Am I unlucky or unlucky?

Went back to work yesterday, almost fully healed. But guess what? I'm down with fever again. My last night's sleep is in the bursts of 6 minutes each since 2am until I woke up at 6 just now. Must be the effect of 240 mg pseudoephedrine HCl. Never had incidents of tachycardia and insomnia before.... sad....

If I would like to say what causes my fever, I think it's lack of sleep...

Fever continues

38.9 C..... Faster let me recover!

ZZZ...

Out of all times, why fever now???? Sianzz.......

Week updates!

17/5/2009 (Monday)

Started at Drug Information Service. I'm really not the kind of person to sit down and research about something.... Yawn like nobody's business.... FYI, the whole DIS is run by a single pharmacist... Super zai la! Can't imagine myself doing it lol.

18/5/2009 (Tuesday)

Had CPE in the morning, but was quite disappointed to see that only a few people adhere to the time.....Second day at DIS. Did an assignment on insulin glulisine (Apidra). Again, forgot to quote the sources... man how bad can I be at doing reports?

19/5/2009 (Wednesday)

A change of environment. Started lab. Spent the time before lunch reading SOPs and pack 100 bottles of resins. The afternoon is less eventful, as we went out to deliver drugs for R1 and R2. Ended up in CC as my preceptor wants to see me. Stayed at CC until like 7pm... Rushed down to Anchor Point to have dinner with Kai Lun and Andrew.

20/5/2009 (Thursday)

Had inpatient pharmacists case presentations today. Again, only a few kittens around when I enter the office at 8am... what to say? Followed the lab pharmacist for ward rounds today (she's part of the TPN team), which a gastroenterologist consultant joined us around 10am. Learnt a few things about TPN and how getting the right people to communicate with those people who refused to listen to you helps drive processes. Learnt how to gown up in order to enter the clean room (we did it outside though, I looked like a monkey in jumpsuit... wait till you see the pictures). Hopefully we'll be able to enter the clean room tomorrow. I prepared a spironolactone paediatric suspension today :) Compounding skills in use haha. The later afternoon was dreadful, as sodium benzoate is awefully difficult to weigh, as we need to keep the accuracy of +- 0.002g. Didn't managed to finish my portion before I went home. Gotta finish it tomorrow morning....

So far so good. But this week is a little less eventful. Coupled with the numerous meeting my preceptor needs to attend, my learning points are starting to flood my notebooks....

C8

Was at Cancer Center @ Level 8 today for the whole day. Look at how the staff perform aseptic manipulations using the isolator. So that you know, it's a negative pressure inside the isolator, so that in case the glass breaks/fumes leak etc. the cytotoxic fumes will not contaminate the operator :)

It's always tough learning about keying in data into a database for the first time, especially when the fields are interactive. Good that I'm not a total computer idiot, although I do have some reservations about keying in the wrong things into the wrong fields. Well, at least I din kill anyone with my entries.

The meeting this morning was super long...... Was having a bit of dypsnea along the way due to prolonged static posture... At least got free chicken essence to drink haha.

I think I'm quite fortunate to have Siew Woon as my preceptor. She's the kind that really sit down with you and discuss about things kind. She's very nice to talk with, as long as you don't anyhow. I felt much more motivated after talking to her before I knock off today. She's really the kind who can patiently teach and effectively motivate.

Time to get my basics in the science of pharmacy strong before jumping into the art of it. I think I've been wanting to fly too much, gotta train my wings first.

P.S. As fulfilling as it is, preceptorship really suck all the excess energy out of me. Super tiring! LOL