Have yourself a merry reaper Christmas...

I know i'm supposed to be doing my HK-Macau series but i'm interrupting that with a Christmas post since it's Christmas...so like last year, i'm on call on Christmas eve...yes, again...i guess that's what happens when you don't go anywhere during Christmas...ppl expect you to work...well, it's not that bad really...at least i get to go to church for Christmas service on Christmas morning...although i'd be dead tired...

In Chinese, Christmas eve is called 'Ping An Ye'...literally translated as peaceful night...but i supposed if you're me, and are on call, it's never a peaceful night...any night...one unstable patient in ICU is enough to give you an un-peaceful night...last night, i had 3 unstable patients...one of whom i was giving everything i could just to keep him alive till his daughters come back to see him on Christmas day...

But i thank God for His mercy...coz the Grim Reaper did not make an appearance during my call last night...i guess he was at some Christmas party...the reapers' version...so that all 3 patients were still alive...in the sense that their hearts are still beating...but they'd die eventually...

Pang came to ICU last night...coz the son of one of my dying patients called him to come help his dad...i supposed i should feel insulted but i really felt grateful that Pang came to help..coz i really didn't know what else i could do to help that patient...and i'm really bad at dealing with families of dying patients...so Pang did all the talking for me...

Giri was on call yesterday too...so it was good to have company...he came to ICU looking for bed...i told him, you'll have to wait till one of my 3 unstable patients die...we chatted a while...it's been a long time since we actually got to sit down and chat...he mentioned something about us USM grads...he said that we're all a bit of a pushover..in other words...we're quite a bunch of losers...hahaha...i couldn't agree more...

Managed to sleep a little...i was just so tired...was recovering from AGE...it's a horrible thing to have...this morning came home, bathed and got ready for church...Flora came to pick me up and we went to church...they were showing a video clip about Pastor's daughter's miraculous resurrection from death...i couldn't help thinking about my dead and dying patients...

After church, Flora and i went to Little Italy for our Christmas lunch...had pizza bianca, ravioli riccota norcina and salmon bruschetta...yummy!!! though i'm being mean to my GI tract...overworking it when i'm just recovering from AGE...hehe...oh well...life's too short to be too careful...after lunch, came home and slept till dinner time...nice...soon, i will not have the luxury of post call day off...sigh...

Oh well, a merry and blessed Christmas to you all...