Kasut Free =)

Seronok hari ni dapat kasut free from 'mak angkat' aku, sorang nurse in charge kat hospital baru ni. Woohooo!! Kasut Sketchers Go Walk tuuuuuu!!

Takde la dia belikan aku kasut baru sepasang. Dia dapat hadiah dari orang, tapi kaki dia gabak so dia kasi kat aku. Tak kisah la dia dah pakai sekali, tapi dia kata dia pakai with socks. Tawakal je la dia takde kudis ke herpes ke. Kakakaka.

Aku dah pakai dah pun balik kerja tadi, walking all the way merayap kat city with my boss & my friend makan lunch kat Hotaru Japanese restaurant (yg makanannye agak mengeciwakan). Sedap la gak pakai. 

2 hari lagi nak Ramadhan 1436H here. Selamat menyambut Ramadhan yg mulia ni. Semoga kita semua diberi kesabaran, kekuatan & tabah & mendapat keberkatan berlipat-ganda dariNYA.

Take care all. 

Pengorbanan Kali Ini

Drama queen betul. Heh.

Okay, last night I had to through away my whole work attire (except tudung) to the bin. My top, pants, socks & shoes. They were cheap on clearance ones, but still I threw away my work outfits. All into the bin.

The last case that I saw last night prior going home was an epistaxis (nosebleed), a young professional who has been living with anxiety, which is causing their very high blood pressure & each time this will lead to a nosebleed. X came before my shift started & saw my boss, had their treatment & went home. X came back just before I finished my evening shift with blood pouring out of her nose. 

Normal practice is that I would put on my disposible protective gown & gloves (which are removed once you step out of that particular cubicle) and cover an epistaxis patient with some blue +/- gown, +/- cover the floor with some blue, get the suction ready, etc. It is an arterial bleed, yes, but that extra few seconds of keeping the area safe does make a big difference. So those were what I did anyway with this particular patient.

But of course X didnt bleed when I was attending them. No source of bleeding in either nostrils, other than the obvious 200/120 blood pressure. During the observation, I had to attend to another young hypertensive emergency that already had bleeding & swollen retina in their both eyes that we had to transfer out of the Eye & Ear hospital. And of course, X had to bleed massively while we were doing that. 

On the way to grab a new set of protective attire, X had to cough, cry, stress out. And in turn more blood gushing out of X's nose in response to the climbing blood pressure. And that was when some blood splattered onto my lower half of my front. Sheeeeeessshhhh... So much fun! 
Threw away the attire at home, and yes, I deserve to be a drama queen. 

I dont fully blame patients when this things happens. Orang kata apa guna jadi doctor, hey, kalau takut darah, kencing, tahi & all those disgusting bodily produce. 

Think about you as a patient, mesti u ada sket2 pandang slack kat doctors yg lepas pegang u dia terus basuh tangan, "macam aku ni geli sangat!". Well, think about this again, you as a patient, the doctor dah lepas pegang pesakit lain kat cubicle/ katil sebelah yang u tau ada penyakit u anggap geli or lepas exposed to some darah, phlegm, etc, tanpa basuh tangan terus periksa u. Best tak?

Healthcare is not only about caring & managing health, but also is about prevention. We as healthcare professionals should as much as possible not spread germs, also as much as possible to actually protect ourselves from contracting any diseases. Not worth it at all. In a controlled situation, a little extra of these simple efforts make a very big difference. Of course in real disaster, sometimes you cant avoid it. And nowadays we can actually afford that extra 1-2 minutes to simply grab a pair of gloves/ goggles/ gown. Based on these experiences, I always make an effort to have at least a pair of gloves in my pocket, bags, car, etc coz you will never know.

I dont really have to dwell into it much, just think of the basic. Setiap healthcare professional akan dilatih very basic: DRSABC for any clinical situation. And to me, the first 3 principles can be applied to any situation too.

D= Danger. Avoid, remove any danger.. SAFELY!
R= Response. Check for response.
S= Send for help. 
A= Airways.
B= Breathing. 
C= Circulation.

Yes, and yup, last night memang aku dah jadi a drama queen, tapi at home lah.. Takde kerja la nak meratap bagai kat ED sana nun.. hehehe.
Hopefully doesnt happen that often again. 

Karipap Sedap

Kat sini biasalah overseas students/ temporary residents akan masak-masak once in a while untuk duit belanja tambahan sket-sket. Especially bila time perayaan. Aku tak pernah lagi buat, bukan pasal dah banyak duit tapi pasal malas & takde masa. Especially now dah kerja sambil in training.

One of my friends make karipap once in a while. And given that our group of friends are mostly busy and kurang kerajinan nak buat this kind of thing untuk masa-masa kecemasan, we always order the karipaps from this friend. Alah, apa salahnye tolong kawan, dia bahagia, kita pon bahagia makan karipaps sedap ni. Aku & hubby selalu sangat order from this person, especially when I am working arvo shifts. Senang bawak bekal +/- breakie or sahur. (Nampak la kemalasan aku sebagai orang paling skillful memasak kat rumah ni.. ahaks!).

So the other day I brought a few during my arvo shift. Unfortunately while I was having them during my dinner break, the code blue was called. So I just left the karipaps on the ED bench, thinking and hoping I would come back to them lepas code. One of my ophthalmology bosses stole one of them when I was gone attending the code. He actually said to me before I left to the code that I shouldn't be leaving my yummy food lying around 'coz someone a.k.a. him might just steal them, afterall he says he lives to eat karipaps. Hahaha. During the code, he quitely came to me ingatkan apa rupanye mintak kebenaran to pinch one of the karipaps. Alahai... kesian dia. Aku kasi je la, walaupon dah agak sejuk & agak burned coz aku lambat keluarkan dari oven. So technically he didnt steal my karipaps. Hahahaha. 

Oh well, rezeki lagi for my dear friend whom I cant thank enought for sacrificing their time & energy making & jual the karipaps. 

Winter Chill

It is mid- June. It has been a very cold winter. In fact winter came a bit earlier than winter itself. It has been persistently lower single digit every night & frosty early morning. The sun comes out late morning for a few hours, at least kinda giving hope to the otherwise gloomy day. Winter officially goes on until 31st August, so we have a long way to go still. Sigh...

I have about 1 month left at the Royal Eye & Ear Hospital to finish my 6-month rotation, and I already feel sad about returning back to my old hospital. Earlier this year on my last day at the old hospital, I was slightly sad on to leave before starting at the Eye & Ear. But here I have already started feeling sad to leave again. I am really enjoying my time here. Sigh.. 

We ED registrars work every other weekends. This weekend is my working weekends. Am doing arvo shift, meaning I finish at midnight. Had a short breakie with hubby & a friend, then back at home. Still sleepy coz slept late last night, and woke up early for breakie today. But it's all worth it. Kinda the last breakie before puasa Ramadhan 1436H. After that mebbie will be a few weeks after Aidilftri coz most of my friends are sitting their primary exams around that time. And at the same time this is the time for our annual work application and interview for next year. Sigh.. annoying that we have to do this every single year... never ending. 

Anyways, enuf of my winter-head ranting. Have a good & safe weekend everyone.