This morning I thought there was a 99% chance I was dying because I felt so ill. Now the odds of me surviving are looking more like 50/50 which is hopeful. If you don’t want to feel this bad, don’t drink 2 bottles of wine and then be too drunk to go out and have to go to bed early.
I have been incredibly lax about my blogging lately. That
ends today. Now that we are all separated I’ll try my best to get back into
doing proper blogs.
So since my last real update all sorts of things have
happened. I went to Reading, moved in to my new Bristol house, moved out of my
new Bristol house, moved into my Taunton house, saw real life surgery, been
covered in multiple bodily fluids, got a new bike, broke new bike, mended new
bike, broke new bike again, broke car, mended car, broke car again, went to
Exeter… and so on.
I am living in the halls of residence for Somerset College
until the middle of January. It isn’t too bad, we have tiny rooms but they have
en suites which is nice. The main downside is the internet being unusably slow whenever
more than one person is on it. Luckily everyone goes home at the weekend so
right now I can actually do things online!
I am really enjoying the hospital placement so far. We have
clinics and seminars we have to attend, but there is tons of free time where we
have to organise things to do ourselves. In most of my free time I have been
going to the orthopaedic theatres to see bone surgery and stuff. So far I’ve watched
2 hip replacements, a metalwork removal and a tibiotalocalcaneal fusion.
Orthopaedic surgery is pretty brutal but so so cool. Before this placement I
had never even considered surgery as a thing I wanted to do, but having
actually seen it, I am rather warming to the idea.
Last week I spent 2 days in A and E. The first day was
really quiet and I got a bit bored and didn’t want to go back, but then on the
second day it all kicked off. I saw a man with a collapsed lung come in and got
to help the consultant re inflate it. Then I got to poke my fingers in a cut in
a man’s head and touched his skull! It was great. I spent over 40 hours in the
hospital last week though and it was so damn tiring I was going to bed at 9:30
each night.
I stayed the night with Kerry in Exeter yesterday. Her new
house is super fancy; I didn’t want to touch anything in case I ruined it. I
got way drunk and had to go to bed before going out time, I had a great sleep
though.
This coming week I have less stuff going on which is nice. I
have the day off tomorrow so I’m going to catch up on actually learning things.
All this seeing cool things is fun, but it isn’t a great way to learn things,
so I need to look up more about what I’ve seen in my own time.
I can’t think of much else to tell you about so I’ll leave
it at that. I hope you are all settling back into uni now and you aren’t
working too hard.
Miss you.
