okie the title refers to man utd. obviously. ruddy brilliant werent they! the way they tear apart charlton and fulham and mind u without ROONEY and SCHOLES for the 2nd game. marvelous. i was so excited i swore i peed in my pants. i love watching them in this kinda form la. seriously. nothing makes me happier and more excitable in life save a few other things. one can describe it as orgasmic! which i think is quite an adequate word to use to describe ecstatic bliss, even outside the bedroom...
wah lau ronaldo is just sucha legend. such a good player. seriously. my goodness. he is absolutely amazing. and u know manutd is playing well when even fletcher scores sucha good goal. evra is coming along nicely. this man utd is all about PACE. love to see them all running and stretching defenses like rubber bands. SAHA is more than capable of taking over nistelrooy. JI SUNG is doing us asians proud! now i am counting down till ROONEY comes back. sigh...oh yes lets not forget GIGGS as well. and my all time hero SOLSKJAER. back with a bang. YAY!
yup wayniq i did jump around and shit. even more so when i saw chelsea getting slain at the riverside. wooo. they are shit. turd. stool. poop. kapuuut!!
oh and gonna put me and my dads name for balloting for man utd vs newcastle tickets. hopefully can win the ballet. then go watch themmm!! SIGH.
okie anyway that aside lots has happened since i got back frm newquay.
i will post pictures later. but to sum it up:
we stayed in tents on a big open camping field. and it was bluddy cold at night. esp since it was raining like mad a few nights. i cld only get about 6 hrs sleep every night. slept on an air bed, kinda like a inflatable kinda thing. with my sleeping bag as a duvet and a little travellers' pillow.
we made our own little fire. plucked branches and stuff. cooked our own food. first few days were a learning curve lol to say the least. and there was quite abit of booze. got beer, cider, someone managed to get sambucca and vodka also. dunno how. got play drinking games. i play one round lol. a few of us didnt play, cos sambucca is nasty stuff! but i tell u drinking game is dam funny la. cos the rules were no swearing, no pointing, no names can be said, and drink with left hand. and we were playing fuzzy duck. dam funny la. game never even start almost whole bottle gone liao. cos one person accidentally ask: "hey simon...", meaning he said the name, then kanna hav to drink, then he swear oh fark! thats another penalty, ppl laugh at him point at him, kanna also. then the cycle jus keeps repeating. so funnny la... and it seemed like the common breverage of choice was beer or cider. cider is okie, nicer than beer, but i made do with water more than anything.
okie went surfing also. haha! YES surfin. i wore wetsuit k. hahah! but the water was freezing. seriously almost zero degree la i think basket it felt like. but u get used to it after awhile so it was okie la. went go karting also. and played abit of cricket, did abit of exploring in a farm...at night lol.
yeap i came home early from camp anyway. cos i had work experience at a hospital lined up. but of cos first thing i did when i got back was to get my results which were in the envelope on the table!!! exciting huhhhh...
then opened it...
at first i look, didnt really make sense, like not sure the percentages and watever so had to inspect...
becos each subject they nvr average out for u. they giv ur mark for each individual module (paper) that u sit for.
but anyway i did quite okie la...heh!
5 A's! which is suprising i admit, i didnt expect an A for General Studies.
one of the modules for GS got full mark ahhahah! but i also got a C for the last module. only cos another one got like quite high thats why pull it up to an A.
then one of the bio papers also full mark, so not bad la. considering it was the hardest one, on cell cycle and reproduction and transport and all that. got lucky. the other two modules for bio got 91 and 97 so quite shoik! maybe got top scorer award ahhaha!!
chem and phy and maths also similiar. averages out about 90 la all my subjects. apart from GS. so yea all in all a good days work.
yayness.
but i chem module B which is quite annoying tho. tho average out still 88. retarded!!
okie enough abt results. then i started my work experience at the hospital! very interesting work i am doing.
the nurses all treat me very nice (esp the male nurses haha!). i observed a host of stuff. i helped out in admin, odd jobs. i saw chemotherapy. and first day i also observe a minor surgery. i was right by the operating table. arthroscopy of the knee. the doc sliced a incision with his scapel, then jus inserted equipment and his trusty endoscope (optical fibre connected with camera). then jus moved around the knee joint looking at cartilage and stuff la...it was insightful.
then today 2nd day wah bigger stuff man. first i saw a endoscopy down the alimentary canal to the bowel. saw the insides of the duodenum stomach etc. then saw him take biopsies. which is very interesting. cos they actually extract a very small piece of flesh from the actual site which they send to labs for testing.
then after that saw an endoscopy down the other end. geddit. haha. same procedure really.
then i was off shift already. then guess what. something popped up that made me stay 3 hrs longer than usual. u know what? i nearly even miss manutd match.
i observed, by the bedside, whilst talking to doctors in the OT, OPEN HEART SURGERY.
my gawd i didnt believe they let me jus stand there and walk around and keep poking my head around to see...
i saw the whole thing. cos it was what they call a CABBAGE procedure. which jus means a coronary bypass operation. they harvest a healthy vein from the leg of the patient, then cut open his chest exposing his heart, arrest the heart, reroute the blood flow. attach vein to the heart where the coronary artery is, and divert blood flow through the vein rather than the diseased / damaged artery.
i saw the whole darn thing. i watched him make a medium sized cut into healthy leg of a patient. then put a scissors in, and cut the skin layer thin muscle layer from around the ankle to the inside of the leg groin area. can u imagine how big that cut was? the skin folded back with the help of forceps like an opened flower. not much blood loss suprisingly. but i cld see his muscles, abit of fat, elastic tissue, and most of all, an exposed vein. that looks like a light purple plastic tube. i was suprised that i didnt even flinch. he then tied up all the capillaries that were branching frm the vein, cut it off, and he also used this tool, this pen like thing that shoots a high voltage spark that allows him to cut and instantly seal any wound. the thing it burns the flesh. and pretty much soon the smell of burnt human flesh was in the air. something akin to a horror movie.
the vein was then placed on the side of the leg. like some weird string. and his whole leg was pretty badly cut la as in like sucha big slash from ankle all the way up to groin. the vein was then washed arh, checked arh, etc. then he sutured the wound back up. use staples all along it.
and the heart. wah opening it up was pretty dramatic let me assure u.
a incision again with a scapel.
then using his electric watever (i cant rmbr the name!) he seared the flesh down and peeled the muscle layers back until he exposed the sternum, ripcage. at this point the patient jerked. bluddy heck i thought he awoke or smth la. but it turned out just prolly dreaming or smth liddat. didnt really find out.
then, the most graphic part...
with a saw. he saw along the ribcage, right down the middle of the breastbone. splitting the ribcage in half. he had difficult sawing. pushing with his whole shoulder. could see the spray of blood and watever. he saw right down. till the ribcage was cut neatly in half. can see the bone marrow of the half split breastbone. for the first time, alot of blood was now present. this was quickly vacuumed up by the tube.
and then with a giant clamp, both sides of the ribcage were clamped and pull apart, revealing his thoracic cavity. and my word, exposed his heart also. his beating heart la. it was pulsating violently. i nvr know heart beat so fervishly. as in the whole heart was shaking and moving up and down. it wasnt jus beating it looked like it was jumping up and down. i was looking at it directly from above. and it was quite unbelieveable.
then they sticked tubes to the aorta and atrium, to get blood from artery and vein. direct all blood from the heart into a machine. again got quite abit of blood seen. then they flooded the heart thru another tube with 3-4 degrees temperature of a solution that induced arrest. stopping the heart. and unamazing i saw the ECG screen become a flat line. and all the solution was pretty much saline and more POTASSIUM levels than normal. and ice cold also of cos, to lower metabolism.
then they began their surgery and watever.
and i left cos i wanted to get home in time for man utd ahha. and that took about 2 hrs all together.
still one of the most intimate medical experiences i have ever seen in life.
and oh yes, i saw the doc attach a catheter as well! that means he took a tube, and stick it in the poor guys ku ku chow and shoved it all the way up till it reached the bladder. and then he had to inject some saline into a balloon at the end of the tube so it can distend and push open the sphincter muscle holding the urine back. all the urine then drains into a bag attached to the side of the bed.
and my word yes its true, radio was being played during surgery. doctors joke. nurses too. its quite relaxed. save the beating heart and other dramatic scenes.
so yeap there it goes, my title red tide refers to blood spilling as well. so poetic eh hahaha! i am talking bullshit now.
okie la thats it for now.
ooo kanesh called. ahhaa. had a little ole chat.
yeaaa oh well. take care everyone. prelims sigh. nvm la. prelims only ahahah! : D
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