A Note Left

Dear Almighty Creator Allah,
I know I shouldn't write our little talk here. No one needs to know, but writing makes me better. So may I post some of them and get someone understand the hard times I've been through?

When life knocks me down, I always ask Your help so I can get up and fight my way back up. I shouldn't have asked to make everything easier. I should have prayed to develop courage and strength. Staying strong is not that easy, Dear Almighty Allah. You promised not to put someone through situations to which he/she cannot bear, and it lead me thinking...

Everyone wants a happy ending just like what's been written on last page of fairy tales, and so do I. You will not give anything we can't handle. I'll stop complaining and keep struggling... 
So will You tell him not to give up on me? :)

One Team, One Dream

Spent a week in Murnajati, Lawang, working on research project, daily discussions and.... Having fun. :p

 

 

Writing a research paper on medical science in difficult and not everyone can deal with this.

Thank God I worked in a team!

Although we've spent a week working on this research, I still do not ('till now, I repeat!) understand about SPSS. My applause goes to my captain, Eja, and his right-hand man, Popo, for running this program very well. I often saw them having a serious convo about analyzing data in SPSS. I felt bad for not understanding what they talked about and for not giving any help. I am terribly sorry, captain. :(

Beside the research, we also did the medical counseling/sharing to mothers with children under five about the importance of weight and height measurement in Posyandu. Anthropometric measures are important health indicators to assess children's growth and to evaluate their nutritional status. To improve health status of your children, please bring them to Posyandu every month to routinely measure weight and height, Moms! :)

                                     

 

   

                                      

And during this depressing week, we luckly had chances to seek for refreshments. Like Gwen Stefani said, 

I wanna get away, to our sweet escape...

We went to Burger Buto for first destination. They made HUGE burger that I could not finish. Look at the pic above: what they served in front of Yuga. Popo said it was a able-to-be-eaten vespa's wheel. :D

And on the last day of Murnajati, we also escaped to Kebun Teh, Lawang. Beaaaaaautifuuuuuuuuullll.

   

One week with perfectionist teacher, very well organized captain, craziest and funniest teammates.... Having them is not a punishment. It's called with a blessing. :')

One team. One dream. One mission accomplished!

There is no "I" in team, but there is "IN" in win. And the team with best players win. :)

Attending An Enjoyable Seminar of Public Health

Attended a seminar of Public Health Sunday morning :)

 

This seminar updated about nutrition and health status of mothers, infants, and young children in Indonesia today. Spokeperson explained how early nutrition gives a big impact on life long outcomes. Evidence based study proves that numbers of protein-energy malnutrition still reaches high although Indonesia is getting slowly increased economic growth. See? Investing in early life nutrition is that important, because it's essential to children's physical and cognitive development. 

Save the children and save the future of your country!

Again, we took many many photos in seminar. We feel honoured to have attended such an excellent event like this for free. Thank you Public Health for having us here :)

And girls will never get enough photos :p

We got these seminar tools kit after the show. A printed certificate, a useful tote bag, a blocknote, and a 4 GB flash disc in one package! Booooyeah! 

I look forward another interesting seminar like this :)

Farewell, Ophthalmology!

A pending post, hehe :p Since the Blogger's layout changed, I had (and still, am having) problems in posting. Maybe that's only me having difficulty, or still not well adapted with this new tools :p

During 4 weeks rotation in Department of Ophthalmology, we also went to Rumah Sakit Mata Undaan, Surabaya (a private hospital specializing exclusively in Ophthalmology). Only for three days, yet it had been enough for us to learn more about eyes and its equipments used in eye examination (which are not available in our hospital). And also for all three days, we had the famous Soto Ayam located in front of The Eye Hospital for brunch! This was the main purpose why we had been all here! To taste the delicious Soto Ayam Hartono :D

And on the last week of rotation, we also visited The Blind School. YPAB, which means Yayasan Pendidikan Anak Buta (School for Blind), also can be translated into another acronyms: Yakin Pasti Akan Berhasil (Will Succeed for Sure). Touching! :')

Ah finally... After an hour struggling for making this post and fixing it right! Well, one month I spent here in Ophthalmology Department will remains in my memory that lasts forever... (Alah) :p Before I post this writings, lemme write a hearfelt thank you note to my teachers: dr. Ni Nyoman Geriputri and dr. Nicholastri (hopefully I spelled their names right!). Thank you doc for being busy all day long teaching us, for a month of mentoring and .... helped us (especially me!) so much to improve skills. You both will continue to inspire us and may your recidency years go smoothly, may you successfully graduate and be great ophthalmologists! :)

Farewell, Ophthalmology!

ORBIS, Fly to Save Sight Worldwide

Last Friday I (and my team-mates) had a huge big chance attending discussion forum and one live surgery at ORBIS, The Flying Eye Hospital :D

As we've already known, Indonesia has problems in managing health-care system. It's worsen by most of Indonesian who doesn't understand still about the importance of health. Patients postpone treatment because of one reason: the medical care costs high. It breaks my heart seeing lots of patients who should've suffered from illness if there's no delay in treatment come to our clinic with poorer prognosis.

Let's talk about the blindness. Rates of blindness in Indonesia still reaches high. In fact, 75% of blindness can be prevented and treated. Yet the expensive health care costs cause our people goes seeking alternative therapy and they decide to see a doctor at advanced stadium, after the alternative therapy doesn't work.

Luckily, since last month ORBIS team was coming to Surabaya (only Surabaya! yeay!), to help cure blindness through surgery. Their arrival brings much benefits for all: patients to undergo surgery for free, opthalmogists to discuss latest surgery technique, residents to learn more about opthalmology, and..... Interns to take photos with the plane and the professors. Hahaha!

Enjoy loads photos of us with

the ORBIS (which means Hunter), The Flying Eye Hospitals :)

And those are photos captured by Yuga and Iji. Thank you! :3





Hope to see you again next year! Ah and get to know ORBIS more here.