Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The unborn baby
Few days ago, while i was busy working in my office, suddenly there was a call from the ANC (antenatal section). My colleague who is in-charge of it was on leave so I have no choice but to "one leg kick" the whole place.
On the phone i heard a desperate voice of a staff nurse. "Must be mou-hou-yeh" i thought silently in my mind. And true enough, she said there is a Malay lady who is about 19 weeks pregnant complaining of lower abdominal pain and per-vaginal bleeding which happen since morning.... and there is "something jutting out from her vagina".... I was like WTF... anyway the vital signs were stable and so I have to abandon the huge load of people waiting outside and go to attend the case.
Once i reached the place, i saw some relieved faces. Then i saw a kidney dish containing a big sac and a piece of placenta. On further questioning and looking at the records, apparently she was already diagnosed to have a miscarriage the day before and that the pregnancy was non-viable already at the hospital and was asked to go to the nearest health center in case of PV bleed. The staff nurse should really have told that in advanced....haih...
Luckily the patient was in stable condition and the gestational sac and placenta everything was still intact, which means nothing was left in the uterus, which could be a messy affair. Ultrasound scan confirmed the finding.
Didnt take a pic of the sac though cos not appropriate ma...But it looks something like this..
Just imagine a big sac full of fluids and the inside contain a small fetus like the one above. Then beside it is a piece of placenta. It does smell ...musky? The quirky nurse was even asking whether to poke open the sac to see the contents inside. But i prohibited it cos whats the point of breaking it and letting out all the nasty amniotic fluid leh? Might as well leave everything in one piece and let it look beautiful at its last moment, at least.
Hmm...but the weird thing is... how come i dont feel anything at all? I dont feel anything disgusting or horrible (there were blood splattered on the bed as well). In fact there was once an accident case with a head trauma patient. I could stick my finger into a hole on the back of his head to see how deep is the puncture wound. And the head was wet with dripping blood. Disgusting right?
Have i lost my sense of humanity? Or have i become stoic from all these encounters? Hmm..
On the phone i heard a desperate voice of a staff nurse. "Must be mou-hou-yeh" i thought silently in my mind. And true enough, she said there is a Malay lady who is about 19 weeks pregnant complaining of lower abdominal pain and per-vaginal bleeding which happen since morning.... and there is "something jutting out from her vagina".... I was like WTF... anyway the vital signs were stable and so I have to abandon the huge load of people waiting outside and go to attend the case.
Once i reached the place, i saw some relieved faces. Then i saw a kidney dish containing a big sac and a piece of placenta. On further questioning and looking at the records, apparently she was already diagnosed to have a miscarriage the day before and that the pregnancy was non-viable already at the hospital and was asked to go to the nearest health center in case of PV bleed. The staff nurse should really have told that in advanced....haih...
Luckily the patient was in stable condition and the gestational sac and placenta everything was still intact, which means nothing was left in the uterus, which could be a messy affair. Ultrasound scan confirmed the finding.
Didnt take a pic of the sac though cos not appropriate ma...But it looks something like this..
Just imagine a big sac full of fluids and the inside contain a small fetus like the one above. Then beside it is a piece of placenta. It does smell ...musky? The quirky nurse was even asking whether to poke open the sac to see the contents inside. But i prohibited it cos whats the point of breaking it and letting out all the nasty amniotic fluid leh? Might as well leave everything in one piece and let it look beautiful at its last moment, at least.
Hmm...but the weird thing is... how come i dont feel anything at all? I dont feel anything disgusting or horrible (there were blood splattered on the bed as well). In fact there was once an accident case with a head trauma patient. I could stick my finger into a hole on the back of his head to see how deep is the puncture wound. And the head was wet with dripping blood. Disgusting right?
Have i lost my sense of humanity? Or have i become stoic from all these encounters? Hmm..
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Stalker? Admirer?
To you a.k.a *****880, whom might be reading this post now, I just wanna say that I knew u have been tracking me online for quite some time now. Initially I chose to ignore it because no harm has been done. However, the mail u sent this morning has prove to be too much of a bitter pill to swallow. While I do not wish to view it in a negative light, I must stress that I DO NOT enjoy being sneaked up on nor am I such a celebrity to deserve this kind of treatment.
U probably have read through every single post here to dig a little tidbits about me here and there. While I appreciate your passion in reading my blog, I certainly could not endorse your doings. U have breached my comfort zone by infringing into my personal life and as such tantamount to violating my privacy. I just feel uncomfortable with this.
Hence, I would greatly appreciate it if u would refrain from continuing such unfruitful actions. Thank you and have a nice day:)
p.s. Any hunks here wanna be my personal bodyguard? I fear i might need some..LOL
U probably have read through every single post here to dig a little tidbits about me here and there. While I appreciate your passion in reading my blog, I certainly could not endorse your doings. U have breached my comfort zone by infringing into my personal life and as such tantamount to violating my privacy. I just feel uncomfortable with this.
Hence, I would greatly appreciate it if u would refrain from continuing such unfruitful actions. Thank you and have a nice day:)
p.s. Any hunks here wanna be my personal bodyguard? I fear i might need some..LOL
Saturday, March 6, 2010
A place to call home
We are like the harbours
resting ourselves by the seaside
welcoming ships of all walks of life into our little sanctuary
for them to take a rest
replenish energy to go on with their separate journey
ships...they come and they go
never knowing if they would return to us one day
all the harbour could do
is shining its ever blinding light
wait for the day THE ship would come
and calls it his home for eternity
We are like the ships
ferry, yachts, boats and sampans,
sailing in this vast ocean
brace ourselves against the angry tides and waves
sometimes we are hit by giant tsunami
that brings us down
sometimes pirates ship comes out of the blue
robs us of our money and gold
strips us of our dignity
but somewhere along the way a lifeboat appears and lift us up
Some of us are drifters
letting the waves bring us to fresh continents
continent to continent we go
into the unknown territory
unaware of danger lurking all around
Some of us are seekers
ready with navigator
setting eyes on treasure islands
island after island we go
seeking the elusive treasures
But in the end
what we been looking for all along
is just a harbour to dock, for LIFE
a place to call HOME
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
BLUEY. 2010.
This Afro hair is not me...
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