dental condition update!!!!

hohoho... hey mt dear frens thx for all ur concern!!! ahha
i am now wisdom tooth-less!!! *toothless grin* heh.

didnt want to blog since i am highly-strung now tt it has been confirmed tt my end-of-posting surgical test will b conducted by erhmm none other than The Fierce Tutor himself, this cming thurs. gosh. heeeeeellllllllllllllllllppppppppppppppppp.

ahha anyway! thx deekay for helpin me look for a dentist frantically on sat nite!!! sorry for being grouchy after the op tho... NOBODY ever warned me it was gg to be tt painful!!!!

haha to update evryone! yes it was definitely my wisdom tooth giving me prob!!! no space to grow lah, cos my mouth v small. (yar rite ahah) luckily it wasnt impacted at an angle, so quite clear cut lah. except of cos for the bleeding hole in my mum's pocket n the fact i had to trudged home looking as if i have got unilateral mumps.... oopsy not a very pretty sight!!! n the fact that the surrounding gums got infected as the tooth was cutting into them n has spread to my throat so i cant even swallow saliva without wincing!!!! lalala. wat a barrel of laughs rite....

haha anyway!!! thx for all ur concern peepz!!!! *beams* i suddenly realise i haf frens. muhahahaha =P thx txl zy kaysing hopey lip!!! next time got chance i show u guys The Famous tooth!! quite cute, it has got hooked roots. *WOW* haha. erm of cos it may b kinda smelly lah seeing tt i still havent washed it yet. =O

take care evryone!!! guess i'd cya guys after exams!!! (next wk next wk! *dies fr shock*) haha til then take care woah!!!

lymphadenopathy!!!

a 21 yr old chinese female with no significant past medical history presenting with acute onsent of dull aching pain over the right jawline for the past two days. the pain does not radiate and is relieved with the ingestion of nice cold ice cream, and aggravated by mastication and swallowing of saliva. associated symptoms include tender lymphadenopathy involving the tonsillar lymph node, general malaise, dynorphagia, loss of apetite and extreme grouchiness.

at rest, patient appears grumpy (not unlike oscar the grouch) and sullen.

on inspection, the gum area around the newly sprouted wisdom tooth on the right side of the mouth appears angry-looking and swollen.

palpation is not performed owing to the fact tt the patient seems likely to chew off the very fingers that dare go near the area.

primary diagnosis: complications arising from the growth of the wisdom tooth.

differential diagnosis: tooth decay (highly unlikely as the patient presents with good dentition with hardly any cavities.)



smone pls reassure me tt the pain will go away, n tt it is a wisdom tooth prob rather than the materialization of my worst nightmare ever, which involves all my teeth dropping of due to irreparable tooth decay. ARGH. i have nv had toothache in my entire life b4!!! this is too cruel. tmr's a public holiday!!! so is monday!!! how am i gg to find a dentist to look at my teeth!?!? n i dont jz want any tom dick or harry!!! i want expert care! (in case i have to undergo sm horrifying surgery to extract my wisdom tooth) *fretful*

jz the very thot of surgery makes me shiver wif fear lah. so scary. i dunwan. but i tink i am gg to accomplish nothg lor. its so aching tt i jz cant swallow my saliva! evry time i swallow it feels more painful. i tink it mz be my tonsils. n oh man! i actually haf lymphadenopathy!!! first time in my entire life!!! i cant believe this is happening to me. this was s'pose to be my "mug-like-crazy-to-try-n-pass-my-eclinics" wkend. but i am spending it feelin like crap n not being able to stay still enuff to study.

n i cant eat. it hurts... *wails*

i hafta go on a porridge diet. gd time to lose weight too.

i tink... i may haf to borrow ah ting's tramadol painkillers.

oh no. i hope no surgery is needed. or tt my tooth is decayed. i am a scaredy cat cant stand excessive pain inflicted on myself!!!!!


dear frens who ready my blog, pray for me.


*clutches jaw in pain*

isnin

apa khabar???

saya murid doktor tahun tagi.... nama saya huili!!!! *beams*

selamat malam!!!

siapa nama encik?



haha. jz had a nitemare of a day. (wats new?!!!)

lets see. mz be the longest sch day in my entire day. the seat in the LT mz surely have an imprint of my butt now. gosh. lectures from 8am and ended at 7.30pm. tts like.... ooooooooooooo all of 11 1/2 hrs!!!! *recoils wif horror* n yep, had only like 45 min for lunch. how sad.

strangely, i feel more energetic today than other days when i hafta go ttsh. mz be the lack of heels! heehee. great feeling!!! oh yea but tmr's The Nite Duty day. *grumpy* 8am to 10pm. save my poor feet.

i realised wif shock tt the whole world seems to noe wat they r doing. wat abt me!?!?! did exactly one CVS examination n a botched respiratory exam whereby the poor nice aunty was prob horrified by the number of times my percussing finger missed my other finger n promptly rained on her back.... *wails*

Primum non norcere... easier said than done!!! one of these days... i'm gg to need medicolegal advice for breaking sm poor old lady's ribs. *sigh*

not tt my percussion is gd enuff to cause much damage.... i can hardly pduce any sound as it is. i mean.... *hopeful look* if u REALI strain ur ears... tts is.... taaadaaa!!! theres sound!!! heheh



hai. actuali i jz came online to read a certain blog. felt reali happy after reading. seems like friendship is such a wondrous thg!!! its so great to haf frens who simply understand all ur grouses n fussy ways... ahah. n we had so much laughs together too!!! this is definitely one fren i'm gonna keep for life!!! *yay*



oh yar. highlight of the day. ah beng cut his hair!!!!! he looks gd. serious. but he looks like he's reali reali reali in a very bad mood now tt he no longer haf long black tresses to fling in the wind. aiyahhhh. but so many ppl tink he looks gd!!! gosh. dont reali tell him though... tink mz give him a few days to calm down first ahah =P


hai. feel so old. tink i need to use my time more wisely... not sure how though! need a time machine i tink. give me more time a day!!! i need more time to slp, watch tv, simply slack ard, read my comics.


monday blues..... =((((((


boleh tak saya berbual-bual dengan kamu sebentar??


hee. lets wait for the day when i've learnt enuff malay to write a malay blog. whhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I

crap.

Whew. Any week gone. I wonder how long more I can tahan!!!
Gosh, I sure am lousy. *disgusted look* jz three wks into hospital postings n I feel like I’ve aged 20 yrs. So tired! N I keep feeling like my brain I simply much too small to learn evrythg well enough. *stares enviously at the HOs and MOs*

The days have sort of fallen into a very unsatisfactory n highly unpalatable routine.

Alarm rings on average from 5.50am to 6.20am all days of the week. Jolts me awake. *grouchy slpy face*

Slpwalks to the bathrm. Always wondered how I managed to get there in one piece without falling over my big feet (not easy walking wif eyes closed u noe!!!) n not oooo for example fall into the toilet bowl by mistake. Not tt I am small enuff to fall in lah.

Wif my fierce don’t-u-dare-tok-to-me Zhong Kui look tt never fails to strike fear in the hearts of even the bold, blatantly n pointedly ignore the existence of other fellow human beings moving furtively ard the hse at this ungodly hr. which almost always means my dad. Not much of a conversationalist when I have less than 12 hrs of beauty slp. Haha.

Gets out of the hse within 30 min. hop on bus. Get on mrt. N behaving like any true Singaporean, avoid the eyes of al fellow commuters as we travel in stoic silence to our final destinations. No no not in companionable silence. But wif a kind of sizzling fizzling underlying currents of boiling rage at how unfair life is. Like for example why ppl like mong only have to get to sgh by 9.30am while I hafta be rudely torn apart form my Bed to reach ttsh at 8am.

Tries in vain to cram more facts in my teeny weeny antsy bitsy brain b4 I reach novena. Cos of cos naturally I kept fallin aslp at my table last nite as I was tryin to b studious. N yar my heart weeps whenever I pass by these mrt stations : bishan. I tink of txl. Toa payoh. I tink of sijin. Novena!!! I tink of hopey dopey. GAH. If only I live in these areas. *sulks*

And yes. Begins my day of turtle-slow upslope crescendo peaking of my energy lvl, which last for oooo all of 5 min. following lunch I will b struggling to peel my eyes open.

Wat have u learnt thus far? To tell the truth, I am not so sure. These few days, I hardly have the time or energy to simply sit down n chit chat wif the patients anymore! Evrythg is abt tutorials, trying to learn all u need to noe abt examining a system in one SINGLE day. I mean hello… so stressful!!! I am not tt smart! *hysterical* how can I learn evrythg in such a short period of time!!! Feel so helpless smtimes. Wonder how the seniors got thru all these times.

I need an OSIM massage chair. Aching all over! Soon I’d bcm a patient lor. hai.

Oh yes. N the patients hate us!!!! Haha. Especially those interesting cases. As this jolly uncle remarked, “oh yesterday I got 40 students who came to examine me ah!!! Today not bad oso lah, got 20++ so far…” oh yes. We r all reali shameless. We jz descend onto these poor unsuspecting patients like a swarm of bees n start feeling all over, percussing all over, n (for me at least) pretending to look intense n wise while auscultating. N then discuss “knowledgeably” abt the exciting find of a murmur n debate abt why we can actually hear the murmur better in the pulmonary area rather than aortic area since it is an aortic problem.

If I am the patient, I tink I will freak out. Start saving up my dinner leftovers so tt I can pelt these pesky kids wif the urghy food. Haha. Oh well. But sm patients r reali jz sooooooooooo nice!!! Feel quite bad esp when I do a seriously substandard examination on them. Prob cause them a lot of distress. Will prob run from me the next time they see me. Haha.

This has reali been a BAD wk. Had such horrid PMS tt I thot I wldnt survive til Friday le. Grouchy irritable moody don’t-carish snappish evrythg nasty. Hope it’d pass soon. Nv recall a time when my mood swings got so bad.

N I feel so stressed!!!!
I need the wkends to rest!!!
I can feel my battered body complaining.
I need the wkends to study!!!
But I still got soma stuff to do!!!

I am seriously wondering if I am gg to pass my first end-of-posting test.

And oh yes. I absolutely detest abhor dislike airheads immensely. Don’t get me started. BAH. Humbug.

poor aching feet, exciting social life. haha. rite.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haha I am online again!!!! Haha after like five million yrs of abstinence cos I hafta be oh-so-guai n try to read up for the lessons so as to avoid looking like a fool during tutorials…. *grouch* doesn’t help that wes the pest (whahaha!!!) has a photographic memory n can rattle ervythg off in cls spoil mkt!!!! Bleaghhhhhhhhhhhh.

Anyway I haf now absolutely no social life. Except wif the commuters on the mrt. Haha. Ooooo n of cos the erm lets see hawkers from whom I buy food from. WOW! *wide-eyed look* wat an exciting life I lead! I am now an ah-soh in training lor. everyday mz learn a little bit more abt the techniques of grabbing seats on mrt n not being shoved away when tryin to get on an extremely crowded mrt. It’s a rough life out there lor. *wisely* I am now adept at shoving, squeezing, pushing, glaring my way thru the hordes of ppl. Haha. Aiyah. In other words, morphing into The Ugly Singaporean heh.

Hai these days I reali feel like a boring shang ban zu. Get out of the hse smtimes as early as 6.20am, smtimes get home only at 8pm. Gosh. Feel tired most of the time tt I cant rem a time when I haven’t said the words “wo hao lei!!!” to my parents aha. =P n actuali, I don’t feel like I’ve learnt lots lah. Dunno leh! seems very rushed!! Hafta learn the examination of all the systems in one day! Sorry lor I tink my brain’s the size of a pea. Haha not much space woah! How to remember… gah. But I am havin fun lah. Except tt I will usually zonk out completely once 3pm comes. Haha. Don’t bother tokin to me. I am on screen-saving mode. Woohooo!

U noe, smtimes cant help wondering if u’d end up being a gd doc. I mean, yar lah, heart’s in the rite place n evrythg, but u need to noe ur stuff reali well! N theres the emotional aspect to overcome. Aiyo. I see those frail patients I reali reali don’t feel like subjectin them to the torment of being examined by me. Cos I am so lousy! So newbie! Dunno anythg! N smtimes u r jz at a loss of words. Wat do u say to them? Evythg seems quite pointless, esp to those patients who r feelin reali bitter abt their condition. Hai.

But then, there r those who can always make u feel like the world is such a wonderful place!!! Theres this little old man we all adore. Hes so cute! He always look so happy n yet u noe its jz pains u to see him looking so frail. I tink hes reali brave. His outlook of life. Reali admire him so much. He got discharged today, will reali miss him!!! His toothless smile n the way his eyes light up when he talks to us! N then yar lah got contradicting feelins. Happy for him tt he can go home finally!!!! (hes been complainin of the horrid hospital food ahah) but yet knowing tt I wont b seeing him ever again. Oh well. Wat a selfish thot of mine. Haiyah.

Smhow, I hope tt he will be alrite. May seem impossible from the medical pt of view lah. But ppl like him deserve much much better.

ah. mebbe i shld shut down my blog leh. one wk into eclinics n i'm feeling like a piece of rag tt has been wrung totally DRY. no energy. for anythg. ttsh is a slave-driving place. doesnt help i hafta squeeze into the mrt evryday to get there. if only i can move into sijin's hse. or txl's. haha. n i cant bear the thot of driving there. too long since i drove alone. sheesh. n no one near me got posted to ttsh. ARGH.

no social life. n i tink i can bid my tv a tearful gdbye! my bed misses my presence too. can u imagine. one day u r still lounging in bed after a 12-hr slp, the next day u r gettin up at ungodly hrs like 5.40am. wif only 5 hrs of slp. wat is this. haha. i shall go for a interview at the s'pore zoo for the job of Panda.

its not easy reali. suddenly realised gg to hospitals doesnt jz mean all fun n excietment of learning new thgs n putting wat u read abt into practice. much much more. for one, learning to get on wif life without ur usual clique. met up wif my clique yesterday. n gosh me n xtine actuali started tearing. not tt we r unhappy in our CG u understand. but cos old frens r jz not the same. cos we r all sort of on the same wavelength. we understand each others' jokes n idiosyncracies. n we laugh ALOT. at anythg!!!! n i jz missed evryone sooooooooooooooo much. i didnt even realised i wasnt laughin as much as i used to, until friday. gosh. my fault. i take a long time to warm up to ppl. so usually i jz bcm an introvery wif relatively new frens. ahah. ah well. my daily dosage of laughter has been cut down dramatically. laughter-deprived now.

n the patients. went to a paedatrics ward tt day. felt so guilty. jz for being healthy u noe. cos all the kids there were so young, vulnerable, n sick. i felt so sad jz lookin at them, n their parents, who mostly looked totally worn out. yet beneath tt tired face, u see their glimmer of hope. n ur heart jz aches. cos u can nv ever find the right words to say to give them comfort. n u can nv ever reassure them tt their kids will get better.

there was this little malay boy, his name was Amirul. so cute! so young. n he had leukemia. n yet, he seemed so healthy n normal. but u can feel the trauma jz by tokin to his aunt. its reali a tragedy. i cant imagine ever gettin used to facing new cases like tt evryday. sitting on his bed, watchin LOTR n surrounded by his spiderman toy, he looks like anyt cute little baby u will smile at on the street. can u imagine the heartache his parents mz b feeling? jz being a bystander was enuff for me.