Friday, June 10, 2011

The longest 2 days in my life...and more to come...

So the bunch of us started working on Wednesday morning...went to the hospital at 730am...it was our elective OT day...so day 1 of life in the department we get thrown into the furnace...we had a free fibular flap...saw 2 cleft lip repairs...assisted one frontalis advancement...and then scrubbed in for the flap as well...the flap started at 1030am...we only finished at 330am Thursday morning...and had to send the patient to ICU...had to made sure the transfer was uneventful so that the flap won't be compromised...and no, that wasn't the end of it yet...

There was a wound debridement and escharotomy in the emergency OT so us taggers had to stay back to assist and observed...and it ended about 6am plus...by the time we got out of OT and got home it was past 630am...so i only had time to bathe and brush my teeth and it was off to work again...i managed to sleep for like an hour during the escharotomy...but i really had problem keeping my eyes open during the briefing by our head of department...and there was a free flap which was postpone from yesterday which initially was cancelled...but then after lunch we got a msg saying it was on again...groan!!!!

So we went into OT...the latissimus dorsi free flap for foot reconstruction started at about 3pm...and we managed to get out of OT by 1030pm...woohoo!!! that was a miracle...at least Cinderella managed to get home before 12 midnight...really thank God for that...wanted to go to church this morning (in Kelantan we go to church on Fridays instead of Sundays coz Fridays are off days and Sundays are working days)...but when i woke up it was 1030am...hehe, church was halfway through...Suet Lai said don't worry...God will forgive me...He understands that i'm too tired...i just hope this won't be a regular thing coz i really want to start going to church again every week coz i haven't been doing that back in KK...

Oh well, at least today i got to rest a bit...managed to study a bit too...though half of the stuffs i read i couldn't understand...hopefully i'll be able to study enough to pass my 1st year exam...so many things to read...so little time...although it's really tiring to be in OT for long hours, but i actually like the things i'm observing and learning...so i guess it's not too bad...hopefully i can pull through these 4 years...gonna need lots of prayers and miracles...and probably won't be updating my blog as often...then again, since it's my only outlet, i may have more input...hehe...

2 comments:

  1. Is Ramesh still there? OR graduated as plastic surgeon already?

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  2. yea, Ramesh is a registrar now, Johnny...he should be graduating end of this year...

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