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I wanted to log on to my wordpress account but the thing was i was just so busy at work that i didn’t have time at all..or if not so lazy to do so.. My day starts and ends with me thinking bout work work work.. And going home i all i wanted to was to have that hot shower followed by a cup of hot tea then finally off to bed.

There was even a day that for 8 straight hours  i was not able to eat nor to leave my patients side we are so under-staff that everybody is just so busy minding their own work even my charge nurse who was suppose not to handle any patient was already handling one ..Though it was the lightest but still she has to help us and run errands for us.. So just imagine how i long to go home and just sleep..

And as i opened ny other accounts i was already with so much unopened mails .. What to do hey thats life!

May 11 is mothers day and like all mothers day i’ve spent here in KSA it definitely a time of bonding with my family.. And most probably i could say that if i were to look back those mothers day i spent here were most memorable.

Me and my mom have been separated for bout’ 20 years of mother’s day.. Of course due to the fact that she is working abroad .So in short me and my siblings were deprived of having at least a moment of quality to share with her on that said day.. So i made it to a point that every mothers day ill make it ever special than the previous..

First mothers day here was 2005 i bought her a dozen roses made sure that she carries it from her workplace ER going home.She was ashamed of course telling me that i should have bought food instead but seeing the smile in her face i knew i made a statement.. 2006 we had a nice dinner @ Chili’s though it was quite simple but she requested for it and seeing her happy and full with that sumptuous dinner we had was enough for me and of course we dropped by her favorite gold store then i ask her to buy anything she wants of course my mom wont leave the place without buying anything haha.. 2007 it was the year that we – me and my husband formally ask her permission to get married she was so shocked that she almost left the place where we had dinner but i got hold of her hand and pleaded to what we had to say.. so she listened and gave us her blessings.. that night when we got home she embraced me tight and kissed me on the forehead whispered that she loves me so much it made me cry though i didn’t show it to her i was just happy that night..

This year it’ll be better cause the previous years it was just me, my brother den,and my husband but now we will be joined by allo dens other half so it will be fun having dinner once more and she is in for another surprise haha!for now let it be our secret ill reveal with my upcoming blogs!

Happy mothers day to all!

Twas a sudden notice two days back i checked my schedule for JUMADA 1 then i saw my name with the SICU schedule.. it was a sigh of relief on my part coz i was originally  from  SICU( surgical ICU) then i was transferred to MICU( medical ICU) to swap with another staff who was pregnant @ that time. So for almost half year now i was used to the routine there in MICU. I was expecting to be transferred back to SICU at least by august or september and not this early.. So i had mixed feelings – gladness coz i will be with my SICU family ate pam, ate vangie, ma’m claire,tita che,noura,mana,rasha etc not to mention the surgeons & anesthesia doctors who are more than glad to have me back.. But i was also sad coz ill be missing the company of sir lito ,tita marlyn, ate jovy and the indian staff who mostly dominate MICU staffs also Dr.afrah who was so patient with us with a few tantrums of course hehehe..

So back to SICU i went..my first assignment was the post CABG patient in Bed F.. Which i feel I’ll be handling for sometime since the patient is undergoing prisma .. The patient is having renal failure and needs to be dialyse only that we cannot bring her down she is that unstable to be brought down to HD unit..Good thing though at least the patient would not leave her room and free from stress of transportation from one unit to another for every session of her dialysis..but on our part as caregivers it sure is tough!! As i was doing my routines 11p-7am it was backbreaking  prisma plus morning care is tough mama is so bloated and really heavy so three person needs to render am care for her. And of course i had to carry out orders, do extractions, monitoring etc so you could just imagine how i look like after an 8hour duty.. My only prayers is her conditions to improve, not just her vitals signs to stabilize but to really graduate from ICU and live life as it was before. That i guess would be the best reward any nurse could hope for.To see our former patients living life as if nothing happened at all.At least we could say it was a job well done!

Yesterday i went out with arvin and a couple of friends to Dharan mall.. Arvin bought 2Nd hand bose speakers from one of his colleague’s who happens to sell it around 80% off from its original price..So he wanted a new dvd player to go with it..I was planning to go out saturday so at least it wont be that crowded but he couldn’t wait for another more day. i was thinking that here goes arvin again maybe this will be one pricey item, but to my surprise it wasnt.He bought a dvd player with usb port @ 129sr considering its specs. it was indeed quiet a steal! but my only concerns are for how long could we use hey.. its so cheap and i never heard the brand before ! But who knows great stuffs comes in cheap packages hehehehe!

After we that we had dinner with ate abby and her family plus sir rex’s family also..Prior to that dinner i was really yearning for carbonara and seafood pizza, good thing they decided to eat @ Pizza company at least i was able to eat just what i wanted!! 

But afterwards had to rush in for duty we went home around 10pm so quickly i had to dress up and prepare .Gosh upon  arriving @ icu i was greeted with my very agitated patient a case of neuroleptic malignant disease.They extubated him AM shift and from then on was only on v-mask.. He was restless valium did’nt do him any good.. I was fixing him up every now and then trying to secure his restraints but he manages to remove it he is that strong! At last 5am after our abg his CO2 was way up high and suddenly he became unresponsive with HR of 55 from his usual of 130’s..So they decided to electively intubate the poor guy! Only after that i was able  attend to my other patient..

Going home my knees were shaking i was very tired that i had to apply some chinese balm on my knee!