Mummy food!

My mummy is visiting to stock me up with food for exams.

I love my mummy :)

Where did this come from? Oh yeah...

A month without making a blog post? That doesn"t sound like m- oh wait.

It totally does.

I blame the surgical careers evening.

Anyway, where was I?

Oh yes, I was blogging.

I am blogging.


This is pretty much the worst blog post ever.

A few topics to discuss in summarised form:
1. The past month.
2. The next month.
3. Exams.

So anyway, its been a vaguely interesting month.

3 weeks on the respiratory ward flew by pretty quickly as I managed to see a certain respiratory consultant as little as possible while trying to be as productive as possible in order to gain the marks on my in progress training report. Not that it mattered as the registrar left in the middle of the week leaving me to get my ITPR done by the new reg. Such wasted effort.
Saw some interesting cases, the highlight probably the tuberculosis patient with zero clinical findings. So that sort of outlines how exciting respiratory was...

The week on cardiac care was... Yeah. So we just throw 5 drugs at people and let them go home with varying amounts of work leave. Exciting. Saw an angio done though and a stent inserted. Wanted to see the "full metal jacket" stenting but decided it just wasn"t worth standing around for.

Now though, I"m on the AMU! The newly constructed acute medical unit is all shiny and white and has lots of short stay patients that I can pretty much just ignore continuity of care because they get dished out elsewhere within 48 hours! Yay!
We"ll see how excited I am with 3 more weeks of AMU though.


Exams in 4 weeks. Getting nervous. There isn"t much more to say on that...


Oh, and I thought this was a fun, valid plan for OSCE stations:

You lazy %*&$!

So I"ve been told that I should blog more.

Yeah, like that"ll happen.

But out of respect to my drugged up, racist, pretentious knob of a colleague, I"ll try to almost pretend to make an effort.

Unfortunately, as I"m sitting in a "Pharmacology of NSAIDs" lecture which has come about 16 months too late, I really can"t think of anything to blog about.

How about a summary since my last blog?
It would go something like this: GIT, ERS, KEITH!, B&B, M-

See what I did there? I just listed the main points of what has happened in the last few months. Thus, a summary. Also note that I only got to the M of MSS. That is because we are still in the early stages.

I"m a special child.


There. Done.

Oh my is that the time...

Right, so I guess I"ve been slack again. No surprise there...

It has been a over a month since my last post, close to two in fact. Are you honestly surprised though? I mean really, how many of these posts have I started by stating how long its been since my last post...

Anyway.

So in the time we"ve skipped over, I"ve managed to get through the final exams for the year in one piece (more or less), went and saw Wicked, underwent a sleep study, and been diagnosed as fat by my mother.

How nice.

Well the exams were... Well, they were.

Wicked was incredibly awesome. I know that word gets thrown around a lot, but it is.

The sleep study was... I dunno, I slept! I"m still waiting for results though, so we"ll see what happens...

Me being fat is quite true. It seems that I"ve managed to surpass a BMI of 25, thus making me overweight. Quite sad really :(
The result of which, I have eaten the least I have ever had this holiday season. I"ve also been jogging 5.3637km (according to the Google Maps Distance Measurement Tool) twice a day (6am, 6pm).
Hopefully I can lose 15 kilograms in the next 3 months, though that might be extreme. I"m aiming for at least 5 kilograms before I return to Adelaide though, after that, we"ll see how things go...

I"m also back on the Gold Coast, which is nice I guess...
I"ve continued my research into mangos and my conclusion remains the same.
I"ve gotten so used to living on my own that I don"t know if I can deal with my parents anymore. So far I"ve been surviving, though who knows how long I can keep it up. There haven"t been too many arguments...

Christmas was fun, had something in the range of 20 relatives come from Melbourne and Brisbane to have lunch near the beach, or more specifically, Point Danger.
It was very relaxing though not many of us kids wanted to be there, considering how hot and crowded it was... But we dealt with it. I spent time with my pride and joy, my second cousin. She"s 13 years old and the greatest person in the world :)

Aaaaanyway, thats me covered.

I"ll try update when something else happens...

Well what do you know...

So I"ve just finished probably the hardest set of exams I have done or will need to do for at least another two years. Following the usual "go out and have a few drinks at the bar" thing, the "be right back, crashing from my sugar high" thing and the "lets go to the beach cos its almost a warm day" thing, I realised I didn"t really have much else do to, so I fell back on the usual.

I browsed the intarwebz.

I noticed a link on my browser which seemed strange to me, since I had forgotten all about it...

"Blogger: Dashboard" it read.

I clicked on it.

...

Would you believe that I have a blog?

I know, crazy right? Especially since I hadn"t posted anything for the last, oh, 4+ months.

Though looking over my previous posts, that seems to be the usual pattern of things anyway...

So yes, I"ll try posting again, but typing stuff is certainly a lot more effort than say, not typing stuff. So we"ll see how things go this time. :)

Summary of the last 4 months:
Learnt something about the heart.
Learnt something about the lungs.
Learnt something about the kidneys.
Became the MDA National Foosball Champion (long story, bit of a fail story, but I have cookies to show for it so nyaaaaaah!)

Summary of the last 3 days:
Tried to learn everything about the heart.
Had a cardiovascular system exam.
Tried to learn everything about the lungs.
Had a respiratory system exam.
Tried to learn everything about the kidneys.
Had a renal system exam.

Surprisingly, the respiratory and the renal system exams went well (with great thanks to my friends for being patient and teaching all there was about breathing and peeing!)

The cardiovascular exam perhaps not so well.

We shall see!

Oops...

So its been 2 months since my last confe- uhh... post.

My bad :S

It has been a ridiculously quick 2 months, and I"m wishing I could have extended it just a tad.

Exams are upon us.
3 exams in 3 days.
No swotvac.

Today is the first (human homeostasis), tomorrow is the second (identity, microbes and defence), Thursday is the last (doctor, the profession and society).

As usual, like before every exam, I am in my special zen-like state of mind.

It may be 6:45am, with the exam not occurring for another 2 hours, but I am prepared and in my mind, I am ready.

Or am I.

Hakkuna Matata.

We"ll see.