walking in starlight
certain things have occurred.
1) my laptop is repaired!!!!!!!!!!!! new harddrive, new battery. hasn't frozen...yet.
but still spent the last few evenings trying to install iTunes, McAfee security and a few other bits and pieces. still gotta hook up my printer but i think (FINALLY!!!!) i might be back in business.
trying to recreate my iTunes library though took me the best part of 3 hours last night. got all the songs no prob from a back-up i did back in 2010, but obviously 2 years is almost an eternity in musical taste..
2) do you think £17 is too much to pay for a bottle of coffee syrup? big bottle though, from the wholesale supplier that supplies 90% of the coffee houses in the UK.
3) Thursday was a watershed moment. For the first time ever I go into work, see my name on the board (an indication that I'm lead nurse on a specific operating list for that day) and don't have a panic attack. Working with Jimmy, we have one laparoscopic case planned plus 4 small procedures (orchi, circ, knob-slit, one i can't remember).
I agree to do the first laparoscopic case, which was a signal for the fates to intervene cos some ITU patient starting bleeding and required an emergency operation that bumped the remaining 4 cases to other lists like non-essential planes caught in the Christmas gridlock over the skies at Heathrow.
My second-in command, only qualified for the past 18 months promptly shits her knickers at the thought of having to scrub for an emergency bleeder.
I tell her it's all ok, I'm right there with her, to go and get something to eat before the case starts.
Case arrives directly from ITU, we heft them onto the table and the surgeon, Jimmy, goes to work. Now honestly it was not a "SHIT SHIT SHIT, MORE SWABS NOW!!!" kinda case. It was only a low to medium bleed. Perfect for my second in command; She has a whale of a time too, thoroughly enjoys herself, i feel so proud..
meanwhile myself and the other runner assistant are keeping an eye on swabs, things on the floor, making sure the fluids are warm (warmer was rubbish so we set up a hot-flume in the scrub sink) and trying to cover all the bases in case the surgeon asks for anything unusual.
the 4 smaller cases get scattered and tagged on the end of other lists, save for one who gets sent home by an over-enthusiastic Registrar. we finally finish at 4.15, I must've run (and I do mean "run") about half a mile that afternoon for sets, instruments, swabs, things that keep running out despite our best effort to keep things stocked up.
In the end the PTB let me go home half an hour early. I was utterly exhausted, but feeling brilliant.
and having the laptop back only adds cream atop the cake.
1) my laptop is repaired!!!!!!!!!!!! new harddrive, new battery. hasn't frozen...yet.
but still spent the last few evenings trying to install iTunes, McAfee security and a few other bits and pieces. still gotta hook up my printer but i think (FINALLY!!!!) i might be back in business.
trying to recreate my iTunes library though took me the best part of 3 hours last night. got all the songs no prob from a back-up i did back in 2010, but obviously 2 years is almost an eternity in musical taste..
2) do you think £17 is too much to pay for a bottle of coffee syrup? big bottle though, from the wholesale supplier that supplies 90% of the coffee houses in the UK.
3) Thursday was a watershed moment. For the first time ever I go into work, see my name on the board (an indication that I'm lead nurse on a specific operating list for that day) and don't have a panic attack. Working with Jimmy, we have one laparoscopic case planned plus 4 small procedures (orchi, circ, knob-slit, one i can't remember).
I agree to do the first laparoscopic case, which was a signal for the fates to intervene cos some ITU patient starting bleeding and required an emergency operation that bumped the remaining 4 cases to other lists like non-essential planes caught in the Christmas gridlock over the skies at Heathrow.
My second-in command, only qualified for the past 18 months promptly shits her knickers at the thought of having to scrub for an emergency bleeder.
I tell her it's all ok, I'm right there with her, to go and get something to eat before the case starts.
Case arrives directly from ITU, we heft them onto the table and the surgeon, Jimmy, goes to work. Now honestly it was not a "SHIT SHIT SHIT, MORE SWABS NOW!!!" kinda case. It was only a low to medium bleed. Perfect for my second in command; She has a whale of a time too, thoroughly enjoys herself, i feel so proud..
meanwhile myself and the other runner assistant are keeping an eye on swabs, things on the floor, making sure the fluids are warm (warmer was rubbish so we set up a hot-flume in the scrub sink) and trying to cover all the bases in case the surgeon asks for anything unusual.
the 4 smaller cases get scattered and tagged on the end of other lists, save for one who gets sent home by an over-enthusiastic Registrar. we finally finish at 4.15, I must've run (and I do mean "run") about half a mile that afternoon for sets, instruments, swabs, things that keep running out despite our best effort to keep things stocked up.
In the end the PTB let me go home half an hour early. I was utterly exhausted, but feeling brilliant.
and having the laptop back only adds cream atop the cake.