All in a day's work..

I work 5.5days a week....to me its 6 days a week because i have to wake up early on Sat. And most Sundays too...i get public holidays on Sat...that's when i sleep in but most times i dun bcos i love being up on Sat mornings and have breakfast either at home or at coffee shop.

What do i do?I'm a medical lab technologist.
er...what do i actually do? I perform diagnostic tests on patients such as EEG, ECG, NCS, EPs, stress test.
Is it like x-ray?No...i perform functional tests not take pictures of people's body parts. But i do check and see if it works ;) haha!i'm based in Neurology lab so the parts i see are heads and limbs.basically i conduct tests on their brains (EletroEncephaloGram)and nerves(NerveConductionStudies) and sometimes blood flow in the brain(Transcranial doppler)...I also help out in the Cardiopulmonary side doing ECG and Stress test.
So, i meet lotsa ppl everyday..mainly older men and women...the youngest patient i had so far is 2 months old(and she has chubby cheeks!) and the oldest maybe 91 years old.
I get a variety of patients...some have psychiatric disorder.....there was one that was so depressed after breaking up with her bf that she refused to talk and only communicate with writing and refused to move her hands or legs claiming they were weak. Another faked a series of seizures or fits to get attention from her husband i think...not sure but she was put into CCU for a week and 1 nite in CCU costs a lot.poor hubby...my colleague was so tired of seeing her that she purposely provoked the patient to fit...the nurses that were in the unit were laughing their heads off....there was yet another girl, seriously has epilepsy but took her health almost nonchalantly..

Epilepsy is a long term illness.Patients that are diagnosed with epilepsy have to take medication for at least 1 year and at most, all their life. The medication is to control the abnormal brain waves.Epileptic patient have abnormal brain waves and sometimes too much of it manifests itself in the external whereby you can see the patient has up rolling eyes, drooling, stiffness of limbs or jerking of limbs or whole body and etc. If they don't control these abnormal activities in the brain, it is harmful for the individual especially kids because it will disrupt the development of their brain causing them to be either mentally retarded or slow in mental development. When uncontrolled or medication taken is stopped halfway, patients will have uncontrolled seizres and can end up in ICU.which is really bad bcos it either makes them really really sick for a long time such as few months or it could kill them.
So if you know of anyone who has epilepsy, do let them know that only medication can help them. another option is surgery but that's only applicable if the patients have tumour or lesion in their brain.
So, i dun think i told you wat i do at work everyday...haha..will leave for another day.but i really look forward to lunch and goin home time. Lunch because its the only time i get to go out and relax..so i welcome lunch dates...haha!