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Written on Sept 26 '10. 

It has been a very busy, brimful and stuffed week for me.

Let’s start with Monday. We attended this seminar for TB. But we hardly listened to the speaker because we were super bored and stuff. And we felt like we’ve tackled that for the nth time. So what we did was just chit-chatting, we did all the laughing. After the seminar from 8am-11:30 I guess, my group mates and I decided to go to SM to have lunch date. We went to Mang Inasal. Why? Because of one good reason: unlimited rice. Plus its cheaper there. And that was my first time not to use spoon and fork at a public place. I super enjoyed it! I was messy but people don’t care because my hands aren’t theirs. Yes, hands. I used my two hands to do the munching on the chicken and rice. Yeahh!  So after the lunch date at Mang Inasal, we hurried back to school to attend Carl Balita Review Center’s seminar at 1pm. We arrived just on time. So as Mr. Balita just started everyone seemed to be so attentive. I must say, CB is really a motivator. The seminar just made me a lot determined to graduate and become a Registered Nurse (with God’s help) in the near future (next year).

Tuesday. Hello Emergency Room @BRH. BRH or Batangas Regional Hospital. I was glad to have seen that although it is a government hospital, there are rooms for IM, Pedia, OB and Surgery at the ER. That means to say, well organized. Hassle free. I was assigned at Internal Medicine (For Respiratory problems) together with Kimmy and RG. I was a little bored so what I did was I continued to jot down my drugs studies (15 drugs study) while we are free and no patient to be given care. I also needed to finish them all because I have a meeting to attend for our Case Presentation on Oct 1. So I got to finish 12 drugs. 3 left. Before the end of our shift, my classmate and I had this little misunderstanding which we resolved. After the shift, I went to school alone and waited for our so called meeting at 5pm. The meeting just started late. And I was anxious because I haven’t studied my 15 drugs which are to be reported the next day. We were just surprised when they said that we needed to finish the topic assigned to us at the casepres. Such a hasslefeck. It’ll be easy if there are no drugs studies to be studied but yeah. They needed the papers the next day. I was a little worried though, but I just kept a positive mind. As soon as I got home, I immediately got started with the part assigned to me and continued to get done with my drugs study. I got finished but I wasn’t able to study them all. So I said, bahala na. I’ll just do my best.

Wednesday. The first activity for the day was the drugs study. Good thing, I was not the first to be called. Our CI was just trying to squeeze our brain. She has deducted a lot. Every wrong answer makes a deduction of 5 from your 100% score. Fortunately, I passed although I was just the only one who passed. We were assigned after at the OB. Had a good day though. Smooth sailing.  What I learned: Never go to a battle unarmed.

Thursday. How I love this day. Assigned at SURGERY. My most favourite. It was in surgery where I got to really see the real life cases. I cant tell them all. But in there, Ive seen what they really call EMERGENCY. In that area, there are so many things that we have learned. 1^st, never ever forget what you’ve learned and experienced from your past duties. NEVER. 2^nd, it takes a lot of common sense to be a nurse. It really does. After the lunch break, I was assigned together with Kimmy at the Minor OR. It was only the two of us who got to enter the Minor OR. I assisted in Excision of a tendon cyst at left hand. So yeah! It was a long long day for me. It was tiring. But tiredness covered up by the lessons I learned.

Friday. Our Last day! Yahoo. Started with Case reading. Kim and I was assigned to report on CNS infections that we reported very brief.  Kim and I was assigned at Pedia. I couldn’t believe that we had almost 15 patients in less than 5 hours. We were able to lower the body temperatures of those hyperthermic kiddos. Wahoo! After our 7am-3pm shift, I walked off to school for our the Victory Party to the nursing players who participated in the previous Pistakasan. We were recognized. Yay! After that, I was with Meldrick and we waited for the meeting for the Grand Case. The grand case is such a hassle for all of us. The presentors, and some members of sections 9-15 stayed at the Library to try to finish the paper, discuss, get nerd, and yeah. Mentally drained. Kidding! So I was able to reach home past 8. I was tired, dozy and physically and mentally exhausted. But I had a blast. I was amazed on how the people that I got to meet think. They are smart and good analysts. Two thumbs up for them!  Friday.. Oh Friday, I fell asleep with the laptop on, atleast  I was able to somehow edit my part.

Saturday. Sleep Deprived. I needed to go to school to finish the papers. Yes! I was able to finish it. Haayy!  As a solace, I met up with Pat bought snacks and we did the dvd marathon and we fixed whatever is needed to be fixed in our relationship.

Super had a full blast. A week full of LESSONS learned. J