I realise how much I have compromised my life in ObGyn. Not to say I don't enjoy it, I do, but, I am not living like a human, not eating like a human, and not seeing sun light.
I walked out of my room today, and for the first time, I realise, the leaves has turned brown. When did all these happen? Why didn't I notice it? How on earth did I not know fall is going to be over soon??
Hence, to catch up with life. Imma gonna whip out my camera and take nice fall pictures soon. 1 more week folks. One more week. And I'll be baking cakes, making pies, snapping lovely pictures.
And packing!!!!! Super can't wait.
马来西亚等待我到来
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Today is one of those RARE days.
I can't believe it, but the smallest things make me happy. At least for today. And everything went well today. Let me tell you, this is one of those RARE days, cos every other day I am just tired and energy-less.
So my day started with my resident telling me my presentation skills have improved. And proceeded with me bumming into Ven (first time ever in the hospital) at the nursery when I was going to remove someone's bandage.
Okay lor, little little things that elevate my mood by 1/10000000000. Then comes 9am, when a patient I saw previously in the ultrasound clinic who came for a PUBS procedure (percutaneous umbilical blood sampling). Very cool procedure. They put a needle into the mom's belly to transfuse blood to the baby. And I was assigned "the runner".
You know how everytime someone dissect a tumour in the OR someone runs to the lab to get it sampled to see if they get the margins clear? So this time each time they collect fetal blood the "runner" runs to the lab to get it read for Hgb and Hct. And I was the "runner". Felt kinda nice to be doing something instead of just shadowing. And I had to climb 8 flights of stairs up and down twice to get to the lab. I got my exercise for the year liao.
Then came lunch, in which I made the most delicious salad (without me noticing it). I just bought greens from the market and threw grapes and oranges in with some nuts. Didn't expect it to taste so yummy.
And then, when I was back to the hospital floors, one patient when into labour. And my attending shoved me into the spot and told me that I get to deliver this baby. MY FIRST!! The whole process was so unreal because I never imagine I would get a chance to deliver babies (since there were so many other interns on the floor). Yay!! Happy max.
Then my chief resident decided to pimp me tons of questions. In which thank god I studied for it before, and I think I did pretty okay. And then she send me home half an hour earlier! Which means I have more time, and I decided to make myself a yummy dinner + tomorrow's lunch. And it was so awesome. I haven't cooked in like 5 weeks because this rotation is killing me, in terms of sleep deprivation (we work 13 hours a day). And I made something simple, which turned out to be super yummy. (made ikea sauce with prawns and steam ready made little dragon dumplings - xiao long bao).
And now, I shall go to bed.
One of my RARE days.
So my day started with my resident telling me my presentation skills have improved. And proceeded with me bumming into Ven (first time ever in the hospital) at the nursery when I was going to remove someone's bandage.
Okay lor, little little things that elevate my mood by 1/10000000000. Then comes 9am, when a patient I saw previously in the ultrasound clinic who came for a PUBS procedure (percutaneous umbilical blood sampling). Very cool procedure. They put a needle into the mom's belly to transfuse blood to the baby. And I was assigned "the runner".
You know how everytime someone dissect a tumour in the OR someone runs to the lab to get it sampled to see if they get the margins clear? So this time each time they collect fetal blood the "runner" runs to the lab to get it read for Hgb and Hct. And I was the "runner". Felt kinda nice to be doing something instead of just shadowing. And I had to climb 8 flights of stairs up and down twice to get to the lab. I got my exercise for the year liao.
Then came lunch, in which I made the most delicious salad (without me noticing it). I just bought greens from the market and threw grapes and oranges in with some nuts. Didn't expect it to taste so yummy.
And then, when I was back to the hospital floors, one patient when into labour. And my attending shoved me into the spot and told me that I get to deliver this baby. MY FIRST!! The whole process was so unreal because I never imagine I would get a chance to deliver babies (since there were so many other interns on the floor). Yay!! Happy max.
Then my chief resident decided to pimp me tons of questions. In which thank god I studied for it before, and I think I did pretty okay. And then she send me home half an hour earlier! Which means I have more time, and I decided to make myself a yummy dinner + tomorrow's lunch. And it was so awesome. I haven't cooked in like 5 weeks because this rotation is killing me, in terms of sleep deprivation (we work 13 hours a day). And I made something simple, which turned out to be super yummy. (made ikea sauce with prawns and steam ready made little dragon dumplings - xiao long bao).
And now, I shall go to bed.
One of my RARE days.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Food food food.
Time to FINALLY talk about some Philadelphia restaurant food. Restaurant week was a gazillion years ago. And till now, my pictures are pilling up till it almost hit my roof and no one has heard about it nor seen any pictures of it.
So I will blog about it NAO. Stat! (okay medical joke. When you order medicine, and want it to be given now NOW NAO you order it "stat" - for non medical people to be enlighten about medical terms).
Owh and when I am done let me tell you a bit or my ObGyn rotation. Cos I got loads to tell.
But food first before I tell weird stories about girl's privates and babies.
So, restaurant week was a week where restaurants have a set price for a 3 course meal. And so, I, being a tam chiak poh tried out 3 places.
Le-Bec-Fin
Food there is super awesome! Nice place, nice atmosphere, and super lovely food. But, lesson to learn. Since everything is a fixed price, the more expensive stuff you order, the smaller the portion. I stared at the menu and had my eyes pinned on the "scallop". And I was like I AM SO ORDERING THAT.
And so I was pretty excited about my scallop meal, thinking that I would be so stuffed with scallops I will be happy and satisfied. But then again, if you think about it, the restaurant will rugi big time if they give you 10 scallops.
So my main meal was 2 miserable scallops. But they were pretty big scallops la. About 4-5cm in diameter I think. I was still happy and satisfied.
Dessert was super awesome too. I love that place. Too bad it is closing down soon I think.
Nineteen XIX
So when we were deciding where to go for our 2nd restaurant week destination, someone recommended Nineteen to us. So since is it like a super posh place to go, okay lor, we go lor.
This is their avocado soup. Which taste pretty nice, except it has chilly oil in it. I was like "why chilly oil in avocado soup" and didn't really like it. Cos of the chilly oil.
The food there was okay okay only la. Perhaps more to the yuck side also. I think their regular food is good, but they serve not-so-yummy stuff on restaurant week cos they will rugi if they serve too yummy stuff.
Even Ven was super sien there. Hahahahahahaha.
I still can smile! =) I think my pictures have progressively bigger eyebags. So tired these days.
And this is their dessert. Which is pretty nice also, except, the chocolate bar is pure choc so it's super bitter. And the scoop of ice-cream I think is mustard flavour. Yea. Mustard flavour. Taste like crap.
And the third place I went was a seafood place in which I forgot to bring my camera. So too bad no pics. But its super awesome too. Seafood rawks.
And I also think Inception is a awesome movie. I wanna watch it with my family when I go back in Christmas.
And I apologise for being so luan luan lai. Jump from one topic to another.
And I also wanna tell stories about my ObGyn rotation.
And . . . . . .
Okay so, when I was in peds nursery, I so wanted to have a baby. So cute so small and tiny, so cuddly. Now, I think I'll pass. The pain of labour is terrible. Sigh. I know I know people say "do cesarean section only la".
Let me tell you, the complications that accompanies a c-section is terrible.
1) You get all the complications of a surgery - bowel adhesions/obstruction that can potentially lead to necrotising enterocolitis (means your intestines don't get blood supply because of scar tissue that form around and a part of it dies), wound infection, atelectasis (cos belly pain so people don't take deep enough breaths, urinary tract infection/obstruction (cos the uterus is so near the bladder and urethra).
2) You next pregnancy have a high chance of Placenta Previa (meaning the placenta adhere to the outlet instead of the inside of uterus cos got big scare there from c-section).
3) Your next pregnancy is at higher risk of uterine rupture. Which can lead to DEATH.
Sigh. I will think about giving birth perhaps, in the FAR future. Hahahahahaha.
And I also have a few patients who are like 15-18 years old, who are pregnant. Just throwing it out there. I am sure in Malaysia also got young people get pregnant. But I am like, are teenagers ready for a kids in their lives when their brain is not mature enough to make proper decisions?
Again just throwing it out there. I think we must all do something about it. Here, everyone is STRONG and gungho about contraception. I think in Malaysia we should have every women to see a ObGyn doctor and get a papsmear every year too. And, give them IUDs.
Lalalalalalalala.
Okay Imma gonna jump again.
It was my sister's birthday last week. And I made her a video!!!!!! I think she cried watching it. It was kinda a spontaneous idea I had and I was super excited about the idea and I wasted a lot of time on it. But worth it la. Yay. Haha. I tried to make it funny also so she won't cry, but aiya I guess my face not funny enough. But I am embarrassed to show everyone so Google it yourself. I bet you never find it nguahaha.
We celebrated too. Over skype.
Alrightey! Byebye!
So I will blog about it NAO. Stat! (okay medical joke. When you order medicine, and want it to be given now NOW NAO you order it "stat" - for non medical people to be enlighten about medical terms).
Owh and when I am done let me tell you a bit or my ObGyn rotation. Cos I got loads to tell.
But food first before I tell weird stories about girl's privates and babies.
So, restaurant week was a week where restaurants have a set price for a 3 course meal. And so, I, being a tam chiak poh tried out 3 places.
Le-Bec-Fin
Food there is super awesome! Nice place, nice atmosphere, and super lovely food. But, lesson to learn. Since everything is a fixed price, the more expensive stuff you order, the smaller the portion. I stared at the menu and had my eyes pinned on the "scallop". And I was like I AM SO ORDERING THAT.
And so I was pretty excited about my scallop meal, thinking that I would be so stuffed with scallops I will be happy and satisfied. But then again, if you think about it, the restaurant will rugi big time if they give you 10 scallops.
So my main meal was 2 miserable scallops. But they were pretty big scallops la. About 4-5cm in diameter I think. I was still happy and satisfied.
Nineteen XIX
So when we were deciding where to go for our 2nd restaurant week destination, someone recommended Nineteen to us. So since is it like a super posh place to go, okay lor, we go lor.
This is their avocado soup. Which taste pretty nice, except it has chilly oil in it. I was like "why chilly oil in avocado soup" and didn't really like it. Cos of the chilly oil.
The food there was okay okay only la. Perhaps more to the yuck side also. I think their regular food is good, but they serve not-so-yummy stuff on restaurant week cos they will rugi if they serve too yummy stuff.
Even Ven was super sien there. Hahahahahahaha.
I still can smile! =) I think my pictures have progressively bigger eyebags. So tired these days.
And this is their dessert. Which is pretty nice also, except, the chocolate bar is pure choc so it's super bitter. And the scoop of ice-cream I think is mustard flavour. Yea. Mustard flavour. Taste like crap.
And the third place I went was a seafood place in which I forgot to bring my camera. So too bad no pics. But its super awesome too. Seafood rawks.
And I also think Inception is a awesome movie. I wanna watch it with my family when I go back in Christmas.
And I apologise for being so luan luan lai. Jump from one topic to another.
And I also wanna tell stories about my ObGyn rotation.
And . . . . . .
Okay so, when I was in peds nursery, I so wanted to have a baby. So cute so small and tiny, so cuddly. Now, I think I'll pass. The pain of labour is terrible. Sigh. I know I know people say "do cesarean section only la".
Let me tell you, the complications that accompanies a c-section is terrible.
1) You get all the complications of a surgery - bowel adhesions/obstruction that can potentially lead to necrotising enterocolitis (means your intestines don't get blood supply because of scar tissue that form around and a part of it dies), wound infection, atelectasis (cos belly pain so people don't take deep enough breaths, urinary tract infection/obstruction (cos the uterus is so near the bladder and urethra).
2) You next pregnancy have a high chance of Placenta Previa (meaning the placenta adhere to the outlet instead of the inside of uterus cos got big scare there from c-section).
3) Your next pregnancy is at higher risk of uterine rupture. Which can lead to DEATH.
Sigh. I will think about giving birth perhaps, in the FAR future. Hahahahahaha.
And I also have a few patients who are like 15-18 years old, who are pregnant. Just throwing it out there. I am sure in Malaysia also got young people get pregnant. But I am like, are teenagers ready for a kids in their lives when their brain is not mature enough to make proper decisions?
Again just throwing it out there. I think we must all do something about it. Here, everyone is STRONG and gungho about contraception. I think in Malaysia we should have every women to see a ObGyn doctor and get a papsmear every year too. And, give them IUDs.
Lalalalalalalala.
Okay Imma gonna jump again.
It was my sister's birthday last week. And I made her a video!!!!!! I think she cried watching it. It was kinda a spontaneous idea I had and I was super excited about the idea and I wasted a lot of time on it. But worth it la. Yay. Haha. I tried to make it funny also so she won't cry, but aiya I guess my face not funny enough. But I am embarrassed to show everyone so Google it yourself. I bet you never find it nguahaha.
We celebrated too. Over skype.
Alrightey! Byebye!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Silly hammie
Caught my hammie in a really slumber cute position. Ahhhh kawai-des.
He was sleeping against the walls of the cage. Ahhhh kawaii-des. I had to take a picture. I had to. Lolz.
And then I kacau him a bit and he woke up. But he still slumber against the window. *heart melts*
Twin brothers!
=)
He was sleeping against the walls of the cage. Ahhhh kawaii-des. I had to take a picture. I had to. Lolz.
And then I kacau him a bit and he woke up. But he still slumber against the window. *heart melts*
Twin brothers!
=)
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Before my Ob Gyn rotation started, there was college day. Philly is big on museums. So college day means, free entrance to museums. Lolz. (I was hoping it was free food day, but oh well).
And if anyone is wondering why am I posting this post on such a busy rotation, well, let me enlighten you. I am trying to turn nocturnal. As of tomorrow, I need to report to work at 6.30pm, and work till 8am. For a week. So in attempt to try turn my sleep cycle up side down, I am not allowed to go to bed till 7-8am. And its not 3.25am and I am tired and sleepy as hell. So, to keep myself up and busy, I decided to blog a little bit. And hence . . . . . . . . .
We picked the Ben Franklin institute of all places. Cos it has the big heart featured in House MD
lub dub lub dub lub dub lub dub.
Actually the place is a little big like a science centre. Which also means that it was kinda for people below age 15 I think. There were fascinating electrical stuff in there going on, but the rest are kinda, "duh" for an adult to tour the inside. But still, there is the big heart.
And loads of capillaries to play with.
Here is me trying to be a thrombus. But failing cos I was such a looooooong thrombus.
*Argh I think my brain not functioning properly now. Its too late at night and too early in the morning*
Okay another trip we made was to the Philadelphia Premium Outlet. Shopping spree yay!!!! I bought so many things for my fall/winter preparation.
As we speak my skin is so dry I am bathing in moisturizer everyday. But still loving the opportunity to wear boots though. And trenches. Though I feel that enthusiasm will wear out soon.
Puffy face, puffy eyes, due to accumulatively lack of sleep. Taken at the train station on the way to the place.
I miss doing so many things I love doing. Arghhhhhhh. And shopping is not one of them . Haha I contradict myself.
My fish and chips for lunch at the Premium Outlet. Cos I haven't been eating UK food since I got here. And Fish and Chip is apparently not American so its a rarity.
Erm. One more picture before I end.
Under the stars screening of Toy Story 3 at the plaza outside my dorm.
Haha I am updating my life in chunks and pieces. Go do your little puzzle solving to figure out what is when.
Told ya my brain is not functioning now. Zomg now only 4.30am. Only 3 more hours before I can sleep.
Adios.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Shall keep this alive
Just so everyone know that I am still alive and kicking.
Fall 2010 is here. Weather's been pretty cold lately. But while the entire America is complaining about the gloomy weather, I on the other hand is kinda enjoying it. No sweaty days in the hot sun, hello to cold cooling breeze. Although I am still reluctant for winter to be here. But I get 2 weeks of sunshine is good ol' Malaysia come Christmas. Yay!!
Reason no 2 for me to be so excited about Fall is, Fall Fashion!!
I have been a great big fan of boots. And trench coats, and high legged socks, leather leggings, and stockings. Coloured ones especially. The reason why I am such a big fan, is that I never get to wear them. So you kinda crave to do things you can't do. Unlike those clam shell girls that patronize Sg. Wang, I don't wanna risk looking like an idiot trying to dress like its Fall when it freaking 40C degrees in the sun. Plus my shoes will stink too from all the sweat. So all I do, is drool at oogle at pictures of people wearing lovely clothes.
I actually am trying to make a picture compilation of the fall clothes I have been wearing out. But sorry larh har, I don't have that much a variety of clothes (what to do , tak ade $$), so a lot of accessories are repeats. And the pictures are blur cos I change into my clothes, fast fast snap a picture, then I gotta rush to wherever I am supposed to go.
Will post the compilation another day.
On a side note :
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTA!
Fall 2010 is here. Weather's been pretty cold lately. But while the entire America is complaining about the gloomy weather, I on the other hand is kinda enjoying it. No sweaty days in the hot sun, hello to cold cooling breeze. Although I am still reluctant for winter to be here. But I get 2 weeks of sunshine is good ol' Malaysia come Christmas. Yay!!
Reason no 2 for me to be so excited about Fall is, Fall Fashion!!
I have been a great big fan of boots. And trench coats, and high legged socks, leather leggings, and stockings. Coloured ones especially. The reason why I am such a big fan, is that I never get to wear them. So you kinda crave to do things you can't do. Unlike those clam shell girls that patronize Sg. Wang, I don't wanna risk looking like an idiot trying to dress like its Fall when it freaking 40C degrees in the sun. Plus my shoes will stink too from all the sweat. So all I do, is drool at oogle at pictures of people wearing lovely clothes.
But since now I am in a freaking country with 4 seasons, I don't need to oogle at people, nor do I need to risk being a clam shell.
I can freaking wear whatever I want and people won't find me freaky or weird.
And you know what is the best part?!?!?!?!?!?! Furrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
And don't even get me started on Furr. I bought a pink Nine West boot with faux fur edges. And I am dying to wear that out. And I have a furry bag and a furry top. Perfecto! I need a furry hat and I'm good to go.
Will post the compilation another day.
On a side note :
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTA!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
s/p Gyn Service
Gonna be on hiatus for another 4 weeks. Am on the craziest working hours lately.
Lolz. But I love the hours in the OR. If only there was a chair to sit, and some metal arms to help hold those clamps. And if only I am not a medical student feeling useless in there too. Mixed feelings. When I get too much OR I want to be on the floors. When I am sick of the floors I wanna go home. I think home is still the best.
Lolz. But I love the hours in the OR. If only there was a chair to sit, and some metal arms to help hold those clamps. And if only I am not a medical student feeling useless in there too. Mixed feelings. When I get too much OR I want to be on the floors. When I am sick of the floors I wanna go home. I think home is still the best.
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