About.... something funny and something not so funny.

It's been a really long week, I've been trying my best to make my time at Hereford as productive as possible and I'm glad to say I think I've kind of succeeded. There's still room for improvement but at least I'm starting to go through my lectures. for now that's good enough for me.

Instead of hanky-pankying like I normally do, I spent some of my evenings helping the on call doctors run some errands- I put 3 cannulas in this week, exciting! In case anyone's wondering, a cannula is kinda like a needle that has a plastic casing wrapped around it- so you insert it into the patient's veins, and then pull the needle out and leave the plastic casing in for administration of drugs etc. It's a bit trickier than blood taking and I made a fool of myself with 2 of the 3 cannulas I put in haha, the last one i did was tragic, long story short I ended up splashing some saline all over a little old lady(LOL)'s face and I had her blood all over my hands. Felt like Lady Macbeth haha. But nothing sinister, I splattered the blood all over after I got it out of her so she was in no pain *phew*. But very amusing. The doctor supervising me was a bit muddleheaded so together we made lethal combination of clumsiness and stupidity heh.

Besides that.. I've come to realise that I have to do a lot of work- I think all this while I've been a bit too relaxed, and I have been trying to work harder and to read more. It's exhausting though, I go out like a lightbulb at 12 sharp every night. Sometimes I feel like my life is consumed by what I do- and I worry about ending up a lonely workaholic but I guess I've got to try my best to strike a balance.

On another note-- (argh see everything i talk about is med related, I need to get a life!!)-- I was scheduled to go into eye surgery this week so my kind, unselfish brother rang me and told me all about the surgery I was going to see and I actually found it quite interesting- and after speaking to the surgeon I kinda think I wouldn't mind being an eye specialist- the hours are good and you get quite a bit of satisfaction out of it too. Just food for thought. Not committing to anything yet.

gonna have my dinner now (:

huay shan