20120731
2.5 days! :) gearing up towards my epic weekend. shall attempt to get a mani done on fri afternoon before the drive haha.
i think the best thing for me to do would be to wear a maxi dress haha. to hide my hideous legs. D: but i don't haveee. and i don't have time to shop also, rawr.
weird day at work. we only had one patient on the med ward and one in rehab. but one of our chip patients came in to DEM today with SOB and i went to review her (because kate was in mcdu for the day). then after that i happily sat down in the doctor's room and submitted my pmcv applications one by one. don't know how many times i had to type in my referees' details heh. only haven't submitted the goulburn valley and northeast ones.
had half my lunch and then christian paged me. he was leaving early because he had to drive his family to brisbane to get his baby's passport done, so he asked me to follow dr mrs bambery's team to help (they were post take and the resident had today off). dr mrs bambery is so lovely haha, i wish i was on her team instead of mr bambery's! helped cameron, her new reg, with some jobs. did some jobs for p bambery.
bought groupon vouchers for charm and wanjie and i for opi gel mani pedi's. :) :) :) hope we manage to all go together!
cooked my pasta tonight, hmm. shall use thickness #3 from now on, #2 is too thin i think. btw it was completely vegetarian haha, i am so proud of myself! ;p hahaha. but i'm still hungry. ;p apple chips time. :)
it's nearly august, goodness. nearly 28 weeks down and 19 weeks to go. :) general registration and pr application whee.
10:15 pm
20120730
when things do wrong it'll be alright
cos someone greater is watching over me :)
3.5 days to go! but i can't think about the drive now, it doesn't faze me but it does leave me exhausted haha.
was a rather boring day at work. i think i literally sat in front of the computer from 2-5 not doing any work at all. we've gotten rid of most of our long list of patients (most of them went on CHIP and we're slowly discharging them) and only have 3 we need to see.
cryptococcal meningitis.
going to make pasta tonight with me new pasta machine. :D eggcite. i couldn't find the beet i bought last week though. :( had to go out again, but woolies didn't have any loose beets (i didn't want to buy a bunch) so i bought purple carrots instead. boiled them, and the water is really purple haha. i think there's no more purple left in the carrots. i hope it works!
i haven't baked in a while and am being bugged at work haha. adibah is spoiling the market. promised to bake for thursday. ;p think i'll just do brownies again.
i feel like a card. hmm.
registered with medic oncall. i still don't know how it works, and i'm not entirely sure what i want to do. but i'll wait for them to get back to me i guess. i've also decided to just do my vic applications anyway. rather half-heartedly, i must admit. i briefly read through the southern health position description just now and decided that i'd just submit them all without editing my cover letters. i supposed i should think about the sg applications too.
got this email from queensland health:
Good Afternoon Dr Lim
Your application for a RMO position with Nambour Hospital in 2013 has been received.
I am pleased to advise you are a preferred candidate for a Resident Medical Officer position with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service District in 2013.
Employment with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service District is dependent on maintaining appropriate Medical Board Registration and Criminal History Checks.
Medical Recruitment may contact you for further information.
At this time Medical Administration are processing all applications and contacting preferred applicants.
A letter of employment will be sent to you shortly. You will also receive a Rotation Nomination Form. Scheduling of rotations will not take place until after the RMO Campaign has formally closed in October.
it's nice to know that i am at least wanted somewhere. ;p thushara and james must have given me good references. :) thank you!
6:53 pm
20120729
zomg so tired. D: and am hungry also. but too lazy to even cook indomie. and don't feel like eating apple chips. hmm.
woke up involuntarily at about 8 and snoozed till 9.15. ended up going for brunch with only ren haha. shaina couldn't wake up. she brought me to the crosstown eating house. had smoked ocean trout with potato hash and asparagus, and she had the best french toast in the world. ;p it was really good haha.
walked around a bit and took photos. then went back to st lucia in case ed wanted to use the car. watched the last 2 episodes of masterchef season 4 haha. then the other 2 housemates returned and told me that my inside car light was on. D:
waited till the winner was announced even though we already knew who it was haha. then went to check on the car, the battery was still alive though. said our goodbyes and i went to the dfo haha. got my pasta machine and a pastry roller cutter thing. :)
drove back to bundy. wanted to go home first to get a couple of things but then i missed the turning haha. then i took the longest detour ever to get petrol. -.- sigh. and then they were doing road works. on a sunday night. i don't even.
managed to get back safely though. :) these long drives don't faze me anymore. ;p (i have been wanting to say that for a while but wasn't sure if
faze was an actual word)
need to get a move on and make the pasta soon. should be easier with the pasta machine, yeay. :) i wonder if i can find squid ink anywhere.
okay very tired goodnight.
11:11 pm
hello from st lucia! ;p ended up staying over at shaina's (ren's friend's) place instead of driving back to the sunshine coast.
left bundy at 5.45am this morning. drove to nambour and went to print stuff in the library haha. also collected my payslips from the doctor's lounge. it was weird being the only one in the library. strange to be without the usual hustle and bustle of a hospital.
drove home, sprayed what was left of the flea killer, grabbed my petrol receipts, and collected my mail. went to sam's warehouse to get a proper sized airtight container, and then to petbarn to buy some adult cat food and deworming tablets.
went for the wealthmed meeting where i found out that i can't do my tax returns until i get my Qsuper statement. the guy tried to convince me to invest in property, which sounds good, except that i don't even have enough money for a down payment haha. oh well, i think i should wait until i get my PR first anyway right?
drove to st lucia to pick ren up, then we went to fortitude valley for lunch at au cirque. eggs ben! i still think choupinette's hollandaise is unbeatable though. ;p walked to valley ink and... ;p haha. ren got her feather! and so nicely hidden too. ;p met shaina and her bf there and they invited me to stay over. :)
went back to st lucia after that, rested for a bit. felt really tired when i was doing nothing. the key is to not stop moving haha. followed them to their friend's place for a bbq. really good fish and chicken. and strongbow cider. :) one of the guys is a med student haha. went up to his place and got very tired again waiting for people to do things haha.
they finally decided to go to san churros, so we drove out. had san churros for the first time. ;p hahaha. loved the white choc dip. didn't like their hot choc though, it had a weird almond taste to it. i still like koko black the most. there's no koko black in qld apparently. they're missing out.
came home and showered and going to sleep soon. going for brunch at 10am tomorrow, supposedly, depending on what time everyone gets up. best french toast in brisbane? haha. and then the long drive back to bundy in the late afternoon/ evening. need to pump petrol again.
oh i could tell you the horror stories.
1:24 am
20120727
i just noticed (while lifting a bottle of gingerbeer to my lips) that i have an intention tremor. what?
the whole world is driving south eh. 4 of the regs are going to the royal to bulldog for the ?fracp, ange is going to sunshine coast to see her new grandson, and i am going to sunshine coast and then brisbane. :)
dreading the tax returns meeting because i think i will be missing stuff and not get to claim all i can. :\ rawr. and also i need to have my group certificate. what if i can't find it!
stocked up on more V for the many long drives in the coming weeks. yeay.
was a rather boring day at work. ward round, a few jobs here and there, lunch. one of the patients we were going to discharge had a weird possible side effect of the drug. rather gross, but there we were all laughing about it in the doctor's room. occupational hazard, we are all completely desensitized.
journal club today became and m&m meeting, which was pointless because the death wasn't controversial (he had hodgkins lymphoma) and he didn't die in bundaberg. and our boss wasn't even at the meeting. -.- and there was only one patient? zz.
one more week for kate! shall bake caramel filled brownies again for friday. :) or maybe a bit earlier, hmm. chip nurses gave her flowers today, aww.
ange to kate: i want to be fat like you! (meaning skinny)
kate to ange: look at fawn's legs! i've been looking at those skinny things for 5 weeks!
kate to me: stand up! show her your legs!
what.
need to get my mid term assessment done. :| think i better go and clerk another patient next mon haha.
shall attempt to start off by 6am tomorrow. means i should sleep early. but i need to wash a million dishes haha.
apparently achilles ones are painful. oh well. we shall see. ;p
8:20 pm
20120726
and all of a sudden
i am unaware of these
afflictions eclipsed by glory
and i realise just how
beautiful you are
and how great your
affections are for me
inspirations for #2. ;p
one more day to go! and it'll be the weekend again. so fast eh. half of gen med gone already. only 5 more weeks to go. :)
med students very lazy, cannot take it. i have to find all the charts, even kate has to sometimes go off hunting (if i'm writing the notes). if they go and see the patient while i'm still trying to find the chart, they don't even push the trolley table and just leave it in the middle of nowhere. faints.
rob spoiled the masterchef finale for us. :(
the stupid 25yo patient is back. he had staph aureus bacteraemia last year because of IV drug use, and had a tricuspid valve repair in may this year. he continues to inject crushed oxycodone IV despite all that, and now has candida albicans in his blood (what is it called when it isn't a bacteria?). he has a 3x3cm thing (we don't know if it's a vegetation or a thrombus) on his tricuspid valve, and cardiothoracics don't want to touch him again, which is fair. he was in last week but discharged himself against medical advice because he wanted to inject more oxycodone. cardio is arranging for him to have a picc and he is elated. what an easy way to inject, eh. don't need to look for veins anymore. this is the kind of patient who does not deserve the use of the public healthcare system. the kind of patient who makes me fume that i am being taxed 30% of my income.
medical imaging lied to kate. "the CT machine is broken and we're not doing anymore CTs for today." later rob called them and they said they're still doing his patient's CTPA. what is up, bundy medical imaging? can't you just say you're swamped? why do you have to lie and say the machine is broken?? i seriously don't understand this hospital. full of rubbish.
it was laura's last day today. rob finishes tomorrow. kate finishes next week. i wonder who'll come along next. yay tomorrow is no boss day.
shall drive down to the sunny coast on sat morning. need to go to sam's warehouse and pet barn. my babies can graduate to adult food after their last small bag of kitten plus! ;p haha. then i have the meeting with wealthmed. need to try to find my group certificate heh. think i might stop by nambour on the way back in case it's in my pigeonhole there.
very tired after staying up last night (because the internet was suddenly fast enough to watch masterchef). am going to bed now. :)
10:14 pm
20120725
it's thursday tomorrow but it's not a post take day! yeay! that's actually really good, considering we have our hands full now (and christian has tomorrow off).
we adopted another med student today. i don't know why our team needs two? considering we already have two junior doctors. -.- we're like a giant team trooping along from bed to bed.
still think it's rather ridiculous that laura gets to watch masterchef at work
every day. but u bambery's team only has like 3 patients. :( cries. we (p bambery) have like 20. D: and we can't get rid of any of themmm.
we wanted to discharge one lady yesterday but physio said no. today she started vomiting.. bowel obstruction. -.- had to have an NG tube and CT.. don't know if they're going to take her to theatre.
heard that a patient had been accepted at gladstone by the doctors, but the social worker said no. and then today christian and zina had to escort patients to an MRI and V/Q scan. DOCTORS ARE ESCORTING PATIENTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS ARE REFUSING TO ACCEPT PATIENTS. what is this world coming to.
kate said she was alright until the middle of her jho year, then she exploded with rage at the ridiculous qld health system. no matter what you do to try to pre-empt things, it all turns to shit, she says. they've lost our notes twice in the last two weeks. did an admission today and photocopied my notes in case.
found a $5 all day parking place in brisbane. :) of course it closes at 6 on weekends, but that is normal. unfortunately i have to meet the wealthmed lady to do my tax returns at 11am on sat. which probably means i'll drive home on sat morning. am dreading all the paperwork but just want to get it over and done with. give me back my money! especially from that fortnight when i was taxed $1.4k. D:
talked to judy today about working part time next year and all she could tell me was that nambour does it. and that i should ask them and make a good offer - work weekends etc. but that isn't really the sort of part time i want, and i don't really want to stay in qld either.
lulu talked to me about the wedding haha. she is attached! judging from how outdated we are about each other's lives, it's about time we met up anyway.
If u dun go for both, i go for one only. Then cheryl said: 'u go cos of me or fawn?' ;p hehe we were best friends at 10 after all!
is it the masterchef finale already!!! i'm still only at week 9 haha, my internet is too slow to watch anything now. but i know that it's between andy and audra (from ivy's father's fb post ;p). i hope audra winsssss!
7:59 pm
20120724
was facebooking and found this on lulu's profile:
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
another busy day at work - a post take day. but i've learnt to not dislike post take days too much. they're usually not too bad. christian lost our folder on friday (the first day he carried it around) so we had to steal a spare one from U bambery's team. it was full of rubbish so i reorganised it in the afternoon.
went to see a random patient in mcdu because dr bambery wanted me to present a case to him. -.- met ayman there and he was like, "what, are you a med student?" -.- exactly, i feel like a med student, clerking patients unnecessarily. sigh. went back up to the ward and christian saw me. "fawn, have you seen this thing?" (points to the clock) "it's 5 past 5, which means you are 5 mins late. go home." he is constantly asking me to go home haha.
adibah gave me a cheesecake cupcake at lunch time. :) i haven't tried it yet though.
managed to get to hinkler just before the guy closed - he'd already started pulling down the shutters haha. but he knows me, i don't even have to tell him my name or produce a receipt. i suppose not many people develop film in bundy. didn't particularly like how the lomo colour negative 100 roll turned out. maybe lomo film is meant for lomo cameras, hmm?
cooked dinner but i don't feel like eating it now. instead i feel like eating ice cream and chips. -.- this year alone i've consumed more chips than i have in the last 6 years in melb combined. fatsss.
7:50 pm
20120723
so it was an interesting day. we were on take today and kate was admitting - this arrangement is always good because it means kate already knows half the people we get tomorrow. was a rather busy take day for her and christian so i found myself mostly on my own.
which is why i was the one who was called to confirm a patient's death. hmm. hadn't done one before, so i talked to zina about it before going in. it's different when a patient has just died eh. different from cadavers. confirmed death and later did the death certificate.
also readmitted this poor guy with wegener's granulomatosis who i only admitted last wednesday. the poor guy was discharged on friday after 3 pulses of IV methylpred in an attempt to get him off cyclophosphamide, but started having symptoms again the very next day. :\
pimples are popping up here there and everywhere. so annoying that they always do that when events are coming up. :( cheryl invited lois to her wedding dinner for me hahaha. ;p so that i would have some company. ;p
still think it's weird that the cousin wanted to follow me haha. for some reason that reminds me of sakura and durian paste.
sometimes i can't believe this conversation is still going.
happy birthday kevin! ♥
managed to make it to hinkler in time to send my roll of film off. :) but i didn't have my personal thumbdrive with me so i gave him one of my work usbs. :\ after thinking about it, i really should have given him the other one. the one i gave him had some of my surg MDT presentations on it. i hope he doesn't open them. breach of patient confidentiality. :\
i still feel like shopping. need to find yet another dress to wear to the wedding dinner. :\ or maybe i could wear my new zara one. but then i'd need new shoes. should go to brisbane to shop this weekend haha. the only annoying thing is parking. oh, and the 4.5 hour drive, ha. but then i could stop at home and collect my mail too.
bought super cute stamps in sydney (just normal local stamps, but they turned out to be super cute ones) so i should get my bundaberg postcards sent out haha. :)
i still don't know what to do. :\
7:56 pm
20120722
my chains fell off
my heart was free
i'm alive to live for you
i'm alive to live for you
amazing love
how can it be
you gave everything for me
you gave everything for me
everything
theme song for the weekend - and i only just learnt it last weekend haha.
had breakfast in the hotel, packed, and went to church - chc sydney. 2 sessions by wahju, my father left after the first one to go and buy his guitar, and then uncle amos and aunty judith came to pick us up halfway through the second. john went down to say bye haha.
was sent to the airport. checked in, got myself an original glazed krispy kreme, and read. :)
so i've started doing my research by asking two people some questions haha. shall check out the mohh website tomorrow to see what i can find. have only talked about this to 5 people so far.
of bravery and sacrifice, and of secret hopes and dreams.
my cats like to sit up in such a regal manner, i'm sure they know they're in tuxedos. ;p
back to work tomorrow. must attempt to speak more positively into my life.
11:35 pm
of bravery and sacrifice.
i would like to do it this way, and i could, but then i'd probably end up having no money despite having worked for a year, because my father disagrees. the alternative would be to work properly, but working in the sg hospital system is the last thing i want to do. the whole thing makes me want to cry, really. i hate being backed into a corner.
12:47 am
had breakfast downstairs, the usual continental spread. we only had two breakfast tickets so my father only had coffee - in fact, they gave him an extra coffee for free (for some unknown reason). took one look at the pineapples and it was evident that we were not in queensland haha. they were so pale. my mother wants me to buy a pineapple home from the market next month. ;p
walked to central and took a bus to the paddington markets. didn't buy anything haha. walked along oxford st and bought a top from dotti, for the end of year taiwan trip haha. then we took a bus to circular quay and then a ferry to balmain east, and then a couple of buses to the rozelle markets. stopped by the balmain markets though i insisted that it wasn't a good market (having gone there 5 years ago). she got some kiwi and apple jam there though.
only got macarons at the rozelle markets. and shared a chicken, spinach, and cheese gozleme with my mother. walked to adriano zumbo and had a lemon tart and hot chocolate. :) lemon tart! ♥ and we got zumbarons too of course. walked somewhere and took a bus back. then my mother went back to the hotel and i went shopping haha.
found aldo but they didn't have the boots i wanted. :( i have been looking for brown boots since like the end of last year but i still haven't managed to find a pair i really like. :( :( sigh. ended up getting a dress and a top from zara even though they weren't on sale haha. decided it was alright since i haven't shopped for a while. ;p wanted to buy a baby jacket for jasmine's baby but the smallest they had was 12-18 months and her baby is still in utero! hahaha. so i thought it was a bit too much.
thought i was going to be late so i speed walked all the way back from town hall to the hotel. my feet are tired. and i was all puffed haha.
the opera house looks yellowed with age. taking the double decker train reminded me of going to the blue mountain with the fairsian bloggers, and doing the newspaper puzzles every day. :) ♥ uppity.
went to the omma conference finale and was blessed. :)
and now to make a decision regarding next year.
12:00 am
20120721
hello from sydney! :D where it feels like winter, haha.
worked from 8-12. :) zina was on her own with 6 new cardiology patients so i was borrowed again. didn't mind too much i guess, since it was only 8-12.
had lunch, packed, left a note for tara, and drove down to hervey bay. stopped by mammino for ice cream on the way, since i had to drive through childers anyway. had to have one of the macadamia flavours, since it all started with them making ice cream using macadamias from their farm. but it was just like eating macadamias frozen in cream. much too rich for me. :\
read Harvesting the Heart by jodi picoult while waiting for the bundy-brisbane flight. i've missed reading jodi picoult's books. :) i hope tara doesn't mind me borrowing it haha.
the plane only sat 37 people! haha. and it had a propeller on the front. ;p so cute.
bumped into sally in brisbane haha. she's coming to sydney too. and her parents are visiting too, from the UK. :)
got picked up by uncle amos, aunty judith, and moth. they dropped us off at the hotel and then we went for supper with people from the conference. it was my dinner, since the only food they had on the plane was beef. -.- was starving.
my sister went to bershka to look for the dress for me but they didn't have it at ion. the person said they might have it in bugis, my sister might go there at some point to help me check it out. i don't get it - can't they call and ask? lousy service eh.
going shopping tomorrowww (later). :) hope it doesn't rain!
3:40 am
20120719
back to using telstra internet. it's a new month! but it still keeps dropping out on me. woes of using mobile broadband.. i need to settle down somewhere, hmm.
post take day, but we only got 4 new patients. ;p cardiology and dr mutatiri's teams had more new patients than us haha. and still our ward round went till like 1pm. o.O but like kate said, it really isn't so bad because we do a lot of jobs on the round.
we have a patient with suspected multiple myeloma. :( his presentation was a lot worse than my grandmother's though. he has lytic lesions all over. :\ then again, my grandmother could barely even get out of bed with her vertebral crush fractures.
christian bought us coffee today because it was his birthday yesterday. and he's baking a cake for journal club tomorrow haha. ayman said he wanted to bake (= buy) a cheesecake for journal club to distract people from his talk haha. but i won't be around for journal club!
was talking to kate-
me: my friend thought that panadol stays in your stomach for 6 years.
kate: what?! that's a really long time. it sounds like something a naturopath would say.
ICU is bundy is ridiculous. if you had a relative who was sick you better hope they don't end up in ICU in bundy. we have been telling them for 4 days that we should do a CT chest/ abdo/ pelvis and increase his fluclox dose. today they told us "oh yesterday the royal brisbane said we should do those things so we're going to do them now." -.- omg after we told them like 4 days ago?! and he's getting 1g fluclox IV TDS for staph aureus bacteraemia, which is even less than the cellulitis dose? my boss said "he's receiving a homeopathic dose." ridiculous. i don't understand how bundy even functions as a hospital. haematemesis.
i love that i learnt the word haematemesis as a kid. ;p hahaha.
and i did an ABG on our poor patient today because she was saturating at 69% on 10L. D: and her pO2 was like 44.9. D: the nurse who helped me with the machine said she really hoped it was venous and not arterial. but i was pretty sure it was arterial. :\ she has lung cancer though. it doesn't look like she has much longer to go. she might be my first ever patient to die. :\
baked banoffee blondies. :) they smell good. and with banana, choc chips, and caramel, how could they not? ;p haven't actually tried them though. letting them cool for a bit.
only four hours of boss-less work to go. :) he says i have to present a patient to him next week haha. sigh. need to go and be like a med student again.
9:07 pm
20120718
nothing to do, and nothing to lose
1.5 days to go! the weather forecast just says rain on both sat and sun now. -.- nooo. :( and in contrast it's meant to be bright and sunny here. i should have switched weeks and gone to sydney last weekend like dr bambery, sigh (it was sunny there and rainy here).
relatively uneventful boring day for me. kate was busy with admissions. i did an admission myself haha. that doesn't seem to be a common occurrence here, it feels weird taking a history and doing a (partial) exam again. ;p
anyway my patient was a 51yo man well known to my boss, who had come in with an exacerbation of his wegener's granulomatosis. so hmm. i used to have an idea of what wegener's was, but now i have no clue. oh well.
two examples of how this hospital is ridiculous:
1. a pregnant lady (i don't know how many weeks) was referred to us because of tachycardia and tachypnoea which lasted 5 mins and resolved completely. no desaturation, no chest pain. and it was a "valuable" pregnancy, as kate put it, because she'd had 3 miscarriages in the past and this baby was conceived through IVF. BUT she ended up having a CTPA to exclude a PE. no way that would have happened in caloundra. zzz. that is 400 x-rays worth of radiation. TO A PREGNANT LADY. who was no longer tachycardic/ tachypnoeic, was not desaturating, had no chest pain, and had no calf pain.
2. laura walked into a room and saw a patient who was obviously dead, but the nurse was doing a bladder scan. "so how's the patient?" nurse: "oh about the same as last night." she didn't notice that the patient had died??
have started to pack for sydney. i really don't have to bring much stuff, but i do have to pack the bag reasonably full because i need to put them rum in there. but it also can't be too full, because i need to bring apple chips + shopping back. ;p
need to go and buy some boots.
cannot shower until my laundry is dry because the cats managed to get my towel onto the floor. :( only 7.40 and i feel like sleeping already haha. but adibah is coming over at 8 to bribe my cats (i hope they like the treats she bought them!) and i can't sleep too early because my hair will do crazy things if it's even the slightest bit wet when i go to bed. :( and tomorrow is a post take day nooooo.
7:40 pm
boring day at work. 2.5 days to go!
the forecast is changing. rain on sat and clouds on sun. it's cold in sydney though, 10-17. of course not as cold as melb. but it feels a bit strange going from warm to cold (since it's usually from cold to warm) haha. it's like 13-22 here. ;p
i am being more abrupt haha. catch the hint.
sweta cooked indian food for everyone today. :D yum.
i baked cookies tonight - salted and malted choc chip cookies. but i don't like them haha. i hope other people do. i don't know why i made them, considering i don't actually like cookies.
had dinner at like 5+ and took a nap at 8+ because i was so tired. ended up talking to people and being really hungry at 11.30 so i had instant har mee with an organic free range egg haha. i just think that is hilarious, the irony.
ren wants to get a tattoo and it makes me feel like getting another HAHA. oops.
talked to jean and we're planning to have a weekend in gold coast next rotation! she's on ED so she'll fly down from rocky and i'll drive down from the sunny coast. daniel wanted to join us but he's doing gen med so it's highly unlikely haha. aww, it would've been like a hk reunion. ;p
i have been repeating this phrase a lot: "next year hopefully, if someone wants to hire me." today i had this response: "i'm sure if you worked as a baker you'd be employed."
it's been a long time.
12:20 am
20120717
attempted to look through old fb photos despite my internet being super slow tonight. it didn't let me go back all the way. i still can't find my sydney photos, zzz.
i did, however, find a cover photo should fb decide to timeline me. ;p our botanic gardens $5 tree photo. :)
otherwise, looking at old photos is bad. hmm.
the more i think about it the more i am, hmm, repulsed. okay, repulsed is a rather strong word. but heh, that's the end of it i think. goodbye.
finishing my bundy five with breakfast juice, but the rum is still pretty strong haha.
nasi lemak, chocolate, masterchef, the shire, cupcakes, and icing.
am not going to get to meet joce in sydney this time - she's working nights. but she's going for the sept wedding! :D yeay! reunion!
have used up more than half my roll of film. :) my social life has grown in leaps and bounds since coming up to ulu land haha. friends make all the difference. :)
10:51 pm
20120716
even with jared gone i'm still being borrowed. rob didn't have a resident today and had 10 new patients so he asked to borrow me. so i had to wear my cardiology hat today. i don't like cardiology!
ward rounds were super quick. reminded me of surg actually haha. ended up just doing imaging forms for echoes and MPSes, pathology forms, and putting in IVs. after the lunchtime meeting i switched back to gen med haha. went to put a urinary catheter in. i think i haven't done a single male catheterisation in all my clinical years as a med student. ;p and i probably only did a few female ones too haha, before their C-sections. thankfully i had the CHIP nurse who was a great teacher. :)
helped rob with cardio blood forms and did an IV for one of my gen med patients. 3/4 successful IVs today hmm. did random things and then it was time to go home. :) in gen med it always feels like "i've had enough of this, let's go home" rather than "i've done all my jobs and the patients are safe, let's go home." even with kate, she always says something like "i think we've done enough today" haha.
adibah is making nasi lemakkk omg. :D:D:D love. tara and i are going over in 45 mins. :)
conversations of increasing dislike. i suppose you don't just like people because they are nice.
ren is coming to brisbane! :D for like a really long time too. i'm trying to see if she'll come further up north, otherwise i'll drive down to brisbane to meet her haha. just that brisbane is about 4.5 hours away hmm. but i haven't met her in ten thousand years so i would still do it. ;p
8:53 pm
20120715
hello. :) another rainy day in bundy! thankfully the forecast says fair for the next five days. i hope it doesn't rain when i'm down in sydney.
went to dream centre (church) today. the people were much friendlier than the people at the church i visited last week haha. and also.. there was a sermon!!! haha. it is not normally a big deal to have a sermon at a church service. which makes it really weird when there isn't one heh.
so yes. sat beside this super cute italian old lady (named ?petranella) who kept kissing me hahaha. stayed for coffee (milo) after and met more people. a filipino lady gave me tomatoes and a giant capsicum. :) and it was the pastor's (and like 3 other people's) birthday so there was lots of cake. and then i dropped petranella off at her friend's house haha.
came back and had lunch. laksa lamian with prawnsss hehe. :) watched some masterchef, then went to make pasta! :D used jamie oliver's recipe, except that i added cheese to the pasta dough haha. couldn't roll it out flat enough, and cut it rather unevenly so it was a mix of fettuccine and linguine haha. dried them on clothes hangers cos i didn't have anything else to use. ;p they look better dried! haha.
cooked a version of aglio olio. did it sort of randomly.. but it tasted alright - just that the pasta was too thick haha. adibah asked what i was doing for dinner, she'd just gotten back from rocky. so i invited her over for dinner. :) she said it was nice. :p haha. and she brought bundy five so i could try it! 1.4 standard drinks. decided that i don't really like rum haha. it's really just the rummy aftertaste hmm. also had pizza that she dabaoed from rocky haha.
looked at trips to lady elliot island. I WANT TO GO. we need to take a small plane (9-13 persons) to get there. and we can dive. :D but apparently we cannot dive and fly on the same day (?pressure) so we'd have to at least stay a night (i think - i understand it to mean we have to stay 2 nights but i'm not sure).
but it would cost at least $600. and $105 for additional dives. i wonder if tara will be up for it haha.
okay just talked to her about it - she said she wouldn't mind. :) yeay! i hope adibah decides to go too. :)
when you're needing your space
to do some navigating
i'll be here patiently waiting
to see what you find
why is everybody leaving? :( :( :(
11:38 pm
20120714
first weekend in bundy! it's been rather grey and rainy haha. so i haven't done much, hmm.
went to indulge for breakfast with tara. :) had eggs ben and white choc and she had a pancake and aztec hot choc. singular "pancake" because it was a strange more souffley sort of thing, not really a pancake at all. the eggs ben was not bad, except that they used regular thick toast and the hollandaise could have been a bit more buttery. ;p
went for a walk after that, she brought me to the river haha. low tide. went into some shops, didn't buy anything, and went back home. decided to go to the bargara windmill markets but it didn't seem to be on. and there didn't seem to be much else to do in bargara (except eat) so i went to the bundy barrel to get my gingerbeer etc. ;p 6 bottles for $7.95, not bad right. ;p
ended up going to spotlight (i think of knitting everytime i get really bored) but didn't find anything to buy! :( well. there was the letterpress stuff but it was all really expensive and you need to buy all sorts of add ons and the templates are quite limited. found some baking stuff (gel and powder food colouring!) and flavouring but resisted the temptation to buy them. ;p i know they're there, i can always come back in the next 7 weeks.
thought about going to mammino's in childers (macadamia farm where they make their own macadamia ice cream !!) but was a bit lazy to drive 45 mins haha. so i came back and took a nap. ;p hahaha.
goal for tomorrow: make my own pasta and cook prawn aglio olio whee. :D
i want to buy a little dog. ;p
7:03 pm
found a lovely dress i'd like to buy for michael + rachel's wedding! but they don't ship outside of spain. :( :( :( grr. asking my sister to check out the sg store for me. I HOPE THEY HAVE IT. then i can stop looking, heh. and it's really annoying because it's only 12.99 euros on the website. like how cheap!
going out for brunch with tara tomorrow! i think. she wants to ask niki along. i don't really like niki, i hope she will be sleeping haha. oops. think i might go to the bundy brewery tomorrow to get some lemon lime bitters. ;p also actually want to try the bundy five lime & soda haha.
..and i need to do my applicationsss.
12:31 am
20120713
friday the thirteenth!
yay it's the weekend! :) though i have no idea what to do and it's going to rain all weekend. hmm.
totally forgot that kate wasn't going to be around today haha. so we ended up doing the divide and conquer thing. sweta and i went to rehab to see the four patients there while chris saw some patients up in med.
chris is right, the nurses in rehab are really... cannot make it. they had gotten the bladder scan machine out right before i left and told me they would do the post void bladder scan but didn't. the patient even told me that they brought the machine to her bedside. -.-
our poor patient is dying i think. but she has an ARP (NFR) in place and chris says "it's okay for her to die."
left early at 3.50pm after doing the handover list with christian. he also taught sweta and i how to read ABGs haha for some reason they started confusing me again. so anyway after all that he told me to bugger off (in a good way) so i went home. ;p didn't have journal club because 3/5 consultants were away haha.
went to the pet shop to get some enzyme spray, then went to sugarland and randomly bought a dress haha. then i drove to childers again.
met the rest of sweta's family and had dinner there. indian chicken curry haha. she ate it with her fingers. ;p then we caught the cats and i drove them back. good thing i stole the pinky (like a giant, more absorbent bluey), becks got into the car and promptly started peeing haha. WELL PREPARED. though this time bailey peed too, hmm. but i think that was because he had been holding it in for a while haha, the poor things.
anyway, bailey was in the carrier (without a bluey or anything like that) and becks was free. becks peed and then came and sat on my lap the rest of the drive haha. poor bailey just sat in his pee haha, i didn't realise he had peed until we got back. so i had to shower both of them, but it's just as well. they'd gone a long time without having a shower. plus i really didn't mind - goes to show how much i love them. ;p aww.
i suppose if it's all dreary and grey this weekend i should make myself finish my vic applications. D:
why is my internet so s l o w. :(
9:35 pm
20120712
how old is your soul
am very tireddd but i feel like i've done a lot in the last few hours. :)
post take day that didn't feel much like a post take day (we didn't inherit many new patients). intern education was about extracting foreign bodies from noses, heh. i honestly don't think i learnt much, hmm.
also, there was a patient named johnnie walker. not even kidding. not on our list though.
our poor patient got sick at about 5pm, sigh. acutely SOB. kate was thinking ARDS? i don't even know what ARDS is, and i am too tired to read up on it. though i really should, hmm.
left hospital late, at about 5.45pm. went home, packed the cats up, and drove the 45 mins to childers. BECKS PEED IN MY CAR OMG. well, he peed in the carrier and it leaked out onto my car seat. D:D:D: ugh. i think i should just let him ride outside next time. i let him out (rather than letting him sit in his own pee) and he seemed to do fine on the passenger seat (except once he tried to go down to the accelerator).
sweta's kids were happy to have the cats, but i think they were a bit disappointed because my cats are so scared of other people haha. they're friends with tara already though. but only tara, because they see her every day (plus tara loves them ;p).
stopped by sugarland on the way back to get ingredients and baked a cheesecake when i got back. :) it's sitting in the oven now. cheesecakes take a long time to bake, hmm. i lost my original recipe and sort of did a mishmash of two recipes. :| i hope it turns out alright. :| waiting for it to finish baking so i can go shower.
okay going to read about ARDS. ;p
nearly 25 weeks of internship down, 22 to go. :)
9:52 pm
20120711
she was caught in a mudslide
eaten by a lion
got run over by a crappy purple scion
it was a funny day. ;p brought the caramel-filled brownies in to work today and got many compliments. :) but what was funny was that adibah also baked brownies haha. so ayman and jarad were going on and on about how it's a competition and we need to be more competitive haha. like seriously, it went on all day.. ayman said he had 4 pieces haha.
later ended up printing off the brownie recipe for the AO and sweta, and it got photocopied for other doctors and nurses. ;p but i'm happy to share it, it really is a good recipe haha.
collected my photossss but i don't know why they are overexposed. :( okay it was a really sunny day hmm.
cooked dinner but just as i started eating, adibah whatsapped me if i wanted to go to montezuma's for dinner. so i stopped eating haha.
not a very big fan of mexican food. except for guacamole. ;p i love guacamole.
went to adibah's next door to watch her make rum balls haha. with the bundaberg coffee/ chocolate/ vanilla rum. jarad was there. he's based at the austin! and he's leaving on mon, aww. :( will be sad to see him go, he's one of my favourite regs haha. he's having a night out on sunday. i might go.
taking advantage, hmm.
tara is back! said hi to her in the ED haha. she's working afternoons this weekend so we might go out for brunch/ take the cats out. but the forecast is for rain. i don't know why it's been raining so much lately. :( summer's supposed to be the wet season, sigh.
need to find a dress to wear to michael and rachel's wedding. :\
tomorrow is post take day for real.
11:28 pm
20120710
had a pleasant surprise today. this morning before starting rounds, dr bambery and dr mrs bambery decided that it was mrs bambery's turn to be post take. ;p yay!
and also i managed to dodge the usual early morning post take chaos (while we still thought we were post take) by going to do a cannula and CT booking form. ;p the patient looked at her arm after i was done and told me "oh you did a beautiful job!" ;p haha aww.
discharged quite a few patients on CHIP. went down to watch a CT and did the nurse's job of flushing the cannula before and after the contrast. i don't know why there was no nurse there.
told sweta about the cats and the aircon cleaning and she offered to take them haha. she said her kids would love to have them haha. they're 4.5 and 2.5 years old. she's just scared that the cats will escape haha.
while walking out of the hospital kate told me that lots of stuff that happen here probably wouldn't happen elsewhere (eg. CTs/ MRIs, home oxygen), and that i should take things with a pinch of salt haha. they are super defensive here. do every possible test so no one can sue you.
we had to do a couple of home oxygen applications today. the boss even manage to get an application approved even though we couldn't do an ABG or 6 min walk test on him. i think i should just print lots of home oxygen application forms and keep them in my folder. at the rate we're going, we'll need them.
we had a look at the roster and realised that this friday, i am the only one working on the team. D: dr bambery is going to sydney, kate is going to brisbane, chris was meant to be in mcdu. D: how terrifying! but chris called dr bambery and he said he can swap haha. thank God.
baked caramel-filled browniesss hehe. :) they never look as good as the picture though. i think i need to sprinkle the choc chips in later hmm.
have had dinner but as usual i'm still hungry. ;p
happy 10th of july!
oh and i managed to send my film off for developing! :D $11.90 only omggg why so cheap! haha. okay it's still more than double the cost in sg but in the sunny coast it costs me like $18.95, and that's for prints only so i need to scan them myself (and the quality isn't so good because it's from the prints). i'm getting scans this time. :) will collect them tomorrow. it's nice that shops close at 5.30, gives me a bit of time haha.
10:34 pm
20120709
i know that i'm thinking as if i already have a job waiting for me in melb.
complains. post take day blues. :( tomorrow is another post take day, ugh. when will these 10 weeks be over already! D:
and there's another vintage market (Love Vintage) in brisbane this weekend. D: but no i shall resist the urge to drive another 780km heh. a bit too ridiculous (and tiring).
the smurf houses are going to have their air conditioners cleaned on friday. -.- means i need to get rid of my cats (and all cat traces) for a day. :( big sigh. i don't know what to do with them! there's a cattery 9 mins away.. i suppose i should call them tomorrow.
am really tired for some unknown reason. maybe it was just the long (and painfully slow) day at work. :\
wanted to rush to hinkler to get my film developed after work today. but it started to rain as i walked back. maybe tomorrow. also want to bake caramel-filled brownies haha. if i can find all the equipment in the kitchen.
it's july 10th tomorrow. i am well aware of it - what with writing in patient's charts and all. it feels different this year though. there isn't that deep-seated sadness.
going to sleep, nice and early, in preparation of another painful post take day.
9:20 pm
20120708
okay so after very complicated calculations, this is what i worked out:
10 nov
last day of ortho geri (hopefully)
12 nov
rent a car (avis) and drive to gold coast ~$151
petrol ~$20
fly scoot $232
16-20 nov
small family holiday
24-28 nov
extended family holiday (?taipei)
5 dec
fly jetstar to melb $322 (overnight so don't need food ;p)
HAVE TEN DAYS IN MELBOURNE OMG ;p
6 dec
tae's graduation!
15 dec
joab's wedding!
16 dec
fly ?tiger to brisbane $99.95
shuttle bus to maroochydore $35
17 dec
start paeds
total = $760 (excluding melb-bne - i'll sort that out later)
which is cheaper than just shuttle bus to and from brisbane and flying emirates (~$983)
i think i'm a bit mad. but i am proud of my extensive research haha. ;p have booked avis, scoot, and jetstar, whee. feeling sad because this means my dream car is being tucked a bit further away again haha. on the up side, i might be able to go car hunting in melb at the end of the year if i get a job there! ;p haha.
11:47 pm
woke up at 7+ despite sleeping at 2+/3. my body has obviously gotten over shift work haha. which is good i think. decided to make the most of the day and went to the shalom sunday markets. :) bought a whole pineapple for the first time in my life! haha. qld has beautiful pineapples. :) for $5.40 i got a small pineapple, a punnet of strawberries, a bunch of grapes, and 4 carrots. :)
so i went to church today. it took a bit of effort, because (and here is my confession) i really haven't gone to church in a long time.
but this church was a bit weird. not in a normal sense. like.. really weird. there was no sermon! maybe it was because their pastor wasn't around? i don't know. but yes, really weird. think i will go to another one next week haha. it appears that there are only two that are not presbytarian/ anglican/ catholic/ uniting/ baptist/ lutheran.
finished my roll of film and wanted to go develop it at the only place i know i could - a shop in hinkler central. but it was closed. :( most of bundy is closed on sunday, it appears. sigh. looks like i'll have to wait till saturday.. unless i manage to leave work early one day.
decided that since there wasn't much else to do i might as well go to the bundaberg rum distillery to get rum for my father. ;p rechecked my fb msg history to make sure that he wasn't joking haha. got him a personalised bottle. :) i still haven't tried the rum haha.
decided that while i was there i might as well go on the tour. there was a sickly sweet smell in the air because they had started pressing (?) the sugar cane (to get the molasses). because sugar cane is only harvested 6 months out of the year, they have to store the molasses so they can make rum all year round. they store up to 10 million litres of molasses (imagine the smell - faints). 1L of molasses is required to make a standard 700ml bottle of rum.
so (refined) molasses + water + yeast yields 8% alcohol in 48 hours. it's then distilled to get 50% alcohol - this process takes 4 hours. it is then distilled again to get 78(?)% alcohol. demineralised water is then added to bring it down to 37% (because a tiny bit of the 78% would be equal to 5 standard drinks). the rum then sits in vats (made of oak from america) for a minimum of 2 years while it matures. it's colourless when it first goes into the vats, but at the end of the 2 years it's a light yellow colour (looks like urine - so they add colouring to darken it up haha).
rum is transported to sydney via ghost (unmarked) trucks to be mixed with other things. they have a machine which fills 15,000 cans per minute. how fast is that! i can be a tour guide already. ;p
at the end of the tour we got to have 2 free tastes. i am still on my green Ps ;p so i had gingerbeer haha. i don't think i would have liked the rum anyway. ;p
making herbal chicken soup! :D it's been boiling away since 3+ i think haha. decided to just cook it on the stove since there wasn't really enough time to use the slow cooker. my whole living room smells like the soup. :) yum.
back to work tomorrowwww post take noooo.
7:26 pm
all is fair, i'm trying to make you notice me but you don't care
you play me like a broken game of snakes and ladders
or cards or piano or a record that's been thrown in the trash
i don't know why i am still up. i have been awake for the last 21.5 hours and am really tired. but not sleepy, for some reason. oh i know, it's probably because i had 2 V's today haha.
i aspire to make the mojito genoise one day. one day..
am trying to get perryn to do research on my future car for me. ;p since that is his dream car too! haha. which is weird, because it is such a girl car. ;p but he doesn't want the convertible.
we were comparing jobs - we are both doing gen med, he has 32 patients and i have 3. ;p hahaha. but we will be post take again on monday, sigh. patients please don't have ten million social issues or need home oxygen! the application form is like 9 pages long. D: and please don't all need CTs/ CTPAs/ MRIs/ MRAs.
2:30 am
20120707
i could say me, but. sigh.
did a lot of driving today. tired. plus i have right leg pain haha. after 780km of driving (about 9 hours in total). it isn't in the posterior calf though haha. i think my shoulders are the most tired.
went to the finders keepers market at the old queensland museum. :) how lovely! it's like an etsy market haha. i just wanted to buy everything i saw. ;p except that it was so expensive haha. so i only bought two things. ;p coasters, and a bowtie. and a brat bagel (bacon, rocket, avocado, tomato). :)
ended up not eating the bagel haha. walked around and found myself in chinatown (i think), where there was another market. but it wasn't a nice market haha. but.. there was a singaporean/ malaysian restaurant and i couldn't help but go in and have nasi lemak haha. didn't realise how much i miss singaporean food. in melb that sort of food is so readily available.
also bought some herbs from an asian grocer haha. chicken soup yeay. brought my slow cooker here too. :)
went to the brisbane dfo but didn't buy anything! :( felt so tired by the end haha.
was quite impressed by the insecticide i bought haha. no fleas when i went back to the house in the evening! though i did get some new bites, probably from the morning. i hope they are all dead.
okay i am very tired bye!
10:37 pm
20120706
weekenddd :D
ahhh finders keepers market in brisbane this weekend! i only found out tonight while flipping through frankie, zzz. wonder if it's worth the 4-hour drive hmm. of course there are other weekend markets but finders keepers is only once a year. :\ but i feel like i've driven so much already the last few weeks.
the med students are gone! aww. exams next week. i'm glad i don't have exams, heh.
suturing workshop. simple interrupted, mattress, and he taught us how to repair tendons also haha. like when am i going to get to repair a tendon please? my poor pig trotter haha.
dr bambery (the boss) brought chocolate to journal club. ;p hahaha. i think it's cos he was falling asleep last week. ;p
towards the end of the day aymen asked me, "so how do you find medicine?" and closed the office door haha. then he proceeded to go on and on about how med is so boring and slow. he said he was doing surgery in egypt, but when he came over he decided to have a change of career. he likes ED haha, and i have to agree. just exclude life threatening things, then either discharge, or refer to the med reg to deal with all the crap (eg. social issues). and now we're on the other side of it, sigh.
OKAY I HAVE DECIDED. 4.5 hours it is. will probably stay at home in the sunny coast (and hopefully not get eaten alive by fleas) and drive back early on sunday morning (so i can get back to feed the cats since tara isn't around either). shall go to sleep like now and hopefully set off at 5am tomorrow morning.
the amount of driving i am doing these days is ridiculous. makes up for not driving to work haha.
10:18 am
interesting conversation, mainly because it was with someone i hardly ever talk to - daniel woon. haha. he's studying speech pathology. how cool is that! my allied health friend haha.
started a conversation because i knew he, eugenia, aaron, leanne were up here last week and i saw photos of the gbr on fb. apparently the gbr isn't very cold. SO I SHOULD GO RIGHT. hmm. but i am so lazy to drive so far north heh.
and he's an australian citizen. how nice! everyone who lives in melb for a while falls in love with it eventually. :) australia has a beauty that captures me like singapore never will. it literally makes me catch my breath. :)
thinking about what to do this weekend. the bundaberg rum distillery is actually only a 9 min drive from where i stay. so i might take a walk through the cbd (and take some photos, hopefully). the weather forecast is cloudy, hmm.
am glad that the next trip i'm making is only from hervey bay! an easy 1.5 hour drive away. :)
yeay it's nearly the weekend. :) and also there's the suturing workshop tomorrow (and journal club) = time taken up.
2:00 am
20120705
i foresee thursdays being my most disliked days in gen med. because thursdays are post take days. and post take days are painful.
our ward round took like 5 hours. and we saw like 8 patients in that time? how ridiculous. D: dislike. opted to finish our ward round with our old patients, then we all had lunch outside in the sun. :)
and today was stroke/TIA day. all their CTs - no acute intracranial pathology = have to order MRIs. today we ordered: 3 MRIs, 2 CTs, 1 carotid doppler, 1 PICC. and the boss wanted to order a CTPA on one patient but later changed his mind and decided to do a CT chest again, after i faxed the form, despite my SHO asking him like three times if he really wanted a CTPA. -.- grr.
and then he went to argue with the cardiologist about a "p" wave on an ECG? when it was obviously not a p wave because it was only in one lead? sigh. tomorrow he has his private rheum clinic though so he won't be around till journal club. whee.
jarad keeps borrowing me to do bloods/ IVs. kate says she has been getting lots of calls from people asking if they can borrow me haha. because we're the only team with 2 "residents" and we've been pretty free before today. but anyway i went to take blood from this poor woman who looked like she had hardly any blood left in her. failed three times and asked kate to help. kate tried once and failed, and then jarad arrived and took over haha.
one more day till the weekenddd! :) though i really don't know what i'm going to do. :\ maybe i should go up (is it up?) to the bundy brewery to get rum for my father. not that it would be any different from the bundy rum i could get from liquorland/ bws/ dan murphy's but just so i can say that i bought it from the bundaberg brewery haha.
went to sugarland to get my vodafone usb. it's still really slow. but can sort of watch masterchef, so it's still better than the telstra one i guess. the girl who served me was quite funny haha. she recommended shows for me to download also hahaha.
9:23 pm
20120704
hello. internet is slow again, hence less facebooking and more 8pm naps, ha. but i really don't get why i am so tired before 10pm when i only wake up at like 7am. and i haven't even taken the drowsy antihistamine tonight.
another boring day at work, we finally achieved number of doctors > number of patients today. 3 patients on the list. jarad (a locum reg from melb) asked me to insert an IV today and i took the opportunity to observe sweta doing it. ;p whoever thought i'd be teaching people how to do IVs hahaha. but his veins were so good. i seem to be the IV go-to person. must be because they've noticed how free i am haha. ;p
saw this patient who tara saw in ED yesterday. she's under another team but the consultant asked my boss to consult since he's a rheumatologist and she thought it might be a vasculitis thing. he thinks it's cholesterol emboli, since she had an angiogram 1.5 months ago.. but from all the pictures i've looked at on uptodate and google, her non-blanching non-palpable tender petechial rash looks nothing like the purpura of cholesterol emboli. so i'm a bit doubtful. i have no differentials though, so oh well.
tomorrow promises to be a more exciting day because... we're post take tomorrow! haha. so far i know of one patient we're inheriting tomorrow. exacerbation of COPD, CO2 retainer. ABG pCO2 67, pO2 73. his pO2 is actually better than this other sick patient we have at the moment. he sats at 83-87% on 3L NP.
just found out that jarad is dibah's new housemate haha. and he always gets to eat what she bakes! he told me to go over at 6.30am if i want to get some.. haha. but i only wake up at like 7.15. ;p
my melissas arrived today. :) got an email from sue saying she had a package for me and went to collect it in the middle of the work day haha. am sad that i didn't manage to get the nude ones but black is alright too. very wearable to work, ha.
still contemplating going back to sugarland tomorrow to get a vodafone usb. and maybe shop.. haha. since it's late night shopping day and i decided not to get the car just yet. ;p
just also wanted to say how nice it was to feel comfortable with someone i've hardly spent any time with and hardly talked to. :) like already being part of the pseudo-family haha. but yes. nice. :)
tara's day 7 of 7 tomorrow, then she's going back to.. i'm really not sure where. townsville i think? and she'll be away for 5 days = home alone for 5 days. but not really, i have my illegal meows. anyway, a 6 hour drive is ridiculous but she's done it several times.
oh and yes, minus points! felt slightly weird that the term "minus points" is so familiar to me. sebas always minus points until everybody fails.
9:56 pm
20120703
so.. they finally made me decide to wait. it's really the same with this other thing, isn't it?
another really boring day at work. so much so that i'm actually hoping we will need to accept someone tomorrow.
did a couple of IVs for the renal team while sweta was in mcdu and forgot to call her (cos she wants to practise). the med student was with me and she didn't want to do them, hurr. they weren't even difficult ones, but then i did use blue cannulas haha.
was so bored in the afternoon. finally at like 4pm sweta found me and decided to present a case to me, so that took up some time haha. 64yo man who took 52 paracetamol (26g) with no intention to kill himself - he just wanted relief from some lower abdo pain (and it was relieved after 52 paracetamol). also he has been divorced 25 years but his daughters are 22 and 24yo, according to him.
went to disturb adibah again because i was so bored. showed her the beetle and she showed me a mini haha. our dream cars. ;p
my room door is open but both my meows are snoozing on the bed with me, aww. ;p
whatsupped charm to remind her to apply for WA haha. knowing her, she'll forget to do it and miss the deadline.
ratna can't do my qld referee report cos he's on leave till 15/7! D: oh well. at least i have three to choose from.
my internet is slow again, i don't know why. :( i only downloaded one movie! (extremely loud and incredibly close - i'm sure the book will be better) and streamed masterchef daily, but sigh. back to slowness.
will be in sydney in 3 weeks, and back in sg in a month. ;p and then back in melb in 2.5 months. :)
7:33 pm
20120702
current plan: to wait until i finish gen med and go back to the sunny coast, then go down to brisbane the next weekend to see the car. that is 5 paydays away = i should have enough money by then. BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE BUYS IT BEFORE THAT. D: i have submitted an enquiry anyway haha. ;p
okay i know i am being ridiculous. but would you be surprised if i drove down to brisbane one weekend (from bundy) and came back in a beetle? ;p hahaha. i need to get some things from home anyway. eg. the cats' harnesses and leashes - tara wants to take them out to the park one day. ;p
most boring day of work ever. our ratio was 1:1 as predicted. we will definitely be discharging one tomorrow, and hopefully another will go to the nursing home too. that will leave us with three, unless we need to accept any others who come in overnight.
spent most of the arvo doing nothing. did a couple of discharge summaries and went to take blood with sweta. we had to poke the poor lady so many times - after we did get some blood, we realised that there were no paediatric tubes and we had to go to the ED to get one. by the time the blood got there, it had clotted. sigh.
our SHO is back at work. he just had a baby 4 weeks ago! the baby looks exactly like him haha. so cute! anyway, it's nice having someone else to write in the charts. ;p i really dislike writing in the charts in gen med because it feels so disorganised, i never know how much space to leave, and my handwriting is ugly on the go. i miss surg days, when notes are always written in retrospect and they can first be organised in my head.
laduree is going to sydney! oh my. but in all honesty i wasn't very wowed by laduree macarons. thought pierre herme's was much better. but anyway. looking forward to sydney and zumbo macarons and lemon tarts! :D
10:40 pm
20120701
deng deng dengggg! no longer accident-free. :( sigh. on the up side, i am perfectly fine and Skype only suffered minor injuries. interestingly, it reminded me of that airport day.
back in bundy, where the internet signal drops out every five seconds.
just popped another piriton. i think i need to go and get some loratidine. is loratidine OTC? some topical antihistamines would be nice too. my "extremities" are going to look ugly for a long time. sigh. i could seriously overdose on antihistamines. just saying.
was nice seeing people. :) went for one session by pastor lance. don't be a social retard haha. first i need to work on my attitude about work.... but gen med is really boring. :|
had lunch at the naked turtle and caught up with people. :) karen said she could feel my itch haha.
also met wen yu at the events centre haha. he's studying med now!
tara said the cats have been well-behaved. they seem happy to have me back, even though one of the first things i did was to pounce on them and unleash the de-fleaing thing on them. it smells weird and they don't like it. but oh well. for my sanity.
cannot be bothered to unpack now. it will have to wait till tomorrow. and i forgot to bring back some important things.. sigh. don't think i'll be going back till aug too. hopefully the stupid fleas all starve to death by then.
shall attempt to not scratch so much. because knowing me, if i get a secondary infection it will probably be with mrsa or something. -.-
my grandfather has started chemo again. my mother says that based on a CXR and PET, the tumour has increased in size, and the pleural effusion has worsened (that sounds weird. he has a bigger pleural effusion?). and there was more activity in the pelvic and shoulder areas. so the oncologist started him on chemo again.. i don't really know why though. the chemo has killed him more than it has the tumour.
i think the piriton is starting to take effect. :) as long as the itch doesn't disturb my sleep, i'll be happy.
still dreaming about my little blue cabriolet. ;p
9:56 pm
hello july!
it's nice to be back and have fast internet which doesn't get disconnected every five seconds haha.
contemplating buying a new (old) car. ;p i think i've pretty much given up on the idea of a vintage car - mainly for safety reasons (and ?perceived speed reasons). so.. i would like a volkswagon beetle cabriolet. ;p in egg yolk, but it doesn't seem to exist. topgear rates it 9/20 haha.
so there's this baby blue 2003 one (
here) in brissy that costs $20k. i definitely don't have that much money but i suppose there's the down payment and instalments thing. i have a serious problem with impatience and instant gratification when it comes to shopping.
i only started calling people dodo (pronounced doodoo) because yurong taught me haha.
submitted my pmcq and pmcwa applications, yeay. only left with the pmcv one (which is really the most important) haha.
doesn't feel like 3am, which is weird because i woke up at 5.30. then again, i did take a nap. long drive again tomorrow, time to sleep. :)
initiate.
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