Assalamu Alaykum! (Peace be upon
you all!)
We are back in the colourful world
of Pediatrics after a week of break with the second half of Pharmacology
module. After the nerve-racking exam last Friday, it was indeed a welcoming relief
to see the colourful walls in the OPD Pediatrics with all those Disney characters
all around. And of course, the cheerful smiles of our angelic patients never
fail to keep our days brighter as well.
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The colorful walls in the OPD-Pediatrics
There are more better photos of Disney Princess somewhere. |
Case Conferences and Higher learning!
This week we had two case conferences,
a lecture on complementary feeding (where our professor gave us chocolates!
Yeay!) and lots and lots of Out-Patient exposure! Our rotation of 12-hour duties
in the Pediatric Emergency Department (Pedia ER) are also being wrapped up for
this last two weeks of our training in this department. This Friday my group
will have our second and last 12-hour duty :) Pretty looking forward to it and
learn more things, in sha Allah (I might publish a post about “what to prepare
for ER Duty”)
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Free chocolates during the lecture on Complementary Feeding!
Hooray! (we have to stay awake in return though ahaha)
We talked about Malnutrition while feeding ourselves with these. |
This week I also learned more
about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Cerebral Palsy, and a bit about how to
classify the severity of malnutrition of a child and on computing their Caloric
Requirements as well. It was also great to see one of our very first “Mother-Doctor”
in the college. Dr. Moral was the one who handled our “hand-group” during our
first year in proper medicine wherein we talked about the wonderful art of
Medicine and about our dreams and careers as well.
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The Forever-mates with Dr. Moral
Photo grabbed from Karl :) |
Autism Awareness Week!
Every last week of January, the
Autism Awareness Week is being held nationally. Just recently I read about something like a “March of
Angels” held somewhere in the metro in support of this awesome advocacy. You see, the cases of ASD
(Autism) are increasing in number these days, and the wrong perception of most
of us is that Autism is already a “dead end". That it’s the end of life of
the kid with Autism. This is ultimately wrong. There may be no cure to Autism
yet, but it is not a lethal, “death-sentence” per say. The child with autism
can still live long and happy, provided appropriate supports are given and
his/her problems are addressed.
In line with this as well, the
Department of Pediatrics held a Bazaar and Autism Exhibit. There were booths
wherein accessories, toys, bag-tags, bags, and even cookies that were PERSONALLY
HAND-CRAFTED/CREATED by children with Autism were being sold. Some of their
paintings were also put in display (and boy, some of them can paint way better
than me! Haha)
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The Paintings by kids with autism are in the background.
We were just looking at this map (not made by the children LOL) haha. |
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| Pose pose! (bought some awesome tasting cookies!) |
A new Halal Place!
Alhamdulillah! We also discovered
a new Halal restaurant near our school. It’s some 5-10 minute walk from PGH. I
brought my friends there earlier today and they oh so loved the foods! Haha! They
sell authentic Halal cuisines ranging from 55 to 120 Php. You can choose from a
lot of foods inspired from Malaysian, Indonesian, Pakistani, and of course
Tausug Cuisine!
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Gayyah's Pagkaunan Halal restaurant :)
It's in Del Pilar Street near Pedro Gil side and
just in front of the Musallah in Mabini. |
The name of the Restaurant is “GAYYAH’s
PAGKAUNAN Halal Restaurant”. I haven’t tried all the foods and I am planning to
interview the owner (or at least the one in-charge), and see if I can come up
with another post (review?) about this place. It’s pretty clean and the servers (I refrain in calling them waitresses, coz they're really not haha) are very kind :)
Their SATTI and TIYULA’ ITUM are
so delicious! @_@ Both costs around P65-75 each. They also have “Budget meals” (with
1 cup rice, 1 meat-viand, 1 vegetable viand and free glass of juice and tiyula’
itum soup) for only P55!
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Top: Satti
Below left: Tiyula' itum, Below right: Their Budget meal.
(Photo from Buddy Denzy :) |
This might be the new place I
will keep on visiting and bringing my friends to, especially those who really
want to try our Halal foods :)
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Yeah, it's them again. We are not "Forever-mates" for nothing huh?
They really loved the foods by the way! ^_^
(Though most of what we ordered were
actually Non-Tausug foods! LOL)
Photo grabbed from Karl :) |
Still need to work harder
Another realization I had this
week (again) is the fact that I STILL HAVE A LOT TO IMPROVE ON. I am still not
as good as my group-mates in organizing my data and reporting my findings; And
I still do not know a lot more of the cases we meet in the OPD -_-. I really
have to push myself even harder to be better, in sha Allah. I chose this path
knowing that it won’t be easy. So I should never be disillusioned by the number
of free time I am having right now (well compared to last year in HelLu4).
Speaking of working harder… there
are really times that the struggle to stay awake in class is very, very hard to
handle -_- specially when you are post-duty and the room is soooo cooold!
Hmm well, I think that’s all for
the update on my Life in Medschool Series :) Hope you all guys a re doing well!
Salam kasilasa!
PS. I am having some free time
thanks to the pretty-benign schedule this week haha. I have to keep it
productive though. Have to force myself to read and study some cases even
though we don’t have an end-of-rotation exam. I wonder if I can really put
these words into action though -_-
Again, Salam Kasilasa!
-Anakiluh
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