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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

day 2 of paediatrics..i like:) i'm pretty surprised so far that most of the young patients i've seen this week have been so guai..all the little babies seem relatively comfortable with letting us medical students poke and examine them..and the younger kids are so sweet:) even this little baby girl who had a battery down her throat was smiling and babbling at us although i imagine it can't be very comfortable having a battery stuck in your windpipe.

on the flip side, there have been scarier moments..sigh. you never really realise how lucky you are to be born healthy. there are all these poor kids with congenital abnormalities, and its usually not anyone's fault at all. and i like this question my tutor posed: "What percentage of parents would donate their own kidney to their child if they could? 100%." parents (most parents anyway) really would do anything for their children. i can't imagine what i would do or feel if i was a parent and my child had a stroke. or if my baby started seizing.

so anyway, its really been an interesting couple of days, though i've been feeling a little under the weather this week :( maybe its just that time of the month.

i had a really really good dream last night..and it was so real. i think to an extent, it was so good that i wanted so hard to believe that it was real. and then when i woke up, i just felt so lousy. cos real life didn't play out as in the dream; if anything, real life is the complete opposite of what happened in that dream. why does my own silly brain have to keep reminding me of what i've lost?
~me~ at 10:05 PM