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the sound of waves,
lapping the shore.
just like the songs you used to sing.
the gentle breeze,
caressing my face.
reminds me of you.
i see the sunset,
with your head on my shoulders.
your hand in mine,
we would have been so happy.
together.

today's blog entry will be on Medicine. something i hold ever so closely to my atria and ventricles.

while doing some studying on wikipedia regarding bacterial infections and their treatments, i stumbled upon this very interesting material. but read at your own risk. if you puke and die after reading it, i will not be held responsible.

so pus. what is it made of? it's a collection of neutrophils and dead bacteria. yes. the yellow juice you squeeze out from your pimple. the eggyolkish fluid that oozes from the cut on your knee. thats remnants of dead bacteria. and a whole lot of live ones too.

your body kinda tries to form a shield around the dead bacteria (and live ones) to prevent them from infecting good cells. there's a saying in latin which is still used in medical practice today ubi pus, ibi evacua. where there is pus, evacuate it. i.e. burst that thing man.

well what happens after you burst the abscess. thats the interesting bit. well along with the dead bacteria will of course be some of your own dead cells. poor soldiers who died fighting for a cause. yea whatever. so they will have to be removed.

the chim word of the day is: DEBRIDEMENT. otherwise known as removal of dead tissue.

SO in most cases the dead tissue are happily removed by your rubbishcollector cells that come gobble them up like cookiemonster. BUT what if this pus place is somewhere deeply located or because the wound is so gaping huge that your rubbishcollector cells (macrophages) cant find/reach them.

doctors have come up with this exciting new therapy to help all you people out there solve this VERY complex problem.

its called MAGGOT THERAPY.

















sounds so blardy exciting aint it. i <3 this profession.

maggots have been used since ancient times for wound cleaning and removal of dead tissue. it was featured in the movie Gladiator. and currently, they are the first living organism prescription-only medical device regulated by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States.

and a cool name to boot. Medical Maggots. =p

they eat up all the dead tissue, leave the live ones alone and secrete powerful antibiotics. which is a good thing given that bacteria nowadays are getting resistant to our chemical antibiotics.

BUT what would you say to such therapy?? =X lol. would YOU allow your doctor to place say 4 or 5 nice juicy white squirming maggots onto your wound?? HAHA. i think you'd be the one squirming, not the maggots. eeeks.

amazing.

so the next time you see these little white creepie crawlies growing on your decaying steak or while you're watching fear factor. think of how nice it'd feel to have them squirming on your wound cleaning offff all the dead flesh for you. AHHAHA.

yummyyy... -licks lips-



went for a Student Internship Programme (SIP) Communications Workshop in TTSH today. not that I was attending a workshop, but I wasnt doing the workshop of course. it was a workshop for the year5 med students, teaching them how to handle difficult patients, and yours truly had to roleplay the part of a patient. what was important was that i actually felt like i took something away from that workshop in the short 2 hr session that was conducted. kinda learnt about how to actually talk to the patients and all. and on a side note, there was free food and good money. =)

the holidays have started, but i feel the same. i think this week would past really fast. but i swear im gonna sleep early and try to get rid of my dark eye rings.

coughcough. i hope theres internet connection there. coughcough. so at least i can get an email or something. =)

okay, so i dreamt about Lim Si Hui and going to Swensens with her. GAWD. she was gonna treat me to icecream i think. it probably stemmed from a subconsious thought of someone asking me if there was Haagen Daz in Changi Airport and i said only got Swensens? hmm. my dreams nowadays are getting more and more bizarre. REALLY. i really wonder why. =X

oh and its humorous how people in my family would resort to hiding Yakult bottles in various parts of the fridge so that other family members wouldnt have access to them. AHHA. amazing rite.

another random fact: my dad does the sudoku (thats quite okay) AND the little word puzzles for kids (thats just plain WEIRD) in the Sunday times.

coughcongratulationscough on winning so many "accolades" coughcough. =D

on another note, my stupid mucus plugged nose isnt really recovering. ITS BEEN SO LONGG!! =X thank god its not turning into a phlegm cough. and some interesting nonsense i read on wikipedia today was that Ancient Greek Philosophers once thought that Phlegm was one of the 4 humours in the human body along with Yellow Bile, Black Bile and Blood. weird.

okay what a lot of weird stuff happening to me. guess im really GEP then. =D

Shiok. My mum made me drink:

Radix Arnebiae Seu Lithospermi and Semen Oroxyli.

Im feeling damn MAN now. AHAHAHAHA. =X

I've not had nightmares for a very long time. And just yesterday, I had one. It's totally random and very very spastic (not to mention violent and cruel). But just for entertainment's sake, I shall blog about it. =X

So I was in this room when I got hold of a message. It was written on a CD and it said something like:

"Bet you didnt expect it was me, did you? - Tyler"

(Tyler's some M1guy I got to know at DnD) Hence I swear it was totally VERYRANDOM. From what I remember, he framed me for a murder. So typical HK drama serial right. =X So I went off to find him.

Well, of course I didnt find him. BUT, I found his accomplice. Dont remember the face or name. All I know was that I killed him in a fit of rage. And, after that I kinda removed his limbs.

Now limb removal is tricky business. If you've eaten chicken wings, you'll now that to get to the smallest parts of the wing and to separate the drumlet from the wing, you needa twist the limb in in the opposite direction of the joint. Anatomy would tell you that you'd remove all the hyaline cartilage and the head from the socket etc etc. Yes. THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I DID TO HIS LIMBS.

Oh and btw, trivia. My good friend once told me "arent drumlets just small thighs?". Food for thought. He scored 11A1s and was the top scorer for PSLE among the bois too.

Back to the story. So now I was armed with 4 blooddy dripping limbs. Then I walked aorund and decided it was too heavy. And I saw this huge freezer (the icecream kind) in front of me. Hence I conveniently popped the limbs in and closed it. At that point I woke up. Very anticlimatic I know. Oh well. I dont choose when to wake up in nightmares.

Friday's Mr. Poh's enlistment. All the best man. Gonna go from Boy to Man. Civilian to Soldier. AND Free man to Slave. =)

i am who i am.

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