Friday, June 25, 2004

first ward, first patient, first terror

this is such a bad way to end the week. shit talaga! this morning i had my medicine class at OM at 7am...and what do u know? a quiz! i should have known. i failed as expected...2/10. at least i knew the chief complaint. id like to reason out my failure...i was reading last night about previous lectures but didnt finish it since during that time the anaesthetic effect on my gum is slowly diminishing and i could feel the pain sinking in. so i drank my mefenamic and went on to sleep. had i finished reading i could have passed the exam.

but that didnt end it...

after the quiz we were ordered to go to the medicine ward at the fourth floor of OM to take patient history. we were grouped into 6. ours arrived first on the wards. at the entrance we were given our assigned patient. A.A., 39 y/o, room 406. so there we went. we first let the doctors and clerks and interns do their rounds before we entered. everything was going on fine. we were asking questions from the general data upto the persol/social history. until, we went back to the classroom.

since we were the ones who arrived first, we finished first. we were looking for our precepts to ask wats next but they were no where to be found. so we assumed they were in the faculty/classroom waiting. we didnt found them at the classroom. and we continue discussing about the patient on our own. when suddenly Dr. Guzman came...

'sino may sabi pwede na kayo bumaba?, bat bumaba kayo?'

shit...eto na sabi ko! lalampasuhin na kme...

damn you doc! no one informed us not to go downstairs...your intructions are incomplete and unreliable! shit ka! (but of course i didnt utter these)

its his word against us. kahit pa alam namin ang totoo, pag sinabi nila sinabi nila.

with us were 2 other groups. and dr. guzman said in his most warning tone of a voice..."sa friday, kayong 3 ang uunahin ko...pinakamahirap na precept sa inyo"

'talaga?' sabi ng mga friends ko. 'hay naku di ako natatakot' the other uttered in the most secretive way.

and i just simply said 'ako din'...but deep inside my intestines are coiling, my hands shaky, my perspiration as numerous than ever before. i was already being paranoid. cussing and enumerating the scenarios in my head.

shit talaga! first ward ko! first patient ko and eto ako takot na takot!

but isa lang ang panlaban sa lahat ng ito!

ARAL MABUTI!

Thursday, June 24, 2004

my tooth extraction

a few months ago my dental pasta was destroyed and i havent had a chance to go to the dentist due to skul constraints and by the time i got free of it i procrastinated. until last night, when i came home from skul and brushing my teeth, a part of my 3rd molar fell off. a signal that i should have it removed. and so i did.

me and mom first went to baclaran to where my sister usu had her cleaning and stuff. her unusual and incomplete sense of direction led us to nowhere. it pissed me off. she always pisses me off. so after the long walk in baclaran, we've decided to go back to the dentist we knew way back from our old house in mia. and shit, it couldnt get any unluckier than this coz the doctor was out. shit talaga. so our last resort is to that dentist in Jaka. we didnt consider it in the first place eventhough its much closer to the village since they charge a whole lot of money for a tooth extraction. we're nearing the clinic when my mom saw a dental clinic at the second floor of a once was a cinema. we went there and inquired. 300 pesos! hmmm thats ok.

and then it was all there. it was my first time to have my tooth extraction since i never had problems with my teeth before except for a few dental plasta and cleaning.

'ang tigas ng ngipin mo..kanina ko pa inuuga ayaw man lang mahila'

and i just smiled. he was cute you know (the dentist). i think he's bi. a proof would be his incling for mtv at the middle of his work. its an immature reason but i still have a gut feeling. and he was good too, he has good hands and most important...a intuitive patient care.

for now i should be content not to smoke for a few days or so. im sure my alveolar macrophages and type II pneumonocytes are rejoicing. having a party at this very instance. well...happy fiesta LUNGS!

Monday, June 21, 2004

i must have have moved on

my make-up class in micro/para was cancelled this afternoon... pedia class thought we have one thats why they dismissed us early (for god knows our topic in that class today is a total boredom...bummer).

on my way home, i was listening to my mp3 of MYMP's dreaming without you. i have been listening to it all summer long until now. and i like the way the idea of the song sinks in to me like how vitamins are absorbed by the enterocytes. well anyhow, i came into a conclusion that i must have had move on from my first ex. the fortuitous (love the word) event that came last friday of seeing each other, didnt really bothered me much. i always expect our meet-up to be like somber and gray and full of bitterness. but the thing is it wasnt. minus the fact that i still have a little bit of bitterness seeing him, all in all it came out fine. it was just like meeting an old classmate whom i had a grudge with all highskul and swore to never to talk to again. it was like an acquintance. except that smiles and waving of hands are out of the question.

id like to see him again...maybe i would smile, or wave a hand, or do something...but the question is...would he smile back? or wave me hand? or do something as well?

frightening!

Sunday, June 20, 2004


hanep! astig! swimming din namin! ganda ng arms ko! narcistic na ba? hehehe

parang berks or click barkada! hahaha! baduy! and cute ko dito sobra! walang kokontra!