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Friday, August 24, 2007
Just finished my 3 days of night shift...
My 1st night, i have my desat pt still around with me. when we take over, the 1st and the last BP i can get for her is 40/35mmhg. That was like abt to go alre.... subsequently, all her BP was unrecordable. when we were doin sponging, we dint see her breathing, we tot she would have gone alre. But after that she gasped for another breath.. we had a relief then...
Surprisingly, she managed to survive till the next morning. sadly, she passed away after our shift.
got few hourly to do... time passed quite fast. answer call bells.
One of my pt demanded 1/2 hour turning, that was tiring. pity him somehow....
Everybody was like so surprise to see me on night.... they said i could actually turn her off...
but i dun feel like turning her down. Hans actually bought mee goreng for me at 12 MIDNIGHT
so touched le....
that was my 1st night.
second night, better than 1st night. cos i got 2 discharges during afternoon shift. my workload become lighter..
everything goes smoothly and i got lesser things to do.. quite an enjoyable night.
however my PN not enjoying her night. cos she got hourly eye drop to give and tis pt a bit "F"
overall it was ok.
third night also ok, except my eyes cant stay awake at 3 plus
Like kena knock off . however i managed to survive till the next morning...
However smth happened after that.
I went home to sleep till 2 plus in the afternoon then i went out to do smth
helped around till 5 plus. when we was abt to put those bottle which are placed on the floor to the box, somebody accidentally knock on to the bottle and it feel on the floor..
i was looking at that broken bottle, felt slight pain on my foot.
I turned and looked on my foot, "blood coming out" i said in my heart.
At that point of time i was stunned for few seconds..
my mum quickly pressed my wound... blood comes out like no body business
everybody surrounded me and get this and that for me
there was 1 uncle kind enough to bring me to 24 hour clinic.
i went in and the dr asked me some funny qns
he cleaned my wound with clorhexidine. it was so painful until i cried.
it was an open wound of 2.5cm x 1cm. depth of 0.5 cm
even after 1/2 hour bld still comes out. He said he need to stitch up the wound probably 2-3 stitches. I told him to make it 2.
he gave me lignocaine jab. his assistant gave the wrong drug to him. he was alert enough to told off the nr. otherwise will get scolding from me.
overall i had 3 injections( lignocaine and tetanus) and 2 stiches done.
Wad a day....
got mc for 4 days, STO 1 wk time and can wear slipper for 1 wk
total bill was 140 plus.
evrything happened just 1 day b4 pay day....
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
9:52 PM
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Huh?
Today taking charge of 12 pts.... Vy hack man...................
Really, I was busy like hell. Guess wad? All of them questioning why i have to stay back till so late...
Morning time it was still smoothly goin on...
Comes to 9 plus, My pt started to de-sat when we tried to wind off the o2. When we put back the o2, the sat still not picking up... Instead it desat till 81%. I was so scared, I informed the Dr.
She told me to increase the o2 to 4L.. Sat still 84% and BP was only 70/40mmhg.
I called her again. She told me to run a fast drip for the pt but there is no plug.
By the time she comes, the sat starts to pick up and maintain @ 97%. It was after 45 mins then she comes to set plug and took all the bld for my pt. She went to take ECG but she cant get the thing eventhough 2 ECG machine was used. Her face damn black sia, in the end i went over to other ward to borrow the machine...
I informed her to put up the DIL nicely, she said " I know what to do"
wad is this man? In the 1st place u shld have done all tis... and not till now
By the time gets settle with this pt its alre half shift gone.
Call bell rang non stop for my side.
C/o pain everywhere. I given IM injection and finally he settled off. one keep shouting for Nr, one keep asking u to do tis and that. another one demand for pain killer every hour.
To insert r/t for pt. other pt pulled out r/t. so many phone calls to answer.
got quite a few outing. IMR no where to be found. case sheet all over the place.
when u start writing report, tis call u that call u.
I 've got 4 pt need pounding for med, 2 r/t.
Is not that I do not want to get things done earlier. The problem is I cant.
I tried to finish as fast as i can.
Poor Lincy dint go for break bcos of me......
there is 2 discharges and luckily Lincy helped me for tt.
2 trolley bath to do. Not done by me...
I wonder if these are the working life i am goin to lead on, i may not be able to make it. seriously.
I am willing to learn but i need some time and encouragement.
Pls dun gossip around abt us. We dint mean to do all this. pls be kind ppl.
this is wad my horoscope says today:
"Uncertain outcomes are keeping you distracted from concentrating on what you're doing today -- you are so wrapped up in finding out what will happen next that you can't really live in the moment. But until you do, you will keep on feeling moody and slow. So today you need to try to figure out why future unknowns are so much more important to you than what's happening now. Learn how to let things unfold however they unfold. Believe that you can deal with things as they evolve, because you can."
I think its quite true in a sense of wad happened today....
anyway, 2 days ago, i was accused by my pt. He claimed tt I was not happy with him just bcos he keep asking for tolbutamide in the morning. He said I wanted to kill him with 20 over tablet which is ordered for his morning dose.... He even asked for me to write wad medicine he is on, wads all that for, and how much dosage he is on.
Will i do that even if i am really nt happy with him?
I wont seriously. I felt sad for wad he had said.
If i am tt kind of person, i will not enter nursing and start on this career.
I know u are concern over ur illness bt pls dun accuse me.
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
3:45 AM
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Ho... ho... finally today got the internet connection......
1 week dint blog liao
Now started to take more than 5 cases liao....
'll try my best to serve meds faster, write report, finish changes on time, pass report on time and lastly to be able to go back home on time without leaving some things undone...
He... he... he.... thats my aim for tis month...
Hopefully can manage.
I starting to go on night soon (21/8/07) do junior work..... for 3 days
Dunno whether i can do it or not.
Tml goin to take 12 cases.... sounds scary man.........
Hope everything will go smoothly.......
Thanks to Yuhan and Zheng Ying for helping me when we were on duty together...
Always feel bad to Beena.
She teaches us a lot. Very patient and willing to bear with our silliness and blurrness.
Million thanks to her....
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
5:51 AM
Thursday, August 9, 2007
I found new house to move in alre... Much bigger compared to previous house....
But the house vy vy messy plus dirty....
Previously rented by some china ppl... They dint clean at all...
Especially the kitchen, stinks ++++
Almost fainted half way while cleaning the fridge...
I was wondering how can they stay in such an environment.
The dust made my nose allergic, now become flu....
Finally today we finished all the cleaning....
Thanks to wenxin and LT ++ for spending their ND in my house, to help me do the cleaning...
Really appreciate u guys come to help......
Somehow rather feel bad cos LT actually wanna ask wenxin out. But in the end had to do cleaning...
Now my house vy clean liao. he... he....
After listening to sister Jane, I appreciate life more and also the ppl surrounding me....
Ur biggest compliment is pt's smile, happiness and to see them go back safely
As long as they dun complain, u shld be happy
If 1 day, GOD would to take any of my love ones from me, I just have 1 request.
Please let tt person goes without pain and satisfied of what she/he has alre done when they are still around. Dun let them suffer in pain....
Take them with u safely.....
thanks for letting me, to have what i have now....
I love all of u guys.... really
I love my family, grandma, fren..............
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
4:39 AM
Friday, August 3, 2007
Yest, we had an active resus to do. Its my 1st time participating in the active resus...
Very anxious and nervous... I run up and down looking for things...
At tt point of time, i realised tt its very impt to know where u place all ur stuff.
Its not a 30 mins things to do.. Resus can take up to few hours job.
Its really an eye opener thing for me...
Yest, i only took charge of 4 pts. 1 resus enough to make me real busy.
If i was to take 12 cases, how can i manage it?
In the end, we managed to revived the pt. Sent to MICU
However, pt passed away tis morning at 4. Sad though, but 1 thing is that I felt satisfied as we were able to revived the pt in the ward.
I also discovered that compliment is not important.
Wad's happiness is u are able to save ur pt during resus and able to discharge ur sick pt back home in a well condition...
We really have to treasure someone that are close to us. We wont know what will happen tml... Really!!
Please cherish ur love one and tell them how much they meant to u, and u love them.
Today, found out it was last day for sotong, tortoise, and Raymond. Kind of like goin to miss them a lot. They made us laughed. Help us also in certain way. thanks to u ppl anyway...
During our student time we also blurred and did quite some mistakes lo...
So some how we can understand tt. All the best ppl.... I enjoyed working with u guys, though sometimes i laughed like mad... sorry
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
4:23 AM
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
why is sotong so blur like sotong and why is turtle looks so funny and like turtle.
Today got joker in the ward.... Take out toothpick to inflict pain and eventually car key to stroke the feet... who the hell teach all this?
Wad a funny joke started for the day...
today is nurses' day... got big celebration in TTSH...
Wish all the nurses out there HAPPY NURSES' DAY
u all are great ppl scattered all over the world. And we are "angels" for sure.
sotong... sotong... turtle... turtle.....
life is unpredictable, pls cherish every moment
6:00 AM
