A month as a Houseman





It has been a beautiful ride of ups and downs for the past 1 month as a HO. Life has been different. The way you look at things changes. Above all, you miss your family.

1 piece of advice I would like to give to all future HOs is that choose a place near to your family, seeing them can comfort you up, reducing the stress. I don’t bring my stress back home even when I’m staying alone but it hits you sometimes. You ponder back on it and continuously thinking about that and you get sad for the stupid mistakes that you have done. Kene marah lagi. Stupid reasons je kot. Could have avoided it, but naaaaa. Let’s make more stupid mistakes la ah.

But by making these mistakes la I learn more. I decided to become over productive sikit recently, and through that, this week was a little extra draining. But, I did more. For others. For me.

What I love at my place is that my colleagues are awesome. New ones or old ones. Semua best. I’ve learnt that having peers support is what needed to survive as a HO. Trust me la ah, kalua kawan pun gampang, barai weyh…. Kawan jadi lawan nanti. Maintain the friendship and trust, help each other, lift each other up. Baru senang. Bila sorang kene marah, back that person up. Pat the shoulder and say, chill, jom buat lagi baik lepas ni. Ape yang penting? KERJESAMA!

Seen some of my friends in different hospitals, daily kene marah, kene maki hamun and all. Stress, don’t know what to do. Create new circle in the work place. Create positivity. Smile most of the time. Help each other, settle weyh. Offer your hand when you are free.

I got a case the other that day and needed transfusion of pack cells, cryo and also FFP. Nak order semua dah tahu, nak ambik pun tau. Nak bagi pun boleh. But then, patient developed allergy towards the FFP. Nak buat apa?? I know nothing about it!! I was alone attending that patient since beginning and decided to manage the patient until the end but then THIS??? I know shit! Mujur ade seniors and other colleagues that help. The prepared some stuffs, instructed me to do some of it, stopped the transfusion and gave Hydrocortisone and Piriton and patient started to settle down back.

Trust me, when you see it, run to do it ni la you will know what to do. Without that, memang tak boleh survive weyh. Do the stuffs. When someone else is doing something new, go see and learn. Learn from peers. Learn from the nurses. Learn from everyone because brother, you are the lowest hierarchy of them all. No point la nak berlagak weyh. Nurses tau lagi banyak tau. It’s just that they are not authorised to do certain things. You tolong them, they will tolong you tau. Siap bagi makan lagi at night.

Find motivation. I’m close with my juniors, they take me as my brother back in my university life. They told me that, I can do it one la. For sure laaa. Mesti boleh. Malvin kot. You Malvin laaa. I’ve no idea on what they mean but that actually motivates me to do better. I just have to strive harder to live up to the name. I don’t know what am I in their eyes, but I have to live up to my own expectations. I’ll fall 100000x time, but I’ll definitely get up an extra time. NO! My job isn’t over yet.

1 month done! Let’s be the best after this.

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