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| I felt a knot in my stomach when i saw my rotations. In hospital, I'm placed at sunnybrook which i'm ok with but then I'm in ICU... that's going to be a little stressful. But at least the good part is I know how to get there and it's commutable. My 2nd rotation is in Orangeville. I have no idea where that was until i google mapped it. In the middle of nowhere. The worst part is that even though there is GO bus/train service to get there.. it doesn't run during peak hours. So HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET THERE???????? Am i supposed to move out there? and live there for 2 months? with no tv or internet!and where should i live? i'll die a slow, painful, and lonely death. So i posted my request up on Facebook for a possible switch. and apparently a lot of ppl are in worst places than me. I knew I should have looked up the regions before I picked it!! I can't believe they would send AN OUT OF PROVINCE student with NO CAR to simcoe. And yet a lot of ppl have both their rotations in Toronto. I'm in a rut. How much more I wish to be done now. bitterness is rising...............be warned... | | |
| it was sad. I didn't do anything the entire day. I just went around to my units and said goodbye.
I had a chance to watch a psychiatrist do ECT , electro-convulsive therapy on a patient with long term
depression. When she was zapped, her body twitched for a minute and everybody watched her feet.
Apparently, if twitching stops within a minute, you have to do it again. I was scared!
It looked painful but the anesthetist put her out first and explained to me how the procedure worked.
The entire thing only took about 15 minutes. I will never be depressed again.
I went out to lunch with the surgery team of pharmacists. They treated me out for pho, vietnamese noodles.
I think i saw a fly in mine and i didn't feel very well afterwards.
My friends and I were talking about stereotypes that other day. Apparently, chinese soccer was invented by
the chinese. Football was definitely invented by rednecks.
School starts on Tues. I'm not ready. . At least this time, i'll know how to make fun of my patients (actors) without letting them know. Can't wait.
see you on Tues.
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| so here's the breakdown of my highly exhausting dragonboat experience: of course blogging a week after the event is pathetic but what else am i going to do at work? lol By the way, our team is mostly HCP at the hospital where I work. ( nurses, pt, ot, dieticians, drs, slp, social workers and me)
My PT friend, Linda, and I went to ALL the team's practises, both womens and co-eds, even though we were only on the womens initially but we were eager and ambitious no doubt. At the last practise, we were put as strokes on the co-ed team- as much pressure as in a rice cooker-since we set the timing for our boat. We were giggling and laughing, not so much as nervous, but b/c we are really big goofballs underneath our professional demeanor at work. Within 10 minutes of the practise, someone in the back called us out: "hey, can't we put some more experienced strokers in the front".
After that comment, we become dead silent and paddled so much harder just to prove our competence. The next day, I took an advil for my aching back! When L and I told the captain, she took us off the strokes for the competition as well as off the co-ed team period. OOH! Rejected!
Friday:
We were definitely on the women's team but only as subs for the co-ed one. We wanted to be on both teams so bad, we arrived an extra hour early so in case they didn't find enough ppl to fill both boats. BUt of course, everybody shows up when it counts the most, competition day. We were replaced by older women who didn't even come out to every practise (let's call them A and R) We joked about the back of the boat and watched their everyone stroke. The lady who made our contraptions ( our silly green headband and armband), had a spot on the boat. A man from Gautamala who conveniently paid $50 (reg. $45) was put on the boat. Maybe we should have offered to wash the boat. We sadly watched by the sidelines while the co-ed team lined up, secretly rooting for the other teams to win!! Let's just say that competitiveness is ugly.
The co-ed team did well but they would have done better with us on the boat! lol! The women's team not so good since it was darker and there was more dead water in our lane. Everyone was definitely pumped but everybody gets psyched out during competition so we paddled at a slower pace. My OT friend, christine, watched a mosquito fly right into my forehead and later fainted. She burst out laughing while I felt a little dizzy from the impact.
Saturday:
Early morning race at 9:00 with 5 hours between our next race. C, L, and I went to eat japanese food during the break. We each ordered a bento box which had rice AND sushi. We even took a rest/nap in the car before our afternoon race. No surprise, we had a slow time since we had some extra tonnage in the back ( my stomach).
Not a bad day, didn't even have to eat dinner. L and I always have these debriefing sessions on our 20 min walk back to the car. we always end up laughing while cars slow down to see if we were drunk. She taught me how to do the peptol bismol diarrhea mvt. It's really not as exciting as it sounds. a little strange, maybe.
Sunday:
I was getting sick of dragonboating, not to mention exhaustion and soreness. But once you're on the boat, you just give it your all. Who cares if you just had a faceful of that nasty sask. river water, you keep paddling like an animal, flinging your arms to the side.( as L described it).
Finally, we got our wish. Some ppl were too sore or they couldn't make it for the co-ed race so we were put on the boat. L in front and me in the back. I got choked twice by a big and bald guy on my team. (supposedly a massage but i had some doubts there!) I was heckled in the back and someone told me if they tested me for steroids, we would be disqualified. funny i thought to myself...being on the co-ed team is way better than the womens! We had 4 races that day and by the end of it, i just wanted to melt in a shower.
On monday, we found out we won a bronze for the co-ed team. we were really close to winning $10000 but we were just a second short of that. all in all, i had a great time. would definitely consider doing it again every summer.
only one more week before school starts. I want to relax and do absolutely nothing. We finally got a wii. I just found out I can't put fractions in order from smallest to largest with a time limit. Want to try?
-3/4, 6/7, 1/2, -4/6, -1, 2/3, 4/15, 9/10, -8/9, 3/4-- beep. time's up!
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| http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/local/story.html?id=0a7955c2-7506-4875-8fa5-cb5f6de16a06&k=18458&p=2 There was a killing in our hospital last week. 2 psychiatric patients struggled in the middle of the night and the older guy got stabbed in the head and neck and died in the ER. Apparently, the stabber smuggled a knife onto the floor and hid it from the nurses. Today the names were released and when i read it in the papers I almost jumped out of my chair. The killer was the guy in my med class who always brought up side effect issues. I wouldn't say i felt safe with him but he was never really a threat to me. Little did i know! Anyhow, it's probably of withdrawal effects since the guy was on tons of antipsychotics and antidepressants. The nurses on the unit were extremely down and it was pure silence up there. It's not really a security issue since patients up there are diagnosed with low risk conditions. However, the doctors are totally against putting more security guards on the unit since it would be more like jail than a rehab friendly place. I'm not sure what i think but i know that if something strange happens while i'm teaching, i'm outa there! Today was ok, the patients were a little stressed but overall we had a good discussion. At the end of august, i have to teach a psychiatric class with 40 patients.. i'm sort of freaked out! maybe i should bring some pepper spray! A lot of pharmacists are on vacation. I don't even need to have them cosign my suggestions that i write in the charts. I wonder if that's legal. I've ordered quite a bit of vancomycin and gent drug levels. Now i hope they actually need the test! I'll find out next week. If i get fired you'll know why. If i don't come back to school in Sept, you'll know why as well. | | |
| so let me tell you about my boston trip. we were supposed to leave at 1:00 am friday and arrive at 10:00am in boston saturday, go to the church and spend some time with my cousins and then attend the wedding reception at night.
Didn't go according to plan.
We lost our luggage with Air Canada while we connected in Toronto.. our nice formal clothes were inside.. my satin dress, my shoes, some glasses, my bros' ties, suits, and shoes.. ALL GONE! only my parents had their clothes. The 3 of us were dressed like we were going to the beach! We nearly missed our flight going to Boston since we had to go through customs and we were waiting and waiting for luggage that never came. It was like in the movies how ppl were running to the gates! I thought I was in Home Alone for a sec there! When we got to the gates, we were fumbling with our passports and our carry on baggages. It looked like we just ran a race and everybody stared at us. Little did we know that the flight was delayed and the lady was just closing the door to shut out the draft. Quite embarrassing!! haha! When we finally got there, we had only 1 hour to go shopping since we had to pick up our rental car and check into the hotel to drop off our other pieces of luggage. I've never shopped so fast in my life..
The dress i got ended up costing me a fortune since i had to get something more formal for the evening and i just randomly picked shoes without trying them. Usually it takes me 3 months to buy something like this and at least try it on a couple of more times.
The wedding was really nice! typical chinese wedding with 10 dishes of food, except the cost per table was around $900. We had lobster salad, shark fin soup, crab, mussels, and many other seafood dishes. It was good but a little too much for me! I'd rather save up and get a house. Did i mention the open bar? yup! my family alone finished a bottle of Remi's and half a bottle of champagne. no we are not alcoholics.. we were just celebrating like a normal chinese family right?
The rest of the trip, we spent a lot of time going to museums, shopping, and hanging out with our relatives. My aunt is Korean so she took us to visit her family. It felt like i was back in Toronto! Mostly we took the subway since driving was terrible. It took forever to find parking spots and 5 hours of parking could cost up to $30. In cambridge, it was even more expensive. We spent most of our time walking and by the time i got home, my flip flops were done!
The day we came back, I slept for 16 hours straight! I wonder if I could sleep for 24 hrs?
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