Ahmed Hamada Hamed

Just for the record:

2018 highlights :

** Socially:

- Got married to my lovely Sarah <3 in the 27th of January & moved into our new home to spend the happiest year of my life.

- My wife passed the 2nd part of master exam, had her research paper publish approval & got her master degree in Anesthesia and surgical intensive care! 

- My cousin Sherif Najeeb got engaged then married.

- My dear friends: Hythem Mohammed, Mahmoud Azzam & Ahmed Radwan

got married.  

- My dear friend Haitham Abd Elbare got engaged & had his marriage documented & his wedding will be held soon! 

** Work related:

- I've done my doctorate research protocol and the title is 'Perioperative thromboelastometry as a predictor of thrombotic complications during pediatric liver transplantation' , got it registered on clinicaltrials.org & I'm still struggling to get acceptance letter to do it abroad.

- As a member of Liver transplantation team, We did 10 adult transplantation cases & I attended 1 pediatric liver transplantation case in Menoufia liver institute.

- As an Operation smile volunteer, I attended 1 mini mission in June.

- I have been awarded a bursary for the Essential Anaesthesia Online Programme from World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA).

- I attended the 34th International Annual Conference Egyptian Anaesthesia (EgSA 2018) in Cairo.

- I took ACLS (Advanced cardiovascular life support) instructor renewal course

- I gave 2 BLS (Basic Life Support) lectures to house officers & students.

- I gave 12 ACLS (Advanced cardiovascular life support) courses in collaboration with other instructors.

- I had PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) instructor course & I gave my 1st course in collaboration with other instructors.

- Took The Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) general exam with the following scores: *Verbal reasoning 141  *Quantitative reasoning 145    *Analytical Writing 3

- Passed completely the 1st part doctorate exams.

- In 2018, I almost worked in all ORs for some time & got shifts mainly 6 places: *Alrajhy Liver Institute: whenever there r transplant cases.

*Obstetrics & gynaecology ICU: January, 1st half of March.

*Critical care ICU: 2nd half of March till the end of June.

*Trauma unit: July till the last week of September.

*Cardio-thoracic surgeries: Last week of September till the 2nd week of December.

*Neurosurgery Postoperative ICU: the 2nd week of December till now.

** Readings:-

 تراب الماس ل احمد مراد

- قريه ظالمة ل محمد كامل حسين (لم انتهي منها بعد)

** Travels:

Outside Egypt:  The Honeymoon

*UAE (Dubai)

*Indonesia (Bali)

*Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Langkawi)

-- Honeymoon Highlights (February):

*Dubai

Burj Khalifa

Lots of Malls

Jumairah beach

*Bali

Tegenungan Waterfall 

Luwak coffee 

Bali swing  

Cekingan Rice terrace

Sacred monkey forest

Sundays beach club

Ulowatu temple 

Lubain Sait beach

*Langkawi

Langkawi underwater world

Cenang beach

sky cab & sky bridge

Langkawi 3D Art museum

Seven Wells waterfall

coconut juice

*Kuala Lumpur

River of life

Petronas twin towers

Lots of Malls, markets & parks

walking under heavy rain

Batu caves

Inside Egypt:

- Cairo

- Marsa Alam (New Year's Eve of 2018 in Port Ghalib marina)

- Alexandria

- Menoufia

Annual Vacation Highlights (last week of July)

*Cairo

Cairo festival city mall 

The dancing fountain shows!

Koshari Abu Tarek

City stars mall  

Dinner at Fuddruckers

Mall of Egypt 

Waffles at Cold Stone

Ice Cream at Baskin Robbins

*Alexandria

Citadel of Qaitbay

San Stefano Mall

Green Plaza Mall

Watching the eclipse which coincided with my wedding half anniversary ♥

Dinner at De La Vega restaurant

Lunch at Houda Gondol restaurant 

Long walk along the shore till Stanley's bridge enjoying Alexandria's breeze.

** What I Watched

*104 long movies from all over the world plus some short films. 

7 in ordinary cinemas

2 in IMAX Americana Plaza 

1 in 4dX in Vox cinemas 

--Here is the full list with my ratings

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls027819392/

& I wrote short reviews about them on my twitter account

*Series & Anime

- Breaking Bad (4th season continued - 5th season)

- Game of Thrones ( All the seven seasons in 2 & a half months!)

- Daredevil Season 1

- Friends Season 1 

- A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2 Seasons)

- One punch Man Season 1

- Captain Tsubasa 2018 (Primary school arc)

- Detective Conan (some episodes)

- Steins;gate 0 (just started)

*Others:- World Cup 2018: have seen Egypt playing in the world cup finally.

**Others:

- I played football with friends but not in a regular basis around 5 times the whole year.

- Participated in Assiut University Hospital champions league & we were eliminated from the group stage after suffering 3 defeats.

- Played a lot of PES 2018 & PES 2018 with my friends. 

- My favorite team Arsenal finished in the 6th place in Season 2017-2018 & failed again to qualify to UCL, lost the EFL cup final & eliminated at UEL semi-finals. I've seen UCL without Arsenal & an Arsenal without Arsène Wenger.

- In my 1st year in fantasy premier league:  

 * Score 2292   

 * Ranking  Overall: 17852 out of 5910135 player                       

                   Egypt :  995    

  * won 4 out of 4 classic leagues              

            3 out of 4 head to head leagues   

       Excellent scores but this season I'm getting much less scores.

- I also played UCL & World cup fantasy but my scores doesn't worth mentioning. 

- I have a new phone: LG G6

- I have a new big TV: My Samsung 55 Inch 4K UHD Smart Curved LED TV

- I received unexpected surprise birthday tart from my lovely wife with Premier league logo & Dr. Fantasy champion featured over it!

I won a mug in Match score prediction contest.

- I have gained 8 Kg after marriage & with diet I lost 4 kg till now.

- As a surprise for my wife at her birthday, We attended for the 1st time Omar Khairat concert at Cairo Opera House.

- 2nd time to have an IV line inserted in me & 1st time to have IV fluids in my circulatory system.

** This is what I remember & chose to share from 2018.

Time goes by super fast & documenting events may be the only prove that we actually lived a full year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Just for the record:

2017 highlights :

** Socially:

- I opened my heart again to love and got engaged to My Sarah <3 at the 9th of March! & I'm preparing to get married soon!

- My sister Asmaa got the 1st place in solo music playing contest and she played music & got honoured in the 1st Artistic Creativity festival in the Faculty of Education, Assiut University.  

- My 1st birthday party in my apartment thanks to my lovely Sarah.

- Attended the weddings of my cousins Hesham Nageeb & Mohammed Hassan.

- My dear friends: Ahmed Ismail Abdelazeem, Mohammed Loutfy, Ahmed Badri, Mos3ab & Dr. Ibraheem Embaby got married. 

- My dear friends: Ahmed Zaher, Mahmoud Azzam & Ahmed Radwan got engaged

- My dear friend Haysam abdelbare passed the 3rd part of MRCPCH & became a member in the royal college of pediatrics & child health. 

** Work related:-

- Took the final course needed for promotion "Analytical & Creative thinking"

- Have my research paper published in Assiut Medical Journal "Effect of Magnesium Sulfate on onset & Duration of low dose Rocuronium in patients undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy"  

- I got my master degree certificate.

- Got promoted to be an assistant lecturer of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University. 

 - I got registered to do my doctorate at Assiut university & I'm still looking for a research subject.

- Took the 'Basic assessment in ICU' course in January.

- As a member of Liver transplantation team, I did my 6th, 7th transplantation cases.

- Attended the 1st Assiut pain management workshop.

- As an Operation smile volunteer, I attended 2 mini missions in February & May, Attended the Resident Leadership Conference NEXT ASIA 2017 in July at the Philippines where I met Dr. Bill Magee the creator & father of the organization & got my Operation Smile credentiality in December.

- Had BLS (Basic Life Support) provider course renewal & was nominated to be certified as BLS instructor from the AHA (American Heart Association) & I gave 4 courses in collaboration with other instructors.

- I gave 4 ACLS (Advanced cardiovascular life support) courses in collaboration with other instructors

- Had PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) provider course renewal.

- Took the ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) course & got nominated as a potential instructor.

- Took the IELTS exam without preparation & got an overall score of 7. L=6 R=7.5 W=7 S=7 

- Took the EDAIC part 2 exam in Lisbon & didn't pass it!

- Only passed 2 of 3 exams of the 1st part preliminary doctorate exams.

- In 2017, I almost worked in all ORs for some time & got shifts mainly in 2 places: Alrajhy Liver Institute & postoperative ICU each for about 5 months & also got shifts at trauma unit for 1 week, Anesthesia shifts for 1 week, 2 weeks at the general ICU & finally obstetrics & gynecology ICU for 1 month till now! 

** Readings:- 

Nothing outside medicine this year unfortunately!

** Travels:

Inside Egypt:- Cairo- El-Minia- Sohag- Red Sea 

Outside Egypt:  

*UAE (Dubai)

*Philippines (Manila)

*Switzerland (only as a transit in Zurich) 

*Portugal (Lisbon)

--- Got promoted once to business class with Fly Emirates. :)  

** What I Watched

*80 long movies from all over the world plus some short films.

4 in ordinary cinemas

3 in STEP work space

1 in Tes3enat

1 in IMAX Americana Plaza 

1 in MAX Vox cinema

1 in mx4d (my first 4d experience ever)

1 in 4dX in Vox cinemas (the best 4d experience ever)

--Here is the full list with my ratings

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls06201334

*Series & Anime

- 13 reasons why!

- Friends Season 1 (midway)

- Steins;gate

- One punch Man (just started)

- Detective Conan (some episodes)

*Others:

- World Handball Championship 2017 

- African Cup of Nations 2017

- Confederation cup 2017

- World Cup 2018 Qualifiers: Egypt got qualified.

**Others:

- got back to play football with friends but not in a regular basis.

- tried fifa 17 & didn't like it!

- Played a lot of PES 2017 (Favourite team: Schalke) & lot of PES 2018 (No favourite team yet) with my friends.

- tried Fifa 18 & I liked it but finally chose to play PES 2018 over it.

- New places: STEP work space (1st time to go to work space), Tes3enat

- New drinks: Sugar cane with orange juice :) & Fanta Maracuja 

- My favorite team Arsenal finished in the 5th place in Season 2016-2017 & failed to qualify to UCL, the FA cup & the community shield

.- My 1st year in fantasy football world & I finished the year at the top of all classic leagues I'm competing at! 

- Visited Estadio da Luz in Lisbon.

- 1st time to have an IV line inserted in me. ** This is what I remember & chose to share from 2017. 

-Ups & Downs! C’est la vie!