Summary of the First

Profession
I got a fun, challenging, nerve-wrecking, sweat-provoking, daily butterflies in the stomach, random adrenaline release, kind of job.

Now I got to find a hospital that would accept my hunger for those kinds of feelings.
And of course a minimum wage is lovely.

Nursing Skills

I have almost used a penrose drain for tourniquet. I've inhaled streptococcous pneumoniae from not wearing a mask the first time I engaged into suctioning. I overdosed a patient with a 1.2g antibiotic instead of infusing 600g. I almost administered a wrong oral medication.

After those things I told myself, "Oh fucking shit, damn myself" 

From then on I use personal protective equipment properly, prepare drugs by myself, reread medication card x3. 

Skills gone positive. 

Urine

Post-op patients require Q1 input and output, Q2 vital signs. Pee is vital. It's like the 6th vital sign.

1. Temperature

2. Blood Pressure

3. Heart Rate

4. Respiratory Rate

5. Pain

6. Pee

Deal with it.

Accept it.

They need that milliliters of pee per hour. 

Without fail.  

IV Insertions

I know how it's done. I am licensed. 

One of the greatest challenges that makes me diaphoretic in an instant is not a deep vein, rather a statement that goes...

"...one shot lang ha"

And a stare through your eyes

And into your soul. 

Italicized para intense. 

Relatives > Patients

The greater than sign sums it up. 

You know why? Because patients are weak people. They want to rest, so they sleep. Relatives are panicky. They want to know, are they still on earth? I pour in all my understanding and put on my precious smile. 

Sometimes it just don't work and all you get is a voice box turned to full volume. 

It doesn't damage the eardrums, it damages the heart and fucks up the mind. 

Seriously. 

You got to deal with those kinds of creatures. 

However it's not always that kind of scenario. There are ones who are in their right state of mind. I'm thankful for them. 

At the end of the day we'll just remember who we are.
And because we are what we are, we extend our patience, have an open mind, understand what had happened and put it behind.

It's just a flow of emotion.
And something that flows doesn't return.

Like a river.
Yeah...

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My first experience was a space shuttle ride and an extreme ride (i.e. the rides in Enchanted Kingdom). 

It's horrifying.

Once you're looking at it, it is scary. Once you are riding it, it is scarier. Once it's moving or in its free fall, all you can do is to hang on. Because you chose to ride! And at the end of that ride, you feel satisfied. 

"I DID IT!" 

That one hell of a ride. 

Ayun.

SHET WALA NA ULIT AKONG TRABAHO. hahahahaha. watdapaks.