Multiple Entry

I haven't blogged for a while, Dennise is giving me the Evil Eye all the way from Germany and I heard that once an evil eye passes over the Berlin Wall, it increases its power tenfold. That's how Sauron did it.

I initially planned to make several entries but it would look kinda stupid to have like, 5 entries all in one day. So, I decided to make one blog entry a conglomeration of several events.

Or maybe I just wanted to use the title Multiple Entry. With the double entendre and all that jazz. I got my mind in the gutter and the gutter in my mind...


... per orem: Me and My Big Mouth
Sometimes, an unplanned trip comes to fruition more than a trip scheduled months before. I decided to go to Davao for a 24-hour vacation in the space of a few minutes a mere 2 days before I was scheduled to leave. This was my first bus trip to Davao and by far, the longest bus ride I have ever had to take, the trip taking 8 hours and all that.

Lately, I find myself doing things I would have never done before. Like taking a bus trip to Davao on a whim. Or purposely seeking alcohol on a Sunday night in a strange city with newfound friends.


I had consumed alcohol in the form of tequila shots like a month ago. I got decently drunk but I wasn't loud LOUD. Just laughing at the tiniest things, grinning like a fool, speaking slower than usual... But in Davao, I had just heard bad news so I guess I was a teenie bit... how do I put this... audibly amplified.

Strangely, still no hangover. Maybe because my liver is still perfect from all those years of alcoholic abstinence?

And check out the pitcher of mai tai. Half of that was circulating in my blood stream, loosening my tongue to talks of obscenities and goddamned liars.


... per rectum: The Ass (previously entitled "Up Yours.")
While I am not a fan of on & off relationships (Read: A breakup is FINAL and IRREVOCABLE.), I prefer to be, at the very least, privy to the truth. But I guess you can't help it if lying sons of bitches still roam the earth.


... per nares: Swab It Like It's Hot
Everyone's all a twitter about this influenza scare (Influenza A(H1N1)) and even though there hasn't been any confirmed cases here in Cagayan de Oro, DOH mandate requires all the hospitals to have some sort of countermeasure to this pandemic. So, anyone who so much as coughs nervously (while having a fever... hee.), and has a history of travel to a contaminated area, gets the immense pleasure of being probed.

In the nostril.

Like this. Try that on me and I swear, I'll sneeze you out into the next millenium.


... per tracheum: To Tube Or Not To Tube
In the course of medical treatment, there are many factors that hinder ideal medical care. Sometimes the proper equipment are not available. Other times, you are unable to get your hands on the best medications.

But other times, it's the patient that makes it all that much harder for you to give the proper management.

Take the time when we had to intubate a patient because his oxygen saturation was dropping fast and the dialysis he needed badly could not be done ASAP. He was out cold when we intubated him and once the tube was in, he started improving. O2 sats were picking up, gradually regaining consciousness...

Then, the unthinkable happens.

He yanks out his endotracheal tube.
Not to worry. He passed out again but this time, his oxygen saturation remained stable enough for us to send him to dialysis. I just hope he didn't yank out his IJ catheter when he woke up in the dialysis unit.


... per cardium: Amor... Si Me Llamas... Amooooooor
Okay. So maybe the heart isn't an orifice you can enter but I ran out of appropriate holes. And no, per vagina is not appropriate.

There are many things in life that bring me pure joy. Things I work hard for to achieve, lose sleep over to acquire, sweat blood for to hold in my arms...

I finally bought myself a new laptop.

Ah, sweet young love...