From OB Duty

Grabe! There's nothing like the feeling of from duty... From the time that the sun finally rises and as the light peeks though the windows, I can feel the hope! Whoopee! Going home soon! Hehe

Don't get me wrong, I like what I'm doing and tying women's vagina up and everything, and I would rather do that than rotate somewhere boring like patho or something, but it's just so very tiring! And it's September! The peak month of babies, because lots of babies are made over Christmas! And technically, the number of babies we admitted last night was just around 20 plus, so it was pretty average. Not yet many for the month of September!

But for some reason, I wasn't able to go to sleep? I was able to take a "nap" sitting up for ten minutes, before another pregnant mother came in the birthing room!

But anyway, what am I saying? Let me first explain that our internship group is assigned to rotate to OB-Gyne EAMC for two months (September to October). (Gasp! I know that's 20-21 duties in OB in the peak season!) We are 7-8 interns in a duty with 2-3 clerks to help us along. Anyway, each night, one is assigned to IE room (triage for pregnant mothers basically), Labor Room, Birthing (my current post for actual NSD), OR, Pay, Ward, and Floater/Runner. Then we rotate towards different posts after 3 duties.

Anyway, so how was it? Actually, I wasn't really sure of what to do at first, if I'm supposed to assist, such as what we did in Fabella or what. I finally figure it out that when there are student nurses, I'll let them assist and get the placenta out etc because in the end, the residents will give us the suturing part (which is something I just LOVE doing! One of my reasons why I thought of OB or Surgery as a possible specialty).

On our second duty day (and my second time with birthing post), I did lots of sutures, practiced lots of coaching and lecturing mothers on why they shouldn't have been pregnant! Hehe I love it! Cutting and sewing people up! I know sewing can hurt like hell, especially without anesthesia so good luck! But sometimes, I'm really irritated at those young mothers who got themselves pregnant because of curiousity, and get irritated more by them because of their constant loud complaining that I kept on thinking "Buti nga sa'yo" when I hurt them while sewing! They still have their whole lives ahead of them and then, bam! I had a patient who's 15 and 16 yrs old who had twins! OMG! Those twins could have been her siblings, not her children! Geez, what's so great about sex that is so overrated by the media? That it's supposed to be so very special and great that you will forget everything? Oh puh-leeze! Overrated!

Anyway, so tired now, especially I feel that I made myself more useful now compared to my first duty. Lots more placenta and blood spilled on me, my hands got scrubbed in so many times that my wounds and blister from the electrocution won't dry up for a long time. my hands are tired from writing so many post-partum orders and prescriptions. Sometimes while suturing, I cut my gloves (which are loose and big for me) with my needle, and just hope that the mother is not infected with any serious blood borne disease... Yeah, maybe I should start resuming my vitamins?

I think I'll sleep again and wake up tomorrow to a new day! Hehe Yey, Sunday for a preduty so no classes! Yipee!

more pics of Les Caraibes

When: Aug 22-23, 2009 Where: Les Caraibes, Laiya, Batangas With D-Mates (DOH Intern group) To enjoy prior to 4 months of OB and Medicine days ahead! (And make most of the benign Pedia rotation at PCMC) Still at the Hospital Waiting for Stranded UST People Intense Game of... Not really sure what Still waiting At the van (first position) Lunch at Mister Kebab At the van (second position) Waiting to Check In Couples Room Orange you glad you came? Singles (for this weekend) room Mister Salt and Pepper with some watermelon shakes Back view Watching the sea Cleavage view Roaming Girls at the Beach In the water In the Blue, er Green Lagoon Waiting for Dinner Dinner... still waiting Texting the driver With my Bamboo PGI (Patay Gutom Interns) Gutom na kami! Pakainin niyo na kami! Let the drinking begin Lots of chips and drinks Cami Drinking Lemon Love Gusto ko pa! - Cami Loving the shot glass Obsessed with Pics Closer... Actual pic Bok urinating? Me with Red, redder, and reddest Third wheel ako Tin and Laurence Ok daw sabi ni Tasha Teaching Oreo to be the chaser Sino mas pula? Kaninong kamay ang chees-y? Concentrated sa Pag-Inom Drunk Effect Charee with a crab Pula na tlga ni Melli caught rolling in the sand? Lying down at the sand migrating the drinks to the sand ingit ang walang sarong! kanya-kanyang position cheers! Me and Cha with the STAR Me and Jecai with the STAR Take 1 Take 2 Take 3 Wasted Reviving myself "Yes, I could still discuss about anemia." GCS 15 The Hotdog (The Equivalence of my Life) One more shot for Tin I think Melli's drunk See? But Melli's still thirsty! One more shot before going back Early morning risers Clear waters underneath Clear blue sea Sexy back Post-Electrocution Brunch for early risers Lunch for late risers waiting for the food (PGI tlga...) Dozing off Pearls for Sale Modeling the Pearls Consultant Level Pearls Lounging back to sleep Woke up because of the camera Battle of the Tadyang Too hot outside Packing out Doctors to the Barrios? Charee and our feet Doctors to the Beaches Consultant Mace With Douglas With Douglas again nOthing but Douglas Jump shot 1 Jump shot 2 Jump shot 3 With some colorful flags and boats Still with the colorful things Jace and Mace ADMU Bio Sisters The Killer Electrifying Pole Stop-Over at Total Gas Station Still at the Thai place Melli's sick... mukha ba? Waiting by the parking lot With Mt. Makiling at the Back Laiya 2009 (133).JPG