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!