Back from 2nd Clinical Posting

Finally back home after completing my clinical posting in Malacca GH...

This is our beloved Hospital Melaka

During these 1 month, i've learn many many thgs and seen many many different types of condition which happened in real life...
It has been a wonderful experience working with all the staffs and students from other colleges in the physio dept there...
They are all very friendly and kind to us throughout our posting there....
We have a lot of fun working together and playing with the patients there...
The patients in the hosp are all willing to share and friendly....
Whatever we ask, they'll explain to us...


In Malacca, we've seen many people suffering from Osteoarthritis(OA) knee...so most of the patients who come will landed up in gym as all the treatment is done in gym...
There are also many trigger finger and carpal tunnel syndrome cases...
Mostly affected teachers many due to prolong writing on the whiteboard...hehe...
In the wards we can see many MVA cases in Malacca....mostly involving motorcyclist and car drivers...but the person who injured the most will be the motorcyclist...
There are many young teenagers who are involve in these accident...
It is sad to see young children being knock down from the bike and fracture their leg...
Now they are in the hosp with either external fixator, on POP or etc....

This is eg of an external fixator on a fracture tibia/fibula

We kinda miss the dept staffs and also the patients there...really have a great time there altho we did not have a good start...as days passed, we kinda enjoy ourselves with the patients and also people working in the dept...

If there's any chance, i dun mind going back to this hosp for clinical placement...opss..hehehe....

3 assignments!!!

OH MY GOD!!!
i ony have 3 weeks left til my assignment due date....
and now i hvn even started any of it....
each assignment i ony touch a bit here n thr....
not really complete....
now havin posting...come back frm hosp aso tired ady....
do the assignment aso not wif full concentration....
how??

Day 18 in Malacca GH posting

Date : 2/04/2009
Venue : Malacca GH

Today one of our lecturer came down Malacca to see how all of us in Malacca is doing....
Mr Muthu went to each hosp whr we were place to visit us n c how are we doin thr....
We never got the chance to talk to him much as he was rushing to other hosps whr my other coursemates are thr...

It has been a great experience here as i've seen many WEIRD patients in this hosp...
Thr was a young lady...how do i describe her?? hmmm...as wat her carer says she has low IQ...so she catch thgs slower than others...
So here's d catch....we've to ask here some Qs as we nid to do assessment on her...
It looks lik it is a great challenge to communicate wif this patient....
watever we tell her she seems to stare at us ony...we gotta do some sign language, repeat a few time and do it again n again for her to c for her to finally understand wat we are trying to explain/tell her...haiz....great challenge to communicate tis way...haha...

A szisophrenia pt has walk into the dept....
Every1 to her is suspicious...she's scare n low self confident....she kept looking down on the flr as she walk as if many tiny creatures on the flr n she dint wanna crush dem...
She also has a very weird gait pattern...sumthg lik shuffling gait but it is not...dunno wat is it called...
When ever u tok to her, she dun ans u neither look at u....
Ony 1 physio thr can communicate wif her....

Thr's another pt...a 70+ pt who fell frm the roof of his hse...
wondering what he was doing on the roof??
Well, he was repairing his tank on the roof and he slip and fell...
He was admitted into XXX hosp as he has fracture his patella...
Now he is suffering frm many sickness...imagine juz a patella fracture and now havin so many probs...lungs, liver, kidney, diabetes, HPT...haiz...wat a pity....
He juz came out frm d ward recently as he suffer frm many complication after the patella fracture surgery...
Imagine a healthy old man now havin so many probs wif his health....it will be a diff thg for him to accept...he use to do tai chi every morn, a person who has no sickness altho he's already 70+..
but now....
He's legs are very weak...he's unable to stand up frm sitting to standing..he usually nid help on tat...but he is very motivated when he manage to sit to stand independently after our physio tot him the actual technique to perform the task...now he's looking forward to walk independently...haha...wat a great achievement for this uncle....

Thr are many more motivating stories saw in the physiotherapy dept of this hosp itself...
Shall cont the story later....

2nd day of Clinical Posting

Date : 17/03/09
Venue : Hospital Melaka

Things are getting better today....the person who is in charge of us is back...
In d morn, she brought us to d HR dept of the hosp to register ourselves n get our ID card....
She even introduced us to the HR people...hehe...

Today, i get to assess a patients pain scale..all by my own...tatz an improvement...at least i got to part of the whole assessment...its juz 2nd day....so muz take thgs slowly...

I will be in the gym for this week...there are many diff cases in gym...its kinda fun and exciting....
Today, i've help out in treating patients...help out with hotpack, cryo, walking etc....
Have the feel for it tis time...unlike the 1st posting whr we can only observe...

Well, tatz all for today..hope tml thr we'll move a bigger step forward...

First day of my 2nd clinical posting

Date : 16/03/09
Venue : Hospital Melaka

Today is the first day of our actual clinical posting ( as the first posting in Sem 1 was juz observation) in Hospital Melaka...The physiotherapists there are all very nice and friendly...unlike the 1st posting i went..opss...hehe...they welcome us warmly...BUT......

Today v are named "Ms Dunno or Ms No"...Every Q we've been asked will ony be "no" or "dunno"...haiz...

The HOD there are not very happy wif us bcos she dint really wanna accept our attendance as she has many students from other colleges are attached to this hosp aso...They are in the last sem or second yr ady...so dey are much more knowledgable compare to us as we are juz in yr 1 sem 2 ony...

It's a boring day cos v r here to observe again...the HOD said we dun hve enuf knowledge to touch the patient...
Another observation day again...lik our 1st posting...haiz...

Hope tml we b a better day as the person who in charge of us will be back...

Assignments n Books

Oh my god!!!
Muz stop all the holiday mood n back to whr v r suppose to be....
No more CNY mood n start to take thgs seriously...
Assignments are now lining up and piling in front of me...muz start working ady....
These are the few important assignments which are counted in our exam...
So muz do well & no mistakes....

As for books....hmmm...
Let's welcome back my dear anatomy and physiology and also my therapeutic skills reference books...
These r my beloved frm now on...
gotta love n understand dem....
I cannot leave dem behind and abondan dem...hehehe...
Well, CR exam is coming soon...
Muz start working and not left behind...

Gud Luck & Gambate every1...
We can do it!!!hehehe....

Weird egg!!!

Do u noe y this egg is weird??

Surprisingly this egg has 2 yolk in it...

This afternoon as my mum was preparing for lunch, she broke this egg...

It came out, there is 2 yolk in it....this chicken muz b havin a pair of 'Siamese twins'...

hehe...

It is not often tat we can get an egg wif 2 yolk in it...

Muz b a lucky day ahead...hehehe...