Reminiscence (part 1)

It has been quite some time since I last posted something on this blog. Many things have happened since my last entry. The most significant of them all is that I am now engaged to the doctor I once hated. Kinda hard to believe, right? I do feel the same at times…LOL.

Reminiscing how this hate-turned-love relationship has started and progressed, I am indeed in awe of my creator’s master plan. Little did I know of His great plans and blessings lined up for me in this little town called Tawau.

Two strangers. One chose to do housemanship in Tawau, with hopes to get more hands-on experiences. The other was exiled to this small town, and came with much reluctance.

Dec 2010:

It was somewhere around this time when we first met. Before this, we have had some short conversations over the phone, all in regards to drug dosage confirmations and interventions.

On one fine day in Dec 2010, my pharmacist assistant came to me with a prescription of Zoladex^®, a specialist item, for a new patient. I was the pharmacist in-charge of satellite pharmacy then. The prescription was written by a houseman and there was no countersignature by the specialist to verify the order. Like what other pharmacists would do, I rang the prescribing doctor (which was JW) in request for the countersignature before I could dispense the monthly implant. He told me that his specialist wasn’t around in the ward and insisted that the medication to be served first as his patient wanted to be discharged fast. In reply, I informed him that his specialist is in the clinic and that I need verification from his boss before I could issue out the medication, as the patient (which was clinically stable) has not been on this drug before and it wouldn’t kill anyone to get the confirmation first.

Immediately after I hung up, I went to the gynae ward which was just beside the satellite pharmacy to hand him the prescription. Having not gotten over the breakup of a 9 year relationship, I was in a rather foul mood that day and didn’t smile much. I went straight to JW with the prescription in hand and said “Nah, Dr Low..” I stood at a little distance from him and thus, it may seem like I threw the prescription back at him….that’s how we first met.