Ke-chibai-an

Am currently in Obstetrics and Gynaecology posting now... and I'm starting to believe that misfortune is my middle name. If Lemony Snickett were to have another book, it should just feature me, becuase my workday is quite A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Why am I the only one who has been blessed enough to encounter not one, but two hand presentations on my vaginal examinations (pardon me... sorry to anyone who does not understand the terminologies) Basically, the only proper way we've been designed to come into this world is head first. Just like what we should do for the rest of our lives- use our head first in any matter. Yeah, maybe that's the message God's trying to get across to us. And we're not meant to come out in any other way, lest we get a clavicular fracture or stg. So my life sucks, because I ahd two patients coming in , bearing down and had to send them up to Labour Room stat, only to know that they were malpresentations. And both had to go for Emergency LSCS's

Am lazy to elaborate on the first case, but will elaborate on the second one. She was a Burmese lady who came bearing down- her os was already 7 cm wide(10 cm is when the baby will be fully delivered) and her membranes were bulging like mad, so I couldn't feel the presenting part well. Which is why sometimes I wished God would give me ultrasound hands to scan their abdomens first, because my obstetric grips are just now good enough. Am so theory based. Aih...

So to cut the long story short, she had to be sent for an Emergency LSCS. I hope she and her baby are alright, or I'll be feeling guilty for the rest of my life! They may not be Malaysian, but it doesn't make them any less human. yes, it was her fault on her part of barely going for antenatal check ups or scans, but she's probably a refugee or rest worker, so who can blame her? Or worse still, a rape victim (but her stewpid husband was around so guess she wasn't la)

So bloody upset. How can their tolerance towards pain be so high? I'm just waiting for the day when they come to the hospital with the baby's head riiighhtt ouutt through their vagina, or with a foot or hand dangling out, before they come for help. Seriously.

AUUUUURRRGGGGHHHHHhhhhhhhh

Life is so menchibaikan.