Relapse

10th January (Saturday) - Okay, today I'm half-dead, report taking made me a little blur, but I did took the report on auto-pilot. Bed-making, some patients asleep, request to do later. 4 operating cases, majority obs and gynae. Throw in a child and neuro case and we are all set.
No, we actually got nothing against the patients. but seriously, there are some who are just plain lazy, waving an airy hand, "Oh, it's okay, you can change it later." Especially one patient who often parties up til the break of dawn (Figuratively speaking). She often wakes up at the end of our morning shift, then expects us to change her bed linen. Now look, it's not that we don't want to change your linen. You have to understand, prof often comes around lunchtimes, which means certain times like from 12 - 2 are usually peak hours for the profs to come, which means we will be super busy. Sometimes we just wished patients can be understanding, you know.
Okay, I rushed some admissions for late-comers who are due for operation in thirty minutes. Once settled, I rushed to attend another patient who has a leaking branulla. Ohhh, please don't let it be a leak, if it leaks, and it's a baby, I cannot imagine the baby wants to go through another round of poking. Uh-uh. Not on my watch. Armed with Heparin Saline, I unwound the bandage and partly took out the plaster surrounding the branulla. Nooooo. It's not leaking. Eh, something came loose as I tried to twist the tubing out. Oh, it's not a leak, It's the T-piece connector being loose. I fixed it up and then tried to twist the tubing so that I could flush--- Ahm, urgh, HOLY COW, WHO TIGHTENED THE TUBING?!!! It's hard to get it out. The mother took pity on me and armed with two chest clamps, I grabbed one, the mother grabbed another, and between us, we managed to twist the tubing open by turning opposite directions. Praise the Lord. And the baby was so quiet, singing along to The Wheel On The Bus. Glad someone's having fun.
Issue : We are all out of Ondasetron for most of our patients, but thank God again, it's not important, but we were told to stand by with the Kytrils. Seriously, I don't know how prof can just do more than 10 cases continuously without stopping, with all the last minute cases being added in. As all my patients like to tell me, "He's a man with many ladies chasing him." That's what makes him so good in his job. :D
So yeah, with all the mad rush of sending patients down to OT. the place itself was also like a marketplace. I haven't checked one of my patients fully and they were already pushing my patient out. Give me a chance to check my patient's wound please. What if it's bleeding or something like one case I took last time, where we had to use so many gauze to staunch the bleeding? Good thing my patient is alright otherwise there will be BIG trouble.
Most of the old patients came back today, so in a way, it's like a reunion, but in a way, it's also sad. Whenever I see a patient discharge, I pray hard that they don't come back again for admission. It's not nice, you know, to see your patient going from weak to strong, and then back to weak again, like my old patient, who went for a CABG, and now he had came back for a chest tube insertion. Oh dear.
Not so good part, my nose suddenly went too sensitive that I ended up wearing masks a lot, and coughing out and blowing out a lot of greenish phlegm and mucus. My voice didn't sound too good too, but I checked my temperature: 36.4 C. No fever, but I'm still weak. Well my nose and throat ever be fully cured???