Updates
August 10, 2006Lots of things happened these days. And I really mean a lot because I didn’t have time to log in here in my blog, which I usually did, despite having a set of exams the following day.
Anyway…
POC
At present, I have ~4 patients a day. Documentation is also not toxic (they have a checklist and blank forms). For the past 2 weeks, I’m assigned in the in-patient and spinal ward so the cases range from spinal cord injury to fractures. I don’t find it tiring as expected, maybe because of the number of my patients and the exercises that we do (but wait… I really get sleepy when we’re about to go home — so sleepy that I feel even if I sleep the moment I get home, I’ll still feel tired the next day). Now, I’m feeling a bit more confident in handling patient that I want (sana) to be assigned to more but (fortunately din) POC don’t have much new referrals.
The staffs are nice too. They’re young and bubbly and approachable. I need to mention strict too because we just had a “mass make-up” a while ago because of delaying an activity :c .
Co-interns - from PLM to UST to MCA to Sta Isabel, Naga to Lyceum Batangas, to Fatima! We’re international but blend well.Yun nga lang, it’s really difficult for them not to call you by your school sometimes (which I don’t really like because I find it discriminating). Most are friendly and fun to be with and helpful.
I still have 3 weeks to go but looking forward to each day with an energized heart (sadly I can’t say body because the sleepyhead in me still conquers my body a lot of times).
P.s… I’m wearing scrub suit to POC! hehe..may porma factor (kahit halos lahat ng med prof naka scrub na rin). Nice.
Meet Czerny!
I’ve got a new notebook (3 weeks old). Just an entry level, friendly on the pocket and enough to support my primitive computer needs. And it’s not 2+(?) kilo 15 in screen unlike my first! (Why Czerny? Because, from my own experience, Czerny piano exercises are TOXIC, CHALLENGING AND SWEAT GLANDS STIMULATING without knowing it after your practice — yet there’s a certain pleasure I feel after practicing — yes, I have a blood of masochism.)
>> ohh.. Which reminds me, Vida, is not yet fixed, I miss her already!
Thesis Proposal
I don’t really want to think about this now because I feel so unsure of our status. I do love the topic, and I’m ok with my groupmates (we were grouped by the department) but eversince I can remember, I do have a problem with research and with writing itself. So there. We were so toxic last week, we spent 3/5 weekdays at school until 10 pm (our clinic duties end at around 5 pm and then we meet at school). A couple of “conspiracy” also occured. Suzie getting sick, problem with a groupmate, deskstop breaking down and not coming up with a “good enough” paper. Well, as our adviser said, “That’s (hassle, being not good enough) what the first draft is for.”
I love life - its mystery and its complexity. There is much to discover and to understand. I love people with passion. It's always interesting to meet a person overflowing with emotion. I love to play the piano and listen to intersting music. I like working with my hands that proabably explains my affinity with playing, doing crafts, typing (blogging) and even eating when doing nothing but I can't seem to make my whole body coordinated that you can't make me dance or do sports. I also like walking beside the bay, watching people, singing or humming, smiling or greeting strangers, thinking and not thinking of anything at all. || I prefer intimacy. I don't like going into bars or partying where you go on group dates. I like it when I can give 100% attention to whom I'm with because when I'm with a lot of people, I feel I have to accomodate them and I'm not able to share quality time with any of them. Drinking coffee and dining out is always on the top of the list.|| I feel I'm sitll living in my comfort zone. I'm yet to understand what's on the the other side of the wall. I'm yet to understand what others say 'the cruelty of reality' (if there is such). I like to do so may things but remain generally a passive person. I'm still on the path of discovering and adapting to the ideals (irony) of reality .
