a journey of a starless night

walked lazily to class this morning
still felt sleepy
had a cup of nescafe in my hand (yes, it is a must to have a cup every morning or i will sleep in the class)

reached lecture hall at 8.35am
luckily, the presentation hadn't started yet
haha

went to clinic for morning session
had a patient
she wanted to remove her lower right back tooth because of frequent toothache

when i looked into her mouth, i could see a tooth with big hole
presented the case to the lecturer
oh, before that
we had to wait for the lecturer for almost 1 hour

he asked me to take radiograph of the tooth
interpretation: the tooth after it had already moved forward making the space for removal of that 'hole-y' tooth became smaller

he asked me to proceed first
i gave LA to the patient, waited for few minutes and started to elevate the tooth
it was hard because there was no stable place to support the force
once i got grip the tooth, i tried removing it and
*prackk*
o oh...fractured crown

called the lecturer and he asked me to remove the retained root using the elevator
coupland-->failed
warrick james-->failed
cryer-->failed

before that, he tried to split the root into two parts
the idea was to remove the root one by one
after he cut the tooth, he asked me to elevate again
i tried but could not proceed
i was afraid i could do more harm to the retained root

i looked at the clock
gosh! 12pm
i started the procedure at 10.30am
my colleagues managed to remove 2 to 3 teeth
aku pulak, sebatang pun x keluar lagi

doctor asked me to tell the staff in specialist clinic to lay out instruments for minor oral surgery
make it short, the procedure finished at 1.40pm
discharged the patient with a list of medication to take and tidied up my working place
walked out from the clinic at 2pm and i had afternoon session at 2pm

i only ate mini murtabak and custard cakes for lunch
i haven't take proper lunch for few days already....

can you imagine how long did i spend to take a tooth?
it was a complicated case by the way
i didn't expect it to be that hard

and what made my day more tiring was the air conditioner was not functioning
it was raining heavily outside but we felt so hot in the clinic
i was wearing knitted blouse because i thought it was going to be cold the whole day
turned out the opposite
i was sweating from the moment i entered the clinic until i walked out from it

and that was my story for today