Bad call and Good news...

I was on call yesterday...and i hate the 'calm-before-storm' calls..ok, so there wasn't exactly a storm last night..i mean there was no polytrauma with intra-abdominal injury, or leaking AAA, nor was there an ASA 3-4 patient with acute abdomen...in fact in total i only had 6 cases posted to me under emergency, 2 of which i 'ta pau'-ed for Sharon who's on call today...one of which was not done because it was too high risk to be done after office hours (and the orthopaedic team had already kept that left leg necrotizing fasciitis for 3 weeks before they decided to post the patient for wound debridement during my call)...oh and why was this patient high risk?...imagine putting a sumo wrestler under GA or spinal...

The other 'undone' case was due to the fact that there was no water in the level 2 OT from 9pm-3am.. and i didn't even know about it till it happened..and i was doing a neuro case that time (which luckily finished in about 2 hours plus)...sigh...then my MA thought of using the level 3 OT..there was water there..yay!!! so we did 2 appendicectomies (both of each lasted 2 hours plus, sigh..)...and before that started, my MA had a very dramatic attack of gastritis, which left me all alone running the 2 cases...so bottomline was, he slept soundly while i was working real hard till 5am in the morning...sigh...talk about a series of unfortunate events...

Anyway, on a brighter note, i received 2 good news yesterday...about lunch time i got a msg from Alisa which simply say, "i'm pregnant heh"...oh gosh!!! that's just great!!! she's been trying for quite sometime...i'm just so excited....and then Jasmine sent another msg saying, "ALISA IS PREGNANT! ALISA IS PREGNANT!"...hahaha, you can see we're all very excited...and then Alisa msged again and told me about Colleen's wedding...which Alisa would miss because she would not be out of her confinement period yet....anyway, Colleen's wedding is on Nov 28 2009 and i've already booked my leave...haha...this might turn out to be a very good year after all...

P/s: in case you're wondering what i was doing the whole day during my call...i was doing cases from the trauma list which otherwise would not have been done, thanks to the expertise of the orthopaedic team...anyway, need to catch up on my sleep debt...