Sunday, February 18, 2007
Guess who's the handsome boy today? *Woof woof!!* Gave him a nice treat of boiled chicken breasts today. He refused to eat those mandarins.
One of the more dismal CNYs that I've had - my family's all off to visit my gran, but I just had to stay behind. I may not do as much work (perhaps even less!!) but the guilt. Ah yes, the guilt. I need to take a leaf out of Holmes' book. So, all lonely now, and I really mean LONELY. Almost wanted to call my parents so that they can head back to pick me up. Almost.
Oh, and there was some excitement yesterday too, which brought me to NUH 2 days in a row. Mom was fiddling with one of those crazy self-opening and self-closing umbrellas that come with a spring-loaded handle. Well, of all days for this to happen, it just had to happen on CNY eve - the handle sprang out and whacked her left eye with the force of a bat, with slight eyelid laceration, a huge periorbital haematoma, and - gasp! - a hyphaema! It was bad, with transient loss of visual acuity.
Prescribed Rx for traumatic iritis with hyphaema is bed rest, cyclopegics and steroids, which I have, but when I examined her eye 4 hours later, it was bad. Very bad. Whipped out my trusty ophthalmoscope, and couldn't see past the anterior chamber. Red reflex lost in left eye. Left pupil was dilated, irregular and with a sluggish light reflex. Sent her to the NUH A&E (what must the doc have thought?? "This med student must have been too stressed up, went to punch his mom ..." - I could read it in his eyes, and quickly explained that it was an umbrella that inflicted the blunt trauma, not me) and with an appointment with the ophthalmo registrar today. Yes, on CNY. They come for ward rounds, and we were to ambush him in the ward.
Turns out that there were 2 ophthalmos there, one of whom remembered me from my year 3 days. Shocking. Made a fool of myself too, OMG. He was sitting behind the slit lamp examining another patient, and I walked in holding the A&E letter - he held out his LEFT hand, and without a moment's hesitation, I too held out my LEFT hand and shook it .. until a fleeting look of surprise passed his face and I realised that it was the letter he wanted. OMG OMG OMG. I almost died on the spot after that. Some slight secondary glaucoma, and as the NUH pharmacy was closed, I had to go round to Guardian to get the timolol. Yes, glaucoma can't wait. I'd have stopped mom from going to Malaysia if I had my way, but then it's gran's birthday today and mom would have been really upset. Well, she'll be back for a followup on Wed, just to make sure there isn't a blow-out fracture and retinal detachment. Shouldn't be lah, it's not THAT traumatic. The ophthalmologists sure had a good time scaring me about the exams today, bleargh!!
Wenky
4:42 PM
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