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[r-ene]

Hello, it's been so so so long since, but I just want to share with you all that:

I passed the licensure exam !!

Officially an RTRP 🥺🫁💫

It's been days since I found about the result, and I thought to share here since, despite my inconsistencies and abandonment of my tumblr for months due to being busy with acads then hospital internship then the review season for boards (I genuinely forgot to continue my challenge and all on here, but I did continue behind the scenes!!), being on tumblr for the time I learned that I actually like my major – studying about it even though I was on gap year, it's been one of the things that kept me going and... yeah, hehe

Side note: I had an asthma attack mid-cluster 2 in day 1 of the exams, but turned out to be one of my highest clusters 😭

I also want to share with you all that my anchor verse the whole review season and 2 days of exam was Psalm 121:2, and the mantra I kept on repeating in my head, especially for the 2nd day was:

“I can, I am able, I will—because God can, God is able, and God will.”

And now, I'm a Luke 1:45 girly, waiting to register for her license to practice 🤗

“My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.” — Book of Psalms 121:2

“Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill His promises to her.” — Gospel of Luke 1:45

[r-ene]

girl, october just zoomed through ???

i have so much backlogs (still), even here and life has been life-ing.

i have no idea what disease has been circulating in the philippines but my lungs have been having a hard time recovering from the "flu-like" illness that, after being exposed outside without a mask for 4 days (malls, a big discipleship gathering) = asthma exacerbation + flu-like (very laryngitis like, for me) symptoms.

its been about 2 weeks since but i still have coughs, increased mucus production and just 4k steps makes me have shortness of breath, needing of a puff.

what saddens me is how the effort i made with befriending my lungs again that i was already able to do 15 blocks of jogs in my intermittent walk-jog program i made for myself, is back to 0. prior that i did several 10k steps walks out for a month or so, and i was so happy with the jogs but now im starting from 0 again 🥲. now that im very busy with review center tasks, its a challenge for me to really move again cos... idk, there's just so much to do ?? (recording lectures, several exams + my own readings for the exams)

anw just an update, haha.

will do my best to catch up with my 100 day challenge, but haven't had more than a day of no productivity, so that's still compliance, hehehe

[r-ene]

october 6 '25

day 3/100 days of productivity

...unsure what happened from october 3 and 4, maybe i took it as a time to rest cos today (oct 6, monday) is the first day of review classes, refresher phase. october 5 was a sunday, and since i was in 3rd year i dont study on sundays and keep it light and faith-filled, which, what i did with my family—attended sunday service and had a bonding.

so this is my day 1 of class desk situation. started my morning bright and early at 4am and did some housework, took a bath and started studying for the exams + had some reading time, hehe

we had an hour or two of orientation and the exams were opened. we have the autonomy to choose when to answer them, but preferrably we don't take too long cos when the answer key is out, it adds temptation to cheat; not really somethint you would want for a diagnostic exam.

but i didn't answer the exams this day yet, what i did was:

study using persing's and kettering for general respiratory care

made my own copy of the exams in a google docs with a template ive been using since college – there's 4 clusters for the diagnostic exam, so that took a bit of a long time to do.

a bit... slow start, but it's been nearly a year since i had the energy and focus and brain to study, so... im going to give myself grace for now 😅

[r-ene]

...okay so i haven't forgotten about the challenge i started but i've just been so overwhelmed lately cos its only the first week and i already have so much backlogs: (4 exams, 1 rationale lecture) BUT ive already updated my study tracker notebook yesterday. will do my best to catch u all up cos lol, even here i have so much backlogs too, hahaha

[r-ene]

october 2 '25

day 2/100 days of productivity

started not to use my laptop much as i've been dependent on it for awhile now (starting and wnding my day with notion for life admins) and since i'll be starting revie on the 6th, i'm gonna fast on using it for now cos then i'll be in front of the screen for... about 9 hours for the review sessions + another 3 hours maybe for self-studies.

my accountability buddy for studying is my ☁️, he's the one who checks my daily questions' answers, cutting down some of my time and continue on with my day. anddd he's made a consequence for me if i don't study: for every day i dont study, i would have to fine myself around 20 to 40 pesos, depending how many subjects i dont study, haha.

anyways, for the day's productivity:

daily 12 questions from diagnostics cluster

RT law – Proclamation no. 207, RA no. 9211 and RA no. 8749 (passive + post it summaries)

Polysomnography – finished up studying with egan's (passive + post it summaries)

might rewrite the post it summaries down to my binder notebook for convenience of notes :)

book update: bought letters to milena for my first book purchase 🥰

[r-ene]

october 1 '25

day 1/100 productivity

was only able to do 2/4 study blocks today. well, the other one i just put under the study block but actually i started my daily questions, using one mock boards i have as a source for the questions and answers to practice active recall, is it?

so here's a tiny recap:

rewritten my draft notes from a mini class for mechanical ventilation

did 12 questions for pathophysiology, scored 12/12 :)

i could actually do 3 study blocks in a day or the complete 4, but the problem is... i woke up at nearly 12nn and ...might have spent a lot of time deciding which book to buy (doing a monthly book purchase, missed august and september hehe) so sporadically within this month i'll be buying 3 books. but not all from my tbr im excited about, so im kinda picky now.

deciding between: letters to milena (f. kafka), my year of rest and relaxation (o. moshfegh), good girl (a. aber), white nights (f. dostoevsky), ripe (s. etter), madonna in a fur coat (s. ali), having a mary heart in a martha world (j. weaver)

well, the list could go on, honestly, but i think letters to milena is my top 1 for now. i do also have 10+ tbr here at home, but... yk, haha

[r-ene]

It's october 1st !!

I will be starting my refresher course for board review next week and I told myself once october starts, I'll stop dilly-dallying and lock in with studying.

But... its 330pm now and I've only watched B99 and checked in with my review center's sites to prep for next week.

Will update later about today's progress, maybe as day 1 of 100 of 100 days of productivity.

I honestly wanted to do it annually since... was it 2021 when I did the first one ?? But life just got in the way—nearly 2h commutes to uni, another 2 going home, then during internship it's either a very long commute to and from again (first hospital was in another city) and while the other one was only 30 minutes away from home, everyday shifts were so tiring that if I weren't on duty, I was asleep 😅 but that was the most fulfilling rotation though.

This time, for about a month will be online, then on november or december will be on hybrid set up. So either way, I have more time on my hands and this challenge will force me to really do something at least 2 subjects a day.

See you all again later !!

[r-ene]

boards review season is so soon !!

excited to have social life again after months being cooped up at home, hahaha

thinking to start sharing my review sessions here again, too. ive actually started months ago but i havent been the most consistent, hopefully, especially once september starts, i actually have a routine down.

[r-ene]

just want to share some photos from some of my afternoon walks a few days after my biggest heartbreak (so far), heh 🤍

gonna do my best to really get back to my daily routines. he would also like for me to do so :)

[r-ene]

job hunting is so exhausting. spent 3 days of this week with interviews and making portfolios for different job types (remote or clinical) and i thought its already friday yesterday and want to just sleep in.

and then u get offered bare minimum...

add in having two kinds of heart break just this month. burn out came so so quick to snatch all my energy

[r-ene]

hi friends,

been more than a year i think. i'm thinking of coming back for accountability and share my journey to boards and the time i had during internship (:

it's been such a rollercoaster since last year, since i started my internship. last week has been... just, wow. i had my baccalaureate mass, graduated, had a big family reunion and my relationship with my heart has to end for my family.

so now, i plan to redirect my heartbreak to working on myself, as he said when i asked what am i to do with all the love that's in my heart for him – and that's what we'll (i'll) be doing, until we meet again.

using this platform for accountability during the pandemic and during my academic years has helped me discipline myself a lot, so hopefully, it'll help me again. 🤍

[r-ene]

RT intern treating neonatal and pediatric patients w majority of cases being "pneumonia severe" turns into the patient with acute urti r/o pneumonia r/o uti :--)

now being forced to rest for 3 days

[r-ene]

no one informed me having a partner who's in the same field as u who can handle all ur rambles about the cases you handled for the shift or generally about anything would be this fun

just sent multiple voice messages to mine's and i really appreciate how he's really taking in all my rambles even when we're not together personally + he adjusted his body clock so he could talk to me before i go to my shift (night shift, 10-6am for the week) and wake up very early to either fetch me or text me good morning 🥹🥹

[r-ene]

07.14.24

— life lately

let go of my long hair and dyed my hair again bc its high time for a change (kidding) and i have a pictorial for a department event soon, so, yk

my camera roll's filled with ventilators from high flow machines to baby vents to hamiltons bc it became a habit for me not to only write the changes in vent settings anymore but also take a photo of the current settings the time i did rounds (8am rounds, 12nn rounds)

there's so much i've learned these 5 months in my first clinical rotation and i can't wait to share more about it soon 🤗

[r-ene]

07.13.24

On my day off before my last week in my first hospital rotation (extended from 3 months to 5 months) and your RT intern's patient for today?

Me :)

Over fatigued + upper respiratory tract infection + day 1 of period

Kudos to my body for scheduling it breakdown on my day off

Also, it's flu season again + consistent pneumonia season + lurking covid here and there, please do take care of yourselves, esp 🫁

[r-ene]

Hello, just a sign of life 🐣

And an update... my first rotation's ending next week already 🥹🥹🥹🥹

There's so much i want to share but maybe ill be back in june bc i have a break from academics for 3 months but stil on internship duty !!

ill be back soon and im v excited to share whats been happening ✨️

[r-ene]

Have a report on patient and cardiopulmonary assessment in... about 3 hours and I'm still 2hrs away from the hospital and I'm not yet done w my presentation 🥲🥲

Started on this 2 weeks ago and gave it time whenever I could since commute is tiring and most days there's lots of patients, lots to do

Please pray I get this done before 7AM 🤧

[r-ene]

UPDATE:

It went very well !!!

Instead of memorizing, I reported as if I'm just talking to my co-interns and emphasized on important parts and shared experiences for a more relatable lecture instead of boring them with just theoreticals

My CI even asked to send my presentation to her !!