Our Christmas Nightmare

Despite getting a bunch load of presents from friends and colleagues, my favourite were these personalized cookies!

It has been a rough week for me at work despite it being the holiday season.

Being the only one on the Paediatric team who does not celebrate Xmas, I volunteered to do the call thinking the day would be smooth sailing with no mishaps. I was adamant that no parent would bring their child to the hospital on that very day!

But I was wrong, I worked non-stop for 27 hours from 9am Xmas Day to 12pm the next day with only one hour of sleep. Believe it or not, I saw a total of 40 patients with 9 admissions onto the ward. This was a record for me!

Despite the tiredness (and being pregnant) , my heart went to this mom who was completely distraught. Her 2 year old daughter was really ill and had to be transfered to another hospital the next day. I was up all night with this child and consoling both parents and at the same time, seeing other patients who were coming in by the bus load throughout the day!

Hubby who was oncall in another hospital faced a similar situation, he too had very a busy night attending to 2 very sick patients in ICU. He didn’t manage to catch any sleep too!

Our big plans to go shopping on St Stephen’s Day/Boxing Day had to be scrapped obviously. We both slept right after arriving home that midday the 26th of December, no major handbag sale could bring me out of bed even if Louis Vuitton or Chanel decided to do it’s first ever sale!

Anyway, we completely recovered the next day and woke up really early to catch the sales. I am really happy with my buys which I believe were essentials That’s what I call major retail therapy!

Feeling 17 Again

Reason being ? I sat for my driving test for the second time in my life last week.

I knew I had to get it done sooner or later as the Irish Law is getting really strict about provisional and foreign licences.

So in preparation for the test, I took a lesson with a brilliant instructor who gave me plenty of tips in passing.

I was a nervous wreck an hour before the test as I knew the passing rate was really low at only 49% and it didn’t help that I also knew a lot of people who took the test 2-3 times.

People at work were constantly giving me encouraging messages up till the very last minute. Luckily the 40 euro lesson and prayers from friends paid off as miraculously, I passed!

So I now proudly hold a Full Irish Driving License and somehow I feel like it’s my biggest accomplishment so far.

( If only you knew how many minor accidents I’ve been through with my mom’s car ! )

My trustable car which I drove for the driving test

A Really Quick Update!

November flew by quickly and my last post was 3 weeks ago. A lot has happened since and my life now is slowly coming back to normal. I had a gruelling 2 day course last week (which is a must for Paediatric Trainees) and my last minute work paid off in the end. I passed, yea! I-am-just-glad-its-over!

The weather ? Oh, I absolutely hate the freezing cold weather. It annoys me that I have to start my journey 20 minutes early to warm up my icy car as I could really do with the extra time in bed. And it’s depressing enough that I don’t get to see any daylight on weekdays!

On the brighter side of things, the pregnancy is going well and we now know the sex of the baby. The 2 scans have been showing the same outcome but I’ll wait till I get my 4D scan at 30++ weeks to be 100% sure. Can you guess? Heheh….We’ll leave it as a surprise.

After months and months of anticipation, our house back home is finally ready and complete. I have so many plans for the house but all has to be put on hold for the moment with us being here. To be honest, I have no idea how the house looks like now. My family organized a ‘kenduri doa selamat’ a few weeks ago and I am glad that’s out of the way, so that is one less worry for me. We only have to organize a house warming party next ( whenever that may be! )

And finally, I’ll leave 2 recent photos of us taken over the weekend at a friend’s party. I used to put my photos under private posts but i guess there is no point in doing so if hardly anyone reads this blog.

The black turtleneck is really hiding the bump well