- Mood:
- Music: BACTERIAL GIRL (to the tune of Madonna's Material Girl)
I'm just having one of those rare breaks from hospital duties when I don't feel like I'm ready to drop on my feet anytime (from exhaustion) and that explains my being here to post an entry, LOL. I won't bore you with details about how busy I have been and how I keep "hoping to update this blog" as often as I could because I might only end up eating my own words
All I can say is I'm having such a great time doing Lab work and the friendly, family-like environment of the Hospital Laboratory I'm presently connected with is so wonderful that I feel so thankful to the Lord for having led me there and for the co-Med Techs I now call "my good friends". I truly have a lot to thank God for the blessings He has so graciously been giving me since the last quarter of 2008 and until now.
Anyway, January has seen me getting assigned often at the Bacteriology department of the Lab, something that I had been looking forward to since I returned to Lab work last year. I think Bacteriology is so interesting -- studying different kinds of bacteria and discovering how they look under the microscope, or why they cause the diseases they do. It's amazing. To me, at least.
Yesterday, I mostly did follow ups of Blood Culture (and had to be extra careful, wearing 2 to 3 pairs of surgical gloves because one of the patients with Blood Culture tested positive and recently died of HIV. Yikes!) and Urine Culture. Just when I was about to call it a day at the Bacteriology department so I could move to the Uri-Para section (you also get to handle Uri-Para when you're assigned at the Bacteriology area on Saturdays) specimens for AFB (Acid Fast Bacilli) staining (for detection of Tubercle Bacilli in the sputum; yes, to test for Tuberculosis) came plus a urine sample for Culture and Sensitivity. But, that's okay. It was fun, to say the least.
Of course, when I finally moved to the Uri-Para section early in the afternoon yesterday, I was greeted with urine/stool specimens as well as Hepatitis Profile testing (did I mention that being assigned to the Uri-Para department also means doing Crossmatching and at times, Serology?). All in a day's work!
Oh, well, this entry is getting longer than I expected. So much for wanting to just "drop by" here, ha ha ha.
"Hello!" to you, Marites! It's been a long time. At least, I caught a glimpse of you at the Bistro Rosario a few weeks ago.
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