My 1st Night Shift

I was planning to get back to Abd today then to Edinburgh and because the car I am following is leaving early so I decided to go for a night shift instead. Not guilt ridden at all since I'm replacing the 2 half days (Thursday and Friday) with a 12 hour shift and nothing happens in the afternoon anyway since all jobs are done by 10ish 11am =)

Went to the ward in the morning at 8am and stayed till 1pm. I was actually leaving by 11ish 12pm but one of the FY1 saw me and asked me to follow him to the x-ray meeting. I'm in the surgical block and the meeting was for medical peeps but since he remembered me (we kinda talked a bit when I was with my surgical FY1) and I was not sleepy yet and it's educational, hence I followed along.

So I tried sleeping after a light lunch but I woke up every hour from 1-5pm. I set my alarm at 6pm but I was hungry by 5.30pm and could not force myself to sleep anymore so I just went to the kitchen for dinner. I made a great choice because I kinda socialised with the ang mohs and even Facetime in the kitchen with my friend at Abd who is a mutual friend of this cute funny ang moh.

Left to hospital at 8pm and did some jobs, tried to read something medical aka DVT but just couldn't concentrate and finally by 9ish pm, the on-call FY1 came and picked me and let me tag along. I was quite tired and sleepy by 10ish 11pm but with all the walking around, I managed to not fall asleep =P
At around 10ish, a woman came into A&E after a hit and run and unfortunately died even after 45minutes of CPR. The news was on BBC.

Sadly for me, it was a very very quiet night. So the FY1 and the GPST1 who was also on call, together with me did some BMJ quiz on IV fluids and we were all half asleep and half awake, trying to figure out the answers together (team effort woohoo~) and by 4ish am, we managed to finish 2 sets. Chat a bit and by 5ish 6pm, walked around the hospital and finally settled at the surgery ward room and chat with the on call surgical reg who had 6.5 hours of sleep in the on call reg room (envy~).

Overall, even though it was a quiet night, I did enjoy it because of the company and educational value =)
It was really great fun and I was lucky to get this FY1 and the GPST1 who were both so entertaining and funny and I learned quite a bit from them too ^^

Currently, after 2.5 cups of coffee for 14 hours, I am so so awake and hyper. I believe I will crash tonight =/