OK

so i really wanted to write something about the great relaxing weekend i had with my friend Jo, but i am so not in the frame of mind to do that. so that will come later. i just wanted to say that today was one of those days that made me really wonder why on earth did i become a doctor. i really felt like i could so not do this today. nothing especially traumatic or sad happened today. it was just a really busy day, where nothing really went well. i had almost 30 patients and i just couldn't get everything done that i needed to. i pray that tomorrow is a better day. i will need grace for the 15hr day coming tomorrow........

just a tidbit

so yesterday i got to put a chest drain in by myself in one of my patients who had a pneumothorax (air outside his lung, causing it to collapse). i was under supervision of course, but it was my first full procedure by myself. it was cool. its always funny how its always at the end of a term that you get to do cool stuff. i think i just wasn't proactive enough. the thing i'm gonna work on next is my knots for suturing and theatre. i want to get good at that, so that when i do surgery/ obstetrics that i feel confident in that. so yesterday was busy, but the weekend is almost finished and this was a highlight for me... cool huh?

Almost half way

so i am almost half way through a very very long week. the first half was ridiculously busy. patients just kept coming. monday was a public holiday and we were going non stop. there was no fewer than 8 people waiting at any given time. we had atleast 4 traumas, countless heart attacks and the rest of general stuff. tuesday was no different. so now i am heading into the evening portions of the week and i pray that they are better than the mornings. this week has also been one of rain, rain and more rain. i didn't mind that so much, but it made me not want to get out of the bed. :) all in all i am still plugging along. nothing much to report.

oh i forgot to say that i did help to save a man's life on Mon. he was having a heart attack in front of my eyes. quick diagnosis and management helped to get him to the cardiac cath lab quickly. he had almost complete occlusion of his LAD artery. he was young too. 44 yrs old. so i guess its reason's like that why i decided to do medicine. i just have to remember that when the days get like monday and tuesday, and i want to switch professions....:)

the above pic is of the clock at central train station, early tuesday morning while i was on the way to work. it was gloriously foggy. i love it when the city gets like that.....

Superb Saturday

today was my last day off before a tremendously hectic week of work. between Sunday to Sunday, i only have Thursday off. the kicker is that i am working all evening shifts from Fri to Sunday, i finish at 11pm, then i start work at 7:30 am on Monday, in my new rotation at Westmead. so basically i have 1 day off for 2 weeks. its gonna be tough and i am just praying for the supernatural strength to get through it, and to do it with grace, humility and positive heart response. i want to do it well. Neways i am rambling on about work when i didn't come on here to blog about that.

lets start again...... So today, i had a really superb Saturday with 2 new friends. i was just gonna lounge around my house, wash my hair (which i did) and re twist it (which i didn't.... so u know it's the tied head look this week.... all Afrocentric) when my friend Jo called and said, hey lets have lunch with C, her fiance. my yes was one of the best things i could have said. we went to a steak and crab house, where the food was excellent. the best thing about the afternoon was the conversation. i looooooove to hang with people who can have an intelligent, vibrant, sometimes boisterous conversation. Jo and C, were hilarious and the convo topics were wide and varied. i just felt that is was just the best way to spend my Saturday before my big week, Great people, food and conversation.....

Sad note

last night i had to tell a family that their father was dying. he was very sick, and this had been coming for a while, but his sudden deterioration too k them by surprise. there was no hysterics or anything, but it was all just very sad. i felt like crying when i left the room as i saw the reality of the situation finally settle in. because until then, they still were holding out and hoping that he would wake up. and who knows maybe he is, but from our stand point we could only make him comfortable. he seemed comfortable, sleeping......Neways, sad moment. my first of many i am sure. i didn't cry though, but the tears were there and i could have,... easily.

Birthday

so my b-day has come and gone, though for me, i tend to extend my B-day for weeks. my day was great. very relaxing, just the way i needed it to be. being so busy, i was really glad when i didn't have to work and i really couldn't be bothered, and was too tired to organize some kind of get together for the day. i also didn't feel like seeing everyone together. it is a lot of work working out who i want to invite to things, and who would actually come. so i prefer to get together with people in smaller groups or one on one.

so on Friday i went to dinner with Brooker, JT and some other folk. then we met up with some of the other peeps and just chilled. then on my b-day i first got a massage. it so happened that i had 2 people assigned to me and of course i told them it was my b-day. i got the best massage, head to toe. it was great. i then i went for a pedicure. so it was a pamper day. after that i went to see Indiana Jones. it was ok, i kept having to remind myself that it was Indiana Jones and that it was allowed to be a bit fantastical. the day ended with an African party, which i went to for just a bit. all through out the day i got phone calls and messages from people all over the world. i got to talk to Chirag in Africa, my Family in Jamaica, Yun from NYC and so many others. so all in all it was a really great day......