Sylvia & Sashi's Wedding Dinner...

I was quite tempted to put this post's title as " Sylvia & Sashi's Wedding Dinner..and the horrible day at work before that"...but that's a bit too wordy...and it kinda ruins the title...anyway, before i go into Sylvia's wedding dinner, i just had to get this off my system...yes, my horrible day at work on Friday...

So i was post call on Thursday...and i had no idea what the plans would be for ICU patients on Thursday and Friday...so i was at Sylvia's house on Thursday night and got myself nail art on my finger nails..thinking that it should be a less busy day since it's Friday...boy, was i wrong...went to CME in the morning... suddenly got a msg saying, there's a tracheostomy for an ICU patient at 930am...i thought dang!!! all the transportation will definitely ruin my nail art...but was i in for a bigger shock or what?... so just a little background information about a normal transportation for a trachy patient who's stable on ventilator and does not require inotropes...you need to carry the ventilator, the emergency kit, the oxygen tanks and the patient's case notes...that's already quite a handful and you need at least 3 personnel to handle the transportation....

But this particular patient for trachy was not only on inotrope, he had 2 bloody chest tubes...when i left the hospital on Thursday he still had only 1 chest tube, which was bearable...but they just had to insert another one just before the trachy lah...and his platelets were low so we need to carry his blood and platelets as well....the worst thing was boss ORDERED that at no time should his chest tubes be clamped...i was praying to God the whole time to not let the patient die on me...

The tracheostomy was supposed to be at 9am...we only managed to leave ICU at 945am...i won't even go into the details of waiting for the damn ambulance, the transferring of the patient from trolley to trolley and how the patient desaturated when i clamped the chest tubes in order for trolley transfer...so i had to unclamp and move the patient with the chest drains on the floor...and the patient desaturated again in the ambulance so i had to manually bag him till we reached the ENT clinic...

When we finally reached there, it was 1030am...already i rue this day...so we started with the trachy which only took 30 mins...and boss actually called the HO who helped in escorting the patient, back to ICU...and he bloody knew that we needed as many ppl to help in transporting the patient...and the last straw was when i received a msg from boss in bold saying: DO NOT CLAMP THE CHEST TUBES!!! I was so pissed that my first reaction was to reply him this: F**K OFF!!! now i don't usually swear in public but boss was really pushing my limits...

The transport back to ICU was worse now that we had one person less to help us carry the stuffs...i really felt like walking away from everything and let boss settle the mess himself...as if things weren't bad enough...the oxygen tank ran out of oxygen...and we had to change to another tank...and patient desaturated again...when we finally reached ICU again, i was in such a foul mood that i actually shouted at my colleague...though the person i wanted to shout at was boss... i really felt like shouting at him: NEXT TIME, YOU BLOODY ESCORT THE PATIENT YOURSELF!!!! and he dared to tell me the chest tubes weren't fluctuating anymore...i felt like bloody slapping him...coz the chest drains were bubbling like a damn bubble bath!!! men can be such asses!!!

So that totally ruined my day..not to mention my nail art...uugh!!! thankfully the patient was ok...except that we killed a bit more grey matter with all the hypoxic episodes but well, his GCS was already low anyway...and thankfully the rest of the afternoon was less eventful...if boss had asked (oh wait, he doesn't 'ask', he just bloody orders people around) me to escort another patient, i think i'd have totally blown my top...

Elaine came from Kudat and met me at the hospital...i left work about 430pm and we went straight to the nail parlour...coz my nail art by then was just a hideous looking mess...and i didn't have nail polish remover at home...so it was either go buy one or go to the nail parlour and repaint my nails..i thought i deserved the latter so to the nail parlour it was...so i had my nails repainted in this colour called "kisses of peach"...and Elaine did nail art on her toes...her toe nails paint matched the dress she was wearing for the dinner...

After doing our nails, we went to the hair salon to get our hair washed and blow-dried...by then it was almost 6pm so we rushed home and bathed...splashed on some make-up and made it to Shangri-La Tanjung Aru's Grand Ballroom just in time before Sylvia and Sashi were about to walk into the hall...hehe...Sylvia looked so lovely in her wedding dress...it was a simple cream-coloured strapless laced dress with a long train...and the hall was packed with probably 70 tables...and hers was a dinner graced by Datuks and Datins...there was even a live string quartet playing classical music....talk about wow....

Food was good...managed to catch up with some ex-colleagues who were at the dinner as well... halfway through the dinner, Sylvia changed into another aquamarine silk dress which has a low back...i love dresses with low back...very sexy....when dinner ended and most of the guests have left, we took pics with the bride and groom...by the time Elaine and i left, it was 11pm plus... went to toilet...and then Elaine and i were busy taking photos of ourselves through the mirrors..in the toilet...hahaha...the silly things girls do...

So i guess it was a good end to what started out as a horrible day...friends' weddings always lift my mood...and i'm just glad i'm in a job where i don't have to bring work home...well, at least for now i don't have to...