28°


i can now declare that saturday is Soderno Day! :D hahaha yep! plans to go Soderno is still alive and kicking! after the whole incident yesterday, and after venting out half of it.. i guess it time to move on and try to bounce back once again. i hope this isn't another saturday thing. 2 saturdays in a row ive been telling myself "ok you have to bounce back" .. no more bouncing back..

today was like last week.. all i did was sleep!! :)) 10 hours of sleep followed by another 4 hours! then a little TV then SODERNO!!! :)))

i think its becoming a "destressor" thing for me. (invent your own word!)
after a week of work, its fun just eating out. spending the little cash you have. and forgetting or even releasing the Bad Vibes that has been following you all week long.

and yes. at last!! touchdown!!

hahaha ive been thinking about trying this :D 

considered as one of Mercato's Favorites. a must try..

they prepare it as you order. not like other burger grill things that they just preheat your food. :P

photos care of google :|  i do not own any of those photos ive posted in this entry. 

soo i tried the regular big bob's charcoal grilled burger :D and had some juice from Edgy's stall :D i was really hoping to try the dalandan.. but they ran out already :( so i got the gulaman? instead :)) 

it was a Soderno Take Out! i was also planning to buy some mini tacos, but thought, naaah maybe next week! :))

so we went to meet up with Cha's friends at Westgate. they were skating that night. it was the first time i got to come with. 

i must say it kinda intrigue me, but its not my cup of tea. i have poor balance and my knee's are really weak :)) i cant handle the speed + balance and the possible injuries that comes with it :)) so i just watched them. i was actually having my "if only i have a dslr, i would have gotten sick shots.." thoughts. :)) 

and it bothered me all night. Gaaaaaawd i wish i have one already. and the thoughts of me only making only 3000 a month for the next 5 months kinda is killing my dream of buying and owning one in the NEAR future. and worse thing is, if i did get recalled to become a trainee, i still wont be earning enough cash to buy a respectable gear :( 

i still have my savings from 4th year college. (quite proud of myself for keeping it at a respectable amount.. hahaha bum for how many months? and a work that doesn't pay much and i still have it at the amount i want?ps: thank you mom :D ) maybe im that kuripot :| :)) my college friends say that. but they also wonder why i eat and eat and buy things but still have money left over. called bargain and budgeting guys :) if i wasn't a nurse, id be a businesswoman or an accountant :)) anyways..

kinda felt bad after dreaming about taking great shots. i even thought of a name for my camera already :( i watched them just skate around me. and thinking to myself, it would be sooo sick if i could tag along with them and take shots.. would be great practice. but i dont have a camera :( 

wowie/jason/bom wasn't around anymore to lend me theres. to let me learn from their own babies :| and i was looking at the towers near westgate. thinking. if only i accepted the job in convergys. maybe by 4 months i would have already got the camera i wanted. ohh did i share the name of my soon to be camera?

if canon : Coco :D if nikon : Nikki :D gaaaaad i already have names!!! :(( kill me now :|

i always wanted to capture great sports moments. sigh.. another dream to be put on hold. 

01-28-12

27°

Friday is not my day. 

last week. i did everything wrong.

today. i just felt invisible :( 

i really really really expected this day to be a great day. after what happened yesterday. high expectations i guess. too high i guess. 

when you start the day with something negative. it will end that way as well. maybe this week was too great. that there should be this one day. ONE DAY that will balance everything out. 

i don't know how the hell i should start or finish this thing.

BV. 

26°

duty with Sir Mike, Mam Rona and Mam Rye. :)
I actually had a great feeling about this duty :) i remember the quote i heard while driving to work this morning.
"“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr. " this was the last day of the week we would have students with us. i like having students around. I have things to do. Maybe its Sir Mike's hyper aura thats rubbing off on me :)) but i was like in and out of the station that the staff was even asking. "toxic ka cham?" and i was like "nope" :) i like moving around. get things done. helping the students out with the cases of my patients.
first time this week that i actually had time to eat lunch! :) we really had time to eat. as in eat! :)
best duty so far.
and i actually ended on time! as in 2pm DONE! everything was noted and carried out. everything has been checked and rechecked! I felt i got my groove back. and maybe because the ambiance inside the station was yes chaotic but it was fun. it was alive. it started great! it ended great! :D

first time i timed out early. i usually time out at around 3. 215 palang!!! sooo i was happy to drive home. pass by perps to buy things.. then.. i got a text..
president joseph was asking about a meeting! i was like.. WHAT MEETING!! then i remember Sir Mike telling me there was an employees meeting this afternoon that all i had to do there was introduce myself. i thought he was kidding! it was damn true!!! :))) soo i hurried back, trying to look for a good parking spot. LPDH was full.. so i tried in southville. by the pedestrian i saw someone familiar! it was Rachelle!! i put my window down and screamed RACHELLE!! she screamed back my name and asked were i went! i didnt have time to stop because cars was right behind me.. hahah but it was soooo funny..

i got to the meeting just in time to introduce myself. then more powerpoints. after the actual meeting, Dr. Sevilla treated everyone with Ice Cream! :D and the personnel's office gave out ham and cheese sandwich and iced tea :> i reunited with my fellow VN's . it was supeeeeeeer fun!!! i wish i could hang out with them more :(

soo basically today was the best duty ever and the first time i ever attended an employees meeting and was almost 1 1/2 hour late :P :)) EPIC FAIL LANG KASI!

hahaha got home and took a 2 hour nap.. then tv and stuff then sleep.. tomorrow is a new day! i hope the phrase was right. i had a great day today. and i hope this will be a good prep for a great tomorrow! :D

01-26-12

25°


had a great duty yesterday. I think im improving. im still forgetting some things though. :)
so today i was with Mam Rye, Mam Rhona and Mam Rose :)
this was my first time endorsing to the OR. I knew some of the things mam rose asked,but there are times that i was kinda scared of her :| i dont know. maybe because the first encounter i had with mam rose was at station 1 and she got mad at our group for being too noisy inside the station and the next was she getting mad at me for the hydrocort in station 4 :| soo im still a bit scared whenever she asks me stuff. I was reading the charts alot now. it was learning from the previous encounters with the consultants.
I got caught up again with everything that was going on inside the station :| I dont know what was happening. I was doing alot of things, and time seems to run soooo fast. but i was all over the place :|
I like helping out everyone who approach me, but maybe that was the one that makes me forget the things i needed to accomplish. I was bring charts downstairs, getting meds, assisting patients, answering students questions. i forget some of the things i was supposed to do, like call the IM resident about my patients inquiries. maybe it was also the fact that i was not a phone person. i must admit, i dont like talking to anyone via phone :| unless it was someone i really really really love to talk too.. soo calling doctors was not my cup of tea. but it was part of my duty as a nurse. im actually learning to answer the phone quite well. :) not passing the phone to mam rose as much na :P :) hahaha
but a lot of things caught up to me today. task that i should have done first. and the pharmacy got really mad at me for my late CM. soo another lesson learned. check everything!

and maybe on of the things i actually realized was if i was gonna continue my ever so approachable self, then i must use a post it note as reminders of things i need to do. make things easier. it might be a bit expensive on my part, but it lessen the chances of me forgetting things :)

my friend mei told me, if i was really an approachable person or i was kinakawawa lang :| she told me i did it during our C2 days. i dont really remember bein treated that way i mean kinawawa.. but i dont know, maybe they saw it that way.

i also remembered Miss P's lovenote.. i was a person who seldom complains at any request or orders. I dont know why, but i like helping out patients, students, fellow staff or anyone that needs me. and maybe it plays as a disadvantage sometimes because it eats up the time i need to get my own stuff done. and it kinda distracts me from doing some of the important things. :| i dont know. things i still have to learn. :) i hope my post it method will help me tomorrow. i think the bigger clipboard helped :) hahaha

wish me luck tomorrow! :) i wanna have a clean strong duty tomorrow :) as in pulido!! :D hahaha been a week and im still messing up at things. nahihiya narin kasi ako minsan. :| but i know that is the only way i can learn din. by asking.
i just hope they wont give up on me :|
i know i can live up to their expectations.

they say its about pulling your share of the weight, i have to be super willing to learn for them to teach me. and i am :) im actually enjoying. im starting to like station 4. :) it wasn't my first choice, but i think even mam maternal and mam jo saw something in me.. maybe that i can really grow in station 4 :) and im starting to believe that :) ive been soo comfortable in the other stations, maybe its time to be exposed in the area i was sort of avoiding. :)

im loving my station 4 family :)

so this is a early ThankYOU for everything. :D and for the things that you guys will still teach me :) sorry if i ask alot of questions, especially when im in doubt. thankyou for the patience and all :) i hope il be staff nurse like you guys nadin :D see you sa mga duties! sana makasama ko kayo lahat :>

01-25-12

24°


i was determined to have a great duty today.
i was with Sir Silver,  Mam Gracie and Mam Rose today :) i also have my bottle of Mountain Dew aka TANTRUM! :)) there was still some lapse on my part. but i was learning. that i was sure of. and i think the Mountain Dew made me a bit hyper :)) mam gracie even noticed me being a bit restless? :)) i was finding things to do. i dont know why but whenever i have time, there was nothing to do. but when i was doing tons of things, carrying out tons of orders, everyone was asking for me :| :)) but yea. mountain dew really helped me today :) hhahaha and ofcourse the reminder i posted at the back of my ever so green clipboard. hahaha

i was in a kinda good mood. still time management was an issue for me. i keep on forgetting what i was supposed to doooooo!! :| maybe because alot of things were happening in the middle of the time they requested it to the time i was supposed to do it. but this reminder kinda helped me. 

I WAS NOT A PRINCESS!! :)) that was a sure thing for me :) i dont want to be a princess. and for that to happen, i have to get used to the protocols in LPDH. how to answer the inquiries of my patients regarding lpdh policies and stuff. everything. 

sooo that was it :) 

me after duty with my note :) i miss c2!!! 

01-24-12

23°


we actually welcomed the Chinese New Year! :D hahaha
i also researched if the Year of the Water Dragon will be good to me :D and i actually learned alot of things about my Zodiac sign :)
i was born 1990. so year of the Horse. I was a Cancerian Horse. thats it.
soo i found out there was this thing as Metal/Fire/Earth/Water things. hahaha soo i read about it.
i was a Metal Cancerian Horse! :D and Year of the Water Dragon will be nice to me :)) un lang!  :))
we welcomed the Chinese New Year with a semi chinese style feast :) we also prepared our 168 lucky money :D my mom and dad gave us some money as well. :) i still have my 120 from previous Chinese New Year 168 :)

Our Chinese New Year Feast :>

yes thats Papa's hand trying to get some siomai :D hahaha

I was supeeeeeeeeer full! i could still feel our Gyros/cake dinner :) then followed by this one. only 4 hours interval :| :))
lets say i had a greeeeeat sleep! :D

i woke up super early this morning. maybe i was getting used to having 6am duties. i started to clean my room :| it was insane!! :) i organized our desk. then clean clean clean! it was 530 in the morning!! :)) internet was down .. cleaning became my outlet :))

in the afternoon i accompanied my parents to Starmall. hahaha and i found this..

"SPAM Musubi"

okay it tasted okay for 25 pesos. but cmon. it wasn't spam.. it was maling (luncheon meat) :| hahaha 

soo i looked around Starmall. dint buy anything :| :)) i dont know why. maybe im just picky when it comes to clothes :| i just dont like shopping for clothes. id rather shop for shoes :))

soo after Papa's meeting, we went to ATC to buy thermometers :D we also ate at Jollibee :) 

my mom bought tea at the dollar store. my dad bought alot of things for his laptop at daiso and i bought digi thremo's at National :)) that was it. we went home, i prepared all my things for duty the next day :D

ps: i saw this at the dollar store

i remembered someone :> hahaha i know she would gooo craazy for this :)) sad i cant buy her some.. no time to give some to her :| :) hahaha 

01-23-12

22°


this day is actually a fun day.. hahah foodtrip :D sooo me and cha decided to go Bargain hunting :)) the second surplus (the place we intended to go to) was closed :( we bought nothing! !:)) but saw some cool stuff. Cha saw a Kimono, i saw some old records. i was really hoping to see some old camera's or old toys. but nada! maybe the next surplus stores.

so we went to Festival mall :) We decided to have the cake all you can at Cravings! :)) but it was too early for dessert.. soo we decided to have dinner at this Mediterranean Resto :)

awesome painting. the ambiance was kinda cool :D chill mode lang :D

cha's lamb kebab, Linguine pasta, Hummus with pita and my lamb gyros :D

my lamb gyros up close :D with side dish of fries (ate some na before taking a pic)

i forgot the place.. hahaha basta it was across cravings and beside Racks in Festival Mall :D it was good. but the Mediterranean Resto in ATC is better. the hummus was better there, as well as the gyros :) sooo to make some room for our cake and coffee all you can, we walked around Festi, bought some stuff and looked for quality headset :) hahahha by 8pm, it was time!! :D

i had 2 cups of coffee and 3 slices of cake! :)) we were supposed to eat more cake and drink more coffee.. but then, they were already closing :)) i think il be going back here :D with a book and a whole afternoon of cake and coffee! wiiiiiiiiiiii

01-22-12

21°


Today was sleep all day bawi from the straight-duty-nung-thurs-then-6am-nung-friday-kung-san-natoxic-ako day :))
i was really craving for the Soderno today. but no one was there to make sama :)) soo i slept again! :)) i was supposed to go with my parents to SM megamall. but then.. i got really really really tamad :| so i wasn't able to come with them :|

i woke up around 6pm.. i texted cha if she wanted to go to Soderno. She replied around 8. that she was on her way, sooo. it was crunch time. should i go? or should i just stay at home and watch tv.
so i let Twitter Decide! :)) i asked if my tummy could still take Manangs chicken since i already had dinner. a highschool friend told me GO GO GO!! hahaa sooo im sooo game! :D
i arrived at Soderno at around 9. cha was walking to palms with her friends. so i ate at soderno alone first :| hahaha it was ok. a bit awkward. but i dont mind :)
she wasn't replying so i decided to go home early, then she texted and asked if i could go back. so i did. i went back to Soderno, bought Grilled Corn and waited for cha :) there i saw Ate Dyan!! :) looooooooong time since i last saw her :) it was nice :D

then i met up with cha and made hatid her friend JM home and Shervi to Perps then went home. ohhh yea. i had Manangs Chicken wings to go :)) MIDNIGHT SNACK!! wuhoooooooo! :))

kuya cooking my grilled corn :)) my very mahal pero big naman na grilled corn! :)) sorry for the blurry photo :)

manangs "EXTRA HOT" chicken wings. (wasn't hot at all :| kinda disappointed with that )

great day :)

01-21-12

20°


the day has come. I was with Mam Crissy, Mam Dougie, Mam Rose and Sir Arklohn :) i knew i felt different. I was slower than usual. I had to jog my was from room to room to keep up during the nursing rounds. I felt my body was soo heavy and i was forgetting alot of things. I mean a lot of things. I wasn't thinking straight. and me handling a patient with ACL scared the hell out of me. everytime i entered his room, i felt my knee stiffening up :| it was one of the injuries i feared the most.
i asked alot of questions today. i didn't have enough time to read my charts. i couldn't even remember the cases i handled.
fatigue caught up with me. adding to that my monthly visitor came :| all my energy was gone :| i was talking slower than usual. in a slower tone and pace than usual. and i felt that the staff was feeling it too. they constantly asked if i was okay. and maybe it was me not wanting to seem like a brat or a pain for them. i tried to push through. i think Mam Rose saw the change. My own aura was different :| she helped me out alot today! she gave some of the medications. she helped me clean the ACL thing :| she talked to most of the doctors. she did almost everything and i felt embarrassed about everything. i know i wasn't me and being tired and feeling everything wasn't an excused. i should have pushed myself more. but there was nothing. i used up all my second will. and my brain was shutting down. :(

I finished the duty without eating and drinking. 2 Doctors getting mad at me (one face to face and one via phone call). being helped by the staff as if i was a student nurse :| it was a horrible way to end my week :| i was doing fine. i was moving faster and faster each day. then boom! i broke down :| it was like my engines tired out and just exploded on me :| i wasn't thinking straight. not at all. i literally broke down. i tried to smile everytime i entered my patients room. my poker face. but my face while walking down the hallway and my face while charting showed my fatigue :|

so i went home. thinking and remembering what happened today. i bought pichi pichi and kutsinta from my suki. and remembered my commuter buddy.

i miss you MEI LAMIMIGO!! :)) i paid kuya 20 and sukli sakin 3 pesos! :D hahaha

remember our "DI KA YAYAMAN SA BARYA NAMIN" thing? :))

parang ansaya ko? poker face???

pichi pichi and kutsinta :>

 i missed having duties with c2. they made it easier. it seemed easier. maybe because the pressure was equally distributed. I'm not sure. i felt really bad. i knew i wasn't myself today. i went home, ate my super late lunch and took a nap. I felt my bed just embracing me. i wasn't in the right state of mind to go out with my fellow 3VN' :( they were hanging out and i was at home trying to regain everything that was lacking in me :| when i woke up, Joseph texted saying that next time dapat complete. and i got to talk to chui. i told her what happened. i promise to be at the next bonding. 

Today was a learning experience. NEVER EVER take a STRAIGHT duty then 6a the next day! IT WILL LITERALLY KILL YOU! and i should know my limits. I should have managed my time more wisely. tired or not i should have been prepared. i know i still have time to make bawi to the staff and also prove to them that i can handle it. 4-6-8 patients even.

this break down made me even determined to be great. to be more efficient to work faster and accurately as ever. it was about falling down on your feet, and deciding to stand up back again. Standing up and being better than ever. A challenge at the start of my "volunteership" :) The staff and doctors treated me and expects me to be like a regular staff. I have to start being one.

This is a challenge. and i say..

01-20-12

19°


today turned out a little differentlt than i expected :|
soo again i felt a bit out of place. out of sync. and maybe seeing Sir Mike move and talk so fast was a bit overwhelming for me. I felt very rushed today. i felt insecure about everything. and maybe it was the way we started our duty.

we started it with a patient going wild on us. "its 6 o'clock in the morning, we still not yet endorsing".. something like that :)) thank God there were students. we were trying to restrain a patient who was going wild trying to pull out every thing attached to him. soo i knew it was gonna be a very very very hyper and wild day ahead of me.

so after endorsements, i attended to my patients along with my Student nurses. It was alright, but there were times that i ran into Sir Mike and he talked and moved soo fast that i was the one getting tired for him. He was bursting with energy. 8 hours straight! he was walking around station 4 as if it was as small as station 1 or station 2 :)) I was tiring out myself just by observing him :|

soo i was a bit glad that duty was done. I felt kinda happy i survived this day. I was all over the place. I was helping every student that came up to me. It was a very tiring day. and by 130pm all i was thinking was getting home and taking my almost usual nap time :)

but when i got to the station, Sir Mike and Mam Dougie approached me. asked me if i had plans this afternoon. so i answered nothing special. (nap was special but i wont admit that :P :)) ) i was thinking it was the dougie nights Mam Grace was telling me. but it was different. The patient that went wild on us that morning wasn't transferred to the ICU and was now on SP status :| and they asked me to SP with Sir Silver :| i couldn't refuse. but i was thinking.. what the hell will happen to me the next day. I never went on a straight duty before. plus i was 6a the next day! but it was set. Straight then 6a the next day. i remember what mam jo told us, dont try going 2-10 then 6a the next day. It will kill you! hahaha and i was attempting to go 6+2 then 6a!!

so i went on a straight duty with sir silver. He taught me alot of things about taking care of a post op craniectomy patient. He wasn't at all toxic. I was taking his vital signs q1. the only thing that was tiring was going down to the lab to get his results and stuff. waiting and running back to the 4th floor and running down to get supplies from the csr and back up again. things like that. it was the tiring part of the duty.
the relatives were very nice. even gave me and Sir Silver dinner :) at the end of the shift, i still have a bit of energy left. i picked up Cha and went home.

I was deaaaaaaad tired and was afraid how my body would take everything tomorrow. Tomorrow was the first day that we didn't have students. The first time i would be handling them 100%! and coming from a straight duty. what will happen to me??

highlight of the day.. a 3 year old girl gave me flying kisses :> i drew her jollibee, hello kitty and a car to get her attention off the students who are giving her antibiotics :) she gave me flying kisses as we left her room :D aint she sweet? this are the moments you actually enjoy being a nurse :)

01-19-12

18°

today was a regular duty day. we had students and again i was in my ever so helpful state of mind. I made it to a point to help out the students, they make our duty easy, i do the same :) It was day three and slowly but surely they start giving me patients, helping me out on things. everything went smoothly today.

then it was almost time for our lunch break. It was a tradition and its something that makes me feel kinda welcomed :) it was a tradition in station 4 that the new comers will treat the old staff lunch or something. so it was mine and mam crissy's turn :)

mam crissy already ordered a KFC bucket meal. i thought we were gonna share on what to buy. :)) soo now the pressure was on my side. what to contribute.. mmmm.. then mam rose told me she had a shakey's super card! :)) sooo that was it! during my first duty, Mam grace bought pizza for all of us. so i thought, i liked that angus pizza. why not right? soooo i decided Angus Pizza na!! :))

we actually had 2 pizza's. Angus beef and Hawaiian. hahaha bilis naubos!! :P :))

me and mam tin realized that we like Coke Zero better :)))

 funny thing was i still have baon! and it was also chicken! :))

KFC's bucket is still for christmas :| :)))

one of the memorable part was when we offered Ms Apple to eat with us :) she told us that it was the first time she was treated by her former students :) it was very nice. to think it was also my first treat with my first "paycheck" :D hahaha 

thank you station 4 for making me feel accepted :)

im kinda afraid of my duty tomorrow. i was kinda getting used to being with Mam Rye, Mam Tin and Mam Grachie and Mam Crissy.. tomorrow will be different. New set of People. Sir Mike! the ever soo hyper sir Mike!! :))) soo im kinda scared! its like trying fit in all over again. :| soooo wish me luck! :)

01-18-12

17°


day 2! :)
i handle 6 patients today :) supervised by Mam Rye sympre :D hehehe but it was fun. its about learning new things about being or moving more quickly. :) like they said, trial and error. Mam Rye was really really helpful :) she answered all my questions. i know verrry soooon i can really handle patients by myself already. asking less questions and maybe even take verbal/telephone orders :P

Mam Elizabeth also oriented us about good relationship with the Attending Physicians as well as the Residents :) she was right naman :) if it was me, i would also like someone to accompany me during my rounds especially the one who is with the patient 8 hours a day (if i ever become a doctor :P ) hahaha maybe sometimes with all the things happening inside the ward, we often forget the little things :) NOTED! 1/17/12 9:30pm *trodat mark signiture* :)))

i think i was a bit frazzled with everything. I forgot about the billing and things :)) but yea im getting the hang of it :) i think sooo :))) i really need to learn how to converse via telephone :| seriously aswell as read doctors handwrittings. im thinking about taking a class on that :) i think mam Apple kinda noticed me being a bit stressed about the meds. and told me its ok to ask the students to do it :) but for me i think its a learning experience for me as well. i have to learn all the dilutions and stuff about the meds. not everyday students are there to help me out. i havta learn to manage my time more efficiently. work faster but accurately :) luckily for me my patients were had benign cases. what if i had the one with the broken knee or the one who has OF feeding or BT? how will i distribute my time?

like i said, its a learning thing. I have to get used to everything that is happening. i have to start thinking and analyzing on my own. yes it is alright to ask but i still have to learn how to move without being closely supervised :)

sooo out of our 6 patients.. 2 were given the go signal to go home, and one was sent home already :D and this was given to us for the good job station 4 did :)

 kinda made me feel good about our job :) atleast they appreciate the things we did for them :)

one of our student nurses even got i think a cake or something. one of our patients appreciated their health teaching about taking care of a new born that she gave them something :) aren't our patients sweet? :)

what else did i learn today? mmmm.. ahhh ASSESS ASSESS ASSESS!! especially IV lines. :) i must admit i still haven't tried inserting an IV line. and i kinda fear that i will never will. or not now. i dont know. i dont think patients in Station 4 will let a VN like me practice on their hand :| i really really want to learn how!! anyways. i have to remember to assess everything about my patient :) dont get confused :) clear mind always! and yea i have to learn all the different cases again. different abbv still. and ofcourse medications. For now i know i still have time to check MIMS, but i still have to learn the basics by heart :) what to give and not to give :>

tomorrow will be the LIBRE NG BAGO SA STATION day :) hahaha i was actually wishing that Mam Ruby and Mam Grace would be there tomorrow. but if not. its okay i think. :) Mam Rye, Mam Tin, Mam Grachie and Mam Rose were awesome today :) and Mam Lovely aswell yesterday :) sympre Mam Rose din!! :> 

hahahaha

sooo when i got home.. POWER NAP! 3hours pre dinner :P :)) i should really start working out before taking my nap. atleast to lose some weight :| my diet ended up badly (Thanks Soderno) :))) 

wiiiiii tomorrow is another day! :) goodluck to me :> 

01-17-12

16°


first day of duty! :D i made sure i wasn't late :P :))
i met up with LA and Des near the CSR. they were buying mask. :) LA was in 3a and Des was stationed in 2 :)
soo i got up, and met the staff that day :)
i remembered mam Lovely. i guess she dint remember me :)) she was the staff nurse during our station 1 days. but that was like 2 years ago :P :))) soo its valid that she dint remember me. and like i said, i dint hang out inside the station that much during my duty days. hahahaha i made tambay inside my patients room :P :))

sooo there were students there, Ms Apple was the CI. :) it was kinda weird Miss Apple calling me Mam Cham :| :)) even the students :)) i sounded so BAKLA around them. i kept calling them TEH! :))
they dint give me patients to handle instead made me admit the patients, carry out orders and handle all the IV meds. i was also the assist for all the staff. which was cool. it was like a simple training or orientation for me :)
the staff was super funny and nice! :D Mam Tin always gave me tips around the station, Mam Lovely guided me in everything but still gave me the freedom to learn things on my own :D she was there if i had any questions like Mam Rye and Mam Christy (tama ba spelling ko?) :) She too oriented me with the things. IT made it easier for me to also help out the students :)

it was all fun! :D
the highlight was maybe me using my trodat for the first time! :)) i carried out orders!

 now im thinking about taking a short class on reading Doctors Handwrittings :)) seriously!!! some i could still read... some! GAAAWD impossibru!!! hahahahaha
now i actually got a new method in reading the medications. :)) doctors orders on one hand, mims on the other :P :)) makes it easier :))
i know in time i can be as efficient as the staff there :)

soo after that.. i drop off mam christy in perps and made sundo my sister :)) we went to Chicboy for a late lunch/merienda with her ER officemates :) hahaha

i miss my CB6 buddies!!! cmon cmon!! 

 I saw Ysreal Cac there! :D it was fun seeing old friends :D after that. we went home :) hahahah

that my first official day at work and day 16° of my blog :)

01-16-12

15°


Feast of Sto Nino :)
every year the mini subdivision right beside us celebrates the feast of sto nino :D parade, atiatihan, big handaan and some games for the kids. starts early in the morning. the beats of the drums and the loud songs will wake anyone up. but i dont complain. i know they are just celebrating! :)

there's a family that sponsors food like menudo and lumpiang shanghai for all the devotees :) they even hire people to dance (ati-atihan) :) we only had time to drop :) the church was also sponsoring some programs for the kids.

this is also the day UST won over Ateneo! :D it was a very close fight! Rhea Dimaculangan got injured and LAntin played in her place. The spikers made her look good. but i believe she has her own connection too. she was training with the team. so i think she also deserves some credit :D hahaha wuhooooooooo!! GO USTE!!! :D

this was also the day i read this 12 year old girl's very rude blog entry about UST :| tsktsktsk.. kids these days.. dont know how to give respect. :|

i talked to tin aswell :) ahahaha my failed attempt to kulit her :)) hahaha

mmmmm.. next year.. I WILL WATCH UAAP VBALL LIVE! :D and il have a banner saying IDOL :)) #randomthought :)))

ohhhh well :D thats it! :D duty the next day. got all my things ready. a bit nervous :) wish me luck!

01-15-12

14°


i woke up by a fone call from my former teammate heidi.. she was asking me if i was interested in playing today. a mini tournament in Pilar with her UP friends. i agreed. i missed playing basketball. i mean with the referees and all.
i got there at around 130. enough time to dress up and warm up :) i was scouting our opponents. marking who needs to be marked. it started fine. but i saw some sneaky hits from the other team. so at first i dint mind it. after the first quarter they were leading. so it was my turn.
first possession, i was boxing out this player and before i could jump for the rebound, she elbowed me right in the eye! :| i was running up and down the court with one blurry vision.
ive been playing basketball since grade 5. and i was never ever elbowed in the eye. she literally aimed for my eye and just stuck her pointy elbow at it :| by the end of the third quarter my eye was already aching. we were still down. most of my teammates where also complaining of the lack of calls on our part. our opponent were tripping us, holding and tugging our jerseys. how can you move if someone is holding your shorts. and the refs were just blind about everything!
i was really pissed. nearing the end of the third quarter. i was on a one on one thing with the person that elbowed me. i was determined to block the hell out of her. i watched her move and timed my hand. by the time she took off for her layup i jumped and block the ball hard. i heard the people first awwwed when i hit the ball then cheered when i bounced it off her hand. literally blocking it making it bounce back on the floor. but then her teammate caught it and still scored. i was happy and pissed at the same time. sayang ung block ko! they still scored!! Elaine was saying sorry for not defending the trailer but it was okay. it happens. it wasn't her fault. the one trailing her was tripping her when she was runnign.it was either catching up to the trailer and tripping and maybe injuring herself or just let that big lady get the ball. soo it was okay. i dont want her to get injured.
the last quarter. we decided to play hard. we did everything. we defended well. i got another big block! but this time i slapped the ball out preventing another trailer from getting the ball since i was surrounded by them.
they dint score a single point that quarter. but we lost by 3 points. 29-32 :| :( sad but what the hell.
it was just disappointing that we were treated that way. was it because we were a visiting team that the whistle wasn't on our side?
soo this are some photos of my "injuries"

me icing my eye at home :(

 i dint even know i had a scratch on my right arm! i think they missed grabbing my jersey instead scratched me :|

 i apparently fell on the floor. hahaha i dont remember. my teammate said i did :| :))

my black eye :| first time ever!! :)) 

sooo after the game. i took a bath at home and got ready for our Soderno Foodtrip. 

parked a ATC, bought some thingies first and went to Soderno.. gaaaaaaaawd i wanted to try everything!! but the kebab was really calling my name.. so i had the kebabs and the mini tacos. cha had the sandwich and pasta. :) it was pretty good. im still craving for some cake and stuffs there.. mmmmmm.. SODERNO weekends!!! wuhoooooooooooo!!

:))))

01-14-12

13°


i woke up early this day. thinking that it would only take like 30 mins to get my nbi clearance. it was 6am. no one would be in line this early right? WRONG! i arrived with a long line of people already!! there was a separate line for men and women. the men's line was twice as long! soo i was there.. 6am in the morning. waiting for the OIC to hand our the application form.. 630.. 700.. nothing! i was getting tired! i heard some of the people there were waiting in line since 5am :| #IMBA
730 the man arrived and handed out forms. checking everyones cedula and id :| they only handed out like 100++ forms for women and the same i guess for men. i was number 57! sooo i was thinking..ok separate lines, so i guess this will be fast.. i was wrong again :( </3 the line just to pay for it was soo long.. it took 2 hours!! imagine that!! it was hot, i was hungry and people were getting a bit restless.
after paying you have to fall in line again to get your forms encoded. the encoding part was a bit fast.. only took about 30 mins. then you have to get your photo taken. biometrics things.. that was another long wait.
when it was nearly my turn, i saw this lady infront of us holding her form. this was unusual because she was lined up with us to have our photo taken but i felt she hasn't even got encoded yet. so me being a nice person asked her.. i asked if she's done getting encoded, she said she wasn't she was waiting to get her photo taken. so i told her the process. then she felt silent. then the OIC kinda figured out the situation she was in. good thing the people in the encoding line was nice enough to let her cut in. soo it was my time. got my fingerprint and photo taken. then the man behind the mirror called me. told me i wont get my nbi clearance today but instead on feb 1 which was okay because it was already 1130 and i still havta get home, take a bath and get ready for my 2pm duty.
i got home ate and did my thing

by 130, i passed my deficient documents to the nursing office and went straight to station 4 :) there was sir mike orienting Jesse and semi orienting me :) the nurses there were nice :D I remember all the fun times me and C2 had there. hanging out at the mini room. hiding from miss maj :))

soo again endorsement. it was still the same as i remembered. Mam Rose was our Head nurse :) she assigned me to help mam ruby :D She was a different person now. Last year she was VN who was a bit confused with some things, now she was Senior nurse and was like the Charge nurse :D it was awesome. she knew alot of things :) Mam grace was another VN. a senior VN :D she was nice. she constantly asked me if i was ok. maybe she knows how it feels to be the new VN in the area :) she was easy to talk to. she told me who's who. which doctor is who and stuff like that.

Out duty was once again quite benign. aside from the H***** thing :)) first hand experience :D hahaha
before our duty ended, mam grace and mam rose ordered pizza because it was mam grace's birthday on the 15th :D it was fun :D

mam Rose told me that new VNs are supposed to make libre the whole staff once assigned to there location especially station4 :D soo i was thinking. .. wheeeen.. hahahaha it was all good. i can save up some money to buy them pizza again :D maybe shakeys or the grand slam one :D

they also gave me this

it was soooo sweeeet! :D i was instantly part of their things :> i felt welcomed already :D
it wasn't really my choiceto get assigned to station 4.. i was still hoping to get NICU or station 1 and 3a.. but .. after this duty.. i felt.. i might really like station 4 :) its time to forget our mam maj moments there. time to make new memories with my Station 4 family :)

01-13-12

12°


ICU ICU ICU ICU!! :))
i was almost late! i lost track of time actually :( :)) it was tiring to wake up everyday at around 4am :| i felt sleep deprived :( maybe because i got used to sleeping from 3am till 12nn :))
soo i was stationed at ICU today. i was with the ever so famous EA and Des :D yess. i call you now DES :) #Peace :))
so same thing. we received endorsements. i tried sooo hard to keep up. Sir Wyeth was talking soo fast! and the staff was like "ok ok ok" i was trying to write everything! :)) it was funny. my handwriting was awful! :)) soo we had 3 patients there. 2 were intubated, one was a bit makulit? hahaha ICU duty was always a boring one. the times seems longer and it was super quiet there :| soo we did the usual thing. Sir Christian (the charge nurse then who looks a lot like Rico Barrera of PBB :)) Peace tayo sir!!) was orienting us about the things we might encounter in the ICU :D he oriented us with the Meds in the E cart and all. how everything is done there. I met mam Riza too, she was a southville graduate. she help me out with my patient. :) also sir Christian (same name yes..) the senior VN there :D he told us what to expect aswell as a VN.
soo today was all about suctioning secretions, feeding them and taking there vitals. the patient I was assigned to couldn't really talk but he could hear and kinda reply to my inquires :)
during the most boring part of our duty.. i found myself reading a tagalog Bible i found on my patients bedside :| it was kinda funny me reading the bible there :)) BANAAAL! :))
Sir Christian VN was pretty nice teaching us everything we needed to know. something about the ICU that i felt i needed to always bring my A game.
it was kinda boring but still. :) lucky for us no one coded :D it was again benign :D but they said there were times that patients would just code right after the other and the ICU only having 5 patients would be super toxic!
it was fun hanging out with EA and Des :) ang kulit kulit ni Des :)) she reminds me of someone.. if forgot who -____- :))

sooo that was me duty. :D
i suddenly got a craving for some serenitea.. so i drove to town center :D yes all for a Large Hokkaido 50% sugar with Pearl Sinkers Serenitea :D and jamican patty :D

this is actually my first time going to ATC in my white uniform :)) serenitea was sooooo worth it :) i also bought a "wallet" :D hahaha thank you Sir Fritz for the idea :D hahahaha
soo driving home, i decided to take the friendship shortcut. little did i know, the shortcut was underconstruction. I ended up at Daang HAri Sea side :| :)) i had to make a U-turn and used the main road :| sayaaaaaaaaang gas :(

dinner time (following my diet) i cooked a whole plate of broccoli my mom bought in perps :)

healthy aint it? hihhihi

01-12-11

11°


after my solo trip in Station 1. im now stationed at the ER. for me one of the most boring place in lpdh :| maybe because we never did anything exciting during our duties there. i know that the ER is the front liner of the whole hospital. but i dont know why we never had those awesome ER experience, like the ones we had in LGH and MCM :|

it was always benign. during my college duty all we did was cut paper, VS all the people and just monitor some of the patients. that was it. There was a time we did or the boys of our group did cpr on an arrested patient. and i did learn how to use the ambu bag and trach suction there. but that was it.
but to be fair, we only had a few er rotation in lpdh. most was in MCM (the mecca of VA's) :)) soo its not that nice to compare. lets just say people in Las Pinas are more careful? hahaha that we never have to experience it here. :)))

sooo i was stationed there with Jesse and She :) we talke most of the times. the staff there was quiet as compared to the other stations. maybe because the "station" was soo open to all the patients.
there was this one patient. a grandma who fell from a flight of stairs. broken hip i think. she kept asking the same questions to her family. it was amusing at first but later the other patients were finding her quite noisy.
i remember her asking about her dead husband, which she thought was still alive. she even got mad that the family dint tell her about it. She was very forgetful already. she even thought she was only 26 years old! (she was already in her late 80's)
There was this one kid who had a hole in between his eyes. his playmate apparently ram his head into a corner cement wall? and he got a nasty hole in his face.
there was some action. i also remembered the lady that punctured her left foot with a whole sewing needle. it sent shivers down my spine.
i remember in one family outing my cousin got puncture by a fish bone on her foot and my uncle removed it using a sharpened bbq stick :| it was sooo gross!!
soo anyways.. we had out interview by 1pm with Mam Maternal. a one on one interview!! Sir Anthony kinda was scaring us about what happens during those panel interviews.
so by 1pm, our group was already there.
one by one Mam Nilda called us in her office. us who were left behind started to bond a little. told stories of our own experiences and just goofed around. it was fun! Joseph was the pasimuno of kalokohan :))
then finally it was my turn. the dreaded question was asked "Tell me about yourself" which i did. it was a fairly shuttle interview :) very informal. but i felt it was better that way :) i was comfortable enough to share my thoughts :D
it was fun. an exciting day. :D bonding with some new friends :)

i got home, help cook dinner. i was the one who grilled our meat dish :D hahaha then mom got home and gave me an already cold "hot choco" from starbs :D it was still good though :)

my mom also brought home some nori. it was pretty good! :)) me and my japanese snacks :| :)) i kinda miss drinking starbs. been months already :|
i want that hot choco + tagaytay experience again :| sigh. i hope i dont have duty during the holy week. i really really want to go to Cavite. :| join the Bisita Inglesia with matching overnight in Batangas. :| gaaaaaawd. that would be sooo fun!!

soo thats day 11 for me :D

01-11-12

10°


today was 2nd day of duty.. and i was alone at station 1 :| :))
I always had a great experience in Station 1. q1 vs or maybe patients with tons of contraptions. things like that :)
soo i was actually excited to spend my day there :)
my Head nurse was Mam Cecile :) she reminds me alot of a more calmer Miss Judy :) she was really nice. during endorsements they toured me around the station (i think they thought i was really new to station 1 :P hahaha)
station 1 was super benign that day.
soo all they did was teach me all about discharging patients. doing Credit Memo's and also admitting some patients :) they staff there was super fun to be with. And Mam Ces was always game to do anything. The Doctors were also cool about things there. but i also knew that if the station was toxic.. it was really TOXIC! luckily today was super benign.
Mam Ces actually gave me a patient to handle. admit her, order all the labs and meds. chart everything :) it was okay. It felt great handle a patient on my own. doing what i know.
I kinda find it hard with someone "hovering" all the time. i felt nervous for some reason like im going to make a mistake or something. I like the guidance but it adds on the pressure :))

so at exactly 2 she let me leave the area :) i immediately went to get my NBI clearance. I got to the Municipal Hall around 2:30. the line to get your NBI clearance was EPIC! when i asked the OIC, "cut-off na! kota na!" so i went back to LPDH. actually i went to southville and got my good moral :) had it photocopied then went to lpdh to have my PE done :) Dr. Calabyo was super kulit :) he recognized me immediately. then i went directly to the nursing office to talk to mam Tina. I told her about the NBI thing. and Ms Jo approved my 2-10 on friday for me to have time to get my Nbi clearance :)

it was a tiring day. the duty was okay. the whole driving to LPMH then to SISC then LPDH was supeeeer tiring :)

when i got home, i ate dinner and had that awesome orange :D hahaha

01-10-12

9°


everything started with Breakfast! my first Nestle Breakfast!!

Nestle Cereal + Banana for breakfast

sooo first day of "work".. i was almost late! :)) i left the house at around 5:20am.. i got to the hospital at 6:06!! i was like.. impossible!! :)) i ran up to station 3A only to see all the students were there already and also kuya Jesse :)) Mam Rhoda welcomed my, saying i was almost late for my first day. I checked the clock at station 3A.. it was only 5:55am :| :))) one institution, different clocks :| (decided to use the main clock downstairs since it will be the one determining if im really late for work :P.. shows in my Timecard)

soo duty was alright! super daming students!! :)) Now i know how the staff feels whenever there are like 12 student nurses inside the station. I was assigned again to Sir Fritz :) He taught me about the charts and discharging and stuffs :) some of the basics things i needed to know if i wanted to work in LPDH :)

Me and Jesse actually enjoyed our duty :) the people in Station 3A are fun people :D plus they are very patient! they really took time to teach us the to-do's in station 3 :) and Mam Rhoda was the BEST! she was very understanding :)

soo after our duty we went back to nursing office. :) MAm tina gave us our time cards :D

AFTER duty.. i went to City hall. :) got my Police Clearance. the crowd for the NBI clearance was crazy!! sooo many people! they told me there was a cut-off.. i wouldn't make it.. so i went to get my SSS :) everything went well :) i went to Perps to get everything photocopied :) then ate kwek - kwek :)) ok that was not part of my diet :| but i was dead tired and was pretty much hungry from walking around all day :)) then lastly i got the RIGHT lab results. YEY FOR ME NO LONGER NEEDING TO GET HEP B VACCINES AGAIN!! :))

when i got home, my dad pointed the "fruits of my labor" :))

first Cucumber

HAHAHAHA yes i am very proud! :D HARVEEEEEST MOOOOON!! :)) hahaha

soo by dinner time, Again, Nestle Challenge :) so i made some string beans and potatos as a compliment for my nestle cereal :)

ok i kinda ate some of the veggies before dinner :)) soo :D thats my stir-fry garlic potatos and string beans :D and ofcourse my nestle fitnesse cereal :D

wish me luck on my Diet! :D also for tomorrow! hahaha STATION 1 !!! :)) 

PS: PETROOOOON WON!! they lead the series 2-1 :> thanks to the awesome 3 pointer of Alex Cabagnot! :D 

01-09-12

8°


ok this day was pretty boring. haha i was actually trying to rest the whole day :) recharge me batteries for the 5 days 6-2 sked :| :))

actually, I was supposed to watch the UST v DLSU volleyball game with my cousins.. but then.. soo.. dint really turn out the way i wanted.
i went to SM instead :) bought Duty Shoes and My Nestle Challenge thing :)
soo that was it :> hahaha
boring aint it?

Day 8 is Rest Day :)

01-08-12

7°


Today was the Azkals Charity game. i woke up with my fone vibrating constantly due to the tweets :)) Me, Bom, Mei and Karl was planning to watch the game.. ohhhh well.. dint turn out goo for us.. :( next time!
so i made my super duper cheesy and ham sandwich and milo for "breakfast".. i will surely miss days like this.. waking up 10am or even 11am in the morning.. eating bfast.. then taking another power nap :)) waking up around 4pm, have late lunch/merienda then dinner at 7pm :)))

double cheese! haha chiz wiz plus slice cheddar melted together! :>

soooo Azkals was a no go for us :| so I just prepared myself for the game :)) wishing id see some abs :)) at the start of the game, i went to the Lab near our place.. had to have that hepa titer thing. so they took my blood. i got home and watched the game.. returned after an hour but since it wasn't done yet, i went home. Ate Med Tech told me she'd deliver it to my place (aint she nice?)

soo while waiting for my results, I finished the Azkals- Madrid game :) 

then mench gave me this!

STRAWBERRY TAHO!! :)) 

it waaaaaaas awesooooooome!! only for php10! :)) (our glass is pretty big, if you must know) 

then ate Med tech came and gave my results..

this is when the BV moment happened :|

you see, I told Ate med tech before she took my blood that i needed a certain exam to determine of i needed Hep Vaccine Shots.. i told her i already have the Hepa Screening and if she was interested to see the results.. she said no need that all i needed was this lab she knew.. soo me trusting her expertise knowing that she is a registered Med Tech.. i said go.. 

then you know what results i got? I got the Hepa Screening!! She dint do the right test on me!! i was like WTF!! i paid for the wrong test? i thought she knew what she was doing!!! 

so i called the lab.. i got to talk to the other med tech.. i explained what happened.. then she said.. yea you need this other test.. then i asked then why dint you do that one? i explained what i needed and you and you did the wrong exam! then she started telling me the price of the other exam.. what about the one i paid earlier?!? i was effin pissed. :| I told them i already have the screening.. WHY TEST ME AGAIN FOR THAT EXAM!! like i said, im not good with confrontations.. soo i told them to do the RIGHT one and ill pay for it. GAAAAAAAAAAAWD STRESS! I WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK THERE!! 

soo i was pretty pissed.. then someone texted me, :) hahaha ok that smiley kinda says it all right? :P :)) 

then my mom and dad got home from a relatives bday party. i told my mom what happened. she was pretty disappointed aswell.. she was the one that referred me to that Lab :| :))

the highlight was actually the package from Hawaii! :D 

a box of Pop Tarts and a jar of Nutella <3 

WE LOVE YOU TWINS!! WE SUPER MISS YOU!! :> hihi made my day :>

01-07-12