It is always a pleasure for paediatricians to write "Home" in the case notes of the patients. There are two meanings. With this definite sign of discharge, the first one is of course the in-patient workload will decrease and everyone, including the nurses and the doctors, will be happy if they have less to do.
The second one is of course the kids can go home without hospitalizations, and they can enjoy lives with their families. The kids can sleep one their own bed in the end. It is hoped by doctors that the kids are not often seen, because they are healthy.
However, the luck is not meant to have for everyone. Some of them are really so sick that they cannot live without hospital care. Like Xara, she had been here since I attached to the department. Her epilepsy was so problematic that if we loose our care she might have severe seizure somehow in the streets.
I know she is still optimistic. Though she could not go outside to enjoy the holiday, many friends of her have come to the ward to visit her. She was never alone.
Also does Ho jai. He still needed to stay for a long time because he needed to grow better to be operated for his throat problem. However, we knew that he will one day complete his surgery and go home. Also, his mother provided all she could to take care of Ho jai. We know he will be cured someday.
When the ward was filled with joy. I just noticed there was nothing absent. Something I never expect to see happen.
Our happy princess cried tonight.
28 Dec 2011
27 Dec 2011
Cosmetics
It was quite rare that you can find patients that are older than you in the Paediatrics module. Nevertheless, I have met a few patients who still need to attend to paediatricians despite being adults.
The difference is immense. You can't easily talk to kids to pick up their history. However, as an adult, they are more descriptive when they mention their symptoms and their long long medical history (that's why they STILL need to be seen by paediatricians!)
She is a thalassemic patient who has been transfused with blood regularly since she was born. Our medical system is good in that we try to provide useful therapy to patients. Sometimes, however, she still suffered from anemic symptoms that she was not able to work normally.
"What would you do if you felt that you don't have enough blood?" I asked her. I was never able to ask this kind of question throughout this module until that time.
"I would put on more make-ups so my face would appear red!" She answered me directly. In my mind, there was only those anemic symptoms like "SOB, palpitation...." and I just wanted to know how she would do when she was working.
That time I realized that she was on cosmetics when we talked.
Medicine is about life, isn't it? She is already a grown-up and she needed to appear attractive. Being pale surely was not what she wanted. Sigh! It is such a simple thing that I do not understand.
The difference is immense. You can't easily talk to kids to pick up their history. However, as an adult, they are more descriptive when they mention their symptoms and their long long medical history (that's why they STILL need to be seen by paediatricians!)
She is a thalassemic patient who has been transfused with blood regularly since she was born. Our medical system is good in that we try to provide useful therapy to patients. Sometimes, however, she still suffered from anemic symptoms that she was not able to work normally.
"What would you do if you felt that you don't have enough blood?" I asked her. I was never able to ask this kind of question throughout this module until that time.
"I would put on more make-ups so my face would appear red!" She answered me directly. In my mind, there was only those anemic symptoms like "SOB, palpitation...." and I just wanted to know how she would do when she was working.
That time I realized that she was on cosmetics when we talked.
Medicine is about life, isn't it? She is already a grown-up and she needed to appear attractive. Being pale surely was not what she wanted. Sigh! It is such a simple thing that I do not understand.
23 Dec 2011
Gift
Christmas is near. What do you want? Let's ask Mr. Santa Claus.
We all like him. We all like the red-clothing old man with a big brown bag who would climb into our house and put the presents into the big sock. If he comes to our town, he will bring us hopes and gifts and he never let us down, even though he never comes to this town.
I never expect he will come, but this year, I really look forward to his gifts for our kids in paediatric wards. Mr. Claus will bring them many good medicines to heal our pretty children. He will play some music for our Down's syndrome patients, for he knows they love music very much. He will get some new cloths for them so they have something new to wear. He will stay with them so that they won't be alone in the night, no matter he just stay for a while.
I beg our Mr. Santa Claus to visit the abandoned children. Will he come to UCH to visit Ocean? He never see his parents since he was born. It was not because Ocean was blind that he could not see, but because his parents were cruel enough to leave him just after the delivery. Ocean could not move probably because he had cerebral palsy, but I know that if he could move, he would go to find his parents.
Will he come to PWH to visit our happy princess Yi-man? She might be a bit irritable during feeding because of her illness, but everyone in this world should love to see her smiling face. How come her parents give up their precious Yi-man? What wrong had she done to deserve just a fate?
Ocean and Yi-man, you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, I'm telling you why: Santa Claus is coming to town, carrying your parents for you in the day where He was born.
22 Dec 2011
Wham!
When this name came out, you probably know what I will talk about.
It is Last Christmas.
This song has been known since 1984. Almost 30 years later, it is still THE song that you can hear in every corner in the city. It makes sense, because there are still many souls waiting for healing. And Pop songs are the best palliative treatments.
Although I know this song for a long time, it has never been so striking to me until this year. Do you know what this song is talking about? It is all in the chorus.
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
It is a mixture of bitterness and happiness. The past was bitter that the heart was thrown away, not being taken a bit of care. However, the singer is still optimistic that in the future, he will find someone to give his heart to. There is a dependence to the future, which is all we need. If we don't ever have this, we will not just be able to have someone to write this song for us, we have nothing to rely on, for the present is so harsh and intolerable.
We still need to dream of something good in the future.
It is Last Christmas.
This song has been known since 1984. Almost 30 years later, it is still THE song that you can hear in every corner in the city. It makes sense, because there are still many souls waiting for healing. And Pop songs are the best palliative treatments.
Although I know this song for a long time, it has never been so striking to me until this year. Do you know what this song is talking about? It is all in the chorus.
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special
It is a mixture of bitterness and happiness. The past was bitter that the heart was thrown away, not being taken a bit of care. However, the singer is still optimistic that in the future, he will find someone to give his heart to. There is a dependence to the future, which is all we need. If we don't ever have this, we will not just be able to have someone to write this song for us, we have nothing to rely on, for the present is so harsh and intolerable.
We still need to dream of something good in the future.
Voice
Last night I was supposed to sing in the Christmas Party, but eventually I decided to withdraw myself from the list of performance.
The cause was very obvious: I lost my voice this week. The weather was changing and it became drier and drier these days. My throat could not handle the change and became very sensitive to cold air. I was forced to make some dry cough these days.
My throat, as a result, was inflamed. My voice was damaged. In that morning, I realized that my voice was cracked. Without a good voice, how possibly I can sing?
But to me, it is not the cause.
It was because I had no one to sing to. The person I waited for did not come. Probably the one was having fun somewhere in this planet. But hardly the one will think of me. I already knew it. It was not I that was without a voice to sing, it was the one who was without a heart to hear.
If I appeared to be optimistic, I could still think of singing it again. But probably, there was no such chance. I will not have a wonderful tonight.
Throughout the night, all in my mind was a line which was full of wit:
閉起雙眼你最掛念誰 眼睛張開身邊竟是誰
The cause was very obvious: I lost my voice this week. The weather was changing and it became drier and drier these days. My throat could not handle the change and became very sensitive to cold air. I was forced to make some dry cough these days.
My throat, as a result, was inflamed. My voice was damaged. In that morning, I realized that my voice was cracked. Without a good voice, how possibly I can sing?
But to me, it is not the cause.
It was because I had no one to sing to. The person I waited for did not come. Probably the one was having fun somewhere in this planet. But hardly the one will think of me. I already knew it. It was not I that was without a voice to sing, it was the one who was without a heart to hear.
If I appeared to be optimistic, I could still think of singing it again. But probably, there was no such chance. I will not have a wonderful tonight.
Throughout the night, all in my mind was a line which was full of wit:
閉起雙眼你最掛念誰 眼睛張開身邊竟是誰
16 Dec 2011
Clone II
The aim of attending public exams are surely score high. What you need to score high in these exams are usually not depend on how work hard you study, but how many tutorial classes you attended. These tutorial classes will have model answers for you a month before the exams. They said these were tips.
Anyhow, many students attended the same star tutors in those famous tutorial school. And they will choose similar programmes (like Business, Medicine, Law...etc). Many be they are really interested in these subjects. May be. Our educational systems train people to specialize in certain aspects in high school. Interestingly, nobody will choose programmes without prospect.
And then the story goes on. When they graduate, they pick up those stereotypical jobs for a ten few thousands. They work so hard for they have to save up money to buy flats from our tycoons in Hong Kong. They work so hard so they may have a chance to have baby in mid-30s.
Their kids will go to the same cycle again.
I am now considering making up these images for one music video. I am sure that New Born by Muse will be very useful.
Anyhow, many students attended the same star tutors in those famous tutorial school. And they will choose similar programmes (like Business, Medicine, Law...etc). Many be they are really interested in these subjects. May be. Our educational systems train people to specialize in certain aspects in high school. Interestingly, nobody will choose programmes without prospect.
And then the story goes on. When they graduate, they pick up those stereotypical jobs for a ten few thousands. They work so hard for they have to save up money to buy flats from our tycoons in Hong Kong. They work so hard so they may have a chance to have baby in mid-30s.
Their kids will go to the same cycle again.
I am now considering making up these images for one music video. I am sure that New Born by Muse will be very useful.
11 Dec 2011
Clone I
The city is dying, you know?
Perhaps this statement struck the chord of many people in Hong Kong recently. It was no doubt. Rarely, we can see something this stunning that appeared in that broadcast company. We just wanted feeling good when we watched television. We did not want any critics and truth.
Our population is diverse in that there are families which can only earn a few thousands to live every month, and there are families which can earn a few thousand millions every month for lives. Their living styles are completely different.
However, they demand for just the same goal. As our richest person pointed out again and again, he loved to earn money. Everyone love to earn money. But what for? We don't know.
In a bid to get the money, there is a formula for everyone in Hong Kong once they were born. When we left the hospital, we started to have the best formula milk which claimed themselves to promote the intelligence. Later, we will partake in thousands of tutorial classes for Languages, Mathematics, Drawing, Music. These such of classes were called interest classes which served for the interested parents, but the unhappy kids.
Later we were forced to go to some kindergartens with good name. The cause of having a good name was not necessarily because the kids were happy there, but because they could train the kids to interview better for primary schools with good names.
Of course, the cause of having a good name was again, not necessarily the kids were happy and built up some good moments. (to be continued)
Perhaps this statement struck the chord of many people in Hong Kong recently. It was no doubt. Rarely, we can see something this stunning that appeared in that broadcast company. We just wanted feeling good when we watched television. We did not want any critics and truth.
Our population is diverse in that there are families which can only earn a few thousands to live every month, and there are families which can earn a few thousand millions every month for lives. Their living styles are completely different.
However, they demand for just the same goal. As our richest person pointed out again and again, he loved to earn money. Everyone love to earn money. But what for? We don't know.
In a bid to get the money, there is a formula for everyone in Hong Kong once they were born. When we left the hospital, we started to have the best formula milk which claimed themselves to promote the intelligence. Later, we will partake in thousands of tutorial classes for Languages, Mathematics, Drawing, Music. These such of classes were called interest classes which served for the interested parents, but the unhappy kids.
Later we were forced to go to some kindergartens with good name. The cause of having a good name was not necessarily because the kids were happy there, but because they could train the kids to interview better for primary schools with good names.
Of course, the cause of having a good name was again, not necessarily the kids were happy and built up some good moments. (to be continued)
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