Long Week

Sure had been a long one. During the week, we sorted out our move into the new apartment, done my calls, cover for my colleagues who were away among other things. Hardly time to settle down. And the calls had been busy as well. I topped up the weekend with talks and meetings yesterday. Yes, on a Saturday. Even my boys were complaining that I wasn't around. And they often don't complain.

So, Sunday was welcomes, and I planned for a bit of me time later today. I had a couple of errands to do late on, but the ward round would come first this morning.

The boys had also just finished their school assessment and was hoping for some chill out time. Maybe I'll take them to the park later this week. I also found out that I may be a blue to arrange for an extended weekend in a couple of weeks time. That should be fun ....... That would allow me to get some banking and other personal stuff done. Not to mention some down time, and maybe a weekend out of town ......

Back to the Old Routine

With the office opening tomorrow after the CNY break, am expecting heavy traffic. Will be on call again tomorrow, with a morning clinic at Desa ParkCity. Hopefully the call would be a reasonable as I was concerned that with the crowd coming back to town, they might be bringing their illness along with them. But enough rough grumbling.

It looked my boys had had too much sugar tonight. They were still running around the room after each other. Luckily they were off the whole week. Sri Utama would only be opened next Monday. A relief for Anita since we would be moving into the new apartment this weekend. Again another reason to pray for a reasonable on call tomorrow.

Time to wind down and hit the sack. Good night all. And form those returning back to work tomorrow, I feel you .......

A Long Day

Post-call and it was a hectic one. A dozen admission, and some of them needed proper sorting out. I therefore decided to start the day early. And I manager to get the rounds sorted out, after which I went over to see a referral at Ara Damansara.

This was followed by a drive to my other clinic at Desa ParkCity. No patients there, so I managed a breather while answering my emails. This took me to lunch, which involved another drive. Bangsar Shopping Center it was, before getting back to Subang for my afternoon clinic.

A real whirlwind of a day, and tonight, I had been preparing for a talk in would be giving at Hospital Ampang tomorrow. At least it would be on a subject I was relatively familiar with. So, time to hit the sack then, and wake up very early to finish off the slides. So, Good Night all!

Subang to ParkCity

I spend Monday morning exploring the route from Subang to Desa ParkCity. Tricky, but leaving after 9, the traffic was light when I cruised down LDP highway. But, I then missed a turn near Keeping, and ended up having to exit the MRR2 to make a U-turn. That added an extra 10 minutes to my journey.

But the main thing was it took just over half an hour to the total travel time, which was great.

It was one thing traveling outside rush hour, another during it. So, I think I'd better plan my journey as such so that I could limit unnecessary travel. From next week, I would start Monday and Wednesday mornings there. That meant, no more relaxing Monday morning ritual at Chawan - well, that had to cut down.

I've also made arrangements to start with the first patient only after 10. The only problem would be if I had to look after patients at ParkCity as the primary doctor. I would make a point to transfer the ill patients across to Subang as I couldn't afford to ferry myself back and forth. It would end up badly for the patient and I.

I spent the rest of the morning looking around at the facilities, my clinic room, the wards, CCU and the labs.

Driving back, via Bangsar, took a bit longer as my GPS took me into the back roads of Bukit Kiara, then Hartamas. This must be avoided during lunchtime though. Nightmare!

So, I'll be traveling down there again tomorrow even though my clinic proper would only begin next week. The first few months should be quiet, and hopefully it won't disrupt my routine too much.

Being Driven Around

As soon as I reached home after the morning ward round, Anita told me that we had to head to the apartment as a prospective buyer wanted to have a look at it. On a Sunday? But well. Our lease will be up next month, and we were waiting to move into a new place on the same block. That would be next month as well.

I thought of just having a sleep rather than follow her along, but she insisted. Luckily, she also asked the family driver to take us along. So, at least I get to nap in the van and not have to worry about driving. Good thing, as I could ask to be drop for my Sunday afternoon post-take rounds as well.

Call last night was busier than I anticipated. As it was raining in the evening, I thought admission would stop coming. But I was wrong. A couple of sick ones as well.

Just finished my rounds and being driven home. Would stop for tandoori take-out as well as United would be playing Liverpool tonight. Big match. Hopefully I could stay awake for that .......