- Saturday, June 11, 2016
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Hi I'm finally back with a non-nursing related post but hey my past two posts got like over 100 views, which is a lot by my standards so thank you to everyone who bothers reading whatever I have to say despite me being so inarticulate!! Okay before I start, I just wanted to say I'm addicted to Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes. It's a new release and he has an acoustic video on YouTube and that was on replay until I read in the comments section that the studio/original version is on Spotify so of course I went to search it up and I'm mad addicted. I hope I don't get sick of it!! It's been on repeat since like 2pm.
A few days later, Farah and I went to Adventure Cove!! I bought tickets for us last year but then I sprained both wrists falling down while ice-skating a day before we planned to go and god, the pain was excruciating so we postponed it by a whole semester and finally went after the academic year ended. This was bloody fun ah even though I was wearing shorts so that meant being extra self-conscious lol. I hate queuing up for rides but we went on a weekday and it was only uni holidays so I guess there weren't as many people as there would be on other days. We were supposed to wake up at 8am so we could reach at opening time lol but we overslept and reached Adventure Cove only at 2pm. Typical us. It was a fantastic day!! So sad that Far is going overseas for exchange :'(
Nadh, Sara, Adlin, Nad, Dina, Insy and I went for a super short karaoke session because they were fully booked and then had dinner at Swensen's afterward. Look at me being a complete giant?? I have no idea why I was wearing heels that day. I wish I could sing better. I really enjoy singing, I just wish I were good at it!!
Okay so this is when Sha and I went for SRT's Romeo & Juliet @ Fort Canning Park!! Ah yes it was a lovely night!! We had Nando's and then walked to Fort Canning and found a good spot! We had cookies and chips and water and a nice mat so all was well!! (Totally should've brought pillows) mY brain was so tired because of all the Shakespearean English but it was a wonderful performance and a fantastic night!! // Oh ya we also went out to watch The Witch like a week later but I was a total zombie the whole time because it was after work and the movie was a complete wtf to me although the cinematography was A++ hahaha and it was my first time at The Projector so that was cool too!! But overall that night was pretty amazing too (I'm always happy with him shh)
OMG I went to the trampoline park with Nat, Vict, Crys and Shao but I don't have any nice pictures so nevermind lah hor haha. It was bloody tiring, one hour was more than enough. Our birthday surprise for Nat was a total fail because the helium balloon I bought for her at Tampines and carried all the way to Jurong.... flew to the ceiling right when I reached the trampoline park. Such luck :') So we only had cookies to give her. After jumping around, Nat drove us to Shao's house and we ordered a lot of pizza and watched a movie and played with his cats. I had a bad reaction to the cats or maybe his house was just dusty af but my eyes itched and my skin itched and I kept sneezing and then I just left after 8pm haha it was a lovely day with them!!
And then clinicals started lol I have been so miserable the past four weeks. I'm so thankful for the two hours overlap in shifts because it means I can spend time with Adlin everyday. And also my shift mates - Prof Wee, Charm, Ama and ofc Christel!!! I wouldn't survive without them ah they know I siao siao since first day already. Two more weeks!! I hope I don't get an MRSA cubicle and I hope I'm not alone either!! I think spending an entire shift alone would be absolutely terrible, I am so not ready for that, please please please don't let me be alone. [There's five students per shift, three cubicles so we're always grouped two/two/one so I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE PLEASE] [I'll hyperventilate and cry and die]
Finally met up with Sidster after like months and we had Pizza Hut and then ice cream and can you imagine how tired I was?? This was after work too hahaha I should ban going out after work because I'm really a weakling okay, after work all I want to do is sleep. But omg Nabs is coming back end June and Feli is coming back around then so maybe we can finally have a full clique outing.
Missing Nadiah here because she had to go home with her brother but yay all of us went to see Insy performing and it was gr9 okay I cringed so many times but it was so good still hahaha and I hadn't seen Insy and Nad in two weeks and Nadh for four weeks so it was nice seeing all of them again :')
Hahaha my luck was so bad yesterday but let's just not dwell on that haha I'm gonna laugh at my own misfortune and hope for the best for the future haha tbh I can't wait for school to start only because I feel like clinicals is taking over my life and I have zero time to meet my friends and I miss them tons!! But hopefully after clinicals we'll hang out more and then that would make me dread school starting... probably.
And last but not least!!!! I got to watch Me Before You with Sha, finally after the delayed release, and it was so so great I bawled like a baby thank god my makeup stayed on!! I was a little late (sorry) but we made it and he got good seats and the person sitting in front of me was short so he/she didn't block my view and do you know how obsessed I am with Emilia and Sam??? Seeing them together in a movie was so shiok ah I can't believe I actually cried but it was so good and so sad!! And after that we went to Funan to meet Adlin and Nadhirah for dinner at Pizza Hut!! I'm so lucky to have him because I'm really always sesat even with directions, I'm hopeless. We shared a stuffed crust pizza mmmmm so good but really ah regular is too small I think they should call the 9 inch pizza a personal pizza... From there we walked over to The Arts House and omg the whole area near there is so pretty I can't believe I've never been there before!! Pentas Budaya 2016 was gr9 and I'm so so proud of Insy!!
It was the loveliest day/night with Sha and all my friends :') Can't wait for more nights like these!!
[ok my mom is telling me to sleep thx for reading]
[sorry this entire post was rushed and quite short!! i know i usually like to be more detailed]
- Sunday, June 05, 2016
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So I guess this is sort of a continuation to my previous post "Nursing Experience 1.0". I have finished another two weeks of my clinical posting, and this time it was at a B class ward which means AIRCON. There were lesser beds too. There were five beds per cubicle and there were six cubicles so that's thirty beds plus two isolation rooms and three spare beds at the back, which makes thirty five? If I got that wrong then it's my fault ah my math is really bad. So my first week in this ward, I was assigned to the the female cubicles. I think it was very uneventful hahaha there's really not much to do in that team because the patients are either very independent or bed-bound. Nevertheless, it was a good experience because I had the opportunity to help a doctor with blood-taking (it was a total fail but I shall not give details because of ~confidentiality~) and also the opportunities to watch not one but TWO urinary catheter insertions.
I think I've become a little stronger emotionally (only at work, I'm still a mess any other time) in the sense that I don't quite let negative comments upset me. There was a patient who called me a prostitute I think like the whole week hahahaha but I knew she had severe dementia so that helped with me not taking her seriously whenever she says things? Occasionally she'd be in a good mood and say thank you when I feed her the prescribed medications and that feels really nice. And you know, other times she'd be super sarcastic I'd just laugh my ass off. Oh and the view at the back of the ward I was at was wonderful. Am I allowed to say what ward I was posted to??? Nevermind lah NUS always sends students to the same wards. I took a super short time lapse video during one of my afternoon shifts.
At this point I was still hurting. As in my feet. Because I was wearing Bata flats. They weren't really flat ah actually but it's one of those flex slip ons, you know? I wore it the first three weeks of work this semester and the two weeks of nursing home attachment last semester and died everyday. But I got new shoes when Nat and I went shoe shopping. So ya here's a recommendation. If you want shoes that aren't that expensive and that are super comfy, try Skechers. I know we need all black ah so the designs are quite limited but like 3 out of 5 of my shift group wear Skechers and it's comfortable as heck. I bought the Skechers Performance Men's Go Train-Ace which are like sneakers and oh my god the double cushioning I really feel like I'm walking on cushion okay. I've worn it for a week and it didn't even take time to be broken in or whatever, it's comfortable from day one. AND YES I bought men's shoes -- that's just my style okay hahahah
If you're posted to CGH and are afraid of fish, please avoid the fish tank behind Kopitiam. The fishes there are bloody big like I don't know whether they're genetically modified or what but it's really scary they could use these fishes in a horror movie like Piranha 3DD or what.
And oh my god, language is so important. If you have time, try to take a language mod!! Mandarin/Malay/Tamil/Hindi whatever. I was used as a translator a lot the past two weeks and it's been really like wow I need to brush up on my mother tongue knowledge. I didn't know what intestines were in malay, and I had no idea how to translate "anastomotic leak" into malay either but lol I will be better, I believe in myself.
Week 2 was... hectic, but good. Sometimes you have a soft spot for a particular patient and that's okay. Of course, keep it professional always. An elderly patient cried because he missed his mom and I was so so so upset by it because I didn't even know if his mom was alive or not. And another patient cried because he said "old is useless, i can't do anything, now i'm sick, in hospital. might as well die" god it kills me to hear them say stuff like this. I feel so sad that I'm moving to a new ward because then I wouldn't get to see them anymore.
There are definitely some very difficult days, and then there are some very very very good days like yesterday. Maybe I'm biased because I got five skills signed yesterday and completed my 38 skills requirement to pass this module hahaha but it was great still.
Ok I'm gonna sleep now and post a non-nursing related post tomorrow, so keep a lookout for that.
I know I never would have joined a camp in a million years but my sister forced me and the nursing foc was the best thing to happen to me because it allowed me to make new friends and generally feel less alone when school starts fo real
- Sunday, June 05, 2016
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