Wanjia (my younger sis) was telling me that her friend's mouth was stinky 95% of the time.
haha.
How terrible is it to be that person?
Imagine not being aware of that and going around talking to people at close proximity.
No wonder people have these constant grimaces.
WJ is so funny.
She said if they were sitting in lecture without talking to each other, and started talking AFTER the lecture, the mouth is "Woa Smelly".
Hhahahahaha!
Then I updated her that my own mouth was smelly too!
Sis replied that she knows, but its not so bad because mine is only smelly when I am sleeping and when I just wake up.
And that is why when we sleep on our Queen size bed together she always has her back to me.. hmm.
It doesn't help that I drink more water or eat mints during the night my mouth will still harbour this pungent smell.!
Horror.
When I first knew about it years ago I was quite despondent..
I wondered if my husband could take it if he found out that my mouth had such nasty characteristics. :(
I thought married people wake up in the morning to their loved ones to kiss each other good morning or rumple in the sheets BEFORE brushing their teeth.?
I guess I'll be denied that.
That will be Caleb going "Whats that toxic gas? *GAG* "
Ooops sorry cal for drawing exposing your modesty with that drawing.
Today is my 7th consecutive off day!
Up until last night (5th day of sickness) I was still definitely not good enough for work so I preempted my clinical instructor Faridah that I might not turn up for work today.
She very kindly asked the Sister (Nurse Managers are called Sisters) to swap my off day to today!
She said it is so that I would not have to see a doctor to get MC one more time.
WOOHOO SHE ROCKS!
But today's day off came from Saturday.
Means I will have to work a PM shift on saturday.
And Faridah being my preceptor, has the exact same shift as me, is sacrificing her weekend off....
So kind of her. Sobs.
Sorry Huikoon for not being around with you this week!
I was still having diarrhea last night! :S
No more vomiting at least...
Disgusting stuff ahead:
Qian: My diarrhea is ALL water leh. Greenish yellowish water. Its like peeing through my a-hole.
Cal: Is it painful when you need to da-bian?
Qian: No.. I just feel vibrations in my intestines.. Then I know they are coming.
Cal: Thats weird. I think you should try to hold in your diarrhea. Don't go and pass motion anymore just hold it.
Qian: SIAO!
Cal: Seriously! You're not giving the intestines a chance to absorb the water!
Qian: But if my intestines absorb the diarrhea then I'll have shit in my system!
Cal: -_-" Thats it. No more going toilet for you.
I am so hungry after not eating a proper meal for 6 days :(
Sakae Sushi food!!!
At a restaurant in PS with Ling Siok and Brit..
So hungry.
♥Bid Farewell
One more thing to add.
I hate/love the expressions of doctors when they ask me to stick out my tongue.
The shock on their faces when they see the tongue stud.
haha. Cheap thrills..
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Vomited in the pantry - oops sorry nurses! the toilet was unavailable! - and was chased home by the Sister.
I went to the polyclinic with my concerned mother who was going to demand a referral letter to A&E CGH if nothing else could be done by the polyclinic doctors.
I also felt indignant that the doctor I visited yesterday gave me this fucked up attitude as if I wanted to be sick!
"So why are you here again?"
Me: "I still feel nauseated."
Dr. Lousy Chuang: "Yes you came to visit yesterday right so why are you here again?"
Me: "I don't feel well so I need an MC."
Dr. Lousy Chuang shakes his retarded head.
SO RUDE and CONDDESCENDING! I had no choice ok! I was on my way to work and I vomited.!
Was it my fault that your treatments are not working and caused me so much distress?
Idiot still act like I was here to chao-geng from work.
Perhaps on my part I was too upset and unwell and alone that I couldn't speak properly so he misunderstood... ohwells. still annoying
From yesterday's experience I prayed so hard that I wouldn't get the same annoying doc today.
And if the doc today showed me such attitude I was SO GOING TO VOMIT ON HIS TABLE AND PRISTINE WHITE COAT.
Boy was I lucky to get this nice Dr. Tan Teck Shi and his medical student.
He took my problems seriously, listened to what I had to say, answered me and my mother's doubts, explained to me clearly the medications, and actually did a proper physical examination on me!
The other two previous docs simply took what I said at face value and didn't even palpate my stomach. Cui.
Don't you just hate self-assuming and arrogant people?
I'm supposed to collect my stool (shit) in this small brown bottle for culture.
I always wondered how people collected their own stools..
Do they place the bottle at their anus before starting?
Or do they scoop from the toilet bowl.
I was planning to do the former when my mother warned me not to fill the entire bottle with shit as that would be toooooo gross.
Just a small scoop will do.
haha so funny.
Imagine if I brought the bottle choke full of shit back to the polyclinic.
That will be so embarrassing!
Perhaps from this post you can tell that I feel better already thanks for the concern :D
I lost 3kg by the way I would go through this again to lose weight if I could skip the vomiting and diarrhea. haha.
People! wash hands before eating ok!
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I'M SICK i'm sick I'M SICK. :(
I'm sick therefore I have the right to whine about how unwell I'm feeling and how I have taken 2 days of MC already.
Taking MC is no fun at all because I'll have to make it up by the end of this week which means i'll be working 7 days in a row when I start work.
Boo.
I'm supposed to stop vomiting and feeling nauseated after the meds but the meds are not really working for me.
Now my parents suspect that I am pregnant.
My dad even congratulated my mom that she'll have another baby to play with soon enough.
so funny har (-_-")
I'm obviously not pregnant unless my constant talking about my non-existent baby made me pregnant.
Lets see..
IF i were pregnant I would not do year 4 anymore..
I would just start work since its the end of year 3 now.
Then the baby would come in January 2011.
Okay Cal's going to smack me on the head for this.
Oops.
Please gastric please stop making me vomit.
♥Bid Farewell
I'm going to take MC today. :( Second food poisoning of the year.
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'My mother proved her name as Mummy-knows-it-all again when I shared with her the disruptive behavior of a particular monster in my ward.
This monster is primary 4 and is, said simply, a terror to the nursing staff, adjunct personnel, other patients and visitors.
The whole morning he chased and terrorized another patient (age 7) and made so much noise I couldn't take it anymore.
I got myself in the middle of their quarrel to try to quieten them down.
But its like so useless trying to talk to these kids.
The conversation becomes quite nonsensical because they keep interrupting.
The monster was shouting "STUPID" "IDIOT" "CRY BABY" "LIAR" and then the little boy I was talking to would burst out crying and stop listening to me.
Wah lao I was so pissed off and almost died.
In an attempt to calm the smaller boy down I said this
"If he says you're stupid or idiot actually he's just scolding himself! Don't listen to him. See, there he goes, scolding himself stupid again."
Monster: "YOU STUPID IDIOT!"
The little boy seemed to have misunderstood that I wanted him to scold the Monster the same words and shouted "YOU STUPID IDIOT! "
It was a mess.
When I told my mother about this crazy boy my mother immediately told me that this boy had ADHD.
Wow my mother is amazing! I haven't even told her that and she could tell based on my brief descriptions.
And my little bro seems just so much like an angel.
♥Bid Farewell
Attachments make us fat, they do.
Especially now that there are 2 half an hour breaks we get to eat twice.
2 full meals during an 8 hour shift.
We're hungry and we have no self control.
Boo~
Most of the time I still have supper after I reach home.
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Crap la what kind of nurse am I man...
People die I cry, ok reasonable.
I see ah pek injured all over talking incoherently to his son I also cry.
I surprised myself when I saw a small kid crying "I can't handle it" and "I can't take it" during his wound stitching today..
Die liao.
Nobody knows that I teared because I wore the face mask..
What if this happens when I work in the ward next time without the mask...
How am I supposed to work in the paediatric ward next time :S
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Today Cecilia and I were in A&E with nothing much to do just now so we attempted to do a conscious level monitoring on a patient who had a basal skull fracture.
Because his eyes were so swollen it was shut we couldn't tell if he was in a coma or not.
Hence it was important that we establish that he was still there... you know?
I said hello and he didn't respond..
So we figured that perhaps the Ah Pek couldn't hear us..
So we started saying his name very loudly over and over again like some nuts...
It started getting so loud that we were practically shouting.
But he still didn't respond.
We were super worried la... We thought he had deteriorated.
Then we asked the nurse to come over and check the patient.
The nurse did the same thing calling his name - didn't respond.
So the nurse started to shake him.
Then he responded - to our immense relief and excitement! UNCLE IS ALIVE!
He said grouchily "我在睡觉啦" -> "I was sleeping.."
Wah lao..
Make us shout and everything.
Chey.
I met Jes + Ben yesterday and Monday at A&E..
They are sooooo cute. :)
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Helloooooo people + qianwen.!
(I am going to talk about a death, so do not read if it is going to cause you discomfort.)
The first day of attachment is still by far the most happening day because I witnessed a death =O
Technically I did not witness the process of dying as the patient was already dead by the time he was hurried into the A&E unit.
The incident which caused his death happened 20 mins before, and when he was first discovered his pulse could not be detected.
Nonetheless, the people who found him, the paramedics and the medical team tried to resuscitate him.
The asystole straight line was right there on the screen all the time and the adrenaline given to him had no effect at all.
Right from the start I thought that it was quite impossible to save a person who had lost his pulse for so long.
If you were to save a person who has been dead for so long, its called a Resurrection.
And thats not cool.
As I have seen dead people and have even helped in last offices during my previous attachments, I was not scared or looking forward to seeing more deaths.
(Last office means caring for the body of the deceased which includes cleaning up, changing new clothes, placing a shroud, removing IV plugs and wrist tags etc etc)
But this was different.
From the descriptions of the people who found him, it sounded like he just happened to be at the wrong place and the wrong time when the shit happened.
The shit I cannot say what for reasons of confidentiality.
He was the only one who was hurt and it caused death.
How unlucky is that?
Fate is so curse-worthy sometimes...
The four of us students learned that he was a foreign worker from our eavesdropping.
In our imaginations, his wife, children and old parents in his rural hometown would be devastated upon hearing this news.
How would they manage to live without this sole breadwinner?
There was one more widow and three more orphans :(
We got a shock when we came back from lunch and saw this big group of people sobbing outside the grieving room.
This man was not a foreigner like what we imagined.!
He was a local.
I felt like a shit and teared when I saw so many people sobbing for his death.
Ew. I hate it.
I hate it that people have to die this way.
So sudden, so cruel.
These people didn't know they were going to die, they didn't get a chance to say their goodbyes.
No chances were given to resolve their grievances or conflicts with their loved ones.
What if they left home without saying goodbye?
Or if they left home after a fight?
There must be so much things they'd like to tell their families and loved ones right?
Especially so for the family members who are still alive and are around to feel the pain.
There is no closure..
I wonder how families and friends can accept these facts.
But somehow they do.
Eventually they will find strength within themselves to live with it.
Even though it still hurts sometimes when you think about it..
But the happy memories will bring them through..
I think I'd rather be the one dead than be the one losing someone..
So selfish right.
Sigh okay I think I'd rather be the one not dead.
Its so difficult.
Bleah.
May everybody live a ripe old age.
Be happy, don't smoke, exercise and eat healthily ok.
♥Bid Farewell
I was paying for my laziness last night and today actually for the lack of sleep that resulted from doing my assignment last minute.
Well I simply just can't get out of doing work last minute, don't know why (perhaps its laziness)..
haha.
Well I see it as an improvement that I finished at 2 am instead of at 7 am (around now).
I have to leave for work at CGH soon!
So excited ! Not! So tired! Yes!
I had an emo moment last night in bed when it suddenly dawned upon me that this is the last essay of year 3 sem 2.
This is the last assignment for some of us, hopefully not me. Last assignment of Uni Life.
How emo is that?
If I had decided to graduate I would be crying all the time when I'm typing my essay.
Aw.
Damn sad.
It was the last time we would msn each other to encourage each other,
to tell each other our pathetic word counts,
to assure each other that "oh don't worry, I'm writing shit as well",
to send each other websites, to tell each other how to submit assignments...
Are you a last minuter?
If you are you'll know how comforting it is to log on to msn at 1am and see all those classmates of yours online.
You know that they are diligently chionging their essay as well. You know that at least you're not alone.
Oh man.
And last night it was the last time! Boo~
Good thing I corresponded with susan, ling, gerry, shimin late last night.
(And caleb also la he forever around one for my whining. )
I'll remember you girls to be my last minute assignment chiongers!
Doesn't sound too good but oh wells, at least we do submit in the end and get pretty amazing grades sometimes.
♥Bid Farewell
We finally finished our teaching plan project yesterday, or should i say the day before since its 430am now.
I have no intention of doing my management essay :(
Have been so deprived on sleep and rest the past week studying for exam and doing the damn project that I just want to lie around and do nothing.
Correction, not totally nothing I want to eat and watch youtube.
Boo.
To celebrate our effort at getting the project done, Cal and I went for a nice dinner at Modesto's and watched 3D Clash of the Titans.
Yep Cal did his part for the project even though he's not taking this module.
He was tasked with the important task of arranging the page numbers on the essay..
What a bitch it was trying to arrange the page numbers using MSWord.!
Somehow the numbers repeated themselves all over from 1 after 5 or 7.
So random right!
it was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Omg I ought to slap myself for starting to arrange the page numbers at THIRTY MINUTES to the submission deadline. oops.
After trying for 8 precious minutes I realized that pressing 'Undo', 'insert page numbers',
'delete page numbers', 'insert page numbers', 'undo', 'undo','undo' was not going to get it done.
Amazingly the page numbers seemed to be different everytime I pressed 'Undo' so I kept doing it hoping that MS Word finally understands what I want.
Didn't happen.
So I called Cal for help.
He was on his way to some poster presentation by the year 4s but he alighted the bus immediately, boarded another bus to my place and RAN over.
Yep he did.
When he was reaching my room I smsed him telling him 'Sorry I fixed it already'.
He didn't believe I could do it based on my own abilities.
What the hell?!
But he was right.
He found out that 'I fixed it' meant that I inserted a small white circle over the wrong page numbers.
White circles won't be printed right?
I thought it was smart.
haha.
We had a good laugh and then he faster help me delete the white circle and rearranged everything.
What will I do without Cal!!
Having dinner at Modesto's was a great experience because of the good service, good food and wonderful company. .
We ate the Costiera which was topped with squid, prawn and crabsticks. omg yummy.
It would have been just sufficient for two of us to share a 12 inch (diameter) regular sized pizza but my dear Caleb wanted to have one more pasta.
I learnt that boys who are hungry always over order.
Anyway I finished 50% of it - Cal yes I did I probably ate more than you.
I was so bloated. I had a food baby and I wanted to puke.
It is sick for a human to eat until so full its not like I'm in some eating competition leh.
I just felt compelled to not waste food and Cal was encouraging me to eat some more..
So I succumbed.
But he had to pay a price for letting me eat that much...
I was complaining all the way from 8pm till 915pm about how full I was and how I felt like puking all the food out.
haha.
He told me he didn't understand what I want - I'm upset when I'm hungry AND when I'm full.
He says that he doesn't know what to do with me.
Boo.
So Today at 2pm I had one dish of fried noodles from PGP old canteen.
Felt nauseous and had a headache from then on until 12am.
Didn't eat dinner.
Vomited lunch at 12am, oh about 5 hours ago.
Felt so much better.
Btw my indigestion caused me headache.
Once I puked my headache went away!! So amazing right?
Or was it because of the menstrual panadol I took? hmm.
The lesson learnt is that I gotta stop eating so much.
I'm not young anymore.
haha.
Thanks for saving the day again Cal! :D
♥Bid Farewell
