Dear Blog,
I'm so damn tired!
Was on call last night, from 7pm to 7am today.
Didn't get much sleep at all. Didn't get to sit down. My shoes were uncomfortable so my feet and my legs hurt badly. And, the OT outfit was too flimsy to withstand the freezing air-cond temperature at the labour room.
I knew food and drinks would be scarce, therefore I restocked my body fat before heading to the labour room by eating Nasi Lemak in the morning and Nasi berlauk in the evening. I wasn't really that hungry til it was like about 4am. So, thank God for inventing Rocky (strawberry flavoured stick biscuits, yumm!). My colleagues and I pretty much munched on that the whole morning. Even Kak Nang (the houseman on call) took some Rocky sticks coz she was already getting hypoglycaemic (lacking sugar in the blood...for energy).
I got to conduct a birth delivery! It was tough and scary. And I had no experience in managing patients at the labour room while waiting for their cervical os to open wide. Kak Nang taught me how to put the Branula on the patient's hand, and another houseman on duty, Dr. Yap, reviewed my patient at 4am, and said that the patient was dehydrated. Boy, was she angry. Who wouldn't be? This labour! Of course you have to keep em hydrated! Aiyo, stupid Farah. She was experiencing some headches, wanting to faint. Doc found her to be rather tachycardic, but her blood pressure was normal. She was afebrile, but her urine ketone levels were a bit high (suggestive of dehydration in pregnant women). Doc told me to run the normal saline faster...so I had to constantly change the drip. Her urine output was less than 100mL, not good.
Dr. Yap also taught me how to do an in-out urinary catheterization properly. She was really nice, and friendly towards medical students.
So after my labour room on call, headed for the OT changing room, solat there, went to the ward at about 6.45am++, checked my patient's progress, followed the daily ward round with Dr. Lim, went to the lecture hall...unconsciously dozed off a bit during the lecture, went back to my room, watched Jane Austen's Book Club on my laptop, had a short nap, woke up and went for another lecture, headed back to the ward, found out my patient was discharged, but another patient already occupied the bed, gotta cover it again tonight.
Notice I didn't mention anything about food? It's becoz I didn't eat any heavy meals since my last Nasi berlauk the day before. Only now, 5.45pm++ today am I only eating rice again. I'm so damn hungry man. Anyway, I'm heading over to the ward again tonight to see my new patient's progress. Docs planned a Lower Segment Caesarean Section tomorrow due to her baby's breech (songsang) presentation.
So, catch up witcha later!
.hungar-ayyyy! l e n a.
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