A Letter

Dear Faithful Readers,

I know you are probably few, and you are probably very bored of checking back here and realising that, yet again, I have not updated my blog, and so I thought I would make an effort!

Let’s see, what’s been going on in my life…

Work is alright. I have moved to the surgical admissions unit in Big City Hospital which is about as different from GI medicine as can be! As part of the rota, I spend most of my time in A&E admitting people with belly pain, which is sometimes interesting but mostly not. I worked the weekend and clerked a grand total of FOUR PATIENTS in both of the 12 hour shifts. It was very dull. Unfortunately I made the mistake of updating my facebook status to reflect my frustration at having nothing to do and consequently jinxed it for today – I have just finished a 9-hour second on shift where we had 25 admissions. Repeat after me: Never Use The Q Word, Never Use The Q Word…………ad nauseum.

Also as part of my rota, I spend the occasional couple of days manning the day surgery unit. This is a particularly bad piece of staffing, as my shift consists of: turn up at 07:45hrs and change into scrubs. Go to unit. Prescribe paracetamol. Have a break til 10:30. Have a break from my break til 12:00. Decide it is lunch time and have a long lunch. Write a few discharge scripts. Have another break. Write a couple more discharge scripts. Go home.

Initially this was fun…for about 3 hours until I realised that nothing even remotely interesting is likely to happen, and the guilt starts to set in that there are F1s in the hospital (like the poor sods doing my last job, which I loved but which was not very break-friendly) who don’t get to pee for 13 hours, and I am sitting around. Thankfully I only do a few days like this every few weeks. Apparently I could go to surgery, but since lap choles and hernias really don’t do it for me, I prefer to read the paper.

In other news, I booked some flights to take The Boy out to visit The Parents in sunnier climes. We are going in a couple of weeks. The Boy is lovely, by the way, did I mention that?! I finished my 12 hour shift yesterday and came home to find that he’d come round and cooked me a curry. Spot on. Ten out of ten. Awesome. I digress.

Anyway, life is grand. Work is work. Andy is gorgeous. We are going to see my parents soon. I am going to bed now, and I might even read a book for a bit. Did I mention that Andy is gorgeous?

Hope you are well. I’ll try and keep in touch a bit more often. I always say that, but I do mean it, honest.

love,
Joey xx