7.00am - 6.00pm daily = Extreme fatigue, boredom and moody.
Yes, i did learn a lot from Seremban.
But travel to and fro daily is just too much to handle, at the moment at least.
Its really tiring, and i dont get enough sleep, and there's volley match and training on some days of the week, and planning to start jogging again so i dont make a fool out of myself in next month's Mizuno Wave Run.
Sigh.
Its annoying how busy life can be sometimes.
Sooooo busy i need not talk and i dont even have time to miss anyone? To think about any other things other than posting, logbook and volley?
Ok, i should stop crapping and start sharing what i have learnt from the seremban posting so far.
Basically our daily routine for internal medicine posting is to go for ward round and do clerking in the morning, followed by case presentation where one to two students present what they have just clerked from the ward in front of a lecturer and then one hour lunch break which i seriously do not enjoy cos the canteen sucks HUGEHUGEHUGE time!!! There'll be no food at all except for gravy by 1pm, and my lunch break is from 1-2pm! Sheeettt! And so inefficient we have to queue for damn long time just to pay for that freaking miserable plate of food. And be prepared if you were to order fried rice cos you'll have to wait for almost half an hour eventhough the canteen appears to be not very crowded :((
After the unhealthy lunch (mostly fried food and curry), we'll have TBL which is something like PBL. Only difference is there's no trigger, and our discussion will be based on actual cases from the hospital. Its a 3hours thingy. And after lunch. Just imagine myself sitting there with an empty head.
And by the time the torture is finally over, its already 5pm.
And by the time i finally reach my "now home-sweet-home" vista, its 6+ sometimes.
Its really not easy i tell you.
At the end of the day when you finally get to lie on the bed, you'll be like "What is this super comfy thing im lying on" and i just dont wanna wake up so early the next day for the same thing over and over again!!
Such is life.
A life of sem6 student? Probably?
But from the ward rounds, i see tonnes and tonnes of patients, both male and female, lying on their bed helplessly. Some appear to be alright, communicative and can still smile at your face. Some are simply too tired and sick to even care who you are. Some need machines and medical equipment to help them stay alive. Its sad, yes it sure is.
It just make me realise how extremely lucky i am to be waking up everyday in my life feeling healthy and able to breathe. Breathing seems so effortless we just take it for granted sometimes, but we never know for others, breathing can be impossible. A lot a lot of cardiac cases, respi cases, diabetic patient and some cancer patient and i wonder why does this happen. I mean, lets just take cardiac and diabetic cases. It is not something that is unavoidable right? Unless there're hereditary or something. It is definitely preventable and yet, people just dont know how to take care of themselves. Do they not care of the health, or do they not know how to care? A lot of diseases went undiagnosed, as in patient do not know whether they have hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia until they're admitted to hospital. Until the reading is so high it is almost irreversible. And worst of all, some of them are not even in their 60s or 70s. They may be only in their 50s, worse still 40s!! Depressing right??
And also its surprising to know people can get really suicidal at times. I've seen cases of paracetamol poisoning, whereby patient just swallowed like 25-30+ pills in a day when the maximum dose is only 8 per day. Asked whether its intentional or accidental, they can still answer intentional and that totally made us speechless. Its just one of those badly depressed day and a broken relationship and these can trigger such an action. What can be more precious than your very own life and which part of this sentence do you not get for goodness sake.
Today, i've seen cases of rheumatoid arthritis and possibly SLE at the clinic. Its indeed a good learning experience although its not like im gonna treat this kind of patient in the future. Clerked a 17 year old rheumatoid arthritis male patient. He is in his lower six studies now and he's been diagnosed with this condition since form 1. Sad but i am really glad he found good doctors and he can still live his life as a normal young man without any difficulties and pain. Also, a case of ankylosing spondylitis. Very strong familiar history of this disease. Its a disease i have long forgotten and i clearly do not know what it is today. Lucky there's lecturer/rheumatologist to guide us.
Well actually, Seremban really really do have very good cases sometimes. Good for all the local medical students. I am pretty sure they'll be able to learn a lot and by the time they graduate it will be a breeze for them to treat all sort of patients. But for us dental students, well, like they always say, good to know.
Enough of medical stuff, the next thing on my list that im looking forward to :
The Mizuno Wave Run!!!
11km of ups and downhills, yeah like its name "WAVE".
I sound excited although im actually damn scared cos i stop jogging for so long now.
But wait.
I spent 40bucks for registration, there is absolutely no way im backing out!
So.
Runnnnn that is! :DDD
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