Saturday, October 06, 2007

stitching bits and bobs

OK listening to lagu raya early in the morning is a baaadd idea..

One day on the way home on the radio it played the dream interpretations by some dream reader guy. I thought, how ridiculous was that. One lady was asking the guy to interpret her dream of catching her partner sleeping with her friend. What the..

Then I realized, I haven't had any dreams in my sleep for a long time. I mean, never. They just disappeared. I should start dreaming again. Good dreams now. Nightmare season has passed (exam season).

At present most of our patients are in needing of surgical consults. One guy admitted with chest pain after a fall. Just when we're about to discharge him we found out that his aortic aneurysm has been expanding. A lady with recurrent falls and weakness in her legs had her MRI showing severe cervical canal stenosis. The young cystic fibrosis patient with worsening radiculopathic symptoms had a foramen magnum decompression surgery, and scheduled for a permanent surgical stitch removal on his rectum next. Emm..

Having to deal with those, I realized that it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to comprehend and deal with most surgeons. If you can bear the yelling then you're OK. They acted like they're the BUSIEST and most IMPORTANT person in the whole wide world. I'm not generalizing, but sometimes you get frustrated and fed up with some that you can't help it but to generalize.

I watched this going home after a bad day experiencing surgeons. Definitely made my evening. Of note, here there's no rivals between interns. We love each other so much.



We have come to the final nights of the holy month. Shamefully this year has been the worst record of my scale of amal. I don't know I'd pass to even celebrate eid. Shame on me..