Whedon On Romney

You MUST watch this video!

Re-post from my step-daughter's blog

The Beauty and Truth of Life:
These are the pictures from the first hike of the...: These are the pictures from the first hike of the CAS, the weather was hot, the people were tired and the mountain was..... well a MOUNTA...

What a fortnight....

Well not the best start to year two of nursing. Need to take a month off, which will probably turn into a year :(
CFS strikes down Oli again (not that it gave up) and my health isn't it's best with return of the anaemia.

So what happens now....?

Helping Oli get to school on a regular but limited basis is one aim, supporting him at home in the time that he isn't able to go to school, possibly looking at doing some student support work, helping the Steiner School with their computer systems, hopefully continued involvement in a uni maths project. So plenty to be going on with.

Oddly having done well in the first year of my nursing makes it easier to take a break (last exam mark was 92%, last essay was 87% and my placement went really well). I think if it had been more of a fight it would feel like giving up - it doesn't feel like that at all. It is a positive and necessary choice for me and I can feel confident about returning later.

You're in safe hands.....

Oh dear, give me a few days of lectures and I utterly fail to post...

We have been practicing CPR, choking procedure and inserting nasogastric tubes into little babies! No babies were harmed in the practicing of these procedures. Here is one of our patients:

I can't find a picture of Tommy the child mannequin but he is positively scary with gaping mouth and wide-eyes with rubber eyelashes though you can move the pupils to a wonderful cross-eyed stare!

Pe33les! The new YouTube sensation!

(OK I'm biased but it's true anyway)

Unhappy bunny. . .

So, generally run down, anaemia has had a huge set back and now an incredibly sore throat and cough. . .

If I take my iron tablets my joints flare up, I get digestive problems and feel crap; if I don't take my iron tablets I feel erm crap too. . .

Coil was an utter, utter (and ongoing) failure - seems my body wasn't too keen on that intrusion. So roll on more anaemia.

And, to top it all, Oli's CFS has flared again so he's on the third day in a row off school and really upset as well as unwell.

What's bloggable and what's not?

I'm training to be a nurse so it's possible I might write something the squeamish might not like. So if I get tempted (!) I'll try and warn people at the top of a post! This is not one of those occasions it could have been but somethings maybe don't belong on this blog so the audience (if there is one) is safe this time!