Read my Lips

We’ve just completed all our cases so everyone was happy and Leslie was suggesting to celebrate by singing it all out at a Karaoke Cubicle.

The hospital where we came from was extra far from my house so I delayed my urge to poop that morning. I wasn’t really feeling as intense to dump at that time when we have finally finished our shift in the delivery room and were traveling homeward, but due to its distance I didn’t think that coming with them to sing in a videoke would be such a great idea.[In case]

Anyway I told them that I can’t come and Leslie surely was upset. She frowned and said something I was not able to hear. There were other people in the Jeepney so I just mouthed back, “Na-ta-ta-e–a-ko.”(I feel like defecating) to appease her.

She didn’t seem to understand what i said, so I mouthed again, “Na-ta-ta-e–a-ko.”(I feel like defecating).

And for the third time, I tried to mouth again, and as I mouthed the words, another jeepney tried to overtake us and turned left. I was sitting at the jeepney’s door, on the right side, so I was directly in front of the other vehicle’s right side, clearly seen through its wide window. As I mouthed the words and as the other vehicle gained at us and leaned towards left, I saw a girl on the other jeepney’s window giggling with her finger pointing at me saying something to her friend, who immediately turned her head and looked at me.

It was like.. “Nata-” I saw the girl smiling “tae” boom she pointed her finger “ako” and laughed with her friend. In an ordinary setting I would have blushed but since we were, technically, at different places, I was really amused.

PS I want to greet Skinny Angel a Happy Happy Birthday! 25 ka na! Gurang ka na! HAHAHA

Kung Mamalasin Ka Nga Naman

My sked of internship is from Thursday to Saturday only, however, since I had an absent I have to pay it with three make up duties. I went to the General Hospital yesterday to finally pay my debt but the CI was absent so I just went to Jollibee to have a breakfast (I had my breakfast at 3 AM so by the time the group that I encountered called the CI I was starved already) and at the same time do my case study.

Today, I expected that the CI will attend the duty. My father woke me up at 3:00 but it was too early so I stood up at quarter to 4. I was already through all the morning rituals at 4:45.

The jeepney stopped for too long and waited for any passenger so  I was not able to ride the 5:00 Genesis bus. I was able to take the next one, going to Pasay, at 5:15. Then the bus stopped at a gasoline station. He was there for about another 15 minutes until the driver told us to wait for the next bus since the temperature of the bus is drastically rising. I was pissed of course.

At 5:45 a Genesis bus going to Cabanatuan came. This one was miraculously fast and I was already at the hospital at 6:15.

I ran…. But to my horror there was not a single Student Nurse to be seen except those that were interning in special areas (DR, OR, ER). i asked a staff nurse if we have a duty and she said that there is a meeting.

I was so disheartened. Of all the things that ive been through this morning plus the thought of the fare i paid really irritated me.

I was like… “what am i gonna do now?” First I thought of going to Jollibee to have a breakfast but I was not yet hungry. Then I remembered that it is my inaanak’s (godchild’s) birthday and i still do not have a birthday present. I know a bookstore somewhere that opens as early as seven o’clock. Since it was still too early, i decided to walk from the hospital to that bookstore. The bookstore was like more than a kilometer away but heck.

I embarked the whole length of Capitol drive. When I have finally reached the bookstore it was already 6:45 but it was still closed. For a split second I wanted to sit in front of its doorsteps and wait for its opening, but I decided to turn around anyway and head for the minibus terminal.

I felt so down so I walked really slow. It was exactly seven when I managed to ride the  bus home.

¡False Alarm(?) but Still Alarming!

12:00AM, April 13, 2007, Friday. I woke up to join my sister watching a late primetime show.

12:30AM, April 13, 2007, Friday. I went to bed while a commercial was playing. Then the moment I heard the show resumed I hurriedly went back to my seat and I felt a generalized pain on my abdomen which easily subsided to a more localized one. The pain radiated from the left lower quadrant of my abdomen to my umbilicus and to my epigastric region. I thought i was experiencing gas so i told my sister. But the sensation increased until i thought of acute appendicitis.