my poor attempt to procrastinate--blogging!

I'm trying to be fit again. Played badminton with two of my friends from school this morning. I woke up at 8AM and still managed to be late for our 10AM call time. The court is nearby my place, a five minute drive. When I got there 30 minutes late, my two friends already warmed up. I had to do stretching alone. I even forgot how to do stretching! To think that it's basic. Ughh. But it felt real good to be active physically again. Sweated like a pig. Aside from moving around a lot while playing, the court was also really hot. Ughhh but it was fun! I want to play again. Two hours went by so fast, we should've gone at 11AM because unlimited rental of the courts starts then.

I had lunch and "napped" right away. My "nap" turned out to be a really long one because it was physical exhaustion induced. Ugh I had such a hard time dragging myself off my bed. I had a headache afterwards so I took a paracetamol and fell back to sleep again to nurse my head. I'm groggy now for sleeping the whole day but it felt good to rest like that on my day off from school. Classes again tomorrow and an exam.

On a lighter note, my Speck orange crystal case came yesterday! FINALLY! :) I love it. I wanted the apple green one because green is my favorite color but it was already out of stock. My next favorite color is orange so orange it is!

Meet my orange Macbook!

I think I'm going to read a little now. I've been stalling for hours because I'm still groggy. Kbye!

case study jitters

My case study groupmates and I finished our manuscript a little early and had it bound all twenty copies of them for submission tomorrow. I'm actually happy we finished it early because I am a firm believer of Murphy's Law-- just when you need everything to run smoothly, anything that could go wrong WILL GO WRONG. So I've stopped being the last minute girl (except occasionally haha) because when you need the printer to print, it will screw up the moment you need it the most.

So I'm psyched and SCARED at the same time because I haven't seen the finished product of our blood-and-sweat labor. I'm scared to flip over the pages, go through it, and realize that we made mistakes. We don't have the chance to revise the manuscript so whatever was written in there will be scrutinized come case presentation/defense. I'm so scared but in a good way because I'm pretty sure this horrible ordeal will fly by and I can celebrate for one or two weeks of summer until I go back for intensive lecture for the rest of the summer holiday. I could complain, ramble endlessly about how it just kills the fun of summer to be in class eight hours a day everyday with clinicals in between but I'm actually happy about it because I need to FEEL PRODUCTIVE.

Also, I'm trying to see if I can juggle freelance writing. We'll see!

first week down, many more to go

First week of clinicals down, many more to go!

I go for clinical duty on Thursdays and Fridays. This was my first week. Routine goes like this-- I wake up at 3:30AM, eat breakfast, shower, get ready, and then grab my things and leave the house. And congratulate me! I am no longer chickened out by Manila driving because I drive myself to the hospital before 5AM and then back at past 2PM. Parking isn't that bad at the hospital where I go for duty too.

My group's rotation is at the Female Surgical Ward. On our first day it was orientation, lecture, then orientation again. We practiced our basic nursing skills-- vital signs! And then our Clinical Instructor taught us how to chart our patient's vital signs. We were also given one patient each to take care of. My first patient was a sixty nine year old female with 4th Stage Breast Cancer. She was post-op for Modified Radical Mastectomy when I first met her but she already underwent surgery when I went back today. It was difficult to interview her for History of Present Illness because Nanay is deaf. She cannot totally hear that's why I interviewed her daughter instead. When I came back on friday, Nanay wasn't on her bed anymore because she was in the operating room already. I got assigned to a post-op appendectomy patient and gave her morning care, regulated her I.V., and took her vital signs. It all sounds easy but it isn't because we also have charting to care of and computations and.....THE LIST GOES ON.

I enjoyed my first two days of clinical duty although it's very tiring aside from the fact that I have to wake up at 3.30AM in the morning to get to the hospital by 5am so that we'll have time to read our patients' charts before 6AM endorsement.

I can't wait for next week!