Graves' disease~

I had my first looooong day yesterday. An 8am-6pm day with an hour lunch break between 1-2pm. It could have stretched longer had i gone to the wards to meet patients (i did actually go take a look at their charts before deciding i was too exhausted to meet any of them).

Anyway, the highlight of my day was at the diabetic clinic. I had been shadowing this lady doctor (an SHO) for close to 3 hours. Every time she asked me a question, i was left stumped. The questions weren't too hard, mind you (eg: give me the complications of diabetes). But as simple as the questions were, i couldn't give a satisfactory answer. She kinda looked at me like i was an idiot after some time, stopped asking me any more questions and started to teach me some god-awful basic stuff as i acted super dumb.

But then this patient came in. She had bulging eyes (exophthalmos) - the classic sign of Graves' Disease. I had my thyroid lectures with Gerfla last semester, so that was one department i was 100% sure i wouldn't mess up. When the patient left, i mentioned to the SHO about my observation.

"Good catch there, Izzy. Yes, she did have thyroitoxicosis prior to her thyroidectomy" said the SHO as she smiled and gave me a good, hard congratulatory pat on the back. "Very good!"

I put on my best 'Ahhh-no-big-deal' face.
But inside i was dancing. (*grins)

In fact, i'm still dancing~
Lalalala~