today and yesterday have just been so bizarre.

minutes after i realised how ongweiyi is indeed the ALMIGHTY in neuro, i was told that my sis had a detached retina and was going for an op today. when i heard that, i was like ?!?!?! just earlier that morning she confessed that the vision in her left eye had become distorted in a "wavy" way. we thought maybe it was an inflammation or something. but a detached retina??? at her age????? how suay could she be????

apparently suay enough to be that 1 case in 10 000. sigh.

so anyway, today i followed her to the hospital, all sleep-deprived from helping her settle things and pack her bags etc etc. then her surgeon, who happens to be a long time friend of my parents, comes in to ready her for the op, and asks me if i want to watch the op in the OT. like scrubbing in, except that i'm not allowed to touch anything. haha. the thought of watching him stick a bunch of silicone into her retina doesn't sound that appealing to me, but my sis demands that i go. so i do! and omg, all i can say is that it is SO FREAKY watching someone's eye get cut open. it was like she was watching us the whole time! the eye is like the grossest organ ever man, ew.

oh, and while i was in the OT, i was interrogated by BOTH the anaesthetist and the surgeon. they were like asking me how many mm wide is the trachea, which extraocular muscle am i on now, what is an endotracheal tube, what is the fluid that seeps in between the tears in the retina... and i'm like thinking, 'this is great, i have pharmaco, patho and cancer on monday, and they're asking me to remember stuff from anat which i couldn't even remember last year????' i can just imagine that it so sucks to be an intern! sigh, and something tells me i have A LOT of work to do before clinicals next year...

anyway, my sis is doing ok now, although she was kinda high when coming off the GA and was providing entertainment to everyone in the recovery suite. really like mer when she had her appendectomy! overall, the whole thing has just felt so surreal. and of course i feel kinda bad (and worried) for my sis cos of what she's had to go through at her age, plus she's bummed that she'll be missing her prom on monday. whilst being wheeled to the OT, she was telling everyone that "this op is sucking" and that everything "sucks big time". oh well. i just can't wait for monday to be over. then it'll be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedom! heee!

i need to shop! and dance! and get fit!!!!