Day 8 Chemo 1. Thu. 07/27/2017 8:25PM
Finally I was back to work again. Missing something that you really like the most and getting back to it after being curtailed against your own volition is always a relief, that’s how I missed my job. Although I don’t really consider my work as a job, since being a doctor it’s my happiness and joy fulfilling it with love. It’s always been my pleasure to serve my patients. Nevertheless, the same work which serve best my patient, serve best myself as well. It’s very therapeutic for me. Every Time problem would struck me down and hurt so bad, all the more I crave to work. It propelled me to focus more on my patients rather than succumb and be vulnerable to sadness and melancholy of the problem. Somehow being intimately absorbed into my work, the day would just fly by so fast easing away any pain or heartache quickly. And thus healing me in the process as well.
God always has his ways of ordering things. Today just marked the day He did something great again. The clinic wasn’t that busy giving me a little breather as I came back for the second day after a week of complete rest from my 1st Chemotherapy. And perhaps, He had my strength reserved to deliver a new life. Just around 3:00PM we performed a c-section with one of our patients, whose bag of water ruptured prematurely.
The amniotic fluid was noted to be thickly medium stained. So we instructed the resident doctor on duty to monitor the tracings of the fetal heartbeat closely. As it showed non-reassuring fetal heart tone with baby's head still not coming out we did the best we could to perform stat C-section to avoid meconium aspiration on the baby.
Meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS) also known as neonatal aspiration of meconium is a medical condition affecting newborn infants. It occurs when meconium is present in their lungs during or before delivery. Meconium is the first stool of an infant, composed of materials ingested during the time the infant spends in the uterus.
Meconium is normally stored in the infant's intestines until after birth, but sometimes (often in response to fetal distress and hypoxia) it is expelled into the amniotic fluid prior to birth, or during labor. If the baby then inhales the contaminated fluid, respiratory problems may occur.
Thank you again Lord for putting everything in order.
After work and after that c-section I was able to go home before 6 p.m. and thus able to relax for a bit until dinner. Later, I had a short conversation with Jerome who got me excited for his plan on his mom's 81st birthday tomorrow. Being far away from his mom (as he stays in Canada while Mom is in the Philippines) he could not deliver a bouquet of flowers to her, so he asked me for a little favor if I could do so for him. I felt so honored to be the messenger of my Guardian Angel and be a part of the special day of Mama Letty(his mom). I was so enthused then, that I had to let him get off the messenger conversation we had, so I could plan out the activities right away. The exciting news came to a halt abruptly as there were no more open flower shops to pick for a bouquet. But of course nothing could hinder me to do something significant so I decided to sleep early and be able to get up around 5 a.m. At least by waking up early I will have a well spaced time for my morning meditation, shower, and preparation of Zac for school. And hopefully be in the flower shop at 7a.m.
We will see! Good luck to me and Ate Sinead because I will let her accompany me. So better be on bed now. Good night! God bless!
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