I miss Heath Ledger. Sounds weird, as if I knew him personally. But he’s an actor with charisma. I liked every single one of his movies. Just watched “10 Things I Hate About You” again – it’s one of the few shows I’d not mind watching a second time. Can’t help but feel regret over his premature demise. Such youth, talent and screen presence!

The wind reached 50kmph today. Don't remember the weather report coming up with such a terrifying figure last year. Thought 40+kmph was the max already. I had difficulty walking forward haha. RIP, my dear bike. It's past midnight and the typhoon is still raging. Our balcony doors are rattling and the gushing of air currents outside sounds like rain pouring down and striking the ground during a thunderstorm in SG. Whatever happens, just don't rain here. It's officially the last day of 2010. How time passes. Today we bade farewell to one another with a "See you next year!" though "next year"was only a couple of days later.

Finally gave in to the weather today and walked to school. I learnt my lesson not to bike when the wind is roaring plus the temperature is around -10deg without factoring in wind-chill. Don't wanna lose my fingers lol. It's the first time I saw the newly cemented platform at the underground roundabout today! That's how long I haven't been walking. But I have to be on high alert because of the pickpocketing syndicate there. Took me 7 minutes to walk to school today, not bad at all! Haha.

And we finally turned on the heater at home tonight! Lol. I don't know what we've been holding out for.

Woots tmr is eve of eve. Time for good food! :D

As you can see I'm in a brilliant mood today :) Mainly because evil girl wasn't around in the afternoon so Sally and I had a good time. Good stuff! We managed the crowd ourselves and got appreciated by patients finally. Things are looking up! Hopefully it will continue this way.

冬至, or winter solstice, is the shortest day of the year. Why does it feel so long?

Because it is arguably one of my worst intern days.

The only redemption was the comment by one of the last few patients about the difference in 素质 between us and the China students.

And at least I had a very hearty dinner and tang yuan :) Many thanks to my 2 sweeties :D


I cant wait for 2 weeks to be over.

Out of Gynae, into Acupuncture.

Summary of the operations I managed to watch in Gynae:
2 LAVHs （腹腔镜下子宫全切术）
1 子宫肌瘤剔除术
2 LEEPs （宫颈环切术）
1 ectopic pregnancy - removal of foetus from fallopian tube （输卵管开窗）
1 开腹探查+松解粘连+附件切除
1 畸胎瘤 - but I didn't get to see the hair in the cyst because I had to leave early
2 宫腔镜 （1息肉剔除 and 1探查+刮宫）
and countless abortions.
Not bad for a 2-week stint in the wards huh?


Ok today started on a bad note because my mudguard was crooked again (probably because the wind blew and my bike fell on its side again) and it was jutting into my front tyre so they were scraping and screeching all the way to school. The fact that I was burning rubber and wearing out my tyre worried me more than the stupid sound which probably made everyone at the bus-stop stare at me when I cycled past. I was in a bad mood because of my flu, and the day got worse because of the stupid teachers in the 治疗室who seem to hate us and were unfriendly and curt because of the unmanageable influx of impatient patients (how ironic the 2 words are when put together) on a Monday morning, and the acrid smells of smoke, 艾灸 and 药罐 put together. It was so unbearable I had to wear my mask and I was cursing my fate for being stuck in this room for 2 weeks, and a runny nose only made things worse. I'm going to smell like the horrendous fumes in that room for 2 weeks. OYG. I stink even as I type this and I can't wait to cook my dinner and take my bathe. Only to stink again tmr morning. -.- And the dates I'm at 治疗室 coincide with 三九贴 which is some seasonal gimmick where u paste preconcocted tcm paste on different acupoints depending on your problem, which means I might have to come back on Christmas eve, day and post xmas day just to help patients stick that crap. I hope they don't want our help hahahaha.



The stupid bike uncle outside school, or rather his wife, charged me 1 buck just to knock my mudguard back into place with his screwdriver. Lame shit. I was so thankful when I thought he was doing it for free but as I was about to wheel away she asked me for a dollar. -.- If I weren't afraid of wearing down my rubber even more I'd have gone to my usual bike uncle who always does simple chores for free.

I seriously considered resting my bike for the rest of winter because when I got to school today my hands were painful, stiff and numb. I couldn't feel nor bend my fingers and they were so painful and immobile I felt like crying. It was that bad. My fingers never felt that way before. I think it was -11 deg this morning and the wind wasn't even factored in yet. Or maybe I should try wearing double layers of gloves or go get ski gloves. I think I'd rather walk than let my hands suffer like that again. Yikes. Plus I woke up with a terrible sore throat. The cold wind wheezing into my lungs didn't help things. I should mask up when biking in the wind next time. It was only 5 minutes but felt like hell man.

hands on!

My ears hurt when I went out for lunch today. When the highest temperature is negative I guess it's time for beanie and ear muffs. Lol. It's taking me longer to get to school nowadays even by bike because of the cold and wind resistance. Plus my frozen legs and fingers. Lol. But I still can't bring myself to wear a mask cos it will fog up my specs. We just turned on the heater at home and it showed that the current indoor temp is 12.5 deg. Lol. We are good stuff, surviving without the heater for days at such freezing temps - that explains me having numb toes at home! Hahaha.

Today I took part in a surgery for the first time! It was a LAVH. Only downside was that it was tiring having to stand on a platform and bend over the patient's leg to look into her vagina to see what was happening and stretch open with the 拉钩 and be on hand to suck up any blood with the sucking tube, yet taking care not to put my entire weight on her leg lest she wake up with post-op leg pain. While perking my ears to pass the 主任 and 副主任 the electric blade and tongs. Oh and my hands and arms are even drier now cos I scrubbed away my epidermis. It was stressful wearing the gloves under the 主任's supervision, and my stupid surgery gown had the cuffs of 1 sleeve torn off, making it even more difficult. But the op was a successful one, I was glad to have played a part, albeit minor, and my name is now in the surgery record :D Exciting experience, but I don't think I'll get another chance because none of my patients are going to have major ops for the rest of this week and it's already my last. Yet again, time flies. Can't help but marvel at how fit the doctors here are. They're in their 40s and 50s but they can perform a few operations in a day and still talk with so much gusto. Lol.

I watched a LEEP and ectopic pregnancy surgery on Friday. Brought a good ending to my week. :) May the coming week be a fruitful, not-too-busy yet not bored-to-tears one. My last week in gynae!

I saw a foetus and a placenta today. It was very disturbing. I couldn't bring myself to touch it. It was approximately the size of the distal section of my thumb,translucent and pinkish (reminded me of a lizard), curled up and I could see the eyes, hands and umbilical cord. I can't imagine us all starting out like that. So tiny, so fragile, so innocent, a life in itself, with the potential to grow into a human being like any of us, now dead and floating in a basin of blood with a large placenta. My goodness. I wanted to know whether it felt rubbery, soft or hard but I couldn't touch it. I think I would be traumatized for life. My friend held it in her hand and took photos. But it's really quite sick. I don't want to think about it. I wish abortions weren't so rampant here. I'd like to think I wasn't imagining that the father's eyes were red and teary but I don't know whether he had seen the foetus or felt anything about his wife's second abortion.

I saw 3 operations yesterday. 1 was minor, just the cutting of the Bartholin's gland to let the pus and infected blood flow out. Another was a LAVH (laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy), which was cool cos I got to see the cervix and uterus - the real stuff - cut out. But it reminded me of grilled sotong, cos of the persistent smell of burnt meat and the fact that the cervix fell into the bin and it looked like the fat sotong rings Ma using to cook. Ya I know I'm disgusting. Anyway the burnt-meat smell was because of the 电刀, I don't know what it's called in English but besides severing it has the effect of burning and sealing up to stop bleeding. The third operation was through the stomach, through a gaping hole around 16cm long? The surgeons' hands were groping around inside the abdomen, and the cool thing was it was the first time I could see the muscle layers so clearly defined. I could see the oblique muscles of the abdomen! It brought anatomy to a whole new level. The left accessories and right fallopian tube were removed. The patient was sweating profusely towards the end of the op and the GA was wearing off, it was scary. Her head and hand started moving slightly while they were still busy sewing up her abdomen, and they had to add anaesthesia. Always makes me wonder what went on while they operated on my appendix those years back.

The 18 year-old girl came back again and continued to address my teacher and I as “阿姨”, gaining pity as it made her feel really small plus she had this sad little face. But it grew almost annoying when she kept coming back, with funny inquiries like not having enough money to pay for the op.


Spent the last hour or so of outpatient time this afternoon chit-chatting with my teacher about all sorts of random things like how I grew so tall, whether her daughter wants to be a doc, Orchard road and orchids, the night safari and beaches, but above it all the topic about SG food almost made me drool. Boo. I think I never had such a long solo convo with a teacher before. A lazy and slack Thursday afternoon :) Think there'll be even less patients tmr, cos it's gonna be colder and somehow less people fancy visiting the doc on Friday afternoons. Makes sense. TGIF!


There was a "hurricane" today and it was a bit of a challenge trying to steer my bike against the opposing forces of the wind with 1 hand and the other hand on my head, trying to keep my cap on. While avoiding traffic around the roundabout. Lol. Fun stuff, but I think I finally know how it feels to be asthmatic, because I was breathing heavily all the way home, given that I was chionging against the cold wind.

There was this sad little girl today, pregnant for the first time at 18, whose foetus was big enough for the head (circumference 1.5cm) and limbs (0.4cm long) to be discerned from the ultrasound. Which meant she had to be hospitalized to do the abortion as the foetus was too big for it to be done at outpatient. She started crying and after the checkup she was sitting there trembling as I was getting the paperwork done. It was just pitiful. Then I went to the toilet and saw her sitting in the lobby with her bf, still crying. It was kinda sad, but seems like this is the norm here.


I was taking the lift up to my unit with the usual lift auntie on night shift. She was scribbling something on a pink piece of paper as I entered and took the lift, then when the door opened and I was about to step out, she suddenly looked up and looked like she was going to pass me the paper but instead she said "你信耶稣吗？" I was so stunned, I huh-ed and she repeated her qs. I said: “哦，不信。阿姨您信啊？” “信！我信。” I replied: “我不信但我父母信。” “啊! 那很好!” Then I said goodbye and walked out of the lift. So random and weird right? Hahahaha.


I finally found my marshmallows at the SLT BHG supermarket! Yayness. Short of a better way, I'm thinking of roasting it over the stove. Lol.

I was so afraid it'd snow when I was biking to school today. I wasn't wearing my yrf, nor my boots, nor a cap or beanie, and I didn't have a brolly. Lol. Guess I was worrying over nothing. It was just haze. Phew. But the little pond in my estate has frozen over (can ice-skate soon!) and there was a thin layer of frosted dew on the cars parked in my estate early this morning. It's getting cold-er! Crap I'm eating more and more and gym-ing less and less. Heh. Time to grow some blubber. White Christmas this year?

"My King...it's an honour to die beside you."
"It's an honour to have lived beside you."
-300

humble beginnings

Week 1 at Gynaecology outpatient wasn't as hellish as i thought. Tiring alright, cos sometimes we have a non-stop flow of patients morning and afternoon, which means countless gynae checks which involve peering and poking around the insides of women and doing TCTs (thinprep cytologic tests), feeling their uteruses, testing for bacteria, fungi and trichomonas, staring at the comp, squinting through the microscope at the cells of bodily fluids...but after awhile it just gets routine and you distant yourself from the grossness and audacity of it all. The only thing that lingers in my mind now at the end of a neck-breaking week is the image of blood dripping from a vagina I just checked, and feeling very anal about the spot of blood staining the floor. Which was thoroughly disturbing, but I was relieved that it miraculously disappeared at the end of the day. I hope they UV-disinfect the room over the weekend. Lol. I was paranoid and on-edge the entire morning cos I got a papercut which bled and I was worried I'd contract some blood-borne disease from the close proximity to the blood, bodily fluids and bodies I was working with. And from all the addresses I've entered over the week, it seems that the no. of pregnancies is statistically high among residents of 分钟寺. I smirk to myself whenever somebody tests pregnant and happens to live in that area. Seems akin to a red-light district. The other day I saw an ultrasound which showed the head and body of a foetus. It was just beautiful in a sense I can't describe, the moment of it all, at the possibility of a new life beginning in somebody's uterus, even though I was an outsider, and even though that life was not going to be given a chance. Here you don't consider ethics, morals and that whole GP debate we went through about the case for and against abortions. It's all about birth control which leads to population control. And family planning. I lost count of the no. of abortion forms I've filled the entire week. But another interesting discovery I made is that most, if not all of the women lined up for abortion I've seen this week have no menstrual cramps. Cool stuff. There was a girl as young as 19 or 20 who'd already had an abortion in may this year and is now going for a second. Yeah, if you choose not to get bogged down by the morality question and the inevitable reality about how even the modern China society has become so open, you kinda rise above it all, take a step back (or rather a step forward) and just do the job without hesitation. It's a routine question: "如果怀上了，要 还是不要？"


This afternoon when I came back from lunch, changing into my lab coat in my room, an old lady almost old enough to be my granny came in and talked to me.

“您是大夫吗？”
“哦，我不是，我是学生。”
“哈哈我以为您是大夫，在想这大夫看起来好年轻！”

Following her, a few other patients also came in and thought I was the doctor. Had to keep repeating that I'm a student. Lol. And I thought I went back 10 years in time after yesterday's haircut. YY said I looked like I came straight out of the black and white '60s, Marilyn Monroe style. Lol. Others say I look much younger and friendlier. And more student-ish. Haha. Maybe I appear more professional to the patients. Lol. It's short and neat, it dries fast and I save on shampoo, only downside is that my neck has no protection. Grow fast! Then I can change style again ;) The hairstylist's "好打理" just totally won me over and my trim turned into more than 15 bucks' worth.


Back to random thoughts of the week at gynae. There were some pretty hilarious incidents, like of this woman whose leather jacket I was admiring ever since she came in and sat down, for she totally cracked me up when my teacher asked if her temper was bad and she said "对啊，整天想打架". I laughed in her face but she had no reaction, and I was probably lucky to be wearing my mask for I was sniggering to myself all the way while typing out her prescription. I don't think she'd pick a fight with me anyway, for at this dept I'm treated as a doc too and therefore with respect and courtesy. I still find it ironic when people double my age address me as "您" though. Yet I'm used to calling every patient "您" too even though most of them are in their 20s and some of them are younger than me. Lol. Guess it pays to be nice and polite, even if I'm not paid.

in a space of 10 days...

I will not bike without gloves again. I will not bike without gloves again. I will not bike without gloves again.

I still want a car. Am sick of public transport and walking. And carrying heavy barang all over town. (Although it thoroughly exercised my triceps). After the hit I'm paranoid and maybe it's pyschological but I somehow feel my bike feels less road-worthy now. It keeps drifting to the left and I went to tighten my front brakes today.

Last year on this day it snowed for the first time. Or rather it was the first snowfall of 2009 and my first-ever snow experience :) Yay Winter hasn't actually rushed in yet this year.

I want a carrrrrrr!


gtg, continue later. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Finally succumbed to the weather and donned my scarf, tights and boots. Don't know whether I should bike tomorrow. It's going to be cold and windy. My bell broke -.- I've repaired almost every part of my bike now! Maybe I don't need a new bell because my brakes, if dry, will do the job. And I'm going to have to rest my bike soon. No point displaying a shiny new bell eh?


Tried to capture the last hints of autumn by visiting 香山 yesterday. Disappointing but a good workout. To think I actually made a mental note to steer clear of mountains after 华山. Fragrant hill was bad, steep, rocky and steppish, but stamina-wise 华山 was worse because when we were there it was colder, windier and basically it's a much higher mountain so it was taxing stamina-wise although the route was somewhat milder. Was drenched in sweat when we finally reached the peak yesterday. Beat any gym workout hands down, but at the end of it I could feel my knees. It was as if I was lacking synovial fluid in my bursae. Lol. The sharp drop in temperatures this coming week should make for more red leaves next weekend. We're always too early haha. And the mist made for bad visibility and photo-taking.

I hate rain. It's the bane of my life. It dropped to 6 deg today. 2 more friends rested their bikes and walked to the hosp today. I biked to FZ then home in the rain and my hoodies are still wet now. I guage the intensity of the rain by the size of raindrops and the distance between them on my specs. Ha today I was almost blinded. Plus the blind spot added by the edge of my hoodie. Good thing is drivers are kinder to the unsheltered on the road in these kinds of weather :D A car actually stopped and gave way to me on the roundabout. Lol. Finally brought my trench out of hibernation. In a few weeks the YRFs will be out. I've been gloving already lest my hands freeze and get stuck to my handlebars and I suppose I've to scarf soon. Some of my friends are already doubling their bottoms!

慕田峪

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Endless blue skies

Lavender Garden

The Sun went down and the rain came, marking the end of a beautiful weekend.

Spent 12.5 hours in the hospital today. Am beat.

During kids' physio I came across 2 loud kids, 1 of which was so annoying as he was fat, a crybaby, a lazy pig and damn spoilt. I think I got high bp when he started throwing a tantrum, insisting his mother put on his shoes for him. He even tried to hit me but I caught his arms and he tried to bite me! I was so shocked I quickly ran away and left him to his own devices. What a difficult 5-year-old. Anyway his training was over and I couldn't do anything to persuade him to wear his shoes and leave. If he were my kid or sibling he would probably have gotten more than a tight slap. Lol. But his mother didn't even yell, she just kept asking him to put them on himself and eventually walked further and further away. He made quite a scene at the door of the physio clinic, wailing, screaming, crying, throwing his water bottle and banging the door and on the windows. The last I saw was of him sitting on the steps outside the door, still refusing to put on his shoes and having faith that his mother would give in and come back for him. Which she probably did, but I wonder about the shoes. I miss my regular cute Thursday little boy. Now I realize what an angel he's been. Lol.

Alrighty it's time for a good rest till my 7-day work week next week. Haven't been sleeping well.

Arms are aching. Feels tennis-elbow-ish lol. I massaged 10 kids this morning. Mostly screaming, struggling, kicking kids. Damnit I'm gonna get muscles. LOL. Not before I strain my tendons. Sigh. Tomorrow's gonna be a long day. 8 to 8. Good luck to me man.

...and that leaves 1 again.


5 days ago I was amazed at the 5 shades of blue in the sky with sunlight filtering through gaps in the clouds. It was random but I thought it proved true the Physics law "Light travels in straight lines". Pity I didn't have my camera with me.


The past 2 days have been really hazy, with poor visibility and obviously no blue skies and unworthy pictures. The Sun was red and round this morning. Looked fake as the rays were all obscured by the haze.


4 hours of sleep has left me feeling light-headed. I need to revert back to my healthy lifestyle. And night shift tmr. Oh wells. Back to reality! Whoever said that good times don't last must have been a genius.

Something very absurd happened this morning. The toothbrush flew out of my hands as I was brushing my teeth. I was stunned for 2 minutes cos it caused a spray of toothpaste all over my jacket and my toothbrush was nowhere on the floor. In the end I had to dig it out from under the sink cupboard (the tiles there are completely black because they are never cleaned) and I didn't have to think twice about the fate of my relatively-new toothbrush. Into the bin it went. Lol. So retarded. And it wasn't as if I was dozing off over the sink. Can't believe myself man.


Saw 55 patients this morning. Damn tired now.

I take it as a personal insult when patients' parents call me "护士". Can't they freaking tell that I'm not wearing the nurse's hat and long white pants! That aside, I'm pleased that we managed to see 54 patients smoothly this morning despite me having little time for lunch as I had kid's physio duty in the afternoon. Highlight of the day was a little girl called "金喜善", her name made us all laugh. Plus she was cute and smart, coming up to ask me when her turn was. Less crying/screaming kids today, mostly respectful parents and less mistakes made. Think I'm getting the hang of the job :)


I'm actually amused when kids start crying over nothing and their parents start hushing and sayang-ing them. It actually makes me laugh the harder they cry. Am I sadistic or what. But it beats getting irritated huh?

I don't want to rest my bike yet. Shall push through till we're bordering on Winter then I shall let it go into hibernation. But for the first time today I was riding and shivering a little and wished for a scarf. Haha. Won't get facial paralysis yet la huh? Think I need gloves and scarf though.

My life now officially revolves around sleeping, eating and working. Came home after lunch and napped till it was time to go for my night shift at 4.30pm. Yay I think I have tmr off :)

Who says only caucasian kids are cute? I saw so many cute kids today (mostly little boys - either they're more prone to falling sick or the population of boys exceeds that of girls by a large ratio) who made me smile. Just can't stand those who scream and cry. I don't remember myself ever being afraid of the 压舌板 which is the wooden stick used to press the tongue down for the doc to see the throat, nor the stethoscope, not even injections! Ok I was a guai kiddo who rarely saw the doc :D

Happy Midautumn Festival everybody :)

I'm depressed. I have night shift tmr and Sat night. Wth has night shift on weekends?! :( Can't go for the juniors' MAF celebration tmr night as a result. Boo. Was looking forward to free food. Oh wells.

The moment of the day was when a kid was asked to open his/her (I can't rmb) mouth so that my tcher could peer at his/her throat. The amusing thing was that the 3 accompanying adults opened their mouths too, whether subconsciously or consciously I don't care, but it was just frigging funny. A private joke to myself as an onlooker. Lol.

I hope paediatrics will be more rewarding in the days to come. Don't wanna waste 5 weeks of my life.

I woke up feeling cold and decided to get my fleece blanket out of hibernation. But the rain continued all day and I had cold feet despite staying at home the whole day so I just took my quilt out. It’s 14 degrees outside now and this weather is likely to persist for the next few days so I guess long pants and socks won’t do the trick anymore. It’s time for a warm bed nest haha. Please don’t tell me this signals the start of winter cos I’m so not looking forward! Don’t like feeling cold at home.

According to my forecast it's gonna rain for at least the next 5 days. Damn. I've had enough of rain for today! Went to school in a drizzle, went to gym in rain and came home from Brandon's house in not rain but strong wind and for the first time, temperatures that made me shiver in my shorts and jacket. Give me back my sunny days!!! I just realised my spare bike lock went missing. No wonder my basket felt unnaturally empty for the past few days. Lol. Stupid cheapo shits. Maybe they'll go custom-make some keys so they can use my lock -.- Oh wells. That just means I'll have an emptier and lighter basket but no double protection when I park in ulu places. And useless keys now boo.


Anyway I had a great day cos for the first time in years I finally played table tennis! I can't remember when's the last time I played any ball game for that matter. Woots I don't have work tmr yayness :) But I've got duty on Sun morning. Boo. And that's the day before I report at paediatrics.

of Appendectomy...

My wish really came true and I got to witness an Appendectomy today. The woman presented with right lower abdominal pain at 门诊 and we got to feel her stomach, could feel a hard lump at her 麦氏点 and both 压痛 and反跳痛 were positive. Sent her to do an ultrasound and it supported the diagnosis so we had her hospitalized. After lunch break we went for the op. Had to change into scrubs but didn’t have to scrub hands cos we weren’t gonna touch anything :) Anyway I was pretty disturbed because the patient wasn’t under GA so she was still kinda conscious and halfway through the op she started moaning in pain. Worse thing was nobody paid heed to her as the nurse in charge of anesthesia was talking to another nurse at the doorway of the operating room. It went on for quite awhile but neither the doctor nor the assistants said anything and it made me uneasy. Until one of the nurses sitting in the room called the other nurse to take a look did she come and ask the patient whether she felt the pain. Then she started injecting stuff into the IV but the patient still did not stop so she gave her an injection above the collarbone. There came a point in time the patient’s breathing became abnormal and her oxygen saturation dropped to 70% and there happened to be only 1 nurse around so she had to call another to come help her pump oxygen into the machine by pushing the button repeatedly. It just felt pretty disorganized and unprofessional. I know docs make small talk during ops but to have the nurses talking among themselves just felt weird. This is my first major op here so I didn’t know what to expect. The operating theatre was made up of a row of operating rooms with all the doors wide open and different operations going on. Super open concept. And you have nurses walking in and out of different doors all the time. Is it like that in Singapore? An Appendectomy here costs 3500rmb, which is probably half the price of that in SG, and I wonder whether standards in China are just lax (our hospital is already in the highest rank, “三甲医院”) or it’s like that elsewhere too, just that I don’t watch ops in SG and for the only one I’ve been through, I was put under GA so I didn’t know a shit that was going on. Today the doc digged into her abdomen to find her caecum and appendix. It was difficult cos many parts had adhered together and he stuck his finger into her abdomen a few times -.- It was kinda sick, made me think of organ stealing, happy tree friends and whatnot. It was a pity it was too crowded so I couldn’t stand directly over her and stare into her insides but I did my best. Never occurred to me that he had to sew up all 5 layers of the stomach individually. After all the stretching and cutting she only required 3 stitches! I feel so cheated. Suspect a noob did my op last time -.- Anyway the entire op lasted about an hour. It could have been shorter but this one wasn’t so typical. And I never imagined the appendix would be so long. Hers was around 6cm and it looked kinda weird, maybe it was inflammed at certain parts.

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My bike finally ran out of mileage. I guess weekly long road trips took their toll on my tyres. I crossed the usual humps as I left school today and suddenly my bike kept vibrating and making noise as I paddled. It's as if a rock got stuck to my tyre. Lucky bike uncle was near. There was a puncture in my inner tyre. He said patching it couldn't guarantee it'll last any more than a month so I told him to just change the entire thing. So now I've got a new inner tyre for my back wheel :) It better last! I feel like I'm constantly znging my bike, so much so that I might as well have gotten a new bike. Lol. Just changed my basket on Sat. Hope nothing else breaks down! Be good till I give you a long rest during winter!

Saw 2 mini ops today. The removal of a kyloid and a cyst. The kyloid one was damn bloody, the guy's blood kept flowing out of the crater after the kyloid was cut out. The cyst was even more disgusting cos during the removal it broke and white cauliflower-like stuff started oozing out from the puncture in the tissue. It was like a monstrous growth rearing its ugly head ewwww. *shudders* I don't think I can be a surgeon cos firstly my hands will probably tremble and secondly I can deal with blood but too much of it still makes me feel a little uneasy. Haha. At least I don't faint at the sight of blood. But cutting craters and tugging at skin and tissue isn't exactly my cup of tea. Heh. I really hope we have a chance to see an Appendicitis op this week cos this is our only week at 外科 and I'd like to see what happened to me 5 years ago. Lol.