work has been relatively manageable up until monday this week... and then for some unknown reason, on monday evening after I came home, my period started heavy flowing, with clotting like every 10mins, and every time I sit or stand it gushes out... it was really stressful actually... so the whole night, I barely slept, and so I decided to take a sick day off on tuesday, which was probably wise, cos it was still going in the morning, and I could only see the GP at 1045am... so I waited and worked on my application for the senior rehab job for 3 months... and then once I got to the GP, I waited for approx an hour before I could see the GP, and was told that I should probably check myself into Emergency at Hornsby Hospital... which was not at all what I expected... I thought I would just go get an ultrasound and then take some medication... so anyway, walked to the bus terminal to catch a bus to hornsby hospital... and got to Emergency at approx 1200, presented the referral, and was told to wait for a triage nurse to see me... and I was seen at approx 1215, the nurse asked some questions and then brought me into the emergency ward, where I was assigned bed number 14, told to put on the hospital gown and wristband... which meant that I had to use the bathroom and there was no place to put my stuff, and of course, knowing what goes on probably in those bathrooms, I really did not want to put my stuff on the shower chair... so anyway, changed into the hospital gown, and laid/sat there to wait for the doctor, who saw me in approx 30mins, took some blood, stuck a cannular in my right arm, they wanted a urine sample, but for some reason, I could not pass any urine at all, and then they just placed the urine sample bottle on the table, gross especially knowing what goes on in the process of collecting the urine... yuck...
and then after that, was more waiting for my ultrasound at 1515... tried sleeping but could not becos of the lights, the noise, people walking around, and everyone seeing what you are doing... so about 1500, I was told that I could be moved to the short stay ward, and I had to go in a w/c, hospital policy... and then 1515 came and went, nobody came and got me for the ultrasound, until approx 1600, and I was busting to pee, cos I had to drink 1.2L of water... finally had the ultrasound, and it was alittle bit uncomfortable, besides having someone pressing on my full bladder, it was also a male sonographer... and then was wheeled back to the ward, where more waiting happened... and then finally at approx 1730, the gynaecologist came and told me everything was clear with the ultrasound except for the cyst which I know abt, other than that, everything looks fine, except my BP was pretty high... and for me to follow up in the outpt gynae clinic... and so I was d/c at 1800, and then I took a bus back home... and of course, once I was in hospital, the clotting stopped... no choice, but to let both elinor and karen know what happened... told mum as well, but did not tell auntie and nainai...
and I got the doctor to write me an MC for 2 days, but I felt alittle guilty, so decided to go back to work today, which was probably a wise decision, becos when I got to work, people were actually glad to see me, hopefully in a good way, and was told that frances and rachel were quite stressed yesterday becos of some miscommunication in between the registrars, and so we were not aware of the new referrals... and so all the new referrals came at the same time and some were pretty heavy apparently... and so this am, karen was like rachel came and saw here before 0800 asking if I was coming back to work today... and then I sent a text page to both frances and rachel, and rachel rang and she sounded quite stressed and teary on the phone... and so I was wondering what happened, my first thought was patient-related, but when I got up on the ward... turns out she was just stressed by all the new referrals and not being able to see all of them... which was fair enough, cos one patient in particular was quite heavy... so needless to say, things were quite tense in rehab today, cos I walked into the case conference room today and everyone was there, and the atmosphere felt really tense...
so anyway, rang the gynae clinic and was told that the earliest appt is on 20 march thursday am, and karen was not that happy cos I have an ADO on friday, so she suggested either I go back to work in the pm which is stupid, or I reschedule my ADO, like duh... it's a no-brainer... and there is currently a bet going on that Kara is pregnant... which would be interesting when she actually goes on maternity leave... oh and with the temp senior inpt rehab position coming up, there was also some tension in the office on monday, cos apparently Deb offered to help out in rehab, but Jamila asked me to, but of course, I won't be able to now cos of the influx of new referrals, but don't think Deb was too happy abt this... so El was telling me that there will be a few interested candidates for the position, namely Deb, Alex, Andrew and possibly Deanna... hmmm... we'll see...
