The Last Mon Standing

I was assigned at the "Bukol" Room, Lumps Room, named because the Medical mission changed the Payward into an operating room for minor cases. I was very much excited when I entered the room since I know that the Doctor that would be doing the surgeries is really nice and extremely cool. She’s a Doctor for Armed Forces of the Philippines… her real name is Maricel, but her nickname is even more enchanting… Peaches. She jokes a lot. She bullies her partne,Dr. Dwayne. And she asked Neil yesterday to find her a boyfriend.

I first saw her when she exited the Operating Room at 6. She was talking with the other doctor then she put her pointer and middle fingers on her lips, her way of asking for a cigarette break. The doctor replied, “Anong sigarilyo, pag ikaw namatay…” (What cigarette, When you died…) then another doctor butt in, “…namatay ng nakangiti.” (Died smiling)… and everyone laughed. She smiled at us. The doctor later on warned her that she’ll put red peppers on her cigarette if she won’t stop.

Her partner is as cool as her, the American Doctor named Dwayne. When he saw us, he made us stand on a straight line and told us to dance Boom Tarat…  it was so funny. He really likes the show acording to him. Too bad he couldn’t say the lyrics correctly. He was instructing as to dance while he sings;

Boom Terat Terat (please sing with the usual American accent)
Boom Terat terat
Sumayath Sumyath Boom Boom Boom

Ms. Leila Busch heard him and corrected him, but he didn’t get the Tarrarat Tararat  line…  Wherever he got the Sumayath thing, I do not know. And thank goodness to the correction, we were spared from dancing.

Our first case was a guy with a lump on the Chest. Then next was a Lady with mass on her breast. That lady has previously undergone the same operation on her right breast with Dra. Peaches.  The doctor was so good in suturing, she made the cut on the Areola’s (nipple’s) and the skin’s boundary. Them she stitched them so neatly, which according to Dwayne could not meet his standard, but I think was the BEST that I’ve ever seen, that the stitch was almost invisible. I do not think I was able to help them though. I cannot find the things that they were asking and I even noticed that Dwayne was already the one who’s doing some of the things that I should have done. I was actually busy holding the curtain to cover the patient. A hairy guy at  my back kept on glancing at her breast.

Then our group had a rotation, I went back to the recovery room, this time I was not accompanied by Ms Leila but by Ms. Rosas, that’s her surname I forgot her whole name.

She, just like Ms Leila, is also a Filipina. She’s a member of Philippine Nurses Association of Greater Kansas City. There is an air of, uhmmm elegance and grace in her. She’s realy pretty and really smart. She’s smart. She explained a lot of things to me and I was able to ask her certain questions. She even showed us her Family Pictures (that’s plural) and her pets. I like her very much.

When we were about to go they gave us a stuffed toy each. I named my Panda Bear Dwayne, while Leslie named her  puppy Peaches. Angelo got a dog too, Hanzel got<br />
a pelican.