S/P PREVIOUS (34 hr Duty)

Yay! 2 more 24 hour duty and gonna say bye-bye to MSH- Medicine Department. Sad. Yes I am. Because I don't feel like leaving. I have learned to love the people there; the RODs, the PODs, the ER Nurses and the Ward Nurses. I had fun though there were times when i just feel like giving up ;)

Hayst, TIME REALLY is GOLD. How it flies sooo fast. It's 04 May 2012. Yay! I'm looking forward to my 2nd to the last 24 hour duty today :) Yeah. Yesterday, we had 3 CODE BLUES (meaning, we had these 3 Emergency situations where you have to save a patient who is almost dying or revive someone who just died-- don't really know how to explain it). Alright. So, the very first Code Blue that we have was around 4 in the morning. The patient who is in her early 50s had difficulty breathing and chest pains less than 10 minutes before she was brought to the ER-- according to her husband. When they arrived in the ER, the wife is already lifeless. No heartbeat, very low pulse, with dilated pupils. We tried our very best to resuscitate her-- to revive her but it's all a naught. the 20 doses of epinephrine, the CPR, the ambubagging and all. I was actually looking at her husband who seemed to not care-- i mean, flat affect. It was just so sad-- pretending to be strong you know. When Doc Timonera declared that the wife's dead already and there's nothing that we can do about it, the husband suddenly broke down into tears. It was a very sad scene. I left the ER immediately fearing that i might do the same. CRYBABY indeed. 

Okay, so have slept for like an hour or two when one of my classmates woke me up. the reason? another CODE BLUE. Adrenaline rush. I was able to prep within 3 minutes :) When i got in the ER, there's chaos. A staff from MSU-IIT had a heart attack. First, there was DOB then restlessness then loss of consciousness. It was a bloody one. there's Pleural effusion and Pleural congestion. I don't know if it's hemoptysis or what. Would wanna do CPR but the nurses and some of the medical clerks- my classmates- were already doing the CPR. so I was left with no choice but do the ambubagging and suctioning. Blood spattered everywhere. It was an eye-opening one. I love CODE BLUES but I don't like it when we're not able to save patients. It was sad cause the patient is barely in her early forty. It's also some kinda scary seeing people die of heart attack at an early age. yay!

Anyway, i enjoyed my stay in MSH as a medicine clerk. Im hoping that my duty in GTLMH would also be fun too. LEARNING-- yeah. cnstantly learning-- i am :) 

Will miss you MSH. See you real soon :)