Ward 3 and the Garland Hunt

Even with the tree lit and adorned with wrapped medicine bottles at the entrance, the Ward 3 of PGH didn't feel Christmas-y. At all. What I instantly saw were a couple of rows of bed filled with patients looking very hopeless and weary (or at least, that's how I see them). Whew, so this is where I'll be for the next three hours. Ooo-kei.

At once, Danni and I saw Daniel at the entrance, with Cedes and Bean. The three of us, Danni, Daniel and I were assigned at the Ward 3, while Ced and Bean's set to work at the ICU.

It was actually our second time to be assigned at a department in PGH. :)

I was assigned first with Alvin and Nicole at the Gastrointestinal Clinic, and boy, was it an experience! I remember during our first day at the clinic, Nicole and I were asked to assist Dr. Reyes in performing colonoscopy to a very old patient. She tried to struggle and break free from the very painful, not to mention awkward, procedure and my task was to firmly hold her legs, while I barely could keep mine upright.

After that first procedure, things got a lot more easier. Most of the time all we had to do were watch procedures, transfer patients to the recovery area and sing with WRock's Wednesday love songs, hehe. :D

Things were different with Ward3, charity ward kasi. It was a lot more depressing, facing patients who didn't even have the chance to eat breakfast that day, who didn't have complete treatment supplies, who are losing their sanity due to their illness and who are unconcious, unaware of when they will open their eyes again.

One doesn't even have his left leg anymore, and while Danni was assisting the nurse in dressing the wound, I complained to Kim and Daniel that my knees are feeling wobbly because of what I'm seeing.

Buti nga may tuhod ka pa para manghina was Daniel's counterclaim.

I silently agreed. :D

On the lighter side, it was a fun experience too. :D We had the chance to 'aspirate' distilled water in preparing meds, wear suffocating but very stylish (haha) N95 masks and were even given the chance to inject. :D Feeling doctors konti, hehe. :)

I realized that what I am expecting in being a doctor is all the glamour pala, forgetting the fact that backstage, things will be messy and depressing and can make your knees feel weaker. Starting that moment, I tried to make space for those kind of things in my head. But that never lessened my enthusiasm to take up medicine, on the contrary, the idea that I should be there was reinforced by what I saw. If that is what I'm set to face in the next few years, then so be it. :)

~After that, we had the earliest Christmas Party with the IPC doctors. :D The best ang Pinoy Henyo pag doctors ang nanghuhula! Sobrang scientific, haha. :D

~That pm, I went to the mall with Ate and Ira to buy a gift for Mom and Dad's anniv. And kailangan ni Ivan ng garland sa kanyang parol for Family Day, so ang aking napakabait, as in sooobra, na bestfriend ang naloka sa paghahanap. :) Owe her bigtime for that, hehe. :)

So yun ang reason kung bakit may Garland Hunt ang title. :D hahaha.

Happy Anniv, Ma and Daddy! :D



*done blabbing.