So to give you all a hint of what I’ve gotten myself into the previous month, here’s a list of basic facts, important rules and random tidbits that I’ve learned from my experiences these past few days:

1.) Never assume that the person lying on the bed, (looking stressed, sickly, and sleeping blissfully) is the patient.. I was once nearly a victim of this stupid mistake. >.< I saw someone sleeping on the bed, so I woke him up and then asked him to state the name of the patient. Still sleepy, he told me the correct name. At that point everything looks okay. Luckily  before I proceeded, I tried to checked his patient wrist band but to my horror I couldn’t find any. Then I woke him up again and asked if he was indeed the patient. Turned out he was the brother and that the real patient was on the CT Scan department for his procedure. Great huh?  If I wasn’t careful enough I would have earned myself an Incident Report for wrong patient identification which is a major mistake tantamount to being fired. Lucky for me, my brain cells were working perfectly back then so I saved myself the trouble of being canned.

2.) Out patient veins and in patient veins are considerably different from each other.. Out patient veins are basically bigger and easier to find compared to that of the in patients. “Extra challenge veins” can generally be found in the ICU, neurocritical unit, cancer units. When I say extra challenge, I mean super mega difficult to extract veins that will literally make you cry because you won’t be able to extract blood in a single try . Either because the veins are way too thin and collapsible such as in the case of the cancer patients or  maybe because of edema (pamamanas) such as those of the ICU & neurocritical care patients  So my seniors told me, when in doubt, use your “less popular” extraction sites.  No need to elaborate on that one.

3.) Always bring a bag of patience with you.. Some people will really get to your nerves so an extra bag of happy thoughts  together with patience will surely go a long way.

4.) Always expect the unexpected.. You’ll never know when a certain agitated patient will suddenly appear in front of you, and start yelling out of the blue about something that supposedly irritate her    You, having no knowledge about the stated reason, will be left standing there looking red due to the humiliation the shouting have caused Believe me when I say I know how it feels to be in this tricky situation. It was a good thing I kept my cool so I calmly and politely told her to go talk to my superiors because I really have no clue as to what her problem is all about. In the end, she came back to apologize to me and told me that she was just irritated with a certain colleague of mine. Shoot!!

So there, those were just some of the crazy things I’ve learned from my suicidal first month of being a phlebotomist. I would have put a longer list but then I realized that my post has gotten a little longer than it should be. So that’s it for now because I still owe a lot of you a visit .

dahil am duty ako kanina, (meaning 6am-2pm) ay nagkaron na rin ako sa wakas ng pagkakataon na maglamyerda.. yayness, napanood ko din sa wakas ang alice in wonderland medyo matagal ko na din kasi talagang ninanais na mapanood ang movie na toh dahil sa limang rason:

1.) johnny depp
2.) good visual effects
3.) tim burton as the director
4.) johnny depp
5.) johnny depp

nyahaha.. hindi masyado halatang adik kay johnny depp? i love kasi how he portrays the different roles.. and aminin nyo, bagay talaga sa kanya yung mga kakaiba at weird roles.. bukod sa gwapo ay talagang magaling sya umarte

as a whole, okay lang para sakin ang alice in wonderland.. hindi ako masyadong nagandahan maybe because alam ko na kung ano mangyayari sa plot pero di din naman ako sobrang napangitan.. in short, sakto lang..

dahil sa tapos ko ng basahin ang buong Percy Jackson Series ay dumaan na din ako sa national bookstore upang tumingin tingin kung may ibang magandang libro.. bumili ako ng artline na permanent marker tapos dumaan ako dun sa inquiry nila para tanungin kung may available na FABLEHAVEN book 4 – The Secret of the Dragon Sanctuary ayun swerte naman at meron.. kaya napabili tuloy ako bigla.. kung mahilig kayo sa harry potter books at sa percy jackson, tiyak magugustuhan nyo rin ang fablehaven.. fantasy ang genre at unique din ang kwento at talagang di kaya matutulog hanggat di nyo natatapos basahin yung kwento.. super page turner..

after that eh tumingin tingin kung may magugustuhan na damit.. unfortunately wala akong natipuhan na damit pero may nagustuhan naman ako na shoes pero dahil sa wala din ako masyado dalang pera eh pinagpaliban ko muna ang pagbili.. hehehe.. afterwards, para di ako kuyugin ng kapatid ko ay bumili na din ako ng mga pasalubong for the family.. krispy kreme and brownies unlimited yummyness..

Yayness!! I got a new Layout. I spend approximately half a day creating this theme and I think it turns out quite well. I so love Enakei and I’m happy that I was able to feature her on my webbie. So congratulations to me. Lol.

SOP’s final episode:

I was minding my own business and accidentally stumbled upon a tweet leading to this article.  After reading it, I became more annoyed with GMA and their shows.  I really can’t believe how SOP can act so lowly. The fact that they finally aired their last episode doesn’t that mean that they were already defeated by ASAP :swt:  Can’t they just accept that and move on?  How can they be so bitter and even dragged the name of ASAP in one of their songs     It only shows how unprofessional they are. Pfff.

Here’s the lyrics that I’m talking about:

Itong ASAP tuwang tuwa ngayon
Natalo na nila ang dati’y hindi nila matalo
Ngunit, bakit, hindi nyo ba alam
Kami’y magbabalik, at di pa tapos ang laban

We dance, we shout
Movin’ Groovin’ all around
You can say that we are having so much fun
We sing we bring joy to everybody
Get down and join the party
Here at S-O-P!

And here’s the video of the said song.

Plants versus Zombies:

On a lighter note, I’m currently suffering from an addiction, Plants vs. Zombies. LOL. It was really ironic since I didn’t want to start playing it before. I’m a gamer at heart and have the tendency to be addicted to games, so I tried my best to stay away from this game even though I heard lots of good feedback.

I was doing fine until I learned that almost every staff at the Endocrine and Metabolic Center of St. Lukes  plays this game whenever there are “petiks moments” and there are no patients around. So naturally I became more intrigued. It didn’t helped that Sir Jeff keeps on nagging me to start playing the game. He even gave me a pirated copy. LOL.

So now I’m hooked.

I know it’s already a day late but I still wanted to greet you all a

HAPPY HEARTS DAY .

I should have posted this yesterday but I’ve been so dead tired from my hospital shift and the only thing I could think about was to sleep. Lol. So yeah, Belated Happy Valentine’s Day. I hoped you all had fun memorable dates. As for me, I had the PM duty, so that basically translates to having no date at all. I know, I’m such a loser and everything. but i’m happy and contented of having the single status for now.

Duty Related:

This is already my 3rd day as a paid professional. I think I have already adjusted somehow unlike when it was my first day. It was just pure chaos.  I was assigned to the most toxic, most busy post of the day. And the depressing part was that everything I did back then seemed wrong >.< It literally came to the point where I had wished that I would just evaporate into thin air :wah:  And that’s not an exageration at all. It was really a mad day. Luckily, my superior understood and said that everything’s fine and that I would eventually get into the flow. She said that as long as it’s not life threathening then it’s fine. She even laughed at me for being so worried.

Percy Jackson:

Yay, I finally got to watch this movie. :smyl:  I was really looking forward to this since I first saw the trailer. All in all it was okay. I was never bored and it keeps my interest on a fairly high level.   The visual effects and graphics are good.

The only thing that made me irritated in the middle of the movie was the quality of the cinema’s sound system.    The sounds keep going on and off. One moment the sound were superb then the next moment it goes on mute.   It felt like were watching a silent movie. I know it’s not the movie’s fault, instead it was the SM cinema’s sound systems failure. It’s just really frustrating because it happened thrice.  >.<   I wish they will do something about that.

”  of my training days is fast approaching and accompanying that is the start of my paid working days. “

I know I should be happy and everything because finally my work days will be compensated for, but then I still have mixed feelings about it.

I will miss these happy/stress-less days where I could freely do what I want after my 8-hours duty.  I could still go to the mall,  do movie marathons, twitter all the time , read tons of books & e-books, surf the net till the wee hours of the morning, not to mention sleep longer than required . When my paid working days already start the shortest duty hour will be 8-hours but mostly I will be having a scheduled OT with a duty  of up to 12-hours .  8-hours duty is already very exhausting and as a MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST-slash-PHLEBOTOMIST we need to extract blood from all the wards of the hospital, and FYI the hospital contains about more than 50 wards and more than 1000 bed capacity. So to put it bluntly, it’s basically suicide.

I will also miss my training buddies. We’ve been together for almost 3 months now and I’m going to really miss the bonding moments we all had.

” PBB double UP is about to end . “

Of all the PBB season, Double Up is and will remain as my fave.  I’ve been converted and became a Melason Fan since november and I will really be sad when this season finally ends. I will surely miss all their kilig-slash-bugbugan-slash-kulitan moments  I really don’t care if there are many bashers out there who hates them and wanted to demolish their love team. As for me, I could see their sincerity and the love that they we’re showering each other with, not to mention the generosity and kindness of their hearts. I’m super gonna miss them both. But that’s life. All things must come to an end, even the good ones.

That’s it for now. I still have to do a lot of things before the day ends. So  for now.

Earlier, I was having a hard time putting up the smilies . Thank goodness I remembered having a plugins folder of my previous sites which I’ve sent to my email, so I was spared the hassle and the trouble of having to search for those plugins all over again. I’m a very minimalist person so I don’t need a lot of plugins and widgets, just those important ones. I’m more of a smily person though.

Yay, I could again from now on!!! I really don’t know how I coped up without one. It was just that I really don’t have the time to manage it before, with all the hospital duties and the studying part for the board exam that came afterwards. But now I’m free again. Slightly free, as I still have work, but I think it will be easier and more managable now compared before.

Anyway, before I forgot, I would like to again Sis Mina for hosting me. I will forever be grateful . Thank you also to Ate Jays for the very kawaii smilies and to Karen & Tiff for answering my queries about the domain.

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I still have to upload the plugins and everything though. I don’t have the time yet to finish all those things. Hopefully on Saturday. I really want a cute theme for this site and I plan to work on that later.

I would like to thank Sis Mina of  sassydoll.net for being so gracious to host me. Thanks so much sis!!

Right now I think I need to sleep. I still have a morning duty at the hospital tomorrow and I don’t want to be late once again.

Ciao.