03-16-2008, 01:44 PM
this is not meant o steal DT's thunder with his other topic, but I just feel the need for some catharsis...
anyway... most of you guys know I'm working as a doctor at one of the big hospitals at quezon city.
here's my story... I've lost a batchmate and friend, well at least temporarily, she filed a leave of absence from the hospital not knowing whether she'll return or not.
Anyways... I have this batchmate, although we work at the same hospital we worked at differnet departments. I'm in surgery and she's in radiology.I've always treated her like a little sister from the start. "think little skater girl in ranma" parang ganun... She lives alone in manila, her parets aree in the province. Eversince we started at the hospital. we'd cover for each other, eat together, rant and rave together. (she knows everything that's inside my laptop) to make the story short, we were tight...
for the past 3 months she'd be complaining of headache occuring every 2-3 times a week. she would usually take pain killers to ease the pain. One time, she injected herself direct IV push because of the pain. At that time, I attributed it to her being maarte and/or fragile, heck being awake for more than 24 hours at a time does give you migranes... It's part of our job, live with it. don't be such a girl.
Then last Sunday, I got a text message, she was asking me to get her pain medicine from the wards since she can't get up to get it herself. At that point in time, I was a little toxic and irritated that I have to take care of her, reluctantly I got her the meds.
when I arrived at our quarters, she was all alone, crying in her bed in a fetal position, crutching her head in pain. (think Iori in KOF "riot-of-blood" type of pain) the oral meds I gave her had no effect. I called my senior and she said we'd better have her brought to the ER
at the hospital, we did a CT scan on her, she, being an organic part of the hospital and being well loved by the nurses and other doctors, made it easy to do everything "under the table"
CT scan revealed she had an "air envelope over her mastaoid area." (sorry I don't understand most of this myself... am no neuro surgeon... well not yet anyway...) in effect this causes a very severe migranes like the one she is experiencing. When I asked the neurologist on how much pain does he think she is experiencing now. he told me, "think of your worst migrane... then times 50" Eventually we resorted to usin 10mg of nubaine on her to get her to sleep. (for the pharmacology literate, 50mg tramadol IV had no effect)
She had no family in manila, it was a sunday, so most of my other batchmates are off... except those who are in duty. (me). I had to watch over her during her first night in the hospital. I arranged everything from the meds to be given, to the room, to the so called "hospital admission" heck, I even brought my EOs into the action. I watched over her during the course of my duty.
After 24 hours, she started feeling better, started joking and started being herslf again. I felt so relieved that It resolved by itself, and felt quite happy for her that she feels all better. My Senior told me to clean everything up, and keep everything that happens under wraps. everything was going fine. until the head aches started again.... We had no choice but to keep her in the room.
In hte end, I got the heat for rooming in a "patient" outside protocol, using hospital meds and resources outside protocol. me and my senior got the hammer. ( not that serious, but still, it's still a hammer ) we had to admit her formally through hospital channels.
this post is getting quite long... am starting to post like fox, with mountains of text.. I think i'll write the rest after a nap...
today is still a hard and confusing time for me... I'll sign off for a while.
haaayyy... It's a difficult time for team ancient
anyway... most of you guys know I'm working as a doctor at one of the big hospitals at quezon city.
here's my story... I've lost a batchmate and friend, well at least temporarily, she filed a leave of absence from the hospital not knowing whether she'll return or not.
Anyways... I have this batchmate, although we work at the same hospital we worked at differnet departments. I'm in surgery and she's in radiology.I've always treated her like a little sister from the start. "think little skater girl in ranma" parang ganun... She lives alone in manila, her parets aree in the province. Eversince we started at the hospital. we'd cover for each other, eat together, rant and rave together. (she knows everything that's inside my laptop) to make the story short, we were tight...
for the past 3 months she'd be complaining of headache occuring every 2-3 times a week. she would usually take pain killers to ease the pain. One time, she injected herself direct IV push because of the pain. At that time, I attributed it to her being maarte and/or fragile, heck being awake for more than 24 hours at a time does give you migranes... It's part of our job, live with it. don't be such a girl.
Then last Sunday, I got a text message, she was asking me to get her pain medicine from the wards since she can't get up to get it herself. At that point in time, I was a little toxic and irritated that I have to take care of her, reluctantly I got her the meds.
when I arrived at our quarters, she was all alone, crying in her bed in a fetal position, crutching her head in pain. (think Iori in KOF "riot-of-blood" type of pain) the oral meds I gave her had no effect. I called my senior and she said we'd better have her brought to the ER
at the hospital, we did a CT scan on her, she, being an organic part of the hospital and being well loved by the nurses and other doctors, made it easy to do everything "under the table"
CT scan revealed she had an "air envelope over her mastaoid area." (sorry I don't understand most of this myself... am no neuro surgeon... well not yet anyway...) in effect this causes a very severe migranes like the one she is experiencing. When I asked the neurologist on how much pain does he think she is experiencing now. he told me, "think of your worst migrane... then times 50" Eventually we resorted to usin 10mg of nubaine on her to get her to sleep. (for the pharmacology literate, 50mg tramadol IV had no effect)
She had no family in manila, it was a sunday, so most of my other batchmates are off... except those who are in duty. (me). I had to watch over her during her first night in the hospital. I arranged everything from the meds to be given, to the room, to the so called "hospital admission" heck, I even brought my EOs into the action. I watched over her during the course of my duty.
After 24 hours, she started feeling better, started joking and started being herslf again. I felt so relieved that It resolved by itself, and felt quite happy for her that she feels all better. My Senior told me to clean everything up, and keep everything that happens under wraps. everything was going fine. until the head aches started again.... We had no choice but to keep her in the room.
In hte end, I got the heat for rooming in a "patient" outside protocol, using hospital meds and resources outside protocol. me and my senior got the hammer. ( not that serious, but still, it's still a hammer ) we had to admit her formally through hospital channels.
this post is getting quite long... am starting to post like fox, with mountains of text.. I think i'll write the rest after a nap...
today is still a hard and confusing time for me... I'll sign off for a while.
haaayyy... It's a difficult time for team ancient
