Progress Note #1: Post-Grad Internship
I have been racking my brain for a few weeks now on what to write on my blog. I created this blog to express/rant about anything or everything but I realised I have Twitter for that. So it made me wonder what else was I going to write here? One of my friend told me that blogs should have stories, or maybe a theme about it. So I thought maybe because I’m on the medical field, maybe I should write about medical stuff. *boring* I was really stressing about it (slight lang) until I realised, just write about anything. So for my first post, I’m going to reminisce about the last 2 months of my life. I was going for the “Month Favourites” but who am i kidding? I don’t have that much thing going on, I’m not an artista or a blogger. I am just an ordinary “mandirigma” in the medical field just trying to make it one duty at a time.
Enough talk, here are my June-July highlights. Enjoy.
It was the end of “12 months a slave”. When we actually ended, on June 1, I actually felt nothing. I was like “meh”. But when I finally finished my gazillion clearance and extensions, it was like a big burden was lifted off. A big, gigantic, humongous burden. From “Inteeeeeern do this” to “Tarunga retract enterrrrn” to “nganu wala ka kahibaw ani enterrrrrn”. It was finally over. I remember when I was just about to enter Medicine, my Doctor relatives would often warn me about this so-called “Internship”, I was so confident before but when I finally faced it, it was like a dragon ready to swallow me whole. And it did swallow me whole but fortunately I had thick skin and it didn’t digest me fully. HAHA. BUT it wasn’t all “kasaba” and “kakapoy” there we’re also fun times and moments I will always cherish forever. CHAR
Okay, you might think, whaaaaat, why is this a highlight? Lemme tell you a story about our school. WE. NEVER. HAVE. PULLOUTS. So when other schools get free time, intramurals time, tree-lighting time out of their duties, we get left behind to do all the (dirty) work. It wasn’t really on June, but it was on our last month when we had a double pull-out. Why am I including it here? Because I can. hahahah! It was just a highlight of my internship that I had to. Our first pull-out was during our Grand CSC (it’s a CIM thing) and the next was our Recollection. It was just cool to see the batch getting together and working together, just being together. (cheessssy i know) But this is the batch that was with me since we started learning about cadavers, sneaking out bones just to have more study time with anatomy, calculating calories, planning out events, and finally going through internship together. We might not be as united as the previous batches, or as close as others, but I am still so proud of this batch. (Viva Vertex!)
I am always thankful for the opportunity to travel. Always. You see, we’re not the richest family nor the most privileged one. I’m just a poor boy from a poor family (WHAT). But enough nonsense, travel will always be a highlight. This month, we discovered Thailand. It was such a memorable trip because we didn’t have much preparations and none of us have been to this country before. It was also nerve wracking since there was a 70% chance I wasn’t gonna make the trip. I had to decide 10 hours before our flight, that’s 10 hours of packing, preparing, and finding Baht which was, to my surprise, so rare to find in Cebu. But all is well that ends well. We planned out day’s activity every morning and we somehow enjoyed it. Thailand really surprised us. (maybe I’ll do a travel blog about this also, maybe)
This is my nth time to graduate but this is the most memorable. I AM NOW A FKCNG DOCTOR!!!! (Gaga, may PLE pa!) But OMG. Those sleepless nights, those breakdowns, those missed opportunities because #MedisLife, was finally worth it because of this moment. Graduating was not meant for the graduates though, it was meant for the people who worked as hard as you to get you to that moment. To my parents, who had been working hard as hell just to pay for my tuitions and other expenses, thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to study medicine. I know a lot of people wants to be a doctor but can’t, so I am very much grateful.
When one hardship closes, another one opens. This is the MD cycle. So, just 4 days of break and I go through another year of internship but hopefully a little less stressful. I had a hard time choosing as to where to do my internship. I asked friends, family, weighed the pros and cons, and all that but I finally came into a decision. or did I? I know I have issues with decisions. Why does it have to be so hard? It had a lot of responsibility that I’m scared to jump into it. But I decided to stay close to home (even though until now I’m still convincing myself that I chose correctly). Hopefully, one day, I’ll make terms with my decisions.
So there you have it, my highlights for the bimonthly. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up. I will have to say sorry about my grammar and sesh. If you have problems with it, please help me edit my blog then. I made this entry in one sitting, so I have no time for revision or proofreading. (Nah, I’m just lazy btaw)
