BuGGer...

id had beed a few dayd now. i beed sneezid and coughid like hell. my node id red and my throat hurtd. acute viral naso pharyngitis, thatds whad its called. common cold.

aaaaaaachoooooooooo! snort snort .. .cough cough . . .ptui!

i lost count how many times i do that in a day. yet, here i am, doing house chores like a normal husband would do (right wabsie?). ironing clothes and taking care of unruly and ungrateful canines and a very stubborn feline.

anyways, sorry for not being able to blog for a long time coz i really was busy. i was on night shift last fridays night and for the first time i didnt have the chance to sit down and punch the keyboard for i was really occupied in saving someones' life. i've been struggling since i stepped on to the lab fighting for a lady from united arab emirates, in the OT table having both of her legs cut off, a hemipelvictomy. being rich and warded as a john's hopkin's patient, this one is a vip case. and aside from that, as if its not yet complicated, antibody screen results shows the patient has an antibody (non-bloodbank reader can sleep now). all in all the lady consumed 26 bags of full crossmatched red blood cells, 14 fresh frozen plasmas, 8 random platelets, 10 units of cryoprecipitate and a big bag of cell separated platelets in my shift before she was transferred to the surgical intensive care unit. whew. finally over.

or was it?

just 30 mins after i got a call from SICU that the patient needs another set of FFP's, a frantic nurse from emergency called and asked 4 units un crossmatched blood to a patient who is a victim of a stabbing incident! (there goes my breaktime).

all in all i was wiped out. maybe immunity was at its lowest and this rhinovirus opportunistically jumped on me. well, guess what, i lost.


aaaaaaachoooooooooo! snort snort .. .cough cough . . .ptui!

merry christmas suckers.


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