Last Friday was the 3rd week of work at SGH.
Surprisingly things went quite well!
Of course I had been rostered to a different theatre from the previous week, so it took me a while to orientate myself.
I proceeded with the usual machine check.. and OMG.. it wasn't even possible to do a manual check! Thank goodness I can READ and sort of follow instructions off a ventilator!
I had a nice but quiet consultant for the day, and she liked to send me off for breaks so that she could also do the same.. but I kind of wanted to stay in the theatre. I guess when you don't have to do this everyday you get the feeling of missing stuff being 'on break'. Besides there was hardly anyone I knew to 'have a break' with. The orthopaedic surgeon was pretty cool too, played funky music during the entire 9 hours we were there.
But, at the end of the day, I was really happy to go home, and go back to my simple life! Missed the kids so much!
When I got home, the 2 girls were playing happily, no one was missing anyone, and life went on as per normal. Friday night Chris' friend from Malaysia was down visiting, so we took him and the girls out to the Botanic Gardens to feed fish and have dinner.
Saturday was maniacal as well. Clinic was busy busy.. then home to see the girls, then we had lunch with M.Han at his restaurant 53. We were supposed to start at 130pm, but it was closer to 2 when we finally did start. It was worth the wait though. The menu has improved and the food was inspiring. Our 'simple lunch' turned out to be a 6 course degustation meal!
We also got to meet his new love, C, who is an entrepreneur doing internet based restaurant booking systems. She was chatty and friendly, so the 3.5h lunch went by quite fast.
Of course by the time lunch ended it was almost time to go to dinner at NUSS Guild house at Bukit Timah to celebrate Geok's birthday! Again, another 5 course set dinner. With dessert and a birthday cake. Death by chocolate cake.
Sunday was meant to be a nice quiet day, since Warni had the day off. BUT.. as things would have it, our neighbour suggested an afternoon out at the Bird Park....uuhhhh... alright.. Madison was so keen. Even though WE were exhausted from the week.
Turned out... the kids had a really long afternoon nap, followed by bad weather in Jurong ( thank goodness we didn't make it there!). So that turned into an afternoon at the ECP flying kites and playing with sand. Followed by a dip in the pool at the Swimming club and dinner. It was fun! I just wish the club renovations would proceed at a faster pace so that we can start going there regularly again to swim and eat.
So.. another week has passed, and I am happy that this anaesthesia thing happened to me. Happy that I have supportive family that allow me to do this. Happy that the kids coped well with the change. And of course happy that I now know what I want to do with my life! That's for now.. Things do change...
Oh.. the only thing bugging me now is our rental property. IT'S becoming A PITA. The tenant defaulted on rent AGAIN, and when I sent the agent on her, turns out she doesn't want to continue with the lease! Gee, thanks.. just NOT pay instead of nicely telling us that you don't want to continue? So now we've got to start tenant hunting again. I hope we find one soon enough. She wasn't even paying as much as G's unit which is 4 floors down!
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