Today is almost my birthday but being 8h behind Singapore it almost feels like I have 2 birthdays because I get wishes from the East today and wishes from the West (and late people from the East) tomorrow XD

Flew yesterday so since today is my 2nd day I was flying really high. Felt really exhausted but dragged myself out of bed and had a feeble attempt at making my workbook look a little more substantial. Felt really anaemic and weak today because of said condition. Unfortunately today is the day where we had decided to squish in loads of things including part of our assessment for this block, which involves signing off of ONE out of THREE of our OSCE assessment forms. The ticklist included taking a history, summarising a history, doing an examination, summarising our examination findings, problem solving, discussing management, some other things along those lines, and surprise surprsie, ethics. There were many really good/interesting patients on the cardioresp ward and I was really enthused about speaking to a heart transplant patient, but by 10.30a.m. I really felt like I had to sit down so I pretended that I had forgotten about the heart transplant person and just presented the other 1 I saw. Stupid me forgot to summarise (it was the only time I forgot to summarise) and got a C for forgetting even though I did it in the end :/

A bit surprised that we were asked to do a combo of cardio/respi/GI Ex merged into 1. A bit messy but went ok-ish I guess. By that time my shaky legs + adrenaline rush had made me shakier than ever so I guess I should be happy that I did not do too badly.

Clever reg managed to give us the AXR teaching she had prepared specially for us! It was useful coz I did not know anything that she taught us to begin with. Went to speak to a patient whom a few people had recommended to us, and he turned out to be psychotic :/ Typical. So... Not very useful talking to him, although it was, nevertheless, interesting.

Had an extremely good teacher who taught us fluids and sliding scale insulin today. He teaches in a lot of detail and is quite nit-picky, but he explained the details so well that he made us understand what he taught. I feel like I do not have to study these 2 topics ever again. Unless I become an anaesthetist. We may have been pretty drained by that time coz I think we were rather slow at picking some things up but he kept checking that we were at his pace and reassuring us that he could repeat anything as many times as we wanted until we understand. How many doctors like that do you get?? Will give him a good feedback form for his CV (-:

So... Tomorrow is my birthday... But does not feel very birthdayish coz everyone is so stressed. People are studying for Phase 1/end-of-block/IPE/finals and to be honest I am not that keen to celebrate, myself. But I dun wanna be a wet blanket so I have agreed to order kebab delivery for dinner tomorrow.