Oh?! It's already July!

Time flies, eh?

A lot of things happened though.

Let's go by monthly update(s) since my last post was in May.

June:

Nothing special happened actually. I only found out that I was assigned to Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Unit in MOT. That was pretty surprising (shocking, I'd rather say) because never did I imagine I would land in there. What to do? It's all settled. I heard that my preceptor is good but I just hope that she is patient with me though. Not so much of expectations since they know that I'm going off to study Uni. Oh yeah! Our DN HAS APPROVED OUR STUDIES AND NPL! What I'm now worried about is that I am not going to have any money coming in during my 2 years of study. How to survive? *sigh* My mum has been nagging to me that I will be broke during that 2 years, bla bla bla. What can I do? I cannot do part time. :(

July:

Everything has been fine so far. Till 7 July.. look what happened to my leg..

I kinda slipped and twisted my ankle while working. I was walking so fast that I didn't notice the water mark on the floor. WHO ON EARTH WOULD LOOK OUT FOR WATER MARKS? Then there goes my ankle. The healthcare assistant who was mopping the floor denied that it was her fault because she even claimed that I walked into the disposal room when I didn't. My NC was very nice because she literally squatted down to put ice on my ankle to reduce the swelling. I was sent to A&E straight away after someone borrowed a wheelchair from there. I waited for quite long and in the end I only saw the doctor at around 5pm.

What the doctor told me is that it might be a fracture so he had to put a backslab on my leg to immobilize it because seeing the specialist in a week's time which is 15 July. I needed wheelchair/ crutches to bring me to places and the times were so terrible that I would never forget. I'm now improving in my walking though, as I no longer need crutches to support me. At most it's only 1 sided when I can still use my left ankle to support some weight. Good improvement, I would say. The bruise on my ankle is still there but it has become smaller. I was supposed to report to work on 16 July but the doctor said I couldn't because my ankle is still swollen and at that time I couldn't walk still so he extended my MC till 22 July when I will have another appointment and X-ray to confirm that it's just a sprain but not fracture.

Let's hope that I can recover soon enough for me to go back to work. If not I might not even see my full pay this month. What I heard from the others is that the hospital may cut my pay because I took MC and HL before I was confirmed a staff of the hospital.

I took 9 days worth of MC and 8 days worth of HL in total! If what they said were real, I can't even imagine what my salary would be like.... :O

Anyway because of this, I missed the Jurong Lake Run. It was depressing to see my friend join but I couldn't be there..... :'(