Rock, Paper, Scissors

It's the little things.....

I've never played rock, paper, scissors before. Which is not surprising given the fact i was bred and buttered in good old naij. I didn't even understand what it was until last summer when one of my nieces explained it to me. Fast forward to today, my partner and i had to choose between a kid with asthma exacerbation and one with new onset seizures and he suggested we rock, paper, scissors for the seizure kid. I was like, errmmm....I've never played it before and he showed me. I won and got the seizure kid, but i eventually ended up with the asthma kid cos i had told my intern yesterday that i wanted to manage an asthma kid (cos even though they are the bread and butter of peds especially around this time, i have never gotten to present one).

Anyhoo, we had lecture this afternoon after my team presented a Crohns patient for integration rounds (where they make the other students come up with the differential and then final diagnosis based on the chief complaints), we had another lecture on dehydration. During the lecture, there were questions we could answer on our iClickers that recorded points for our teams. At the end of the lecture, my team was second to last. Then we had a jeopardy round where we managed a dehydrated patient . At the end, we wagered all our points and we ended up tying for first place even after the bonus questions. So to break the tie, the Dr. was like we had to rock, paper, scissors for it. Of course, i ended up being nominated to go in front of everyone and play rock, paper, scissors. 2nd time in my life. It was fun!!! I lost of course, but i got my high fives from my team members.

Like i said, it's the little things.

My presentations are getting better. I got a "good job" from my intern today and my new senior told me during my mid course evaluation that he liked my presentations. That was my greatest weak point, cos i would get visibly nervous and my voice would be shaky. If na for house now, i get mouth to shout cos u know i'm a local champion. Oya, come and present your patient in front of at least 15 people, mouth no go let me open. I still get really nervous but i'm learning to project confidence and not let anyone see me sweat. It's hard sha. I should have joined toastmasters last year like i wanted to. I would have been a rock star right now.

Our gunner is still gunning away. Today i teased him about never wanted to leave even though our team usually stays longer than the other team and he got really defensive and was like, it's all about patient care. If there's something that need to be done for my patient, i would stay until it's done. Isn't that what they have night team for? Yesterday, he stayed later than the call person. The only thing that needed to be done for his patient was update the parents, and one of the interns was going to do it. Then he asked the intern if he could be around while she talked to the parents, mind you, this was already around 6pm o! Intern was like sure, but it's going to be awhile. As soon as sign out was done, i was like sayonara, people. The call person (who had to stay late) was like aren't we going to talk about the case we are presenting, i said, tomorrow during lunch. Wetin, is 12+ hrs everyday not enough for you people. I no do o.

I was on call today which means i have to go back after lectures, but i didn''t go back. I feel kinda bad, but i will be on call 4 times next week, and i'm not with my main intern this week so i can always feign ignorance. Her main JMS went back and he's pretty cool so i can ask him if she said anything. No be me kill Jesus o. I don tire. I slept 8 whole hours yesterday. Went to bed before 8.30pm. It was all kinds of awesome.

I got my hair braided over the weekend. Thank God for growth and maturity. I amazed myself. All i can say is Africans need a special convention on customer services. This woman was yelling at me after cheating me. WWJD? I had to channel Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 

Now that i have updated u guys on all the boring stuff that's going on in my life, it's your turn. Kilon popping? Who's getting married, pregnant, gotten a new job, ditched a sucker, gotten promoted, married an alhaji, gotten a sugar daddy or a sugar boy? Tell me, i wanna know.