The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

I haven't really posted a good blog here lately. It seems my work as a Pedia PGI has caught up with me. Not that I am toxic. My benign streak is still unbeatable with a record zero admission. It's just that being in nursery gives me limited movement during the day. Most of my day is spent inside the big "baby day care" center where the sight is nothing but bundles of joy with sucking mouths to feed q hourly (every hour). At around 10 a.m., the drapes are raised for moms and dads to view their products of affection, and then you get to know how a goldfish feels like. Later in the day, you wait for some G2P1 woman in labor for her own child to come out. So, across the delivery room you stand, all gloved and capped and so on, waiting beside a female stranger, with legs spread and mounted, then the scissors start to sound as the obstetrician begins doing her episiotomy. A few minutes later, that familiar cry of a totally dazed neonate wakes you up from La-la land. Umbill...

I got a link from a friend about this very hilarious video. It makes me think of how proud I am of knowing how to speak the language very well. Filipinos are good english speakers and we are fast becoming a country of Korean English tutors! :-)

Thank God I am Sunday off so I have enough time to take a rest and enjoy an afternoon of relaxation coming from a toxic Saturday duty. I only had 3 admissions but one of these admission is a very toxic, septic-looking 3 month-old child with multiple abscesses. The child came in very icteric, dyspneic and with penniless parents. The prognosis isn't good. The Chest X-rays were not very promising either. There seems to be a mass of some sort pushing the heart and the trachea towards the left, causing the respiratory distress of the patient. It must be another lung absecess. Anyway, I spent this morning waiting for another C-Section delivery. A pre-term infant which meant another toxic baby in the nursery. Lately I am getting a taste of this toxicity thing. Got an email from a friend who sent me these hilarious pictures of actual math test exams. Note the genius-ness of these students who took these exams.

Due to a very untolerable headache, I skipped work last Wednesday. So I woke up that day with a throbbing headache, swallowed a pill of Tramadol and Nimesulide, slept the entire morning and spent the rest of the day almost bedridden and TV-hooked. That night I could sleep because of another severe toothache. Yes, it is the same tooth that has to go but I missed my dentist appointment by 2 weeks already. I had to swallow two more pills of NSAIDs then slept for another 3 hours. It was only the following day that I later learned that rumors about my headache and M.I.A. stint (Missing In Action) were spreading like wildfire. To be brief, they were actually debating whether it was a post-coital headache or a coital deficiency headache. Either way it is still classified as a tension headache, considering that coitus or no coitus can give one enough stress. I was 24 hours duty last night and as usually, I am so benign. While I did receive 3 new admissions in the morning, I no longer had any a...

My benigness continues. I was Sunday Duty yesterday and after 24 hours of duty, I have zero admissions, 1 OPD case and no admissions at the nursery. Even our "toxic" VIP babies in the nursery were all behaving very well. So most of the day I spent doing rounds at the wards, hanging out in the nursery and the labor room and slept the entire night with only one ward call. Yesterday was gesp's bday and I was so sorry I even failed to greet him through SMS. But I did send him one this morning when ConCon reminded us about it. During lunch time, Gesp came with some baked macaroni. What happened next is almost a spontaneous mini-bday partee! It was stormy the entire day and the benigness of the Pediatric department continued, especially in the Ward and OPD section. Before I left the hospital this 5 pm, there has been no new admissions yet. But we did have one mortality though at the nursery. Anyway, I am having trouble with my pc and internet connection today. What else is new...

Since the day I started my PGIship, I really haven't written down anything about my 13 other fellow PGIs rotating in BOLMSH. While for most of them I have known for the past 4 years already, this PGIship period has given me a new perspective about who they are as persons and friends. So here are some fun facts about the Post-graduate Interns of Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital for 2006-2007. 1. Of the 14 PGIs, 7 are females and 7 are males. 2. The PGI who comes from the most distant locality is Andylou Mangubat, who hails from Cotabato City, in Mindanao. 3. Three of the PGIs come from Iloilo City, all first timers in the City of Smiles; they are Mark Agana, TinTin Castronuevo and Ken Villan. 4. Two of the PGIs are married already, that includes me (who is happily married to Roann) and Joanne Villanueva, who is married to Melvin (not the Melvin Chico!) 5. All of the PGIs are into steady relationships, except for one, Gerard Espelleta, who remains "single and availab...

I love my life so far. It has been my 3rd 24 hour duty as a Pedia PGI and so far, I have maintained myself to be the most benign of the three. Yes, I do have from time to time some stat CS during my night shift but it's better really than waiting to catch a baby delivered via NSVD (normal spontaneous vaginal delivery). Anyway, I only had one admission during the entire night shift so I was able to wake up early, take a bath, change into my "formal" clothes and did my early morning rounds, referred some of the recent labs to my wonderful JC (junior consultant) and had breakfast. Later we attended our usual Friday Medical Conference where the topic was Pulmonary Tuberculosis. After the 3 hour conference, we had another round of breakfast. After the conference, Melvin and I went to the JC's quarters where we watched TV. Later, Dr. Libo-on, the Surgical JC on duty, joined us as we watched "The Last Samurai". I wasn't able to finish the movie because I had to...