KFSH 1st oncall..

I figured the best way to display my on call is to put it on a time line.. Easy reference and easy on the eye lol

08:00 am
Reached the hospital, took my mini suitcase to my oncall room, and headed to the morning meeting.. I was late, but so was the head of the department, we went inside together, so no one can say a word to me without it hitting the big boss *evil grin*..

08:30 am
Morning meeting over, one of my consultants had a conference and left, the other one had a kidney transplant in the OR, and he only wanted one resident.. Bottomline, I'm free to go!
I went to starbucks, had my cheese sandwich and toffeenut latte (double shot espresso, ofcourse). Solved the sudoku on Alsharq Alawsat..

09:30 am
Went back to my room, turned on the PC and checked my facebook homepage.. after being lost in pictures for about an hour, I thought I should blog about my apparently empty day..

10:45 am
I still found myself ridiculously bored, so I went down to the gym - yes we have a gym in KFSH.. There's an outdoors room, and since the weather is absolutely charming, I took a turkish coffee and a cig outside..

11:05 am
I went back to the 3rd floor (Surgical floor) to head back to my room.. Then I was startled to find that my team was rounding on a patient! I joined and they all looked mad at me.. So I asked why didn't they page me? They said they were paging me for almost an hour and I wasn't responding.. THAT'S when I knew my pager was not working!! BUT before I could take advantage of that, a resident took me to the communication engineer to fix the problem PRONTO! :( I didn't celebrate the broken pager!

01:15 pm
We went down to the clinic.. a couple of patients, nothing serious.. But then that can't just be it..

ok I need a huge TIME OUT here.. WTH?!
LooooooooL
I'm sorry I can't share that, but one patient was talking naaaaaaaastyyyyyyyy describing what's wrong! Due to adult content, I'm gonna have to pass.. But jeez it was embarrassing to meeeeeee my face turned purple~green! looooooool I can't get over itttt!

1:45 pm
I was called to the ER (I'm on call remember..).. What's the case? an acute appendicitis.. (now ur supposed to be picturing an extremely ill patient, who's unable to stay still in bed, who's feverish, vomiting, and most likely dehydrated..) Ok, I head to the patient room, there's a guy standing in the corner arguing with a nurse about his IV cannula.. I walk right past him and the room was empty.. I go out and call his name, and surprise! It's the perfectly looking gentleman who's upset about the IV cannula!
Here comes the difficult part: How do u explain to a perfectly healthy-looking guy that he's got appendicitis, and that we must operate immediately otherwise it might perforate and kill him? the answer is: you can't.. he started questioning OUR knowledge.. and by the way, our diagnosis was based on CT scan results, not on psychic reading, i swear!

2:00 pm
Skeptical patient left against medical advice.

2:01 pm
I was starving by this time, and I had a radiology meeting at 3.. so I have to find whatever, buy it, and stuff it into my mouth in half an hour! I did, but i didn't stuff it entirely, I had to take it to go (yeah our cafeteria has chinese chicken with fried rice to go.. rn't u jealous? lol) Sooo I had to take it back up to my room and run to the radiology conference..

3:15 pm
Once in the Radiology department, I started looking for the conference room, which by defenition is a room full of angry people disagreeing with each other, and each totally convinced he's the smartest of the bunch.. Well, i couldn't find it.. I called my resident, and guess what? yep.. the conference was cancelled!

3:20 pm
Hopping back to my room, I bump into my angry consultant..
Where have u been?
*smiling* I was in the ER..
ur lying, I was there and i didn't see u..
*still smiling* oh u mean just now? I was in the radiology conf. room..
but the conf. is cancelled.. anyway, I don't care where u were *which totally means he's angry*, We have a consult, come with us..

The guy doesn't go for the elevator, he goes for the stairs.. I said:
aah ok ur punishing me.. not funny, he wasn't joking, He took me up 5 floors :( I couldn't breathe! I felt like someone pulled a plastic bag over my head!! He did choose the perfect punishment! lol

4:00 pm
Q: How do you avoid telling a 60 year old that she has cancer and she's gonna die cuz it already spread to her liver? and that we have to cut most of her bowel out and leave her with a bag hanging out of her abdomen?
A: You don't specialize in surgery!

5:45 pm
I'm back in my room, eating my to go lunch.. enjoying a bar of Galaxy Caramel given to me by a fellow intern.. If life could just hold still for a while.. let me at least enjoy this caloric explosion!

6:30 pm
I have a date!
I'm to meet my husband in starbucks for some coffee and a lil' chat.. He's on call on Thursday.. How sad is that? Anyway, we sip our coffee, enjoy some small talk, some flirting too.. We get the looks from everyone around, I just love provoking people, I wish I could kiss him in public! I guess some eyes would literally pop out! people, mind your own god-damn business..

7:30 pm
I discover I don't have my pager on.. I left it in my room! I freaked out, thinking they must've been paging me for a while now.. So we say good bye, I still wanna hug and kiss, but too bad, my husband is rational! anyway, I rush to my room, and thank goodness the pager had no new messages..

9:00 pm
Got called to prescribe some meds..

11:00 pm
My senior ame to my room to see if i wanted to have dinner with her.. So cute of her.. We ordered a couple of sandwiches, we had a very nice lengthy chat about her trip to Tunis.. Very pleasant girl..

02:00 am
I went to bed..

04:00 am
Called to the ward for some more prescriptions.

05:00 am
Called to ER for an emergency: abdominal pain..
me: Is it acute?
pt: no it's been there for 2 months..
me: then how's this an emergency?
my senior pinches me and whispers in my ear: It's a VIP case..

ooooh i got it.. no comment.

06:00 am
Called to prescribe meds for the VIP pt.

06:35 am
Back to bed..

NOW --> 7:30 pm
I overslept, my mobile run out of battery, so my alarm didn't go off..
I woke up at 10 am, to miss the morning meeting.. no big deal..
I went back home to sleep, and since then, I'm sitting in front of the TV in denial LOL