Another skills learnt

Berjaya put my first chest drain (Sengstaken) yesterday (was on call yesterday)! wohooo!! Liking it, liking it. The hardest bit is probably when you are ripping the pleura with the dilator - you can just feel it, a little bit scary, but once you gone past that, its quite easy. Because of it, end up back going home around 11 pm last night. Suppose to go home at 10 pm. The oncall was busy, we have bed crisis; both me and the registar end up camping at A+E clerking patient in. Yesterday seemed to be pleural effusion day.

On the way home, ada accident pulak dah kat M61. Got stucked in traffic for half an hour while police and ambulance removed the casualties and cars.

Almost didn't go to work today as I was so tired when I woke up this morning. Anyway, ended up going, and manage to finish the pathology audit!

One of the pathology SpR was telling me the Micro Lab people was looking for me for my micro audit. Was quite surprise (am not that important, I don't think!). Am still analysing the result beb. Tak siap lagi siutt. My patho Spr asyik menghasut jomlah join pathology, its fun. I think she enjoys my company rather than doing proper pathology; I have been helping her with some post mortem cases (as I knew some of the patients when they were alive). I have no patience or talent with microscope. Look at 6-7 samples, already got headache, aiyoh! I realise I am becoming more and more a medic these days.