Sticky 2.0 Journal reorganised.
Sep. 24th, 2025 08:44 pm(24.09.20)
Never too late to return to an old friend.
Journals are like best friends who never grow old, never married or have children, never have careers with commanding time, energy, space.
Like gold they hold their value. Waiting for your return.
This journal has chronicled my senior high school years, my university years. Then my journey to professional HCP, The beginnings of new grad, and then radio silence.
Let's pick up the story.
There's 8 years worth to tell.
In the spirit of confidentiality:
MICH major inner city hospital
MSH major suburban hospital
SSH small suburban hospital
sections inside MICH:
small ICU [where I currently work]
big ICU
neuro ICU (where I worked blissfully from 2015-2019)
cardiac ICU
covid ICU (actually no longer open because Australia is an island and a very wealthy nation).
Running list of frequent acronyms I will use
NVB - normal vaginal birth
G - Gravida (how many pregnancies in total: which includes miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths)
P - parity (how many babies born)
IOL - induction of labour
pt - patient
ICU - intensive care unit
Em cs - emergency cesarean
El cs elective cesarean
LSCS - lower segment cesarian section
GDM Diet - gestational diabetes diet controlled
LGA - large for gestational age
SGA - small for gestational age
ART line - arterial line
MAP - mean arterial pressure
Mec - meconium stained liquor
VE - vaginal exam
OT- operating theater
Never too late to return to an old friend.
Journals are like best friends who never grow old, never married or have children, never have careers with commanding time, energy, space.
Like gold they hold their value. Waiting for your return.
This journal has chronicled my senior high school years, my university years. Then my journey to professional HCP, The beginnings of new grad, and then radio silence.
Let's pick up the story.
There's 8 years worth to tell.
In the spirit of confidentiality:
MICH major inner city hospital
MSH major suburban hospital
SSH small suburban hospital
sections inside MICH:
small ICU [where I currently work]
big ICU
neuro ICU (where I worked blissfully from 2015-2019)
cardiac ICU
covid ICU (actually no longer open because Australia is an island and a very wealthy nation).
Running list of frequent acronyms I will use
NVB - normal vaginal birth
G - Gravida (how many pregnancies in total: which includes miscarriages, stillbirths, neonatal deaths)
P - parity (how many babies born)
IOL - induction of labour
pt - patient
ICU - intensive care unit
Em cs - emergency cesarean
El cs elective cesarean
LSCS - lower segment cesarian section
GDM Diet - gestational diabetes diet controlled
LGA - large for gestational age
SGA - small for gestational age
ART line - arterial line
MAP - mean arterial pressure
Mec - meconium stained liquor
VE - vaginal exam
OT- operating theater