5:30 am
marge: *awakes with a startle, heart thumping loudly*
ralph: bye, hun. pasok na ko.
marge: *goes with ralph to the door.* ok, hun. see you bukas.
marge: *goes to the bathroom to take a hi-speed shower* shet, late na naman ako nito.
6:15 am
marge: *drives towards EAMC listening to "The Morning Rush." laughs a little, much irritated by the traffic.*
7:15 am
marge: *catches her breath, after ruuning at top speed from the parking lot, through 6 flights of stairs, to the office, as she looks at the "barred" attendance.* late na naman ako, as usual. *in between gasps*
marge then goes on with the rest of her day:
8 am - 12 nn
patient's mom: ano, doctora, xray na naman? kaka-xray lang namin nung isang araw ah.
marge: *annoyed beyond measure* mommy, ginagawan po natin ng paraan para maipasok sya sa operating room kaya po ipapaulit natin yung xray. eto po pera, *tries to wrangle out of her own hand the last one-thousand-peso bill she has on her coin purse* ipagawa nyo po sa labas yung xray para po makuha agad ang resulta. salamat po. *turns around and leaves before she pounces forward and tear off the carotids of the complaining mom using her bare teeth*
marge: ma'am/sir, kunin ko po sana yung resulta ng "______" ni patient "________."
ma'am/sir: *answers either of the following* ok po, eto po./wala pa po, pakibalikan na lang po next year/wala pa po ba sa itaas? may nag-float na po nun./wala po kami na-receive na ganun.
marge: ok po. salamat po.
12 noon
marge: *complains about this-and-that to her co-residents over overpriced canteen food*
12:30 pm - 5 pm
marge: *continues with the left over morning errands*checks and rechecks the pre-op patients, only to find out that they ain't got no blood/materials for the operation/clearance/etc.* exchange one-liner text messages with ralph* have a hearty laugh with some of the ward nurses*
5 - 6 pm
marge: *starts to endorse patients.*tries to give out a "half-smile" as she gets asked a lot of questions that she can't answer because she's too lazy to read cummings.*feels embarassed as she can't remember answers to questions that have been asked over and over again*
9 pm
marge: *drives home, left hand on a cigarette stick and the other on the wheel. contemplates about reading cummings or watching one or two of the stack of dvds she bought ages ago but still haven't got the time to see*
10 pm
marge: *gets out of the car. leaves her stuff on the bedroom floor. goes to the shower to have a decent bath*
11 pm
marge: *opens laptop and plays "plants vs. zombies."*
11:05 pm
marge: *slips into GCS 3 while playing "plants vs. zombies"
5:45 am (the following day)
marge: *awakes with a startle, heart thumping loudly*
marge: *goes to the bathroom to take a hi-speed shower* shet, late na naman ako nito.
and the cycle continues...
