-good', ok, she's like the opposite of Karen. Will... um... i really don't find his character very attractive. i think he's overshadowed by the other three... or perhaps i haven't seen the episodes where he shines.
KEEP THE EPISODES COMING IN GUYS! hehe thank you to u all for them!
venerdì, marzo 11, 2005
:: overtaxed ::i know i should be blogging but i think i need a hiatus cos i'm overtaxed, overexcited and heading towards a mental breakdown if i don't tell myself to slow down and just R.E.L.A.X.
please excuse my absence...
i can sense blog diarrhoea coming up, somewhere tomorrow or sunday!
martedì, marzo 08, 2005
:: to do list ::1. buy new running shoes or risk early onset of degenerative joint disease and multiple blisters
2. attend 'training', start interviews and transcribing
4. email some unis in mexico and spain, contact my teachers
5. do lit. review & questionnaire, translation
6. buy friends' birthday presents
7. build sandowls with lulu
8. watch W&G (provided those guys rem to bring them for me)
9. contact kok
10. write up notes for anti-psychotics, anti-convulsants, anti-fungal drugs
11. tutor cousin
13. design dispenser for my jewellery/cosmetics
14. dig out the 1380 pdf Spanish books gor gave me and start reading!!!
16. watch ‘hitch’, hopefully after coffy.
wah u say, she can still blog on the night right before cofm exams!
it's cos i
sabato, marzo 05, 2005
:: beat some sense out of my head! ::i need someone to ram some common sense into my head, but leave the cofm and pharmaco info intact, thank you.
yesterday, the spirit of i-hate-to-fail and 'el diablo' possessed me such that i woke up thinking: i want to take the DBE this may! (for those who dunno, i failed the DBE a year ago... by just a bit, so v bu4gan1xin1) the gods must be crazy... or rather, my brain's been overworked it's churning out weird suggestions at the most importune times! the sickening part was, my heart agreed with my brain. and then that set me back 2 hours for the much needed sleep while i beat my brain and heart into submission. i have far more important things to do, though they might not be what i really want to do. and then tt bugger 'gor' of mine attempted to tempt me into sitting for the exam by offering to pay for it... nice offer, thanks, but i really couldn't.
just to cheer up other pple, i shall let u all know that the oncologist has asked me and ew to do our lit. review and questionnaire by end of march, so that we can submit for review by the ethics committee and then start to carry out the study, eventually he wants to get it published in a journal. (i hope i dun sully his rep, if he has any...) that's like starting my elective 2mths ahead!
so, gloat while u all can!
on top of that, my aunt has asked me to tutor my cousin. SIANANANANA... ok i will take back this comment if she turns out to be the avid lover of math, or at least, shows interest and tries her best, or else, out she goes, and don't waste my time!
i'm also going to be working right after the exams, got 26 interviews to be done and then transcribing, this will probably take me all the way thru E-med posting as well.
see, with three major projects, how am i supposed to be studying for the DBE right?
actually i think i'm playing devil's advocate with myself. HOW HOW HOW HOW HOW?!?!??!
giovedì, marzo 03, 2005
:: lovely surprise ::wow! i got half of a belated birthday present in my mail today! it was such a cool surprise... and gave me a great boost of encouragement just as i was deciding to slack off my studies! thanks to cheryl, reema, jiensze, shing... and i dunno... i hope i din't miss out anyone else?
it was so cool! was something that i had been tempted to buy for myself for ages but didn't. WA... u guys really can 'read my mind'...
martedì, marzo 01, 2005
:: choking on a furball ::the sensation of choking on a furball is akin to that when you realised that you've covered quite a few topics that AREN'T EVENTUALLY GOING TO BE TESTED IN THE EXAMS!
raaaowww....
wey STAN... and u sai Anti-CA drugs was tested... but at least it'll be useful to me during onco posting ha! :P
pppffft!
why is the dean's office / whoever it is that's organising the examinations so disorganised??!
take out a few topics here, add one more here... and then add another one just 4 working days before the exam...
sounds like they're either setting the papers only now. or maybe they dun really know what's going on.
hrmph.
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