Phew, what a week I have had.
I think this last week has been one of the longest but
probably the most enjoyable of doing medicine so far. It was fresher’s week so
I went out and stuff but I had 9 – 5 lectures on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
and then on Thursday and Friday I started my first placement in a REAL LIFE
HOSPITAL. The downside of this was that I had to be there for 8 each day and it
is a half an hour bus journey away and I had to get up stupidly early, after
going out the night before it was pretty horrible, did you know it’s still
pretty much pitch black outside at 7:15? It’s weird. But yeah, my placement was
amazing. I shadowed a nurse on Thursday and just saw what they do really, I was
on a surgery ward and got to do an ultrasound of a guy’s bladder and stuff, it
was cool. On Friday I was in the plaster room and got to see them do casts and
stuff and got to help put a cast on someone’s broken leg, again it was super
cool.
On Friday I met Joanne and we went to see Ben Marwood. I just about managed to put up with Jo, even though she is a dirty fresher. Mr Marwood
was just standing in the crowd for all the support acts and we had a proper
chat and we shook hands and he was like “hi, I’m Ben, what’s your name?” It was
awesome. Oxygen Thief was one of the other people playing and I’d never really
watched a proper set by him but he was really quite excellent. Ben was of
course amazing; I stood at the front next to this man who had an arm literally
covered in festival wristbands. I sang all the words to all the songs and when Ben
sang Question Marks he looked over at me and gave me a little smile and it was
amazing. At the end of his set Jo and I gave him a hug and he asked if we were
staying for a drink, we didn’t because we thought maybe he was just being
polite and decided we would wait until he was in Swindon instead so we didn’t
seem overly keen. You best all come to Swindon too!
My forthcoming week is exciting. Tomorrow I don’t start
until 10 and I finish at 1 which is pretty amazing. Then for the rest of the
week I am actually learning real life doctor stuff, again in a real life hospital.
The downside of this is it will be pretty much 9 – 5 and I’m not sure I’m ready
for that, we shall see. I will let you know all the new and exciting exams I
can do on you next week.
Me and the house are going to attempt to cook a Sunday roast
in a minute so that will be exciting. I will update you all later on how it has
gone…
So the roast went brilliantly, no thanks to me I might add.
I peeled some vegetables and then cut my finger and so I had to stop so I didn’t
bleed all over the potatoes. But yeah, it was lovely. In the future can we get
a house and cook together? I think it would be swell.
Guys, I haven’t seen you for almost 2 weeks or longer now so
it would be awesome if you wrote blogs so we could keep in touch and stuff, I
miss you.
