Just a Recap

I love Sundays.  It's the only day of the week where I have the luxury of waking up a little later than what I am normally used to.  But today I woke up really late, I guess my body was catching up on sleep since the past week has been quite hectic.

My week started off a bit stressful.  I was on 24 hours duty last Monday, which also happened to be a local holiday so my other co-residents had the day off.  It was my first solo duty so honestly I was a bit anxious, but things went smoothly, we had around 9 consults, 2 referrals and I had 3 patients for observation in the acute area.

My next 24 hours duty fell on Friday the 13th.  But the day did not turn out to be unlucky after all.  I was able to attend Micah's recognition during my one hour break, and got there just in time before her name was called.  My interns brought food in the evening, so it saved me from buying my dinner.  We were able to sit down and enjoy dinner without any calls from the ER for patients coming in or referrals.  

I think I had my share of bad luck when I found out that we were asked to attend a strategic planning workshop at the City hall the following day.  I was already looking forward to spending Saturday at home with the kids, but since it was a hospital memo I had no choice but to be there.  But the workshop did not turn out to be bad after all.  It was a strategic planning workshop of the anti-mendicancy board  and I honestly learned something from the workshop.  It was a shock for me to find out that there is a city ordinance penalizing mendicants/beggars as well as those who would give money to them.  I just forgot to ask if giving food would also be counted...   

I was quite unsure of the Cebu city's vision of having a mendicant free city by 2015. But I guess if you dare to dream then might as well dream big.  I just hope that whatever plans and ideas discussed during the workshop would really be implemented.  We need a long term solution to this problem and not just a band-aid fix like picking up vagrants on the street who they suspect to be psychotic but only to find out on evaluation that he has been walking around looking for food and was hungry.  I guess any person who has not eaten in days would have a brief psychotic episode.

Tomorrow is the start of another week.  I don't really know what lies ahead but I am positive that things happen for a reason and that there is always a lesson to be learned in everything...

Thank you for dinner guys 😊

The group of interns and PGI I go on duty with

Our group from Sotto who attended the workshop

The committee on health and sanitation from the City Heath Office, CCMC and VSMMC

There is still so much out there to be learned...

 

Better Late Than Never

I want to keep up with the photos that I need to share on my blog  so I'm giving my "personal thoughts" and "thoughts on life and love" posts a rest for today and maybe come up with something in a day or two, *wink*.

For some reason, I can't do a "same day" post of the photos we took whenever we go somewhere nice.  But I make sure I get to post it one way or the other, so here goes...

These photos were taken at Mountain View Resort in Busay.  We never got to see all the attractions in the resort because we had to walk uphill, and the kids were getting tired, but we had fun all the same.

Just arrived and starting our uphill walk.

Andre still had the energy to run around, but halfway through our uphill climb, he was starting to complain that his feet were tire, lol! 

First stop, the sleeping guard.  Don't sleep on the job,tsk, tsk!

While Micah wanted to have her picture and take in the view, Andre was in a hurry to get to the top.

Taking a rest

The photographers chance to get his photo taken :)

The view overlooking the pool.

Andre wanted to go swimming so he had this "Can i swim mommy,please?" look n his face.

Hey Mickey, why are you stone cold?

Enjoying the view of the city.

Before heading to the car, we decided to check out their tree house with a mini hanging bridge, really cool!

It was a fun afternoon, and even if I looked like a vampire (according to Micah) in some of the photos since my eyes were red and sore because it got irritated from the contact lens I wore the previous night, It did not really matter.  We had a wonderful time and that's what counts.