What a Tuesday!

I was supposed to go running after work today at 5pm. I had planned to come home to run. Unfortunately, I was held up for more than an hour after work due to some STUPID IDIOTIC incident! A patient's CVP line was accidentally dislodged while I was doing xray for him! Bloody hell. Stupid SICU nurses. Thanks so much for not helping in the 1st place man. Actually, I'm not afraid at all cuz I know I'm not in the wrong at all. I mean, it's my fault for going ahead with the xray after waiting for like 1 whole minute for them to come. And that's all! My senior back in the dept emphasized the importance of 'No nurses, no xray.' This is most importantly so in the ICUs. Ok, ok, I have learnt my lesson. Argh. I'm just very pissed for having to stay back to write a stupid incident report.

I learnt from my senior that many similar cases have happened with SICU in the past. As a result, our relationship with them is not very good. So, what does that say? They are the ones with the attitude problem in that case. This does not occur in CTSICU whereby the moment u enter, 2-3 nurses would be at bay to help u lift the patient up! Aiye. SICU ought to learn from them man... :p

That's why Mr Goh went to see Ms Koh to ask what to do for my case. I had to type out my report, and it was emailed over to Ms Koh. We have to let H.O.D know first before the H.O.D of SICU writes to him. In fact, I was quite unlucky. Cuz the bunch of doctors who were standing outside the SICU did not help us when they saw us struggling, but only after the matter happened did they let their dear H.O.D know that something similar happened during night shift and at IPS CT scan. What the?!?! 'Add pepper, add salt' la, eh? L-O-S-E-R-S. That's what I call them. So the H.O.D was very angry and wanted to write an incident report. Otherwise, I learnt from my senior that they would usually just let me off with a verbal warning. What's more, the patient's CVP line was not totally dislodged, just that the tip was ALMOST out. Pui.

I asked Mr Goh what is going to happen next and he told me that B.S. Tan is most probably going to call him up. I don't mind him calling me up also, just don't do it after office hours! I have a life man! K.N.S!

I also received a call from one of the ward nurses who called to tell me that she was in the next room when I exposed a patient for chest xray in ward 76. She is pregnant, that's why she's so anxious. When I picked up the phone, I thought she was speaking up for the patient in the same room as the patient whom I did the CXR for. Then she told me she was the nurse who's pregnant and I told her I did not have any staff with me in the room then. She told me she was next door!!! WHAT THE?!?@?!?!?@?! Heck la! Please don't be like an ignorant toad living deep in the depths of the well can?! As long as u are 2metres away from the direct beam, there's no energy in the scatter radiation that reaches u by the time it travelled the 2 metres!!! ARGH!!!! Why are the ward nurses and doctors so IGNORANT?!?! They are simply FOOLISH! Argh. Taking a plane high up in the atmosphere would generate the same amount of radiation as hundreds of CXRs!!! Stupid fools!

When I arrived back at CCK today, it was 7.05pm already. Raining cats and dogs here. No chance to run as well. I so badly wanted to run. There goes my only chance of letting off steam. Got some stuff from Lot 1 before I came back home. I prepared tomorrow's lunch and ate my fruits as dinner. Then it was off to reading some materials before I came online. I had wanted to sleep at 10+ for I want to run tomorrow morning. Don't think I want to rush myself and do a short run in the end. So I decided to run on Thursday instead!

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I was missing the judokas a lot this morning. And the memories of the gathering with them on Sat still lingers on my mind when I went to work this morning. As well as the great rest day I had yesterday and the short meeting with Lili, Limin and Liting at GV. How I wish I were a student again. Able to have more free time and do the thing I want. Nah. Fat hope. Not at the moment at least. However, as I reported to work, I realised that Man is such an adaptable creature. At least for me. I soon immersed myself in work after the 1st hour and it helps that u have good colleagues too. :)

12am! Time to turn in! It's going to be a long day tomorrow, with another gathering in the evening with NY gals!


I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~Frederick Douglass