Bad start...but perhaps not such a bad day afterall

When was the last time you got out of bed going, "Argh, I wish I have all the time in the world to continue lazing and hiding under my duvet!!!"

The weather's getting colder day by day, and it is a major factor to why I am getting tired easily and craving to hibernate all the time (not forgetting the fact that even during hot hot summer, I can still hibernate....hehehe...my record is 20 hours of hibernation).

I had a hard time dragging myself up to turn up for ECG teaching by my Consultant.

And if that's not bad enough, a bad news made it worse, ruining my mood for the day.

Flipped open my hp, and was so pleased to see Dearie's sms until I read that he will not be coming back this UK because the bloody UK embassy in China isn't processing Visas for the time being due to installation of some finger print machine. WTF..if it's not yet installed, can't they just let these people apply without it this once? What happens if someone needs to go to UK for an urgent purpose? Grr...don't even know how long they're gonna take to finish doing their installation. Am feeling disappointed that we won't be able to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. This is so fucking pissing..how come Dearie and I never ever ever ever ever get to celebrate something together properly? WHY?!

Piece of shit..now I have to wait for dunno how long again....PUI PUI PUI!

Dragged myself to where ECG teaching is supposed to be, and realised that it's in mid November. Piangz, I lost 30 mins of lazing in bed for nothing.

Dragged myself to the wards, to find most people looking gloomy. Then the phlebotomist came to speak to me as she's concerned about the number of ESRs I have requested for patients. It didn't take very much to get me feeling frustrated (my mood wasn't good for start) because firstly, I acknowledge the fact that ESRs isn't a specific inflammatory marker, but if the patients have an infection, it would only make sense to monitor the ESR and other inflammatory markers. But if ESRs are so non-specific to the extent whereby it requires concern abt requesting it, then might as well abolish it in the hospital. I wanted to shoot all that out, but I controlled myself and didn't comment much. Didn't want to end up offending anyone just because I'm in a foul mood.

Decided to cool myself down by smsing Dearie in the ward clerk's office, and this bloody nurse commented that hp should not be used in the hospital. I didn't like the tone she used, and without apologising, I just walked out. Yes, I'm just a junior doctor, but I'm STILL a DOCTOR, and if there's a problem with anything, I should be spoken to politely and ADDRESSED. If I'm a Consultant, I bet you she won't even dare open her mouth to ask me not to use my hp. Besides, studies have shown that hps do NOT affect medical electronic equipments. And some hospitals are even using handphones instead of pagers! She better not let me catch her using her handphone, if not, I will definitely say something sarcastic.

I definitely needed to get away to alter my mood, so I went back to my room and hid under my duvet until my pager bleeped.

Fortunately, there wasn't many issues in my ward today, and on call was quiet today too. Kinda good cos I didn't have to rush that much, and managed to clerk some patients. And the cases I clerked today happened to be interesting ones. Will pick one to write up for my case based discussion.

There wasn't too much rubbish to do in the other wards in the hospital too, so I was feeling rather relaxed being on call today.

So even though my day started badly, it ended pretty well. And it will be even better if I get to hear Dearie's voice before I go to bed.