Stabbed a girl twice and still for away being a hero!

Today I broke my record of seeing 9 patients. I've seen lots of cases, some were funny, some were dodgy and others were interesting and intriguing. Anyway, lets cut the chase.... I saw this 12 year old kid, little school girl, the giggly type. Problem? She fractured her wrist, and would require sedation to get it back aligned. Nothing hurts me more than to inflict more pain to this little girl, but a doc has got to do what a doc has got to do.

So, details of the story? Girl is scared. Like any child including myself when I was her age, I'm scared. Reason, I imagined the worst case scenario ever, and I bet my very ass so does she. People are scared because of the unknown, not because we're going to fix her wrist. Alot of reassurance is required to settle her, even for the cannulation, which i failed twice.

Right, after that, abit of ketamine was given to induce a semi conscious state. When she finally go sleepy, full traction was applied, wrist was plantar flex, and the fracture area was manipulated and reduced back in, with a simple firm push, back into alignment. From here, now I've figured why age matters. The older they are, because they have more muscle fibers, the harder it is to overcome the strength of muscles.

Anyway, I didn't do very much, but I learned alot from it. I hope in future it would be me who does the manipulation next time. hehehe. Very satisfying result!

:D

Korean Food in Brisbane Along Elizabeth Arcade

Thanks to Mr & Mrs Chang, I've been invited to the city to have some nice and to be expected tasty sushi(Hanaichi). However, because I couldn't find parking around the city, circulated like for almost an hour, I had to park at the private car park space which cost me some amount of money.

Anyway, as soon as I parked my car, I rushed out of the building and gave a call to my invitees.

Partly my fault, but they were cheesed off by the waiter/waitress at Hanaichi restaurant, they decide to head down to Elizabeth Arcade for some nice Korean Food.

I had some kimchi fried rice, and my other friends, some Mongolian Claypot rice, and kimchi soup. It's been awhile since I last tasted kimchi, the sour taste, and the spiciness of it was awesome. I didn't take any photos unfortunately, will do so whenever opportunity comes again.

Got out about 8.20pm, my parking ticket is more expensive than my food.... It's funny how it hit me. I still don't get how to park in the city. Apparently, the streets with the metres, you're allow to park for max 2 hours, after 7pm. Thats all I know, you could say there potentially legal places to park along the street, but I wouldn't want tot risk getting my car towed, while I have a good time in the restaurant. :D

Surfs Up: Caloundra

Temp 31 degrees, checked!

Wind speed, 20 miles an hour, checked!

Wave height, 1-2 metres, checked!

Surfing board, big enough!

Wave surf trainer, bug hunk and reliable!

Time: 11:00

Weather was good for surfing today. Lou took us me all the way Caloundra to try some wave surfing. We got lessons from an Australian trainer, name Graham. He charged us 40 AUD for 2hour lessons which I thought was good. Fee includes surf board as well.

There were 4 of us all together, Lou and I, and Urna, and a beach babe who happened to live just couple of blocks from us, forgot her name though.

The waves were pretty good, not too high, hence it's relatively safe. I started out with the basics, that is how to get up from a surf board. It's easy practicing on the beach sand, the difficult part is actually getting the timing right when you get on top of the wave. I had a couple of nose dives, drank half the sea water possibly, and paddled back with my chin grazing on the board a couple of times.

I was actually pretty good on my 1st few tries. Managed to stay balance until the wave died out couple of times. That sort of gave me some motivation, and insight that I can definitely do better when practice.

Anyway, Caloundra has some really beautiful beach spots as well; Kings Beach, Shelly Beach, and one more I couldn't remember. It is even possible to see whales if you're lucky enough.

I got home about 8.30pm, feeling wrecked and tired. My body was aching all over by then, I could hardly lift myself up. Still it's good sport, I'm looking forward to invest on some surfing gears in near future, while I'm still young.

Sunshine Beach

Partly cos I'm a little annoyed by my housemates, I've decided to take a long drive down Sunshine coast to see the rumored beautiful beach side there. It was about 120km drive, which took me almost one and half hours to get there, excluding the time getting lost between highways. One thing I'm glad about it is I got there on my own, one hand holding the GPRS(iPhone) and the other on the steering wheel.... who said guys can't multi-task?

There were lots of interesting things to see along the way. Fir trees along the road, a dead baby wallaby(me thinks) along the highway, highway police with their speedometers(hope they didn't catch me speeding!) and also some high up hills as well. Bringing my ipod was a good idea since I'm able to plug it straight into my audio player, listen to songs which I enjoyed singing. Driving alone makes me happy for some reason, takes your mind off a lot of troubling things. It's nice to be away from people at certain times, as you're not sure whether you're an annoyance to them or vice versa.

Sunshine beach is a small town, surrounded by small houses looking out to the vast blue sea. The sea water was cold, but not chilly. The sand was warm, however really hot if you're walking far off from the shore. I really like it there, the sound of the calm rustling waves, the cold wind blowing on my face, the salty smell of the sea and most of all, the feeling of accomplishing what I set out to do in the morning.

Decided to go home about 3pm. Reached home at about 5.30pm. I was quite exhausted by that time but still had the energy to talk about my short adventures.

I often wonder if it was such a good idea coming down to Australia. A lot has changed and there were times I feel a bit stressed out being here. New job, new place, new environment, new life, new car, new friends... and now I have this new scheme I need to apply to save me some money.

My first USS fetal/embryo

This may sound funny to many of you guys, but I've never used a USS machine before, until quite recently at the ED. I was seeing this 18 year old 11/40 pregnant women who came in with LOC and fit, who was rather worried about her child. Being a concerned mom, she insisted if I could do a USS pelvis to see her baby for the 1st time.

I of course, didn't know what to say. I mean this is well above my capabilities I thought, at the same time, there is this curiosity feeling of trying out new stuff for the 1st time, without supervision from anyone. I thought to myself, USS is pretty harmless stuff, what is the worst that could happen?

So yeah, I tried that, of course mentioning to her that this would be 2nd time doing it(Obviously I lied to them to give them a bit of confidence). So, some squirt of jelly on the belly, and abit of probe rub over the tummy, thats when I witness the miracle of life. :D

Small 10cm baby, by the looks of it, already has a heartbeat, and well formed head. I thought to myself this is pretty amazing stuff. I felt amazing myself. :D

Well, thats the highlight of today. I'm off on MOnday. ANyone fancy going out with me, give me a call! :D

Too Sure, Too Early

One thing I've learned is that you can never be too sure about everything, otherwise it you will get burned. This is what happen to me today when I thought my shift was suppose to be early in the morning. I got there, settled my stuff and looked at the duty roster. I was like, "what the...." I realized I was suppose to do the evening shift and came in 4 hours early. I was so convinced that I was doing early days, that I didn't figure out the signs along the way; lots of people were asking me what was my shift on saturday".

Well that put aside, I've also watched some football at the pub nearby. There were lots of things to see around there, which were appealing to my eyes :). Anyway, my mate and I bought some drinks, and watch the match between Totenham and Arsenal. My friend was like one of those crazy football fanatics who would yell "football indecent words" whenever he had the chance to. One fine example would be," Get UP You F***ing Nancy!" :D It really reminded me of some of the movies I've watched where someone tries to play this British bloke, which was hilarious.

Anyway, I know I'm doing evening tomorrow. So I won't make the same mistake twice. Haha

Good times, funny days :D.

Washing my car

Today is the day my "brother" aka megatron had his 1st bath after being with me for a week. Just one week, and my car looked like it just came out from the desert, with dirt covering both sides of the flank. I realized the cause of it is probably the rain, hence it's a good idea to try out my new car wash agent.

One fact of life, looking after a car is not as easy as it sounds. Cleaning it takes effort, like looking after a girlfriend. It requires constant attention and care at all times. So I can see why married man who love their cars find it challenging to juggle between their car/s and their wife.

Anyway, one of my dilemmas about washing my car here is where do I wash it? I decided the best place to wash is probably beneath the car storage. The reason for that? People don't get to see how much water I splashed at my car, and second, I get to wash my car in privacy without being seen on and off by passerby.

So what did I use? A good and reliable car wash detergent, an anti acid alloy wheel cleaner, and some really cool shiny polish reagent as well. I'm thinking of investing on some vacuum cleaner for my car carpet, but I guess I could leave it for my next pay check. Already I've spend loads and loads of money, maintaining my "wife". I can't imagine myself engaging on another relationship at this point :D.

Oh, and I noted that, 3 cops came down to the basement to have a word with me. I was like... oh shit, is this about the amount of water I've splashed on my car. With my head held high, I prepared myself for the worst... only to find out that all he wanted is to advice me to take any valuables out of my car, as there were 3 car thieving incidents over the last couple of weeks.

With sense of relief I gave a smile, and nodded as they walk back to the lifts back to the top. I went on and minded my own business :D pheww.....