"International"

Kelas saya pukul 10 hari ni. Tapi saya ingatkan pukul 9. Mati-mati gi mandi sejuk2. Adeihh.

Tapi takpelah. Ade masa skit nak update belog.

Ehem2.

Assalamualaikum and a very good day I bid to all. Urhh.

A few things happened and a few things ARE going to happen this week.

Let us start with 'happened'.

Our system here in Alexandria Faculty of Medicine have long been called the International Undergraduate Medical Program or IUMP in short. To date, the program is made up of four batches of students, mine being the seniors. Being international, we assume that we'll have Arabs, Negros, Frenchies, Europeans, and Malaysians together in one lecture hall. Well, you'll see this mixture of nationalities in the second and first year lectures, but not with the fourth years. That all changed last Saturday when 10 Saudi Arabians joined us. ;)

Kalau korang google gambar minah2 Saudi, diorang semua pakai tudung yang berbonggol2 kat belakang. Rambut depa panjang sgt agaknya. Anywayy, I talked to one of the Saudi guys, Muhammad Abd Aziz. I first thought that they'll only join us for TBL classes but no, they're joining us for good. Lectures, ILAs, TBLs, the whole nine yards. Wow, I thought. Competition. ;)

So, I was eager to see whether will there be any Saudis which will join my clinical rounds. Aha. My 'wish' came through. Two ladies ;) Hehehehehe. Bertambah seronok kami berempat kaum Adam. :P

How things will be, I don't really know yet. But I guess changes can be good at times. ;)

Regarding "are going to happen", nothing fun in that. I've got my Clinical Pathology exam tomorrow and my Clinical exams next Saturday. Got to get the oil and start greasing, have to get rid of all those rust.

Oh yer, our batch annual dinner will also be held next week, on the 10th. Dress up ladies. :P

Feeling lonely?

Don't be. :)

A difficult day at the hospital.

Hye guys.

I'm here today, updating in a rather somber mood. Continue reading if you're really interested to know why.

Yesterday was supposed to just be another day for us at the hospital. Lectures by the professor, taking patient history, inspecting them, conducting physical examinations, yada yada yada. Well, it started out as planned. A rather long lecture on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Lymphoma by Dr Nabil where I found myself to be ultimately clueless. But takpe lah, boleh je baca balik kat rumah nanti. Moving on, we then had a female patient. This patient was suffering from Schistosomiasis, which is an endemic disease here in Egypt. Yang bikin panas nye, mak patient ni ade sekali. The patient was rather cooperative with us, but the mom on the other hand was unbearable.

"Heyya musyfatirisy min subh" "Haram haram". Or something like that. At one phase she came near us and I was even afraid that she might swing her arm at me. Haha. That didn't happen tho. :P

We then rounded the ward to see a few other patients. The next one was suffering from lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphoid tissue. He was cachexic. When our doctor was demonstrating for us, the patient brokedown. He plead his case with tears streaming down his cheeks. How could one empathize and not symphatize? We can see that he was exhausted but our doctor was adamant to show us the examination. It required a kiss on the cheek and some comforting words from the patient's father to calm the patient down. Seriously hati kena macam batu, kalau tak memang boleh nangis lah tengok semua ni.

And to round it all up, a patient went into septic shock right in front of us. His mouth was foamy and he wasn't breathing. It was an emergency situation of course and we saw it spot on. Oxygen tanks were brought in and CPR was performed. That same patient was walking about normally around the ward just days before. According to our doctor, the patient suffered from acute leukemia and had received a round of chemotherapy. Unfortunately he caught an infection and his body wasn't able to fight due to the chemo. Even antibiotics can't help. When we left, the doctors were still performing CPR on him. I'm not sure will I be seeing him today in the wards. May God be with him.

Hmm. It is all in a days work. Life, moves on.

Selingan tatkala sibuk

Assalamualaikum wbt. Selamat sejahtera semua. (Ade gaya lecturer tak?)

Mcm biase, kawe masih sebok dgn studies kawe. Smlm dpt lah cuti sehari tp kawe pi main bola dgn teman. Nak bagi peluh tubek sikit, baru sihat tubuh, dok gitu?

Sy orang KL tulen, tak reti cakap dialek. So yang kat atas ni, sj nk main2 menghiburkan diri sendiri. Jgn makan hati yer kawan2 utara dan timur ku. :P

Anyway, I just feel like updating the people back home as to what I did last week. Jeng jeng jeng. Surprise2. I took my first blood sample. ;) Seronok n nasib baik lah my hands takde nak menggigil sangat. Got the vein on my first try but the blood didn't come out. I had to move the syringe around and let the needle find the vein without pulling put the syringe. Peluh sejuk lah jga! Hehe.

Thanks Anas for letting me poke a needle into your arm. ;)

Next time I'll try to get some pictures from my clinical rounds. *wink2*

Oh, here's something for those who enjoy seeing the photos I take. (Bajet ade je peminat gambar ko). Haih.


Till the next update. Stay sane.

Of clay and bricks

Evening guys. (Or morning if you're reading this in Malaysia)

If I'm updating my blog frequently, it means I'm back in Egypt. Hehe. Less distractions mean more ideas for me to update my blog. :P

Anyway, I had my first class today and wow, the clinical years are definitely different from what we've experienced in the pre-clinical years. It was only one day, but it felt like a week. There were lectures as usual but rather than being spoon-fed whereby what the Dr said is similarly written in the book, it was completely the opposite. Furthermore, the only things that I was able to take note from the lecture were only the headlines. -.- An hour felt like two. Urh. And I've not even started talking about the assignments. Hmm.

So next came the clinical rounds. Four whole hours of going around the ward, taking notes as we go. I need to get myself a notebook as it is utterly impossible to write on a piece of paper while walking/standing. We discussed not only the patient's condition but also our basic science knowledge which we've taken in our first three years here. There were obviously some gaps in between questions since we can't remember the answer. Fine, there were LOTS of gaps. Haha.

Thus came lesson number 1. "I can't build bricks without clay." Ouch. Doctors 1 - Us 0. Nasib baik lah tak buang buku-buku teks lama aku tu. Haih.

Oh, its fun when you have to look for what you've learned in reference books or online. But it sucks when you're paying for them. Huge hole in my pocket, and its only day one.

Selamat Hari Raya

Salam aidilfitri dan salam 1Malaysia. Bwek. Hehehe.

Just wanna make a simple post wishing all my family, friends, housemates, coursemates, dan siapa2 saje yang mengenali Johannas bin Mohd Yusof, Selamat Hari Raya and Maaf Zahir tanpa Batin. ;)

0 - 0 yer semua? Dah start semester baru nanti baru kita start kira balik. Hehehe. To those who's in Egypt, kita jumpa lagi 10hb Oktober nanti. And untuk yang akan ade kat Malaysia je, kalau2 tak dapat nak jumpa lagi dah, chalo bette. Jumpa lagi bila aku balik tahun depan. InsyaAllah balik. Ada hajat yang perlu dilaksanakan. ;)



ps. Khidmat fotografi disediakan untuk mereka-mereka yang berminat. Hehe. Gurau. :P

Sarcophaga

Nak refresh balik Parasitology korang? Silalah berkunjung ke Flickr saya. Hehe.

Melaka indah~

Lebey kurang 2 minggu lepas, aku turun ke Melaka dengan 2 lagi jurugambar amatur, Abu (Nikon) ngan Pkyn (Canon). Target kitorang, Bandar Hilir.

Banyak gak aku tekan shutter 40D aku tu tapi biase lah, dlm 200 gambar, brape je en yang leh pkai. :P So, akhirnya aku dapat cari masa ngan mood untuk "post-process" and upload gambar2 yang aku amik aritu. Enjoy. ;)