cutiewitch's own: September 2005

If somebody asks you what you thought about something, and you just happened to feel strongly about it, what would you do? If you really believe that the information is vital for the awareness of people, will you hold off because you may be branded as posting advertisement?

I have been joining forums eversince I got hooked to the internet. I love how POV's are shared and respected. But this is the first time I got such a very cold welcome. I admit I got carried away. I shared with all my might because it was about something close to my heart.

Say for example, there was a forum on facial care and I just love Philisophy so much I would rant and rave about it until my fingers can't type anymore, will that be considered as advertisement, or just a testimonial to how I really love the product? I wonder if I could change some words and it would be seen differently....I wonder if I did not say I was part of it, it would have been seen in a different way...I wonder if I had 1000 posts to my name, then would it have been considered as a "real deal" testimonial?

Great!

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On a different note.......comps exam is coming soon!!!!!! Gosh, can't believe it, this is really happening! We're all apprehensive about it. Personally, I want to ace the comps so that I would not need to do a defense anymore. I'm not really very fond of being in front of a panel. Only 3 months to go and we all will be graduating, actually less than 3 months. Imagine that!
Today I went with a patient to cath lab, it's my first time to witness the procedure. Soooooo cool! I'm already thinking about cross-training to cathlab in the future. Well, let me get past my Tele orientation first..........*wide smile*

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Yet another different note.......MiG Ayesa, the Australia-based Filipino is one of the three finalists for the reality tv show "Rockstar: INXS". Last Wednesday was the very first time ever that he was on the bottom 3 and got to sing an INXS song for the elimination. He was great. And that camel leather pants? My goodness! I think maybe he shares his wife's clothes, they're all too sexy! Well, if he can get away with it, that's not too bad, right???? Tuesday's definitely a stay at home day , that's D-day! I'll be happy if either MiG or Marty wins. JD???? not while I can still remember how he murdered "We are the Champions"!

Starting over

I passed my BCD!!!!! Grabe na ito!!!!!

Let me explain.....As I've said on my previous post, I've never really liked cardiac....more so trying to figure out the lines, curves and spikes of an ECG strip. Since I moved to the Telemetry floor, there's no way in the world that I can get away without having that competency. I was scared, I wasn't sure I'll figure it out. But really, once I started, I found myself enjoying it! So there, I surprised myself yet again.....

Moving on.....since I came from the Ortho floor, I can only bring about less that 10% of my Ortho competency to my new unit. Thus this conversation with my educator

Educator (E): Did you do the riverwalk when you started in ortho?
Mikee (M): I did not have an educator.
E: Rolls his eyes

E: Do you hve any experience in chest tubes?
M: Not here, maybe once in the Philippines (I forgot to mention that this "once" was during my student days pa!!!!!)

E: Do you know how to listen to heart sounds?
M: Impakta 'to a, ano palagay mo sakin?????
E: Do you know how to differentiate murmurs from ______ and_____?
M: hehehe....NO! (in theory po).

E: Did you do the diabetes competency?
M: I know I'm competent.
E: But did you have your competency checked off?
M: Wala nga akong educator nun e. Sariling sikap lang po.
M: Nope!

E: Lead placement?
M: LAst time I did it was about 8-9 years ago.
E: So, no?
M: Ganun na nga.

E: PAcemaker?
M: No

And a litany of more No's.

Sa madaling salita....wala akong alam!!!!!!!!