So general update, I have started my housemanship now and it's been 2 weeks now. Let's recap the whole journey then from february where I was still working in Circuit Communications. Went back to work there from January just to help out for some stuff. I was working and just got to writing some articles for doctor on call, and suddenly, THE EMAIL CAME! Ok, the email was basically telling us when the eho fight will be, the next day which is a Tuesday 18th Feb. Yes. KKM was so amazing that they gave out the email ONE DAY before eHO opens. Just amazing. Good thing I already caught wind of the proposed date (which was originally Wednesday 19th Feb lul) and told Angela that my last day working was Monday. Honestly, that Monday night I still didn't have a clue on where I wanted to go. There were so many choices in my head. Do I want to go through with my Sabah plan? Do I want to be near home instead, seeing as KKM isn't exactly handing out permanent MO posts on a silver plate anymore... If near home where? UM? Shah Alam? Sungai Buloh? I did consult Nelson on Hospital Sungai Buloh the night before and he did bring up some good points about it. So I started a list and watched some videos on telegram on how others did it. My final list in the end was this:
1) PPUM
2) Hospital Sungai Buloh
3) Hospital Tuanku Ja'afar, Seremban
4) Hospital Serdang (just cause I have a friend there xD)
5) Hospital Kajang (cuz i have 2 lovely seniors there)
Went on Tuesday with Michelle to SS15 at about 10am plus and had breakfast while our nerves were settling in. Met up with Syabana and Aqilah at the cyber cafe and prepped ourselves. Filled in the autofill, downloaded the extensions and just waited. The wait was very nerve breaking tbh, especially after 11:50am. At 11.58am, everyone was already spam entering their details. Then, the crashes start to slowly happen as the time creeped to 12pm. Enter, fail, enter, fail, enter, crash, next tab, repeat. Finally went in after a slight crash and refresh, and the first page filled in everything and then it had an error. THE BLOODY PHONE NUMBER. First of all, it's autofilled by the system so we didn't have to actually type it in, and the house number wasn't compulsory. The red circles was around the house number and phone number. So in the moment of panic, I filled in my house number, which STILL didn't work lol. Turns out, it was my phone number, lacking a 0 infront of the 017, so is 17 instead... LIKE WHY. but fine, filled it in, next page, A levels, 2014, next page, ALRIGHT LETS PICK!
PPUM, 4 kekosongan.
Click, Tick, Hantar. MAAF. shit.
Out, look at my list, look at the list, Hospital Sungai Buloh (22 kekosongan).
Click, Tick, Tahniah. phew.
Not really the final page but went back to snap a photo of this lul
Much fun le outing hehe :D
CNY Melanie house gathering
District Flare +1 :D
Steamboat with Brendon and Mai in 1 Utama.
Fast forward 3 weeks, Covid 19 cases were slowly increasing and things were getting more serious, with talks of lockdowns, borders closing coming in, panic buying toilet papers? (don't ask me why, I still don't understand. Some say toilet papers can make makeshit masks but I still don't buy that). I got my PTM location, EDC Hotel KL and somehow the PTM got changed from the normal 5 days to a shortened 3 days (again, very last minute announcement). This PTM location was shared between Sungai Buloh, Ampang and HTAR Klang. I went with Michelle and checked in to find that I'm sharing with 2 guys ( instead of 2 per room which I've been expecting dear god). Also, this time of Covid u wanna put 3 guys who god knows went where in the past week to sleep together in a small ass room? hmmm.... sure....
So, checked in at PTM and the timetable itself was kinda bullshit LOL. Check in time was 2pm, but they decided screw this, we shall allocate till 4pm for check in. LIKE WHY. So we sat there doing nothing for 2 hours... Mun Hon and I sat together with Michelle, Syabanna, Adli, and Muzakkir. There were a few interesting talks tbh, but I was nodding off half the time (in the front row mind you). Bad room experience as well cause someone just doesn't know how to shower with the curtains closed like WUT. You go in and then the floor outside the shower looks like a tidal wave passed by =.= are you kidding me... Then, we get fed like 5-6 times a day. The food was decent, not bad, just didn't have that much appetite really. Their cafe did have a RM6.90 promotion on their chicken chop but we didn't manage to get it due to the constant food being fed lol.
But yeah, first night of PTM, suddenly they tell us, HSB people are being transferred to PPUM. I honestly have mixed feelings in me that time cause I was kinda looking forward to go HSB already. Another news, PTM was being cut short to Tuesday night, so 2 days of PTM only. Doctors are expected to check in at their hospitals on Thursday (19 March). Everything just got put on a fast forward train to OMG SHIT IS GETTING REAL. The government also announced on Monday night that movement control order (MCO) will begin on Wednesday (18 March) where travel between states are restricted, everyone is advised to stay at home and most workplaces are off. Things are serious now. However, all these last minute announcements really screwed me up as well. Each hospital has a list of documents they need and I needed my photocopy shop to be open. Now UM is added to my list of worries as they need ANOTHER set of documents, jeeeezzzzzz. I had to drive around to find a shop to get my photocopy machine and to print my photos it was so horrible. In the end, I printed my photo on an A4 paper LUL (it worked btw).
Met a new friend there Esther who is gonna be in Hospital Ampang hehe :)
So Thursday, I drove to HSB for the first time in my life and got a first glance at it. It was really big and it looked quite spacious. Tbh, everything looked really nice cause I went to Penang hospital for the past 2.5 years, so anything is an improvement LOL. There were lanes for Covid patient set out which was kinda cool. Hospital was quite empty as HSB has now closed their doors to any non Covid cases. We went there and guess what, they tell us stay here first, UM not sure if they want you. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL joke. JOKE. After filling out the forms, by noon they said now u can go UM already. So travelled back to PJ, bought ipoh chicken rice in front of CHS hehe for old times sake and went to UM. Didn't know where to parked so parked on top of ED. 2.5 hours cost me RM5 wew cray cray. But first day nothing much, just got our emails and passwords and basic set ups. The orientation was also the shortest in UM history, being only 2.5 days. The next 2 days were just lectures on basic stuff (that i dozed off for, in the front row again LOL).
Paeds batch woohoo! :)
So, I started my UM journey in Paediatrics, ward 8PB with Ain. The others in paediatrics were Mark, Shing Li, Nadiah, and Shanna. 2 in each ward. Apparently I was in the old ward of Zu Yao's sister and she dropped a message to my sis saying it's a good ward xD I'm still like I'll judge by the time I go to the ward hehe. Turns out it was the best ward I could ever ask for to start my housemanship, especially in paeds hehe. It is a cardio and respi ward, with lodgings by ophthal, ent. I walked in and I met up with some housemans and it only took me a few days to kinda really blend in with them which is great. One level above I get my lovely medical officers Dr. Yeoh, Dr. Mukmin and Dr Sa'adah. They can be tough when needed but they are open for discussions and teachings which encourages me to just try and present or discuss answers cause I won't get bombed down so fast. It was amazing. Then, one level above are my specialists Dr. Lim and Dr Chan. Dr Lim is the neurology specialist who tickles our brain with loads of questions regarding the patient's chronic conditions. He also taught us slightly about ventilations and all so it was really fun. Dr. Chan meanwhile is more stern who requires loads of laptops (one care chart, one results, one type) but also likes to teach. He makes his assessments into teaching sessions for HOs and MOs alike. Seeming that this is a teaching hospital, maybe this is usual kot haha.
Sadly, once I really got close to my ward, 8PB was converted into a Covid ward out of a sudden, and we were all moved away. That was like when the nightmare begun. I was moved to 8PA with the patients for 2 days and it was not fun lol. Their MOs were not like ours and I got shouted at as well (for something that wasn't even about me, just the way I was standing LOL). Yeah, shit. Then they said that we have too many HOs and wanted to rest some of us at home, which initially was a wonderful news. HOWEVER, they changed it suddenly and said they are going to shove some HOs to ANOTHER hospital due to the lack of learning opportunities. FML. List came out, all of my batch in Paeds kena, even Nadiah who got her UM posting also was included. So now, I don't even know where I'm going, when I'm going, and how everything is going to work out lol. I was having fun working in 8PB and then now all of this is going to end again lol. PLUS I just got off tagged, and if we go to a new hospital, probably we will need to tag again. I crai. I really do crai. T.T
But yeah, so far its only like this I guess. Housemanship is still going on, only 2 weeks in, 1 year and 50 weeks to go lol. Other than that, probably nothing much to update haha. Still single, no blossoming relationship. I'm fine with that :) Till next time!
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