Sunday, July 30, 2006

Hello everybody!! Medic Free speaking.

TIPS FOR REPORTING SICK FOR FEVER FOR NS MEN AND BRIEFING ON JABS
I can't help but laughing at Sherman's tragedy at the sick bay. 39.1°C is really quite high temperature so you can't avoid the drips. Based on experience...

37.5°C to 37.8°C - fever but no Att C
37.8°C - 38.8°C - fever with Att C (around 2 days)
38.8°C - 39.5°C - STAY IN SICK BAY AND WAIT FOR YOUR JAB
>39.5°C - going to peng san and maybe ambulance will come?

So Sherman very poor thing la in other words. The medics have no choice but to jab you and lower your temperature. For those who doesn't know what's the jab for...now I shall educate all of you :)

Intravenous - injecting saline fluid into your veins to increase your blood volume and also to cool down

Potential hazards

Pain (because medics have no experience and they have to topok, twist and turn of the needles may hurt, or even the needles may kink as the needles are bent after forceful knockings to the vein valves. Vein valves may be injured after the pokings)

Haemotoma (also known as blue black because of the needle poking through the vein and causing blood leakage to surrounding tissues),

Intradermal (causing your skin to swell up due to the saline fluid entering the tissue instead of the veins, with the skin a bit bloated and feeling cool but not painful)

WORST OF ALL : Air Embolism (air bubbles in your injection line, causing air to enter the veins, killing the patient when the bubbles are trapped in your heart valves or even the brain blood passages - you don't know and you can just die there. A bubble as big as 5 cent coin will kill)

So please don't get fever and drink sufficient water because your body needs it.

And if you every chao keng (fake) for fever or anything, the MO most likely knows it and he will ask his medics to poke you over and over again, purposely missing the vein so that you feel EXTREME PAIN!! My buddy told me that he and his friends poked this chao keng guy for EIGHT times to let him learn his lesson. So you all better watch out :)

But Sherman I think he's unlucky la. Most of the unskilled people are not in your camp I think. I have seen far worse. And is Sherman's veins so hard to find??? ;) We medics only have 10 jabbing sessions and I think we are not very pro also....just look at the number of poke marks I STILL have on my 2 arms (sad)...

Anyway beach outing soon :)

- Free

rmb to sign off! sang at 12:34 PM