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This is Char!
I love my bunlets so!
Happiness is all that I feel!

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oh, as you can see,
naughty char has invaded my blog !!
but yes, very good indeed.
coz i'm goin to have a new blog layout.
so eggciting !!

anywae, happy news for me,
my emed test is finally over !!!
hohohoho.
the test was pretty okay lah.

the mcq was as hard as expected,
left quite alot of questions blank,
becoz rather not answer than kena negative marking for wrong answers.

den the osces was a killer !!
yesterdae's revision was damn good coz there were alot of ortho cases,
but todae's was terrible !
i couldnt even get my main diagnosis right,
how to consider differentials and treatment plan??

but the viva was pretty good !
i had a kind tutor, he's dehan's long-lost cousin.
he was pretty nice but super thorough !
he tested every single thing !
1. ECG
2. Xray
3. Equipment
4. Drugs

he asked if i preferred cardiac arrhymias or acute coronary syndromes,
i chose the latter and i had a nice ECG !
posteroinferior STEMI, right ventricular infarct with 2nd degree (2:1) heart block.
den he quized me on entire resuscitation process,
right from the ABCDs, to immediate actions, to long-term management of AMI.
and he's super duper ask-alot-of-question kind,
i nearly died when he kept pressing for exact numbers to everything.
"how much IV fluid? how many litres? over how long?"

den he gave me a superior and posterior pelvic rami fracture for xray,
coz i was the only student that had started on ortho posting !
identification of the fracture and its treatment, complications was good,
until he started on the "how much fluids, exactly how many litres, over how long?" again.

den, the identification of a chest tube, the different parts of it, the safety triangle,
and the entire procedure on how to insert a chest tube.
and last but not least, he tested me on the uses of lignocaine,
den, "how much lignocaine for LA? how much for VT? how much? how much?"
argh !!

but anywae, i'm just super duper glad its over.
you know, the entire of last week was super stressful for me !
this how i spent my daes.

830am - 430pm,
at ortho clinics, amubulatory sessions, dae surgery, etc
all the in between time was spent mugging ortho,
so that we wont get slammed by the tutors in class.
or i'll try to crash the emed tutorials as revison for my test !

530pm - to sleeping time,
mug emed like crazy !!
try to understand ecgs, xrays, algorithms for cardiac arrhythmias,
protocols for all various types of emergencies !
burns, poisoning, pain abdo, pain chest, etc !!
its really madness !!!
terrible terrible terrible !!

the last 2 daes before the test was even worst,
yesterdae, i left home at 730am, and came home at 1130pm !!
yes, thats becoz we had a 13hour revision lecture with suresh !!
crazy shit right?
but at least he managed to explain so much, untill i got all my concepts clear :)
and darren, jianhong, dehan and eunice, they were very helpful indeed!
i was so tired, i came home, had dinner, go wash car den slept !!
wanted to do last minutes revision, but was super duper shagged.

oh, and i thot i was being super hardworking already.
but no !
i overheard a conversation todae,
apparently someone went home at 11plus yesterdae and studied till 2am,
and den she woke up at 5am to revise somemore before test todae, at 8am.
this is really crazy !!!
emed is very stressful indeed !
and i'm so glad it over.

oh, happiness is wad i feel :)