2nd weekend in Colorado
ended my work at the warfarin clinic on fri.
started work today at the inpatient pharmacy at the same hospital, so we could still get to see the others at work, which wasnt that bad. there was also this other pharmacy intern at the inpatient pharmacy together with us, which was good, as she was able to guide us on what to do.
inpatient pharmacy is quite different in the hospital compared to what i thought. i thought we will be able to go on rounds, interact with patients while checking their charts; but apparently it's not the case. u go on rounds and check the charts at the main chart storage place, but you don't get to see the patients at all. the most you can get to know about the patients is their medical and social history.
we sat in with the medical residents' discussion about the cases in the morning, which was quite interesting as we could examine their medication and provide recommendations if any. had to calculate the paracetamol dose that patients were taking, check their adverse drug reactions if any, if the antibiotic used was suitable, why there was thrombocytopenia in the patient, etc. i think i probably will learn alot on certain drugs.
wanted to drive 2 hours to denver and spend the weekend there, and also meet jason, christine's friend, who was doing a layover. but his flight got re-routed and we spent like 2 hrs on the road and havent even reached half the journey because of 2 traffic accidents and road works. cmi. so decided to drive to castle rock to shop. there were factory outlets there, which was good.
den went to pikes peak on sunday. it turned out that christine's bizcom fren, david, was around in US, and he met us in colorado with this other nus guy. it was a pleasant surprise because i din noe that that was the david i know as well. he drove from california to east coast (new york area) and was on his way back to san francisco for his NOC. omg. super long drive lo. i am super impressed. they have to sleep in the car and just travel across states.
it was fortunate that they were around with us, because it was such a steep drive up to pikes peak. and the descent was also super scary as you drive near the edge of the mountains. but it was cool driving up to such a high area.
Pikes Peak is basically the 31st highest peak out of the 54 colorado peaks in the rocky mountains and is the 2nd most visited mountain after mount fuji. its at 14,400 feet high (around 4400 metres), which makes it half the height of Mt Everest.
had altitude sickness when we went up and came down, probably due to the change in oxygen in the air. so had headaches. christine was the only zai one among the 4 of us, who did not get any headaches. david even had to go take in some oxygen from the oxygen tank available in the shop. his oxygen saturation went to as low as 60 plus percent. omg.
the view was beautiful. we could probably see the whole of colorado and could even see some thin solidified ice, because it was so cold up there. too bad we din get to see snow, because u can get to see snow at times. yep. its tt high. think the pictures won't do the view justice. u could even see some lakes formed from the melting ice.
having an off day on wed, 4th jul. because its Independence Day! think we are lucky to be around as we can see fireworks and their celebrations for their National Day.
looking forward to wed. =)
started work today at the inpatient pharmacy at the same hospital, so we could still get to see the others at work, which wasnt that bad. there was also this other pharmacy intern at the inpatient pharmacy together with us, which was good, as she was able to guide us on what to do.
inpatient pharmacy is quite different in the hospital compared to what i thought. i thought we will be able to go on rounds, interact with patients while checking their charts; but apparently it's not the case. u go on rounds and check the charts at the main chart storage place, but you don't get to see the patients at all. the most you can get to know about the patients is their medical and social history.
we sat in with the medical residents' discussion about the cases in the morning, which was quite interesting as we could examine their medication and provide recommendations if any. had to calculate the paracetamol dose that patients were taking, check their adverse drug reactions if any, if the antibiotic used was suitable, why there was thrombocytopenia in the patient, etc. i think i probably will learn alot on certain drugs.
wanted to drive 2 hours to denver and spend the weekend there, and also meet jason, christine's friend, who was doing a layover. but his flight got re-routed and we spent like 2 hrs on the road and havent even reached half the journey because of 2 traffic accidents and road works. cmi. so decided to drive to castle rock to shop. there were factory outlets there, which was good.
den went to pikes peak on sunday. it turned out that christine's bizcom fren, david, was around in US, and he met us in colorado with this other nus guy. it was a pleasant surprise because i din noe that that was the david i know as well. he drove from california to east coast (new york area) and was on his way back to san francisco for his NOC. omg. super long drive lo. i am super impressed. they have to sleep in the car and just travel across states.
it was fortunate that they were around with us, because it was such a steep drive up to pikes peak. and the descent was also super scary as you drive near the edge of the mountains. but it was cool driving up to such a high area.
Pikes Peak is basically the 31st highest peak out of the 54 colorado peaks in the rocky mountains and is the 2nd most visited mountain after mount fuji. its at 14,400 feet high (around 4400 metres), which makes it half the height of Mt Everest.
had altitude sickness when we went up and came down, probably due to the change in oxygen in the air. so had headaches. christine was the only zai one among the 4 of us, who did not get any headaches. david even had to go take in some oxygen from the oxygen tank available in the shop. his oxygen saturation went to as low as 60 plus percent. omg.
the view was beautiful. we could probably see the whole of colorado and could even see some thin solidified ice, because it was so cold up there. too bad we din get to see snow, because u can get to see snow at times. yep. its tt high. think the pictures won't do the view justice. u could even see some lakes formed from the melting ice.
having an off day on wed, 4th jul. because its Independence Day! think we are lucky to be around as we can see fireworks and their celebrations for their National Day.
looking forward to wed. =)
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