a peek into what i have been up to

I AM SORRY ORIOLE for my silence on this lovely bustling blog. to one and all who have blogged, THANK YOU:)

Well for the past 1 month, starting mid Dec till now, mid Jan, i have been posted to the Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) ward AND Paediatrics ward..

So basically it has been work for me from either 7am-3pm or 12.30pm-8.30pm and i loved both of my attachments.

What i have been up to?
- i have been carrying and feeding crying babies
- taking care of mothers who have either miscarried or chose to terminate their pregnancies
- i have observed vaginal delivery :)
- i have been kicked and pushed when trying to hold down a crying child when doctors were setting plug for him.
- i have been kicked and pushed by a kid when i was removing his plug
- i have been asked to remove a beatle from a patient's friend's pillow case --> trust me, a nurse does EVERYTHING. haha so i gotta remove the beatle, with a smile on my face, though that girl was squealing away.
- i have a small 8 year old girl who was admitted for a fracture giving me a slice of cake before she was discharged
- i have made friends with many kids AND their parents
- i have a small 5 year old girl call me a sister and giving me hugs and kisses
- i have patients who have HUGE lungs like mariah carey and CRY AND CRY NON STOP, they scream and NEVER stop, even when the father is there.
- i have cleaned up puke, vomitus, poo, urine of kids
- i have heard so many stories of parents who are so tired mentally and physically when they care for their child who is chronically ill and how they refuse to cry cos they want to keep a brave front.
- i have witnessed the love of fathers and mothers. AMAZING LOVE.
- i have witnessed tears well up in a dad's eyes in the delivery suite when his first daughter arrived on earth.

what is my point in sharing all these? BE A NURSE:)
HAHA no lah. I just wanted to say, everytime i am on attachments, everytime i deal with ppl, i see a lot, i learn a lot, a lot about love, about humans, about politics, about relationships, about life, about death, about suffering. Indeed life lessons and observations, and all these experiences really are so precious, you deal with these when you are a nurse. So this January this is what i have been up to, tiring, BUT always very satisfying and enriching.

Back to school for two weeks and then I will be back at NUH for my Mental Health posting at the Psych ward..

Something which someone once told me..
 " It is not the number of years that matter, but the LIFE in your years".

Thinking about life, thinking about death, really what matters is the LIFE in my years, in our years, everyday as we awake, as we open our eyes, as we trudge to school, as we stone at bus-stops and flag for buses, as we drive here and there, as we hang out with friends post school, as we brush our teeth preparing to sleep, as we mug and do countless past year papers and Ten Year Series, as we go for tuition (ahem YewGin),

stop and think.. about the "LIFE" we are putting it, our every breath, our every breath of praise and worship unto Him, and how in every breath and waking moment He is in our everything, that everything we do matters because it adds to "Kingdom Moments".We make our days, how we live our lives, how we spend our days, how we see our days, how we use our days....

Okay Oriole, i will be seeing you guys in say about 15 hours' time.

:)

Love, Claud