Just my Luck

Can anyone say Lucky??!! I haven't been lucky for the past couple of months, so with luck being on my side, I'm sure not wasting mytime. Andy, also, has been on a lucky streak himself. Although he didn't exactly win the US Open, he is now (again) America's Number 1 player. A couple of months ago, he was dethroned by his good friend, James Blake. But it's nice to know that Andy's back!!

Wanna know how lucky I am? We were originally scheduled to have our defense (for CHN) last Monday morning. My group wasn't finished with our report yet, so imagine how happy I was when, while I was watching Andy's match live @ 5.40 am, my classmate texts me and tells me that our CI gave us the day off cos she was sick. I was extremely happy. Who wouldn't be happy??! I still left the house to meet up with my RLEmates and we finished our report. Oana and I were the first reporters (cos we reported on the Population of the Brgy lang), so we reported yesterday. Our RLE sched is 12-5. We started around 1.30 pm already cos we couldn't get a room in the building. Our CI had to leave promptly at 3pm yesterday cos she had a meeting daw, and she announced that we would be having our Wednesday off again. And that's why I'm blogging right now. I watched the Devil wears Prada last night, with Oana, and I'm so inggit with Anne Hathaway. Change of career plans. I don't want to be a nurse na. I'm a bag and shoe person, so while watching the movie, I was more determined to one day have all the bags and shoes that Andrea (anne's character) wore, after her transformation. Ha. As if. Hahaha :)

I'ma finish making my Pharma project pa. Even if I have tons of work to do, I don't care, cos I'm happy!

Go uste!! 5-peat! And My Andy!!

Proud to be Thomasian! Wow, I've finally accepted the fact that I really am a Thomasian. Wah. Haha 5-peat! I wasn't able to watch the cheering competition live in Araneta, though Ate and Kuya offered tickets, because of my still unfinished report in Community Nrsg. The Salinggawi Dance Troupe sure made every Thomasian proud. They rocked. I was waiting for the helicopter routine though, and it didn't come. But oh well, they did a fab performance.

Since last week I haven't had a pseudostress-free weekend. What made yesterday a super stressing day was the fact that we were originally scheduled to have CPR return demo in the afternoon, and while I was still in dreamland, Oana called me (around 8.50am) and told me that we'd be having the CPR return demo @ 9.30 am. Hello. Thanks for such short notice. I went home pa naman late the night before because Ma, Ate, Kuya and I went to the spa (Palm Garden) after having dinner at Red Crab. Yeah I know we were all supposed to be sleeping over at Edsa Shang, but Chi brought 5 of her friends there, so the whole suite was cramped, meaning GO HOME EVERYONE. So there. We had our CPR Return demo (that would make us licensed to provide CPR when the need arises), yesterday (I hope I passed), and I stayed in school til almost 5 because of the report we'd be having in CHN. Crap talaga. We had to tabulate data regarding population distribution, health problems, and a lot of other stuff on a whole barangay. So now ko lang narealize na super jump ng jump thoughts ko ah. Shucks. Schizo na ata ako.

I didn't go back na to Edsa Shang last night. Only Papa and I stayed at home. I miss my bed noh. Sorry kung KJ. haha

And my Andy was just the best. He beat the hell out of Youzhny, and now he's going against Roger later for the finals. I'm super duper proud of Andy. I sure hope he wins! Good luck Sweetie!!! :)

I have to finish pa my report. Til later!

Thanks to Jimmy

Andy's finally found his mojo.
Andy is the new Andre?

For the first time in a long time, Andy beat Lleyton Hewitt. The two have had a somewhat Andre-Pete rivalry since what, year 2000? Or was it 2001? Whatev. Andy's in the best shape ever. And I sure hope he wins the US Open this year. He beat Lleyton in 3 straight sets, which I unfortunately wasn't able to watch, winning him a seat in the Semis, against Youzhny (the guy who unfortunately, beat Rafa). Good luck Andy! Jimmy Connors being Andy's coach sure did wonders :)

On the flip side, I am depressed. Or I was for about an hour and a half. I flunked my favorite subject, Med-Surg (during prelims) by 1 point, and Pharma (my least favorite), by a lot. Depressing. But life goes on. And now that I've only got 1 grading period left, I'm going to work my a$$ off. I swear I would. Grabe. I just want to pass Pharma. Yun lang, masaya nako.

I brought my car to school today (against my wishes), when just my luck, I got caught in traffic for 2 and a half hours. O diba, so fun. I got home around 8. It was raining pretty hard, and traffic was just terrible along España and Quezon Ave. Crap talaga. Popsy (Oana's dad) was such a darling. He suggested that Oana ride with me, since it was so dark na, and they both knew I was scared of driving in the dark, especially since my car windows are tinted black tlaga. So they waited for me near Sheila's house (Sheila rode with me), and Oana rode with me all the way to my place. Convoy ba. Thanks thanks thanks Bru!! Thanks Popsy!

Grabe. Cramped sched, and yet I'm still blogging. I just want to tell the whole world (if you guys don't know it yet) about Andy's feat :) So there. How busy is dindin? And the list ain't complete yet.

• Graded Recitation on 3 chapters in Pharmacology.
• Quiz on GI and GU in Pediatrics tomorrow.
• Lit presentation tomorrow.
• Chi's bday on Sunday so we'll be staying in Edsa Shang from tomorrow til Sunday.
• CPR return demo on Saturday.
• Tabulation and research for CO presentation on Monday
• Defense for CHN (rle) on Monday.
• Socio project for the semester
• Lord of the Flies reading material (for Lit)
• Industrial Nursing (IN) on Sept 19
• Docu for IN
• Community Organizing (Implementation) in Nueva Ecija on Sept 30

I'll update the list around next week. Good luck to me.

007

If only I had the license to kill someone. Grrr. I'm a wholesome person. But really, if only I could (and God won't punish me for it), I'd strangle nalang the person.

I thought my hellish week was over. But no, hell month has just begun. Yesterday was the last day of my prelim exams. Gawd. 60% of the junior batch failed Pharma. I swear, it was sooo hard. Even my prof apologized to us because she found the exam difficult, as well. She didn't make the test, btw. Okay, so here's where my story starts. So last Sunday, I had my night call duty right? I thought it would be fun. At first, it was fun. It was the perfect time to study for my MS long exam which we had the following day. We were just chilling in the Students' room, then because the staff turned off the a/c in the room, we were forced to move to the workroom, where 2 of the staff nurses were. So anyway, I got really sleepy around 11pm, and because based on my classmates' stories on their nightcall, the nurses gave them mattresses for them to sleep on, I made my presence felt by lying down on the couch. Papansin ba. So that the nurses would ask us to get the mattresses from wherever. But nooooo. It never happened. Insensitive? Probably. Well, I couldn't blame them now, cos what happened changed my life forever. Haha drama nun ah. Anyway, at around 12 midnight, while I was having my nap, my classmates woke me up cos there was an emergency surgery. And I was supposed to scrub in. So I get up, help the scrub nurse prepare stuff and wait for the patient to arrive. Scrubbed in at around 1.30am, and surgery began at 2.21am. And ended at 4.30am. So I literally had no sleep. I was sleepy the entire time. While the surgeon was suturing, I was preparing the needle and suture. While doing that, I accidentally pricked my finger. Which alarmed me. I was terrified. To the point that I perspired like crazy. I mean, what if the patient has hepa? Fudge diba?! So I told my scrub nurse, and he told me to scrub out and clean my finger. So I went to the scrub room, removed my right glove, and thank God. No sign of blood, which means I didn't prick my finger. Just the glove. Grabe. Sobrang thank you Lord. After that, I just sat in one of the stools at the side of the OR suite, and after the surgery, I told my scrub nurse I'd be cleaning the instruments nalang (which I DIDN'T WANT TO DO, because ANDAMI nun. And sobra sleepy nako), but he told me to just get a basin and he'd take care of the whole mess, cos I need sleep daw because of my exams the next day. How sweet diba. Sayang di ko type eh. Haha.

--I know it's coincidental, but isn't it cool that my first and last cases are both emergency cases? Wala lang. As if naman I could brag about the cases where I scrubbed in, eh 3 lang yun. Pathetic eh noh. Haha Summer babawi ako. --

When I took the exams in MS, I was the first who passed my paper, basically because I didn't review my answers anymore, since I was already falling asleep. Hello?! Try not sleeping for an entire night. Annoying. So I went straight home after that, and tried to catch some zzz's, which I got at 5pm pa. Maryosep. In the middle of my beautiful sleep, Oana and Sheila texted me,telling me to meet them and the rest of the RLE at 7am the following day. We didn't have classes kasi on Tuesday, because Prelims were on Wed-Fri. It's the college's tradition that we have one day free before the prelims. Hello? Walang tulog tapos pupunta sa school? Because of the effing case presentation our CI gave us. She assigned that on Monday, due Friday same week. Wow. Thanks for the consideration. Not only that, she expected us to submit individual Patient Care Records on one of the surgeries where we scrubbed in. I submitted my patient care record, aka case study kong bulok, yesterday,and she returned it. DI DAW TAMA FORMAT. Gosh. Malay ko bang case study. She told us that it was supposed to be Nursing Care Analysis. Eh in our previous shift, that was the PCR. And now she tells us she wants a friggin Case Study?! Graaaaabe mehn. Now ko lang ginagawa and I swear to God, it's so hard. Naiiyak nako. Pano, my case ain't like your typical case. Its Anatomy and Pathophsyio is so hard to explain because Abdominal Trauma eh. Andaming organs affected, goodness gracious. Good luck to me.

AND. My stint in the OR is over (so sad, promise,major bawi in the OR on summer. 3 cases palang ako. crap), and now we'll be having our Community Health Nursing. Crap. Sobra dami gagawin. Paperwork, whateverwork, doesn't work for me. I shouldn't be nega. I promised myself I'd look at the brighter things in life. This time I'd be more optimistic. God won't give me this much work if He knew I couldn't do it. I could manage all the stress that I'm having. Thank you Lord.

My body is now used to being asleep for only 4-6 hours. Kanina, I woke up around 10, when I slept at 4 ha. At least I don't feel groggy because of sleep-deprivation. I'm now used to it e.

Thank you Sam Milby, for not letting me down. You were so gwapo, cute, hot, adorable in the movie, that for 2 hours or so, I forgot about my problems in school. I am, again, in love with him. Now I know that there are 2 reasons why God hasn't made me meet my perfect match yet. He's either a) Sam Milby, or b) Andy roddick :) I think it's letter B though. hahahaha


Still lovin' life despite all the difficulty. I can do everything through Christ who strengthens me :)