High

Yes I was high on 7th April 2008 cause I was reading sources on Multiple Sclerosis for the past few days and I managed to complete the whole 3000+ (4000+ if u count the words in the tables) essay in 1 n half day (more like half day of a Saturday and whole night of a Sunday).

And this is not where it ends..we still had to prepare for a PSD on Monday and I had to compile the slides for the e-PBL as I was the leader and I still have not started my Toxico presentation yet as of Monday which is the day that we have to hand in the presentation to AAD.So I had to stay up the whole night to finish my CTT and I managed to do it after a strong cup of coffee (which I did know but chose to ignore in the name of CTT that will make me suffer so much later in the evening..think headache and dehydration and feeling like crap).

I only started preparing for Monday's PSD on Monday morning itself. Luckily our patient was late so we did not need to do counselling for antidiabetics which was a good thing cause I just made marks in the BNF to refer to..And luckily I read up a bit on how to use the MDI and Turbohaler (but this Turbohaler is funny..it can twist both sides so I was a bit unsure of the counselling) and the patient I tell you...such a pain in the a**.

He kept asking what if he missed a dose and what if he cannot take it on time cause he's so busy..and I can fairly conclude that half of the time he does not listen to me, seriously..Then when I actually asked him what his problem was that caused him difficulties in taking his doses, he just evaded my questions..twice in a row and he just waved it off..obviously he did not see this coming from me (I was happy that I threw him off guard for once haha). And then when he asked if he takes his dose like in the morning then can he take in the afternoon I answered better if there was a longer period but there is no time limit to when you take the corticosteroid doses..I don't know what I was talking about at this time and he kept repeating the question but it did not go into my no-sleep-the-whole-of-previous-night-plus-still-high-on-caffeine-brain and I was getting irritated so I just stared at him until he finished explaining his question and I went "Sorry?Huh?What?" kind of loudly..and I looked up at the lecturer-in-charge (or outside pharmacist) and my session ended..phew..haha

I was fortunate I got the inhaler one cause I was totally unprepared for the other meds. I'm kind of happy for myself that I can actually counsel better on the use of MDI and corticosteroid inhaler use (Turbohaler) than I did last time on this inhaler thing.

And there was another funny part where Amanda counseled on the alendronate use,sorry I had to say this here ;) This is just a brief summary which may not be precise.

Amanda: After you take this medication, you have to stand or walk around for at least 30 mins.
Patient: What??Stand for 30 mins??
A: Yes, so that you will not get heartburn.
Lecturer-in-charge: You can actually sit for at least 30 mins after taking the med.
P: Can sit one ar?!Then why you ask me to stand for 30 mins when I can just sit and read my paper?!Why I want to walk around/stand for 30 mins like soh chai only!

Hahaha the way he said it was really ridiculous. But in the end you get the 1 mark by just showing up for this thing. I was like "What la..". Then I had to rush for the Toxico slides after that and this time I have to thank VengFoon for doing part of my slides even though he haven't finished his CTT yet at that time. Finally I finished everything by Monday and was free for the rest of the week except for the other 2 presentations. Who said Sem 6 have free time?? Whack that person I tell you..