Bad Week, Tough LuckThe past week is a horrible week.
Not only that we are facing the stress from the external audit
, it is a horrible way to start as well as to end.
On Monday we have had a bad case and should I say that I am lucky enough that I was not on duty because the day shift staff only managed to go home at 11pm. Imagine working from 7am to 11pm. OMG.
They did what they could including turning the ICU into a operating theatre because they can't afford to move the patient to anywhere.
I thought the audit is over and that is it.
Who knows on Saturday another bad case, and they code the patient at about 1907hrs, just after we started handing over and we had the annoucement
, they wanted me to run alone but Suyan was worried so she came along with me.
It was supposed to be an "ok" code as in when we were there the patient was stable, responsive to call and stuff but the principle doctor wanted her to be in ICU.
Who knows the moment after we transfer her and change her the patient collapsed.
And this is the very first time I have seen a real live defib.
Everyone was running around for something
so as to stablize the patient so that we could transfer her.
And, just as we thought everything was done...
The patient collapsed again.
I ended up knocking off at 2110hrs.
Almost couldn't make it home, I was just so tired and I was walking on the road with my eyes that could bearly open
... Now then I thought of it, I should have taken a cab home instead.
Tomorrow is work for me again and this coming week I have to work 5 days instead of the usual 3 or 4
because there is not enough staff.
I just hope that I can have a peaceful one.
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Food IssueSo inconvenient nowadays when the Kopitiam at my company closed for renovation.
Now we have to bring our own food, the food provided by the hospital has to be ordered before 9.30am and please la, work starts at 7am, we need to hand over, follow doctors' rounds and do changes for the patients, usually by the time we settle it is already like 11am plus? Who has the time to order food for ourselves before that time?
And the choice are so limited that on Wednesday I only managed to have a veggie cup noodle because there is no vegetarian food available
, for the whole day, almost died while have to run around because that was a busy day.
FOOD....
Such difficult to resolve issue.
-Sigh-
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KIDS! OH MAN!?Just read the papers after I came home from my night duty and happened to come across this article about a mother making a complain to the newspaper because her kid bumped into a man in some shopping centre causing a swell on the head. She was angry because she demanded for the guy to leave his personal particulars and the guy refused to do so.
I am amazed.
Not because of the guy refused to give his personal particulars but how UNREASONABLE this mother is.
Yes, you are right, the mother, in my view, is being UNREASONABLE HERE.
If you are out with your kid, and you know that you kid is so young and SO DAMN PRECIOUS and is as fragile as beancurd, then WHY DIDN'T THE MOTHER HOLD HIM TIGHTLY IN THE FIRST PLACE AND LET HIM RUN ABOUT BANGING INTO STRANGERS?!
IF HE IS SO PRECIOUS SHE SHOULD NOT EVEN HAVE LET HIM WONDER ABOUT ALONE!
I am NOT SAYING that the man has no responsibility, of course the guy who walked also should bear part of the responsibility of watching where he is going, but who knows this may have happened at the corner or a turn or something? May be he is also in a rush to somewhere which is really urgent and is like real business that he wasn't paying full attention. But don't you think that the mother should have hold the kid as well? Hold their hands don't let them run about like one of the chimps in the zoo.
Com'on, I believe if it is the mother who was being asked to leave personal particulars to a strangers she wouldn't wanna do so as well, serious. Who knows what are you going to do with my information? Going to Ah Loongs to borrow money?
It is not that it doesn't happened, even my house, a decent family who have never lost our IDs has been mysteriously disturbed by the loan sharks for the past 6 months with unknown names written on the walls. And asking to gvie personal particulars to a strangers, who would know what you wanna do right? It is a natural response that someone would get defensive when asked of personal particulars! Ok, if the person don't then may be you should start doubting whether are the particulars given are for real. I seriously don't think the mother should blame the man for refusing to do so.
And it stated in the report that the mother herself also admit that the one year old kid "ran off" on his own all of a sudden.
ONE YEAR OLD AND YOU ARE THE MOTHER AND NOT TAKING GOOD CARE OF HIM LETTING HIM RUNNING ALL ABOUT.
I just can't help to be mean and to laugh!
It's a one year old, NOT 10 year old kid who would probably be able to protect himself and land in a position that won't hurt himself as much.
Yes, you may think that because I am not a mother yet and of course I would side the man, but come, THINK. If you were walking on the road and a kid dashed out from nowhere in the speed of 20km/hr, what would happened?
Even for me, a person who did not make it to pass physics remember what is inertia and remember the 2nd newton's law. (Is it the 2nd law?) The kid would definitely fly!
I could never understand young parents nowadays, seems that they only know how to push the blame to the others, don't they think that they are not setting a good example for their kids??? Did they happen to forget that their kid is looking at what they are doing and will just follow suit because they are just as innocent as they can be!
Am I sounding like as if I am really pissed off?
Actually, I am not, I just don't understand.
Like this morning I was at McDonalds having breakfast before coming home and there is this kid dashing around in the restaurant as if he is in some obstacle course. The McDonalds itself is already small and there is not much space between tables, even the adult has to turn sideway in order to move through tables and this kid that looks about 8 years old was running about as if he is inside a maze!
R-U-N-N-I-N-G, NOT W-A-L-K-I-N-G.
And I was holding a cup of PIPING HOT MILO about 40 degrees celcus in my hand, can you imagine if he knocked into me what would have happened?
It's either him or me.
And I tell you, from what I saw this couple sure would scold me for not holding the drink carefully.
Can I just shout?
KEE SIAO AH!
Alright or not?
Your kid was running about in a SELF SERVICE fast food restaurant that is SO CRAMPY, and you know it well and well enough that there is HOT FOOD in the restaurant everywhere. Don't you think that the adult should at least tell the kid not to run?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't even see any one of the parent tried to stop him from his 100 metre dash, not even a word to tell him NOT TO RUN after he return to his seat.
This is young parents for you.
Competition is getting harsher in the world because people are getting more educated and more well off, which world you tell me, in the reality, in the adult cruel working world that would only REVOLVE AROUND YOU?
You think everyone would listen to your kid when your kid grow up?
Com'on, GET REAL, GROW UP YOUNG PARENTS, T-E-A-C-H!
If you don't intend to teach, then don't bear kids because you would only land them in trouble!
Asking me about future world?
You know what I would tell you.
Life is FadingI was just thinking about her the other day.
And here she came in.
Still remember how she look when I ran her Chemotherapy.
Her smiles, the scent that she likes to use...
And look at her now.
I was working night the other day, and she was wide awake, almost the whole night.
She look so helpless and frail, keep mumbling something on and on, how I wish I could understand and give her the help that she need.
I wonder if it was me, I saw the fear in her eyes, fear of what is coming or fear of not being able to make it home, I wonder.
She could no longer smile like she used to.
The nice rosy scent is gone, left with only the smell from the sore that she has.
And for a moment, I feel really sad.
Such a nice and gentle old lady, never complain of anything, always smiling, always speaking so softly.
And if there is something that I can help, I wish, God be kind and grant her wish.
Let her be home like the other one did.
, it is a horrible way to start as well as to end.
, they wanted me to run alone but Suyan was worried so she came along with me.
so as to stablize the patient so that we could transfer her.
... Now then I thought of it, I should have taken a cab home instead.
because there is not enough staff.
