I miss blogging, but I can't blog because I have no energy to. Oh well, another excuse.
Anyway, I just finished my Pharm Law practical test today. No one wants to go back. Me too. But I haven't signed in to my NUS Email for so long, (which I did just a few minutes ago) I just found out that I still have to go to school early for a debrief... Boo hoo hoo... I was thinking of sleeping in!
As usual, we have to wash our apparatus before our test to ensure that they are squeaky clean. I mean, so you won't have blue stuff contaminating your white product, etc.. I went to wash on Monday. Because my Group B counterpart doesn't do a good job of washing, I scrubbed the beakers really hard. Imagine a glass beaker appearing opaque! I sometimes even have to wash the glass slab myself again during the middle of a practical class because I couldn't stand the remnants.
Back to Monday. I was scrubbing the beaker when I felt some sort of a scratch across my right index finger. I thought it was just a scratch, but when I put the beaker down, I realised I actually broke the beaker and the broken piece cut my finger. I didn't think it was deep, but blood kept flowing out under the tap water and I knew I needed help.
The person nearest to me was James but he was a few benches away. I decided not to shout for him (I wonder why I had the time to make so many considerations) and ran towards him instead.
"James, James, James! Quick quick! Tissue, tissue!" James was studying and he was like, "Huh?" He opened his bag halfway and realised that he didn't have tissue, so I told him to get it from my bag instead. He saw blood and told me to apply pressure to stop the bleeding. How can I forget about applying pressure? Anyway, he reached for his specs and ran off looking for some teaching assistant.
I think it must have caused such a commotion that even Naren and Hui Si knew about it. Haha. Naren was like, "Reminds me of preceptorship times." During our preceptorship, there was a cook in the food court who cut his finger while preparing food. Naren and I decided not to eat from that stall for some time. LOL. Anyway, he was the one who performed first aid for the cook. Hui Si was like, OMG. Even Jamie came and found out what happened.
So Perry Ang (or Perry Png, I can't remember his last name, but he's the guy who helped out during Pharmacostatistics lab) came with James and took a look at my cut. He got some first aid bandages, etc and even an alcohol swab. I didn't want alcohol to sting my finger, so I pretended not to see it. James then tried to wrap up the cut with some gauze and the lab aunty came. She said it's normal and that a plaster would suffice. Everyone asked me if it was painful. Not painful, really. It's just some dull pain. Perry even told me to sit down. Seriously, it was OK; just lost some blood, that's all.
James insisted that all accidents in the lab have to be reported, so he looked for a teaching assistant and she took down some details. She asked how deep the cut was, and I said, I think it's superficial but James kept insisting that I sliced my finger. LOL. Jamie was like, "That sounded so gruesome and scary." Anyway, my mum thought that it was deep enough that flesh could be seen, 'cos towards the end of the day, the cut still bled occasionally. Oh ya, you remember I was washing my apparatus halfway? The aunty told me not to wash the remaining anymore and leave it to James to do it. She cleared up for me 'cos I shouldn't be touching water and then we left the lab.
I knew James wouldn't do it - either he forgot, or he would be busy mugging, so I decided to go wash them myself than rely on him after Pharm Law lecture on Tuesday. I was the second one to dash out of the LT! Haha. Usually I'm one the the last few.
Just as I entered the lab, I met the lab aunty and she told me she just finished washing them for me. I felt so embarrassed and grateful at the same time. Aunty's so so so nice!!! Aunty then continued, "I was waiting for the Boi Boi to come the whole day, but he didn't come wash for you, so I did it." This is seriously funny! I related what the aunty said to James, and he said he would be embarrassed to step into the Dispensing Lab for the test on Wednesday. Haha.
Anyway, today's test was not as stressful as I thought 'cos there wasn't a need to make suppositories. Lucky us! Anyway, I made Cod Liver Oil Emulsion (like Scott's) and Yee Wen and I both agreed that our hands smell fishy! Haha.
And one stupid thing happened during pract test today. I was weighing my capsules and I found something weird. The maximum weight of a capsule is like 200++mg, so I exceeded the 200mg limit and removed some powder. In the end, the weight increased! I tried again, and it happened again! I called for someone and she gave me a look like I was too paranoid. Come on, I'm not that paranoid OK? She tested it too and concluded that all the grinding by the students nearby on the same bench affected it. She would change a new weighing balance for me. LOL. I felt... A little awkward. She told me to do my other preparations first, but without a weighing balance to weight stuff out, how can I even start? So the lab aunty brought me a new weighing balance. Haha. I feel so sorry for troubling the lab aunty.
As usual, we had to clean up after the test, so I took one finger cot to put over my injured finger to avoid contact with water. It worked! Haha. So I was washing up halfway when Kah Mun told me that my Group B counterpart wanted me to wash the apparatus extra clean for her because she has a test and wouldn't be in to pre-wash the apparatus herself. I said OK, and Yee Wen overheard. Yee Wen was like, "I thought she herself always never wash very clean for you one?" I'm like, "Yeah..." What an apt thought by Yee Wen! I was thinking the exact same thing! The only reason why I have been putting up with the dirty apparatus the past few weeks was because I don't know my Group B counterpart well, so if I requested that she wash the stuff more properly, we probably wouldn't ever talk again? Although we rarely talk... Anyway, I still made my apparatus squeaky clean for her lor. Thinking back, if she washed them properly after she used them, I wouldn't have to scrub my beaker so hard till it broke and cut my finger.
When the pract test was drawing to an end, the teaching assistant who took my details on Tuesday came looking for me with a form which I was supposed to fill in. Know what? I just realised that I forgot to fill in the date of accident! Haha. After filling in the form, she told me that it's part of the procedures that we two sit down and go through whatever that had happened. I said OK and will be doing that after lecture tomorrow... I told Jamie about the post-accident reporting that I have to do, and she was like, "It's as if you were involved in a car accident!" Precisely! But I'm not gonna say I broke the beaker 'cos I scrubbed too hard.
Anyway, Pharm Law pract's almost OOOOOOOOOOOVER! Yay!
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{ Wednesday, March 10, 2010 } 9:43 PM
Pharm Law Pract Is Finally Over~! Well, Almost. 
