The Last Mon Standing

I was awake for a whole 24 hours that time. I attended two morning subjects last Wednesday then I did not go home… i just had my dinner at Jollibee (Arroz Cubana has the best wilted peas, dried carrots and thin tomato skin ever).  My Schedule was 10Pm Wednesday to 6 AM Thurday.

These are the Photographs of my night.

This is the light over my head inside the airconditioned school bus that our group rode to the hospital near the boundaries of Bataan, Pampanga, and Olongapo.

We spent the first few minutes inside the hospital taking Vital Signs of OB patients. Then, an 18 year old girl, was rushed inside the delivery room. We immediately took off our white uniforms and changed to our scrub suits. This was when I discovered that I forgot to bring my Smack Gown (aka Laboratory gown), my OR shoes, and I forgot to buy a bonet.

So I was not able to enter the delivery… which is such a shame since they were not very strict inside that hospital. they let everyone in the DR. While I was left with alexander and mara outside.

I just peeped on the door. i was able to take some pictures. Unfortunately, the photos were not that good.

The girl pissed everyone inside the delivery room. she was like a monster. She was trashing her legs all over. Kicking everyone. She yelled "Ayaw ko nang manganak, masakit nga eh… gusto nyo ba kong mamatay!?"(I dont want to give birth, it hurt… do you want me to die!? Her voice was heard even in the OB and Gyne ward. her relatives were very much embarrased. My classmates were like, "Misis iire nyo na kawawa yung baby naiipit." (MRS, just push, the baby is pityful, youre squeeshing him) but she didn’t care about her baby. The case went on for two hours. According to them the midwife was so infuriated (’mind you, the personnels in that hospital are one of the nicest… especially the midwife… she’s so accomodating) that she extensively made the episiotomy (the laceration surgically done to widen the vaginal opening) big.

The baby was purple color and did not cry. Normally, as a compensatory mechanism, the neonatal should cry when the umbical cord was clamped since the cord provides all the oxygen and nutrients it needs. But the child didn’t. They were only able to salvage the baby through their suctioning. Our CI even raised the child holding its feet and spanked it (this processed is so much contraindicated, but she performed it just to make the baby cry). The baby still look pale with cyanotic extremities when I took this pictures.

after the delivery, we all went back to the conference hall where we were staying. we changed to our white uniforms again and tried to catch up with our sleep. After some times, our CI woke us up (I was eating pala), another girl was about to give birth again.

I was the first one to change. I borrowed Jovelle’s Smack gown, and neil’s Bonet. I ran to the DR and I was chosen (I volunteered pala) to handle the case. Rose was my assistant.

The girl was just 17 years old. But she seems to be older than i am. she got scabs on her feet. The midwife even joked, "Allergic sa tsinelas." (Allergic to sandals)

Unlike the first one, she’s the silent type. But she tends to stop pushing in the middle of the process. Angelo was like, "`1.. 2… 3… ire." and we were like "IREEEEEE" (Pussh). Then when we realized that we were all saying it in chorus we just laughed. It was really funny. I was even able to ask the midwife many things. She’s really nice.

I took this photo secretly, while I was still not wearing my gloves.

And this is the only legal picture among them. I asked Angelo, Hanzel, Alex and Melanie to take my picture, but only Lallaine agreed. We pretended that she was taking only my head, not the girl in the background.

Dito ko lang narealized na di ko natanggal sa sobrang excitement yung Smack Gown ko eh suot ko pa pala.

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