Whoop whoop we’re off to see Logan at the cinema. I haven’t been to the cinema in ages. I love going to the cinema especially to watch one of the Comic inspired films
Whoop! My new glasses have arrived in time for my night shift. I love them. They are definitely a stronger prescription, I cannot read close up anymore with them on which is what the optician warned me about.
Two nights and so bloody busy. No hospital beds available and the patients just kept coming in. It was like that little plastic tile game kids play where you have to move one tile at a time to make the whole picture.
I was in London today for the Save Our NHS march. I went on my own as a) nobody at work had heard about it and were busy and b) I prefer to do these kinds of things on my own. 🙂
So it was my first weekend off in over a month and I was really looking forward to going to London. I’ve always liked going there and I did love living there many years ago. So I was quite excited on the train. The great thing about how I look is how it dissuades most people from either sitting next to me or speaking to me. I view this as a positive 🙂 The dreads, facial piercings and the tattoos definitely keep most at arms length.
So I arrived at Euston and found hundreds of people gathering for the march. I mean hundreds. So I picked up with the CND crowd, they had cool placards.
There was a lady handing out old style surgical masks with a hands off our NHS message printed on the front. When I was walking along with the mask on some guy jumped out in front of me and took my photo. Weird huh?
At the end of the march I saw this cool drumming group and there was this older lady who was dancing along to them. She was really shaking her money maker. Really cool lady.
It was a pretty cool day. My feet were killing by the end of the day. But I had such a great time.
I’ve come down with the flu bug. Initially I thought it was a man-flu/cold type thing but I woke up with a temperature of 40.1 which wasn’t great. No matter how much paracetamol I was taking the temperature kept coming back up and the rigors set in again. So I took myself off to the Urgent Care Centre. The nurse there was amazing. Really friendly and caring. Actually they were all lovely. But there wasn’t really much they could do. I was offered some antibiotics but as they said it was likely to be viral. So anyway, two weeks of feeling rough and I am finally feeling a little more human. But it’s been a slow recovery. You know what bugs me? I have had the flu vaccine every year. Why bother?
Such a fun shift today with a crazy bunch of nurses and doctors. I work most Christmas day shifts as I quite like them and we usually have nice food put on for us. 🙂
I was having a look through some old photos on my google account and found this one of me with the other students I studied nursing with on our last day of training. It was taken almost 11 years ago. I can’t believe how fast time has passed! Unfortunately I have no idea what has happened to any of the other students. Which is a real shame but life has a habit of getting in the way doesn’t it? 🙂
Awww it’s getting busier and busier at A&E. Seriously I have never worked in such a hectic and busy environment in my life than here. I am leaving work after each shift and I am sore and tired. But, and this is the difference between other places I have worked, I am finishing my shifts happy. I love my job and pretty much most of the people I work with. It’s sad to see so many people leave due to the pressures we are under or because their training contract is finished. But all in all I love it. Even when we get the occasional not so nice patient we pull together and it’s not too bad. 👊👍
Another backbreaking shift. But the fun part of the shift, and it needed it, was we were allowed to wear Christmas themed t-shirts! How fun is that?! Here’s me and my colleague Robyn. This is us at the end of the shift. We literally were out the door 2 minutes later. Hence the smiling faces!
Mid shift and not so smiling:
Dreaded nurse 