-Sigh-
Bet vaccation is never enough.
My leave, despite of having 2 weeks, is filled with activities~
Graduation, preparing presentation slides, gathering with different groups of friends, make a trip out of Singapore, doctors appointments, scans and blood test...
Like never stop at all.
Glad to have met up with Alice before she went home, then Evelyn, Nad Nad, Mac, Kewei, Siling and Shuhui at Siling's house; and of course, met up with my EK Bear who travel back from Australia for a short trip.
Caught a movie with KK today, 2012, and I think the show has been overrated on the internet. Somehow just feel that something is not right, the story a lil' draggy, and my buddy fell asleep despite the whole world is collapsing inside. Lol.
Poor thing lah, she was post call and has to come out to entertain me. =p
But glad that she came otherwise her present would be super overdue, then I probably would name that present as "birthday cum merry christmas cum new year" (which I really hope I don't need to add in CNY and Valentines'); Hee... Sorry KK for the delay, just hope that you like it and it does not take up much space, so I think it should be kinda fine (you probably wouldn't wanna know what I thought of getting for you at the beginning and I didn't tell you that. Lol.)
Anyway, went for a CT Scan today, in preparation for the upcoming KIV surgery that I would probably be going, and now then I know...
Size 20 gauge cannula is NO JOKE!
Super painful, the worse is that the pain is not just on insertion, in fact during insertion it was fine, it was the after effect, when the cannula is left there, that is where the pain comes and you know you can't pull the plug out unless you wished to be poke again.
And...
Having sent SO MANY patients for CT scan previously, I have NEVER E-V-E-R knew that when they inject in the dye the pain could be so bad, it was not just the burning sensation that they were talking about, it was like...
Like someone is using a knife to scratch against your blood vessels, THAT BAD.
I have to keep taking deep breathe in order not to scream or break down. The person keep saying sorry, I was so cold and my hands are too numb (my last 2 fingers turned very numb when the dye was going in, somehow I don't know why, is my circulation so bad?) to say anything and when they finished injecting the dye, I burst into laughter (Probably out of mind, too stress and I have no idea how to react, laugh is the best way to hide embarrassment I guess?)
Besides the pain from the cannula, it was super cold in there, I wonder do they care if patient turn hypothermic in there. I was already wearing my extra jacket and 2 layer of clothes in fact, and I was shivering at a corner while waiting for the scan lor.
What's more, I was being asked to fast for 4 hours prior to the scan, something which at first I don't understand (and KK, stress to you again, MY STOMACH IS NOT IN MY HEAD! -bluehhh- =p); but later when I asked the staff there they said they fast because some people might puke after the dye is in, though so far I have never heard of any patient puked for CT dye (fortunately?) Anyway the people in there is super experienced, so I guess they know what they are doing.
Now I know, understand how the patient feels. It is nothing when you lie and wait for the bed to move in and out to get the image, it is only bad when you have to bear with all the pain.
-Sigh-
Wished that I could be more skillful so that my patients don't have to go through such pain that I have been through.
Will that day come?
