really sorry about the lack of updates! this week has been insane beyond insane especially on friday!

had the cardiothoracic ward visit, t5 presentation as well as pasar malam! which meant that thurs was spent preparing and wed was spent shopping for food. ended at 3.30 on tues which was alright but had dissection on monday which was tiring as usual.

the cardiothoracic round was really interesting as we met up with the patients and got to know them better. sat in with the nurse who drew blood, took swabs etc. was questioned about the various tests that they are doing such as FBE (full blood exam), coags (coagulation tests), (multi-resistant staph aureus)MRSA, Fibrinogen (clotting), BSL (blood sugar level), U&E (kidney function tests), CK (creatine kinase), Trop I (cardiac troponin I), MSU (mid stream urine) etc.

followed the patient to the surgeon's office too and got to see how they really work. =) and its really awesome how you actually see what you learn in OSCEs being applied! like how MR's can radiate to the axilla and how the apex beat can be displaced when there's Left Ventricular hypertrophy!

anw rushed back to clinical school to meet my groupmates for a rehearsal!

had lunch with elvin3 and christin@ after that at the polytechnic! sth like SHATEC.

we ordered this mocktail which was $5.50 and we were just commenting that we'll just share and the girl asked if we wanted it in 3 cups! =) how great is that! we had the indulgence!


so that means we all get a strawberry each! instead of just one per cup! hahaha!

thats me with mine.

we then had our mains. i had some ricotta cheese filled ravioli thing with hazelnuts on top. yummyy and it was rather filling.. i think.. not sure if its cos there was so much cheese in it or not!
you can vaguely make out 3 raviolis somewhere in there. elvin3 and chri5tina had the yellow thai curry with blue eye and 3 strands of udon! hahaha but it was nice. just not that filling though.

me ravioli and drink

chri5tina and her one strand of udon.

i ended up paying $10 while they paid more cos their mains were more expensive!

we ate at the cafe while they had the restaurant next door with steak for $15 but of course we wonder about the portions now. =P

anw presentations were a bore and being a kiasu singaporean, i rushed off to the hospital when i saw that they were having free flu vax! =) so yay i got my flu vax for free + one lollipop! haha! didnt miss anything since my group would have been the last to present. zzz.

rushed back to uni for pasar malam and started the prep. no pics for now cos they're all in chri5' camera! will be up soon.. when he gets around it.. hahaha..