Today was exciting! Both in a bad and good way :d
Was woken at roughly 6am by my dad saying that my 'grandma had a heart attack' (mums side), and that we had to rush to the hospital. Given that i slept at 2, i was in the state where you know you really shouldnt be doing anything except sleeping as things might get dangerous. Liek you might trip and fall down the stairs. Or blind yourself with a toothbrush etc.
But anyway we went, now she's in the ICU apparently the idiots (since none of you work in the orthopaedic department in SGH, i hope your parents dont too) had no idea what to do in event of a heart attack, cuz all theyre used to is like bandaging legs and bringing elderly for therapy. I know they probably do an excellent job at that, but whats the use of becoming a DOCTOR or a NURSE and the most basic need crops up ie SAVING A LIFE and you just jack around fumbling with tubes and wires you've learned about in NUS but havent actually foreseen yourself using. I'm no doctor and i'm not sure how it goes, but i find it ironic that a ward that deals specifically with weak elderly suffering injuries or ailments can fail so terribly. I was actually there when 4 nurses utterly FAILED at working the respirator.
So anyway my grandma i think spent 3-4 hours since her heart attack and actually getting on the respirator, (3am heart attack, 7am respirator). Doesn't need a doctor to figure out how messed up that is.
Anyway now she's stable in the ICU so thank God, and i hope she pulls through this okay. Just got to pray alot i guess!
Unhappy things aside, after that was baking marathon (ok not really) at tanneh's place! We ambitiously set out to make 4 things - special choco chip cookies, xmas cookies with weird sugar, carrot cake and strawberry cheesecake. The chocochip cookies surprisingly turned out really good if i may say so myself, with a melt in yuor mouth texture that was ooooooooooo. I think it had to do with the fact that we put 300000 grams of butter in the dough. :D
The strawberry cheesecake also turned out pretty good, i maintain my stand that a close to 1cm thick crust of digestive biscuits + butter + other unhealthy stuff was TOO MUCH but she likes the crust most so oh well. DIdnt have a blender so had to hand pound the strawberries to a pulp, which i enjoyed. Mixed it in with the cheese and made pretty swirly patterns! Not bad considering our first cheesecake attempt was... rofl
Anyway i was like I LOVE CARROT CAKE so we decided to make it. Hardest part was probably grating the carrots T_T rest was just like, mix everything together in a big bowl and pour it out in a pan and bake it. Wish i took a picture of the mixture though it really looked like puke cake mix HAHA. We forgot to seive the flour and all the other powders so had to go on a crusade to crush all the little irritating lumps of death. Again it turned out pretty good, too much icing though and too little nuts.
XMAS COOKIES FAILED I HATE CRAPPY DOUGH THAT DOESNT DO WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. oh well the dough sits in the fridge, and she has kindly offered to continue with them when theyre the correct texture.
SO yup that was today my fingers smell of dough yuck.
Was woken at roughly 6am by my dad saying that my 'grandma had a heart attack' (mums side), and that we had to rush to the hospital. Given that i slept at 2, i was in the state where you know you really shouldnt be doing anything except sleeping as things might get dangerous. Liek you might trip and fall down the stairs. Or blind yourself with a toothbrush etc.
But anyway we went, now she's in the ICU apparently the idiots (since none of you work in the orthopaedic department in SGH, i hope your parents dont too) had no idea what to do in event of a heart attack, cuz all theyre used to is like bandaging legs and bringing elderly for therapy. I know they probably do an excellent job at that, but whats the use of becoming a DOCTOR or a NURSE and the most basic need crops up ie SAVING A LIFE and you just jack around fumbling with tubes and wires you've learned about in NUS but havent actually foreseen yourself using. I'm no doctor and i'm not sure how it goes, but i find it ironic that a ward that deals specifically with weak elderly suffering injuries or ailments can fail so terribly. I was actually there when 4 nurses utterly FAILED at working the respirator.
So anyway my grandma i think spent 3-4 hours since her heart attack and actually getting on the respirator, (3am heart attack, 7am respirator). Doesn't need a doctor to figure out how messed up that is.
Anyway now she's stable in the ICU so thank God, and i hope she pulls through this okay. Just got to pray alot i guess!
Unhappy things aside, after that was baking marathon (ok not really) at tanneh's place! We ambitiously set out to make 4 things - special choco chip cookies, xmas cookies with weird sugar, carrot cake and strawberry cheesecake. The chocochip cookies surprisingly turned out really good if i may say so myself, with a melt in yuor mouth texture that was ooooooooooo. I think it had to do with the fact that we put 300000 grams of butter in the dough. :D
The strawberry cheesecake also turned out pretty good, i maintain my stand that a close to 1cm thick crust of digestive biscuits + butter + other unhealthy stuff was TOO MUCH but she likes the crust most so oh well. DIdnt have a blender so had to hand pound the strawberries to a pulp, which i enjoyed. Mixed it in with the cheese and made pretty swirly patterns! Not bad considering our first cheesecake attempt was... rofl
Anyway i was like I LOVE CARROT CAKE so we decided to make it. Hardest part was probably grating the carrots T_T rest was just like, mix everything together in a big bowl and pour it out in a pan and bake it. Wish i took a picture of the mixture though it really looked like puke cake mix HAHA. We forgot to seive the flour and all the other powders so had to go on a crusade to crush all the little irritating lumps of death. Again it turned out pretty good, too much icing though and too little nuts.
XMAS COOKIES FAILED I HATE CRAPPY DOUGH THAT DOESNT DO WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. oh well the dough sits in the fridge, and she has kindly offered to continue with them when theyre the correct texture.
SO yup that was today my fingers smell of dough yuck.
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