Caring...

Well... Caring is the community phamacy that I'm attached to recently... The first day of it was my 23rd birthday... Anyway, i was glad to be attached there... The pharmacist that I was attached to was kinda busy with her work, as she was the manager of the outlet there... and i found out that she worked only 2 or 3 days per week.. n that's why my attachment period had been dragged even longer now...

At the same time, i was now attached to another pharmacist as well, Miss Ooi, besides Nicole... Both of them were nice... Miss Ooi shared me a lot of basic knowledge about the patient's counselling and handling of difficult case... I felt grateful enough for her guidance... seriously speaking... but sad to say that... this coming week would be her last day in Caring there... so, i would work for her as well... (^_^) ....

The first week of my attachment, sometimes, it was tired as I stood from 9am-5.30pm... helping my pharmacist to take drug for the patients, serving the customers in the shop there, tagging price tag of the new drugs, checking drug store n etc...

Miss Ooi expected a lot from me.. n she was just dare enough to let me handle the patients who seek for medication... first day of it, she allowed me to consult the diabetic and high cholesterol patients who bought metformin 500mg and atorvastatin 20mg... not only that, when the shop was busy (last thursday), she would allow me to even dispense medication like Beno expectorant, Tussidex for dry cough, Zyrtec-D n Fedac for blocked runny nose... luckily, she taught me the "formulae" of the specific drug they commonly dispense for the condition on the very first day.. ... if not, i wont have that much knowlegde and skill to handle the case... I would thank her from the bottom of my heart... I loved her... ... *loving loving* her... ... ^^...

A few people that I remembered the most... 18July- the uncle who was feeling so shy and came to me... " Leng lui, can you explain to me what's the difference between the different type of Durex?" he stood near to the sexual product area ... ... "sorry, boss, I was the new trainee here... would you mind I ask the pharmacist to explain to you more? ..." ... hahaa... I answered him that way... I got no idea about it... definitely...

Another case was that I spent for about an hour to chat with the woman who came and bought the antidepressant medication, Seroxat... Omg.. sometimes, it was hard to communicate with her... as she felt so lonely and depressed... n other workers in Caring told me that she came frequently to disturb them... and everyone was ignoring her as they were busy with their things too, i understood... so, it was my weekly job now to talk and comfort her... ... (@-@)... I thought, I was not a good counsellor for the depressed people...

Looking at the pages and pages of assignment that I needed to retype... My laziness arised again... I havent started even for a single page... hahaa...

718...

718... 忆廷... 先祝你生日快乐.. ... 其实... 明天才是我的生日...

人渐渐长大时... 好像慢慢察觉到... 自己的生日其实不再那么的重要... 妈妈十月怀胎辛苦的把自己生下... 几个月大的我被急进送院... 泻血不止差一点又要离开这个世界... 小时候又是哮喘病人... 还记得一年级时,呼吸困难差一点就要断气... 可是妈妈却从来没有因此而抛弃我... 一年三百六十五天还是无微不至的照顾我... 她什么也不期望... 只希望我身体健康....

"妈... 我爱你..." 如今年长23 的我... 不是因为妈... 我也不可能活下来... 活下来... 或许是因为这样.. 我真的很感恩... 希望自己渺小的存在... 能够帮助日后有困难的病人.. .

近几年来... 其实每个生日... 我都很希望到孤儿院去... 煮些食物给他们吃... 或许今年也不会达成... 因为明天会是我第一天的community pharmacy's attachment... 我相信这个愿望... 或许在某某一天可能会达成...

明天我不想有什么样的庆祝和礼物... 谢谢大家的一番好意... 我诚心希望... 在我身边的家人和朋友... 或远方的朋友们... 能好好地照顾自己... 开开心心... 身体健康... “肥肥白白”... 那我也就很开心了...

今年我只有一个愿望...

每个人看见我的小妹都加以关心不及... 如果你以前见过我的小妹... 你应该看得出她现在那令人担心的情况... 因为那疾病... 她的健康每况愈下... 这已有几个月的事情了... 我很心酸... 心痛... 什么也帮不上... 但如果连我也这样... 那希望哪儿燃生? 我应该了解到病人的心情... 我最大的生日愿望... 只希望她的病能早日康复... ... 希望白血球不再作怪... 小妹，大姐会以最大的鼓励支持你... ...

假期其实还很快乐... 吃..睡..看戏..etc... attachment 时时间就充实点吧... ..

忆廷... 生日快日...^^...

DisCOMFORT of sToMacH.. ...

It had been 48hours... where my stomach was dived in discomfort zone... ..

Period pain? Food poisoning? or excessive blood loss? Last two days ago.. I had drawn out 150mL of blood.. n in the afternoon.. i just realized it was my "period" period.. ... but i thought it wont be the main reason for the discomfort...

I felt hard to figure out the pain... it was not the usual stomachache... ... I seemed lost to describe it.. ... anyway... i had beared with it calmly on these two days.. ...

"Isnt it the consequences of taking a lot of cold drink during APPS in Indonesia there last week? as I rarely and seldom have cold drink and food... ..." (T_____T).. ...

The last powerful stomach pain happened to me on last year December... and now was another half year where the attack came to me again.. ... it sounded that the "attack" hit me twice a year.. ... but... last night... the intense discomfort made me dropping my tears again... it was "superpain"... till my mind ran into blank.. ...

Now, i was getting better... ... relieved...

... Give me a hug... may the disCOMFORT dissappear sOOn.. ..

10th APPS 2011...

10th APPS- Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium 2011... was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.. from 2-8July... Glad that having the chance to attend it for the very first time in my life... ...

day1, 3July 2011, Sunday.. ..Opening ceremony, Symposium1+2, PCE preparation, CSE preparation n cultural night...

The four of us, from UM, Malaysia... ... me, zakiah, qing liang n li wen.. ...

(PCE result of mine)

PCE- patient counselling education contest... which was held on 4July, after symposim 3+4 at 3pm in Mendut room of Saphir Hotel... Indeed, it was my first time for the competition.. there were 25of us, in the advanced level of the competition... from different countries... ...

the PCE module will be in my final year on the coming semester.. ..emm, truly, i didnt have any experience and guidance previously to counsel the patient... but I tried and gained some experience too... n what relieved me was that all of us were given the case note reference one day before... anyway, i didnt have much time to prepare for it... spending 2hours only to write my points and memorize all the facts... 12minutes of counselling were kinda short... ...

although I lost in the competition, but it was worth to gain experience and build some confidence to counsel patient... thx Eric, judge of PCE who kindly gave me some comments..

free night of 4July... hanging out with my group- grp5.. .. nice to meet all of them... our grp consisted of students from M'sia, 4of us, 4 from indonesia, Kesha from Poland, Chris from taiwan, Nantan from Thailand, Mino from Jepun.. ... Nice to meet them... ...

N lovely Kesha, brought along with her some snacks and chocolate from Poland... great to have chance to taste all of them.. n thx for her chocolate... she presented me for two... Loll.. i loved it so much that i felt hard to have it into my stomach... ...

5 July, Tuesday... Jogja city tour... 1st station- Sultan Palace...

2nd station- Prambanan temple... Candi hindu, Vishna, Praba.... really... they were historical...

International night...

following day- 6 July 2011.. .. wednesday... ... cutural workshop... we learned to dance.. n attending a speech... ... Regional Meeting 3 of that day... huuu... lasting long... from 2.30pm til 9.30pm...

Tired.. ... n found out that... the gunung berapi nearby had "active activity" and heard some people said there was movement of our area n the hotel we stayed... luckily... we were safe at the end.. ...

day5- 7July 2011, wednesday... a visit to University of Gadja Mada (UGM)...

"Make our own cosmetic" workshop... we made our own lip gloss there.. ... interesting... ^^...

In the evening... we had our "Rational Drug Use" campaign in Malioboro Street.. woww... the street was crowded and merry... ... besides distributing the pamplet, we explained and stopped the passenger along the street about the rational use of drug.. hope that our little knowledge could educate them much on proper use of medicine...

Gala Night at Resto Garden... ... congratz to m'sia team who was the champion of oral presentation- my roomate Xin Yun from USM and champion of poster presentation- Ikhwan, from uitm, my grpmate.. ...

The night marked the end of APPS 2011... .. at that moment... ... i was glad... glad that the tiredness ended.. n the next morning... flight back to m'sia and gonna to have a nice sleep... but feeling hard to leave all the lovely people there... esp my grp leader, Anin, Yonika n Standie... all of my group5 mates and new friends there... ...

~~ we shared, we worked, we enjoyed, we loved each other~~

It was indeed once in a life time of experience.. ...

Muacks... Theng theng here will miss yours forever... ... ^^... ...

Out-Patient Hospital attachment...

Out-patient hospital attachement...

27 June- 1July 2011...

was over... ...

besides drug packaging, labelling n checking... we did go to counselling ward round- asthma padeatric ward, pharmCare, revolving fund... ...

roughly... i thought i could figure out how my future working life would be after my final year of studying... ...

time flied... ...gonna to be my last year of studying life and all the best for this THESIS year... anyway... ...

... (^_~) ...

Feeling cold for a Monday...

The weather was cold and damp... in addition to the freeze environment in OP section today... I was liked freezing out... * CHILLING*... Cold... ...

I missed my friends so much on yesterday night... friends... esp my hometown friends... bee ling, yutian, mei ling, wai yan, ying ying, yen tyng n etc etc... my matric friends... caroline, mai mai, kui teng, mei tey, seow hui, jia mei n etc... I missed you guys so much... some of them were graduated and started to work... some were enjoying their holidays... some were in internship... some were losing in contact... some were... ... ...

Friends.. how much do I miss you all... I hope that... you are all staying healthy and fine all the time... ... Take care... ...

Emm.. feeling weird in such a sudden today... I thought I was just thinking too further of it... soon after my last day of hospital attachment on this coming friday... the next day... saturday morning... around 4.30am.. i will be leaving m'sia... attending a 7days 6 nights Asia Pacific Pharmaceutical Symposium (APPS) in Jogjakarta, Indonesia... .. with Zakiah, Qing liang n Li Wen... ...

emm... i felt a bit worried... perhaps... thinking too much... the place is an earthquake spot... n last saturday, i saw a news from online the star reporter saying that there was unpredictable geographical change that might take place soon... ... "loll, i'm thinking so much... ..right?" ... ...

Dont forecast... ... perhaps... ... ... sometimes... life is a fate... ... but... thinking positively and looking forward are what should I be having right now.. ...

If.. anything do happen to me... ... my lovely family members and dearest friends... I would like to tell you all... I love you... ... muacks... ...

In Patient Hospital attachment...

~~ Group 5 ~~

Everyone was asking... "Do yours get paid for your attachment? " ... ... Money is important... but the value of it... sometimes... we had overestimated it.. ... truthly, everyone need money to survive... but at the end of the day... when I was involved in unpaid attachment... I felt satisfied.. glad to be having the chance to expose to the working field where I would be in the coming future...

5 days of in-patient unit attachment... sounding a bit short... but when we made used of every moment we spent there... I did learn.. ... Talking about learning... actually... learning started from a simple heart... sometimes... certain things seemed like easy... but when you were doing.. it turned out to be a different story.. ... to be in a new work place... humble to learn... asked whenever doubt arised.. The hand-on experience gained... was precious to me... ...

Day 1 of mine was stationed in DD- dangerous drug section... day 2-screening the prescription and packaging the drug... although the job was just as simple as one's thought of taking the drug from the rack.. but it needed speed... at the very beginning... I was slow like a snail... bombarded by all the drugs here n there... but late in the evening... (^^)... showed improvement in my speed... Never looked down on the diploma students from mahsa college and uitm who were attached there with us too... they were familiar to their work and I learned a lot from them too... thank to the hearty for them... ...

Day3- IPC and sterile complex.. getting some stories from previous grp saying that they'l ask question during this section.. *Loll*... the previous night... I revised the slides and did some on9 searching... the biggest gift I received on that that day was we met with Mei, who was in charge in sterile complex... at the beginning, she looked fierce.. but she was "soft" actually... admiring her physic theories.. Plz.. dont get shocked when I told you that their cleaning process was based on physic theory... she told us some stories before we left... the case where death took place... who to be blamed for... theirs... who did thankless job...

"Your hand can kill and save".. "be responsible and be alert all the time"... in fact.. they were not sounding easy and simple.. ... i gotta to have a depth sense of something... residing in my heart there.. ... She gave me another stimulation and maturity... I loved her tough way of conveying truth... short talk that ran deep into the heart... woww, at the end, I thought she "restructured" "bit" of our attitude.. Dont you think so, my groupmates? Her words were influencial...

Day4- TDM.. having the chance to go to lab while delivering test tube of patient's blood who was on TDM drug... "AhaH"... it was what that learned during last 2 semester... Clinical pharmacokinetic... that came to play its role... ... knowledge and application were one chunk of it... but experience to adjust the dose was of utmost "green button" to save a patient's life... what was calculated sometimes was not applicable.. ... seriously, it needed experience.. ...

In the evening, ward round to distribute the dangerous drug to ward's counter... it would be my first time to find out how Menara Timur and Menara Utama's ward looked like although I had been studied in um there for the past 3 years... emm... it was not too late to know... right? station by station, we stopped at CICU-cardiac intensive care unit.. it was where i met with a young baby, ran urgently for a surgery... due to heart bleeding... And seeing other patients in the wards there...

That particular night after the ward round, it strengthened my mind... maybe I was not a great people... but I just hope to be able to take care of all the people around me, remind them to stay health and help them whenever I can within my limit... Health is the biggest wealth...

Day5- methadone section... never thought that government had launched this methadone programme for the drug addict... purpose of harm reduction... and that day, I met with the drug addicts who came over the counter and collect their methadone.. Although half of the day was hectic, non-stop meeting the drug addicts and involving in recording their record and diluting the methadone, but indirectly, it was like a good deed helping them to suppress the withdrawal effect... I could detect... some were determined to stop drug.. hopefully, they could make themselve a new life.. n the rest of us (society), dont give up too in giving them hope... Forgiving their past... giving chance for them to turn over a new leaf if they were willing too...

I felt tired at the first two days of attachment... as standing from morning till evening... but the following day, getting used to it... future working life will be similar to that situation... perhaps tired... busy... or ... Anyway, as what Mei said, job satisfaction was the main source of energy that drive someone to work passionately...

Earning money is not that easy... but it is like a gift of life to have chance to dive in noble job... be it a noble... life-saving... satisfaction... or other else... all depend on how one's hope to be... ...

It was a weekend... rest and relax... (>.<) before another round in out-patient attachment on next week ... and everyone... wishing yours to stay healthy all the times.. ... ...