So what I have been up to since the end of July? well uni-wise, I did a two-week block in an Emergency Dept, was quite fun and exciting at times. Put in half a dozen IV lines, put in an urinary catheter into some old guy, did a few plaster casts, and even put 5 stitches in for this guy who's arm fell onto a metal spike on a construction site. Then had 6 weeks doing psychiatry, which was a very interesting and confronting experience. Made me think a bit more about my own life and why I act they way I do in certain situatitons, and why I (and others too) think and react in certain ways. One pattern I noticed was that a LOT (like over 75%) of patients with psych problems bad enough to be in the hospital have had really fucked up childhoods...things like childhood sexual abuse, physically and mentally abusive parents, etc etc. Makes me wanna be a damn good parent...when (and if) I become one...heheh.
Right now uni-wise, I'm doing this ultra boring rotation called RAPP, which stands for Rehab, Aged Care, Palliative Care, and Psychiatry of Old Age. They all kinda inter-related (ie stuff relevant to old people), but it is so uninteresting it is not funny. Which is why I don't mind skipping tomorrow so I can sleep in after staying up to watch the soccer.
Had a funny day last Thursday. Started with me sleeping in because I turned my phone to silent the night before when I went swimming, and forgetting to turn it back off silent. Luckily I startled awake at 8:30 (had a tute at 9am, at a hospital about 40mins drive away), woke up my housemate (who unwisely chooses not to set his own alarm, and just gets woken up by the noise I make when I get up), rushed like a madman and got ready in 10 mins (which is ultra quick for me, I like to stew over breakfast, eating my cereal while reading newspapers online). Then my housemate and I drive to hospital in seperate cars (because we going to diff hospitals after the tute). Green light turns to orange, I accelerate to rush through the light, remember the $200 fine I got last semester for running an orange light, slam on the brakes, my housemate behind me doesn't notice and slams on his brakes too late... *crunch* what a horrible sound...but the damage was surprisingly minor...a 2-3cm dent on my back bumper, that's about it, no paint chipped or anything.
Anyway, we keep driving and about 15 mins later I'm stuck at a red light behind this school bus full of girls, maybe 13-14 years old? dunno..anyway, they're all waving at me so I wave back for a bit, then look down to check on my phone. Suddenly I see a flash, I look up and one of the girls is holding a digital camera. OMFG...I was half flattered and half weirded out.
But the weirdness doesn't end there...later in the day, I'm in a rehab ward, just finished talking to a patient and her husband, saying my thankyous and goodbyes, then this 40ish intellectually disabled lady (in a slurred voice stereotypical of an intellectually disabled person) goes, "Mmm you're a good-looking sort aren't you? I like the look of you...you have nice dark skin like me." I mutter a quick thanks and get the hell outta there...thinking "uhh you are white caucasian, your skin looks nothing like mine." So that was my day of weirdness...seems the only people of the opposite sex interested in me (other than my beautiful gf, who is normal in a good way) are underaged girls and intellectually disabled women...so how flattering ;)
OK think I've crapped on long enough, I should read through my traumatic brain injury notes before I go watch the game. I'll just leave with a few photos from tonight, went out for dinner with some of my uni friends to celebrate my 23rd Bday:
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