Eeekk its September

But really where has the year gone to??? Can't believe its already September. I know its kinda late but happy new month to all my lovely readers and you knows that comes with wishing you all the best this month has to offer.
Ooooh so its good bye summer. Bring on fall. And guess what 10 months or less to become a doctor, yippeee!!!

I know I should have posted update about my first week in internal medicine, but I have done nothing this week. Showed up to the hospital everyday but it seems no one has time for us. Oh well I'll see how this week goes.
By the way I changed my thesis topics, no longer writing on Children with HIV/AIDS as I previously mentioned. I'm now writing on some much complex topic in neurology. will let you in on it pretty soon.

Well thats all with me. will in check in during the week if anything interesting comes up, till then have a lovely week, and remember to keep smiling.


Love

Surgery

Finished My two weeks of surgery here. And it was an experience. Quiet stressful I must say in terms of physical strength. At least It was my first on a lot of thing and was a great opportunity I got to assist in all those surgeries.

I was on call on Wednesday as you know from my previous post and this was the most demanding day in my whole time in surgery. I assisted in two surgeries and it was hell. both of them were open abdomen surgery, so I had to work with really large instrument and being small it was a very difficult task.
During the 1st surgery the surgeon was pretty much mad at me. Taught I was doing a rubbish Job retracting but I was doing my best, and as the surgery went on and he kept complaining I started to get frustrated. Here I am, operating table as high as my chest (duh, d surgeons were both taller than me), couldn't see a thing, arm paining me from retracting, its 3pm, been in the hospital since 7:30am and he just didn't appreciate my effort, oh psst. at least the other surgeon told me I did a good job. I needed to hear that.
At 6pm the phone in the call room rings telling me there is a surgery, come to the OR in about 30mins. I'm scrubbing in and the surgeon on call comes in, I ask what surgery is it, and he is like its a case of colon cancer. Oh no another open abdomen surgery. By the time we were all prepped and ready to start, my legs had began to fail me, they were tired from standing and walking around all day. Then we started the surgery I was retracting and then my sides were like it was on fire, and at this moment, I realized I can never be a surgeon, I'm not just cut out for the job, don't hv the inner core strength for it. well I did what I had to do, bared all the pain in my body and tired legs.Didn't leave the hospital till 10pm that day.
I checked with the porta (don't even know what it is called in English,lol) only to see I had been schedule for surgery the next day again.. This people are Kidding me. Something funny happened on my way out, The Porta followed me, so thinking I had dropped something I stopped to answer him, and he asked me If another student had come to take over from me. Meaning if no one had come I would hv had to stay, and my friend who took over from me, had a six hour straight surgery that day..lol. I would have been dead if I had to stay the night.
Thank God I'm done with them, Phew!!!!

A glimpse of the surgery department here

Whats next? two weeks of internal medicine.. watch this space!!!

Love

Go for It!!

Aloha, Here I am this morning, just sitting in bed, didn't go to the hospital today as I was on call yesterday, its my day off. Its one of those morning when I  wake up so  powerless, so unmotivated, needing motivation from where ever, I decided to  go through one of my many journals, in which I write random thoughts and just came across this piece I had written, Can't remember where I wrote it from, or from whom I heard it, doesn't matter, the important thing is I have it and I thought it's worth sharing it.

IN LIFE WE MUST PURSUE ALWAYS.

• Pursuit is the proof that you really desire something.
• You will become what you purse with all your heart.
• The secret of success is to pursue one main thing at a time and a few secondary things. You must fall in love with the basics.
• You can become an expert if you pursue one thing for a long time with all your heart. Find out what you are good at and pursue
• The secret to successful insight is never quit. Don't give up, stay with it no matter what. We are not here to please people we are here to accomplish what we have to do.

REASONS WHY PEOPLE QUIT PURSUING

• They don't see immediate results
• they loose the immediate excitement when the reality hits them.
• They are not willing to pay the price. Everything that is worth pursing will cost you something. We compromise so many times just to be popular.
• Broken focus because of distraction. They stop concentrating.
• They begin with unrealistic expectations.
• They make emotional decision that brings temporary happiness.

10 THINGS YOU NEED FOR POWERFUL PURSUIT.

• Maintain your focus and avoid distraction.
• Keep your eyes on the picture and the reward will come.
• when you see a big obstacle break it down into small achievable steps.
• Don't trow away your confidence.
• Have a good sense of priority with your time.
• You must take care of your body with rest and proper nutrition.*
• You must have a hobby that allows you to recreate your imagination and creativity.
• You must exercise great self disciple.
• Maintain a positive atmosphere. We must reject negative words.
• All things are allowed but not everything is beneficial.. 

Smile without reason, love

Weekend Update

On Thursday I decided to skip ward rounds and morning meetings, because I was just not interested in waking up early and since they spoke only Hungarian, there is really no reason I should be there. But oh well that led to me arriving late for the surgery I scheduled for which was by 8.30am. The surgeons were so mad at me. I almost even got punished to do an extra week. But amidst all the anger and shouting thrown at me, one of the surgeon made a very important point, He said you don't expect the surgery to wait for you (yes he reminded me, I'm just an intern the bottom of the medical ladder), and I learnt something very important from that statement, I have this slogan I always use to state which I learnt, "No need to rush it will wait for you if you are important". I looked around the room trying to think who is the important one here? You will guess the Main surgeon right? Wrong, if he doesn't show up the second surgeon or another surgeon will do the job, the surgery won't wait for him. The important person there is the patient, Always the patients are the most important people. So yes as a doctor we better rush to the hospital always. Lesson learnt.

I was on Call last night, and let me just say this, this is my first over night call ever, Yay!!! Oh well all I can tell you is that you dread hearing the phone in the call room ring.

 I was there from 8pm and decided to stay up till I am called, 10:30pm still nothing so I decided to sleep a little and 12:30am the phone rings.. Oh boy, was I confused yes. But I got up changed into my scrubs, and got to the OR, to my greatest delight the surgeon was like "it must be so annoying to be be called at this time of the night", hell yes it is. But we scrubbed in, the surgery was done and it went great at least I didn't sleep off when retracting. At the end of they day, even thou we complain about being called at odd hours or having to work for long hours, its always a joy to serve/help other people and I'm learning to love what I do.

Have a lovely week everyone. Stay positive and put on a smile on your face no matter what.

love.

Mid week Post

I decided to be more regular on my blog I'm gonna be posting twice a week, Mid week and Weekend post.. I hope I'm faithful to this..

So surgery.. hmmmm. Well I have started my surgery rotations and I'm three days into to It. Haven't done/seen anything out of the ordinary except watch surgeries. As medical students/interns your job in the OR is to retract during surgeries. Monday and Tuesday I wasn't scheduled for any surgery. Today however I was scheduled for an adrenal surgery. But the surgeon said he didn't need my help I could just stand and watch. In a way I was glad, because I was so sleepy and was wondering how I was gonna survive retracting. But at the same time I was disappointed. As an Intern all you always want to do is keep busy,you alway want to be given something to do. I wonder why?

Scrubbing in for surgery.

P.S
Retracting is basically holding open the body cavity during surgeries.

Love

Time off

What do you do when you have some time off those medical books? ?
I went on a road trip with some of my friends. We went to a nearby city about 19km from debrecen, Hadjuszoboszlo. They have one of the largest mineral water spa in Europe, and an awesome water park. I had an amazing time, went on all the rides in the park. I was like a 12yr old kid today, had a blast!!!

my friends

I really needed this in my life right now. Needed to get away from all this medicine stuffs and the city that reminds me of it all ;-)). 

P.S
The journey still continues. it must continue :-)

Love.

Done with Neurology

It was four weeks of hell in practice and studying, one week of full on studying like crazy, one day of the most intense exam I have ever done, 3 days post of constant sleep and I am finally done WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO. But let me just say this I did learn a lot, about myself, about different places in the world and most of all I learnt neurology. Also I grew as a person, during this four weeks, made new friends and had a blast. My exam was a big success, *grateful!!!

I mention that I learnt a lot about different places in the world. Well during Neurology practise it wasn't all neuro. Each one of us doing the practise were given a research paper to present each moring during the morning meetings and also after your presentation you had to talk about were
you are from. It could be about places in your city, festivals, the food, the culture just any thing. And my Uni being one of the most international uni's I know, trust me it was 4 week of learning a lot from different places.

Here are some pictures I presented from Nigeria..

Yankari game reserve 

Calabar festival

Argungu fishing festival

 that's a pic of  my friend and I

Now on to the next rotation which is surgery. Will be doing two weeks of surgery in debrecen and four weeks in the UK. I'm excited and ready for the new challenges as I would be stepping out of my comfort zone, which is being here in debrecen, where I have been for over five years, to a totally new environment. Would I be welcomed? Would the people be nice? would I be able to handle life in a big city?  would I enjoy my time there? most of all would I learn? Stay with me on this Blog to find out. I promise much more blogging and pictures too, if I can.

P.S
Have you checked out my new feature?? get going http://www.fabladyh.com/p/featured.html

love,