13/13.....

I still remembered the anxiety of doing my first call….The question I asked was, “Can I survived the shift ?”. Since then I had asked the question over and over again; The last time I did so was about 4 weeks ago when I saw the roster….

Working in ED, always complied to the rule of “come out to walk, one will have to pay back somedays…” ; A long break means a long shift. 

I had doubt that I could complete the 13 shifts(5D8N in 14 days....(not to mentioned that 5 of those is around the New Year where the patient amount is estimated at 160-200/day) when I saw the roster, but nothing can be shout, I asked for it..

Usually, I would be very tired on D3 of the night shift and most probably would be suffering from severe headache and dizziness during evening and hoping the shift would be over soon. However, after using the technique I learnt from the Chinese doctor in Sri Lanka, I was able to regain my vitality during this period....

Well, I am now doing the 13^th of the 13 shifts and still feeling refreshing…praise the great one…..

back from home...

Finally I am back to the desk..

The trip did not started smooth as we had to travel up to K city for Xian tooth removal, it had taken a good few hours and we had reached home by 10+….

It was a 4 hrs nap before I woke up and started the pre-flight check.

The sleep on the flight was not a smooth one and when I hopped into the Sylphy, I had doubt that I could complete the 300km drive. Even though with doubt, we had stopped over at the Empayer Siew Pao Town for the crab meal (cheap and big….trust me, for rm68 per kg, it worth every penny).

The drive after Malacca was more stressful as the highway had narrowed into 2 lane instead of 3. I dare not keep to the inner lane and from time to time, I need to overtake those truckers.

We finally arrived at Kulai at almost 11.

The stay in Kulai was a new experience as I had never have a good look around that area.

I proceeded to Avillion for a night stay and travel up north to Klang to visit my in law….

Price of food had risen sky high -> 1 Teh Ais, 2 Milo Ais[combo for our family] cost more than RM7 (>RM2 per pcs). A plate of whatever(fried Kuew Tew, Wantan Mee) cost RM4.5-RM5. Bao had gone up to RM1.5 per pcs….well, I am stunt by the price hike indeed….

Market is slow according to my bro in law who worked as a financial planner.

I need to admit that Malaysia is moving forward fast, the govt. has done a good job of introducing foreign fund and foreign worker.

The distance of going back home had become greater....

pre-flight anxiety

It was not a peaceful morning…I got up early as my stomach grumbled about the salty dried noodle I had last night. I managed to record down the detail of our passport before I left home. I did an early pass over and seen a hyperventilation young lady with chest pain before I started to logon to the CP website for check-in.

I had booked the cheapest ticket online thence I am not eligible for pre-flight seat selection; I had to wait until the online check-in to choose our seat. I had gone through this more than a dozen times and familiar with the routine. However each time is an agony as you don’t know if there is any suitable seat to choose from; traveling with kids mean you would need to sit together ( although both of them is old enough but yet it is uneasy to let them sit alone). I had a close one when there were only 8 seats left (luckily, there was still connected seat for me to choose from).

The check-in was the only thing which was smooth this morning and I was able to secure a row of connected seat for 4 of us.

There were lots of goodies about online check-in, no long queue at the check-in counter, late arrival at the airport, self selection of seat, but the process was actually stressful, lots of input to do(passport no., DOB etc)….

However the coolest part was to download the boarding pass onto our phone (saving a few trees…).