No More Work Experience =[

School tomorrow. And X Country too...6km T___T
Everyone will probably just run to 7/11 and get a slurpee =]

Wish I still had work experience -.- It was actually all right I guess, though I reckon going to an actual department instead of volunteers would have been so much better.

So on Friday (which wasn't actually that unlucky) we started off selling raffle tickets. Yeah...we were like OMG at first...but soon we realised selling raffle tickets was kinda like having an all access pass to every section of the hospital - except the ever-elusive Operating Theatre, Todman Recovery Ward and Intensive Care units (the latter two into which we were able to get into later that day).

Success!!! =D An actual Work Experience pass instead of some lame Visitor one:


So first we went to Emergency, which is so cool because this nurse has to like buzz you in before you can open the door and go in =D So we got in and then just started photo spamming...only my shitty camera blurs without flash for some reason...and having flash just makes everyone stare...

Behold...the resus bay =] They even had like 50mL syringes, which were like freaking huge...think glue stick size...


Then after taking photos of everything and copping extremely irritated glowers from the nurses there we ran away from the resus bay and into this giant maze of doctor offices in the emergency department. Met this really awesome dude who like bought 3 raffle tickets and also had this rofl pic on his wall =D

It's a little unclear because there wasn't flash...but the label basically reads: Dr. Chin!!! xD And notice the guy's uber top chin ^^ Hehe

So then we decided to leave emergency before the pissed off nurse decided to kick us out (or back in if she kicked hard enough) and decided to go guilt-trip all the other parents, nurses and doctors (they're not safe either =D). After going to like all the wards - even Wade Ward which we had gotten thrown out of earlier that week and Hall Ward where all the psychiatric kids are literally "locked up". You have to press this buzzer to be let into the tiny reception, from which 2 corridors behind solid looking doors branch off. And in each of those locked corridors there are separate rooms all with locks on them. It's really sad how they have to be shut off behind all those doors - it would drive even the most sane person crazy. And their parents only come to visit at 6pm everyday =[

Behold...Brain Bee peoplees =]

And the chapel!

After selling 3 whole books of raffles and having morning tea we were sent off once again to sell more tickets. This time it was to the other wing of the hospital...where all the specialist clinics are. Over the bridge...

And I couldn't resist taking pictures of the Chinese gardens again. They're just so peaceful...except for the scaffolding I guess...


We managed to tunnel our way past reception into this nuclear thingy with CTs and MRIs with this really nice asian lady who like bought 3 tickets too =] Then we set off down the labyrinthine corridors (with 50 other corridors branching off it) to find even more departments - like ultrasound, radiology, and then took the >really nice< lifts (not like the other ones) which even read out the level number. And found our way to the departments of surgery, medicine AND cardiology! =] Where we once again were able to enter undeterred and try find Roshan in one of the hundreds of offices there. Came across this awesomly nice doctor who showed us where Roshan was and spent the hour with us in the room chatting and letting us watch the heart surgery on the screen (live feed from camera attached to doctor's glasses).


Cool eh? The operation is like the most complex heart operation there is and it was on a 3 DAY old baby, whose heart is like the size of a big gumball. Imagine trying to operate for like 6 hours non-stop (with no toilet/coffee break) on the heart hunched over a baby's body and trying to fix the arteries and aortas and stuff >.<" Crazy mann. They needed like giant magnifying glasses. So after that awesome hour we suddenly realised...OMG we've sold like 2 tickets and its noon - so we ran to pathology and all these other places to try get people to buy them xD

And at lunchtime we went down to the massively overpriced cafeteria and ate - Gusta got me to buy her a sandwich...Curried Egg and Lettuce...which btw tastes completely like crap. Disgusting stuff. Then we all went to the Starlight Room where Captain Starlight asked us to help her separate all the Bingo tickets for the kids. Except everyone separated them then ran away and I was left there to try tidy all the tickets off the ground =.=

So then I tried to find everyone else (Dennis, Edward, Ada, Gusta, Andrew, Bahaven, Nivvi, Roshan) in the giant hospital - only it turned out they had all split up and I could only find Bahaven and Andrew in the fire stairs -.-' So Andrew was trying to show Bahaven Level 0 xD That's right - there is a Level 0 with all these tunnels and secret passageways! Except the dumb thing is that the door won't open from the inside - you can only open it from the fire stairs. So we had to get a rock to keep the door ajar - and in case it closed there was this secret exit to the Chinese Gardens. Bahaven chickened out and ran away =P And so Andrew and I ventured into the underbelly of the beast ^^ With solid concrete tunnels that seemed to stretch on forever into infinity and 100 other tunnels branching from that one: Behold...

This part is lit by lights...it gets darker later on.
Anyway Andrew went around opening all these doors and then suddenly when he opened this door we heard this sound like a fire alarm going off, and naturally...we ran for our lives =.= It might have just been like the sound of the pipes and stuff behind the door though o.O
We should have kept going instead of sprinting all the way back like retards and then hiding in an elevator >____< The curiosity is like killing me now... Anyway then near the Department of Surgery we bumped into these n00bs Edward and Dennis =D

Lol...they had to carry all these weird metal parts from this storeroom down the elevator to some other place all day =D

Meanwhile we headed back to the Volunteers Department because we couldn't find Bahaven anywhere and then Jill asked us to go deliver the Sydney Child magazines to all the wards...which we later realised was an even more powerful all access pass to all the wards ^^

Andrew and I really wanted to go to Intensive Care Unit to see what it was like so then we just went into PICU acting all casual and walking all the way into the ward to ask if they wanted the mags (even though they obviously didn't lmao). So they said no and we went back down the corridor wanting to take all these pictures - except it was like an uber busy corridor with everyone walking past. So after like 5 minutes of looking busy stacking and restacking the magazines we managed to get these shots =D



And then we realised it was pretty ordinary anyway =.=
Don't diss their blurriness. I couldn't put on flash and I had to take them extremely quickly - although my camera is extremely slow at responding -.-' So they're actually uber good =D

After that we went to like the Variety Club ward or some place and guess what we saw...an ICE machine!!! =D [No not that kind of ice you noob -.-']
This ice:


Basically all you have to do is press the white thing and all this is ice instantly made and drops out xD
Observe:

I want one =]

And the highlight of our day was...getting granted access into Todman Recovery Ward!!! And yes it is as awesome as it sounds - it's not an ordinary ward at all where patients just lie watching TV and eating. Basically, you have all these surgeons and doctors in there with rooms and operating theatres and everything in between.

The doors even open automatically when you press a button =] Just like the operating suite!
So here it is with the doors open - they're normally completely shut with these trianglar DANGER signs on the front of each door.

It just emanates this aura of coolness...and makes you wanna just run in and see what's all inside it.

So here we go rolling in our deafeningly squeaky trolley filled with magazines as casually as possible to look like we belong there when it's meant to be only for the top surgeons and doctors and most pwned patients (even the giant Surgical Ward cannot compare to this =])

And guess what? A doctor comes out and opens the doors from the inside so we just stand at the door looking around in stupor at the ward. This really nice doctor dude like tells us to come in and put the magazines on the front desk - and we have no idea where it is - so like this other really nice female doctor shows us down the corridors until we get to the front desk. And get this - we like travelled right next to the RED zone! Past which only surgeons can progress:

It's that red line - you can't go past it or you die =O This photo is AMAZINGLY crystal clear for no flash and the speed at which we whipped the camera out and back into our pocket.

And the doctors like told us to press the red button to open the doors to go back out, and we like ran towards this huge red button beside us about to press it...
Before this nurse shouts NO!!! and stops us just in time...it turned out to be a Code Blue emergency button thing - for when a dude like crashes and then you get like 30 doctors running to the scene with their pagers beeping >__________< So after having all our curiosity satisfied we journeyed back down to the department, where Bahaven happened to be waiting. Turns out he ran off and spent the arvo in cardio with Roach and Nivvi watching the operation. Except when we told him the fun we had and all the wards we got into he got sooo pissed ROFL. Mann his jealous expression (which he denied and kept saying he didn't care) was like priceless lmao =D Kinda like this LOL!

(BJ looking like he's giving some invisible dude a BJ lmao)

Rofl...anyway the day like came to an end then - here's some other photos I took:
Here are the uber elevators:

And the massively overpriced water:

Emergency codes:

And here's a video of our (or more accurately my) playing with the automatic opening doors to the surgical theatres =D And they make this uber deep rumbling sound when they open ^^ So cool

So awesome...lol we like totally sprinted away after that ^^

Ah well I should go work now...I'm only up to like page 9 for Brain Bee =.= Too hard...
Sorry for a massively long post xD