Today's the second day of my SICU rotation and again i'm reminded of the fragility of life. Everything hangs on a very delicate balance and is pre-destined, by someone greater than us, i believe. One should really live the day like it's the last instead of taking things for granted, especially loved ones. Am sounding quite emo here, but i'm okay. =] Arrived this morning in SICU and routinely printed the patient list which gets updated everyday. Read through it and it was same old same old, till the last patient who just came in early in the morning: a 17 year old girl who got knocked down and probably run over since there were tire marks over her abdo. She was brought in (apparently not by the driver) and was noted to have profuse bleeding from her nose and ears. Even brain matter was leaking out, by which time her brain activity has ceased and we can only carry out comfort measures and slowly let her go. Muttered a silent prayer for her; at least she wasn't in pain anymore. Not exactly the best way to start the morning but i did learn quite a lot there. What gets to me sometimes is when young patients die unnecessarily, such as today, and the culprit doesn't even have the gut to do what's right after snuffing out a life. Oh well.

On a brighter note, i managed to find a tennis coach! Been wanting to take formal lessons for a long time already but the last potential coach pangsehed me after telling me to wait for CNY to be over before starting lessons. Googled "cheapest tennis lessons" (yes yes, poor me) and managed to find a site advertising a beginner's course for only $20/hr! it's quite a steal. the first lesson is free some more, but i shall wait till the first lesson is over before getting so excited =D Got david to join me to share the cost and of course it's always more fun to have a companion learning together. Can't wait for the first lesson this friday! weeee.

Headed over to NUS for tennis with yuhong and david in the evening and it was a good workout. I think having read about.com's beginner's guide to the basic forehand stroke before the session helped a lot. I realized that my usual stroke was actually way wrong as i didn't use my body weight, have a good swing or follow through. Well, better late than never! =P

OT day tomorrow! Hopefully i'll get to stitch some wounds again, though i think we'll be quite busy with our research project. Data entry is the bane of me. Looking forward to a better day tomorrow! =]
wongy was here on 10:41 PM