surgery posting day 4

4 days of surgery posting and my heels are swollen!

i haven't been able to do any procedure yet because the housemans are quite busy to teach us. macam terkapai2 je kat wad tatau nak buat ape. the doctors just expect us to improve our history taking and physical examination skills. tengah merangkak2 lagi ni.

yesterday i observed an appendicectomy and laparotomy query of by a pelvic abscess. tu pun nasib2 je we were around when the patient was about to be sent to the operation theatre. me and five friends were laughing to bits when we saw ourselves in our "tellytubby"-like OT uniform. klaka sangat. no wonder the seniors keep making fun of it. we went to the OT at 5.30pm and returned to the ward at 8.30pm. then i had to continue with my very first on-call. kene balik pukul 10.00pm. there wasn't much to do so i went around and ziarah the patients. my geroup was assigned to the female ward and the activities there are not so dynamic. not too many patients so very few procedures. banyak pun yang houseman je bley buat. the male ward is overflowing with patients. tak aci la they get to see many more cases and procedures. takpe, we'll get our chance insyaAllah.

going back to the mahallat yesterday my heels were really painful to tread on. i had to tiptoe and walk slowly. owh and i have a seminar tomorrow with a lecturer whom is notorious for being rather strict and mean when the occasion arises. not to mention the assignments we have to submit by monday.

and this is just the 1st week. hopefully i have better days ahead.

playing truant

i've not been a very good and law-abidng girl today. i purposely and without much guilt went to the dentist with my friend this morning, knowing that i'd miss 2 lectures. they're on radiology and diagnostic imaging anyway. if they teach me now, i'll just as soon forget since we're only gonna be doing that in 4th year (alasan semata2)

well, it seems that we only missed 1 lecture. hehe, tak pelah. (i am absolutely relieved that my parents don't read my blog :P)

we arrived at the dental clinic at 8.20 am and it was already crowded. what can u expect, where else can u get good yet cheap dental care? at govt clinics, where else. so nothing less than a crowd should be anticipated.

alhamdulillah i didn't have to wait for more than 30 minutes for my actually 5-year overdue appointment :) the dentist said everything looked fine. he just did some scaling or cleaning in those hard to reach parts. glad that's over and done with. i guess not knowing for a fact the condition of my teeth, made me get ideas that they may have lesions or something. huh, the power of the mind.
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yay, duit scholar dah masuk! just in the nick of time. my purse and bank has been dried up to the max. this news must be the happiest of news for ayah :)

i can't wait to see nawaz tonight!
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on a more serious note, our Palestinian bros and sis are in a very critical situation. let's pray that Allah helps them and destroys those inhumane and cruel israelites.

back in kuantan

we arrived in kuantan at 6 am this morning bcoz the bus broke down yesterday evening. sempat gak sleep for an hour bfore preparing for class.

during dr shahrin's ECG lecture i experienced a few "absence" episodes. then my group had a free periode so me, asma' and faizah thought we'd try gong to the dentist again. there were soo many people. we had no choice but to forego our 6 years overdue appointment. might as well take a nap at the common room.

may be i'll write about the scientific meeting later. one good thing that came about from the malfunctioning bus incident was we gotto go to the buffet that night and hear a talk on the managemenet of diabetic patients during ramadhan. don't ask me about the content, my mind was on the food throughout the talk :P

my first visit to kelantan

Aisyah al-Humaira' can already sit up. waa, i'm missing all her developmental milestones!

this is the "gambar 3 generasi' that ayah's sooo proud of... the guys in my life :)

i'm at my friend, maryam's house (that's why i can upload pics and edit fonts, huhu). she picked me, Fatin, Hanim and Amalina up from bandar Kota Bharu, dropped off my friends at Balai Islam and picked up my stuff then we headed for her home. owh, i bumped into makcik mahayati and her daughters at the pasar malam. i didn't buy anything there.was too tired to be shopping.

penatnye!

we had just gone to Wanis' house. she picked us up at HUSM and crammed us in her dad's merce. we stuffed ourselves with delicious satay and roti canai, yummy.

wait a minute... why am i in kelantan?

for the PPIM Scientific Meeting which is headed by Tim's dad, Dr Din Suhaimi. today was the Pre-congress session which focused on preparation and management of death. The real meeting starts tomorrow.

the first talk today was by DrAzhar. he's ayah's friend. i remember he used to send his kids at our place back in new castle. when i approached him, of course he didn't recognize me but he did remember me. good enuf.

the rest of the talks were good altho i did dose off several times.

orait tanak lelame.. nak tido..better now than during the talks rite ;p