Only going to be a brief entry as it was only 4days since my last blog, but I better conclude this terms blogs now or I might not get another chance till after xmas...
Since I last wrote I've completed another 3days of my Anaesthesia rotation which have gone really well. I've Anaesthetised a couple of cats, a rabbit, a dog and a calf. All were relatively routine except the dog which was a major orthopaedic op involving carpus (wrist) straightening due to a premature closure of a growth plate, major cosideration for the case being pain relieve as radius/ulna are broken during the procedure. All my anaesthetics have gone fine excpet my spey yesterday which went a bit light at one point (very difficult to assess as jaw tone was constant, eyes were fixed due to ketamine and palpebral reflex was bizzare and inconsistant with other depth parameters...it's all a learning curve).
The good thing with the Anaesthesia rotation is the copious amount of time off and due to some slight swapping around I've landed myself with today and tomorrow off to get stuff sorted, however I was 1st on call last night (though some how managed to not get called out and spent the evening being cooked for by dave and watching killbill2 with Sarah).
Big things up coming before the end of term:
- xmas part in Bristol tonight.
- final year xmas dinner tomorrow (whole year plus some clinicians get drunk and eat xmas food in the langford canteen).
Term finishes Friday and my little bro is coming over in the evening to make it in time for the meal. Then Saturday a group of 26 of us are off skiing in Les Deux Alps including Rich, should be fantastic. John and I are going to get some lessons there as are standard is a bit below others attending.
Last thing to mention before coming to a close is that Alfie is getting on great at home, there's been minimal accidents so far and he seems generally fearless of everything (Mum even woke him up with the hoover other day and he just went back to sleep).
Well that will do I feel for this term, which as I always say has gone incredibly fast. The first term of every year is always fantastic but this one for many reasons has stood out from the rest, I can honestly say that this term has been by far my best at uni, an openmic2 night, my band sounding quality, a great pantomine, some new friendships made/old ones sealed, and now it's due to finish with what will no doubt be an awesome holiday. In some way i feel that this term's conclusion marks an end of a vetschool lust for fun era as when i return the shadow of finals will be looming to close for comfort and work efforts may well need to increase. However I've no exams after xmas, so for the first time in 7years I've no xmas revision to do.
Happy Christmas everyone. x
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Firstly I need to add an important evening last week that I missed out…Me and Rich went to Langford Inn for my slightly delayed birthday present, much essential relaxation after a very hectic week and some bread and butter pudding (always ideal)…
Anyway currently I’m sat at home getting this rattled off before I drive back to Bristol for some xmas dinners. Essential items on the past week’s addenda include a pantomime, some films, year book, and the dreaded Anaesthesia rotation!
So work wise, I’ve completed my first week on Anaesthesia and it’s actually gone completely fine. For some reason there’s a general fear amongst the year of this rotation as some of the clinicians involved can be quite stressy, however if you don’t mind being shouted at a little and don’t take criticism to heart then it’s actually a interesting very practical based rotation. I did a bit of reading around for once before the rotation began which definitely helped a lot and so far I’ve anaesthetised two cats and a dog, one of which was a routine spey and the others non routine. The best thing about the Anaesthesia rotation is the copious amount of time off, there’s actually more days out of clinics than in, and when you’re in you’ll probably get one or two cases for the day. However, anaesthesia on call can be a bit of a nightmare as if pretty much anything takes place on Langford site your going to get called in.
Next week on Anaesthesia I’m only in Mon-Weds as I’ve swapped some of my days off, this is ideal as I can get sorted for skiing on the Thurs/Fri and there’s parties/xmas dinners on these nights.
Biggest talking point of this blog has to be the 2006 clinical review! Every year the final years put on a pantomime to run for two days at the end of first term. The standard of the night is always ridiculously high especially given that everyone should be immensely busy stressing over clinics and fretting about the ever looming shadow of finals. Our panto was called “the Lion, the Witch, and the little cupboard at the bottom of the stairs at Southwell Street”. Big parts included:
Avril, MRO, Mike, Allison: Em, Queen, DD, Adelle
Henry, Geoff: Etchelles, Big J Spence
Isllyn: Me
Aslan: Andy F
J Day: Pete M
I managed to land myself the role of narrator which I wasn’t aware of at the time of auditions. This meant I had loads of large passages of txt to memorise which was pretty time consuming.
The story for the panto I tried to organise last year by having meetings in the pub every 2wks so that whoever wanted to give some input could and that a general story board was set before the director wrote the script over the summer. I did pretty much achieve this, though the general story line didn’t deviate too much away from what Rich and I came up with a year and half ago one night in Weatherspoons (though if the director was asked now I’m sure it’d all be her ideas, not a soar point honest). Anyway the story Rich and I came up with was to have four clinicians based in Southwell street when they were young and for them to stumble through a secret entrance that transports them to the oppressed land of Langford ruled by the evil queen MJ Day who’s put a ban on fun over the land. The kids then set to restore fun and happiness back to Langford by overthrowing the queen. Character ideas included a centaur as narrator, Mr Thumlus as Mr Thomus and Avril as a goody for once as she’s always portrayed badly.
The first night mainly years 1-3 come to see it and a few 5th years who wanted to go both nights. This was last Monday and the performances by all were awesome with only a couple of very minor mistakes e.g. I forgot some lines.
The Tuesday night was fantastic and the atmosphere much improved with the addition of all the clinicians that were being played. No one made any mess-ups and the add-libbing by all was incredible. Best screw up = Henry and MRO’s mics packed up during a song so they restarted with Ian stepping on stage to do some stand up while they sorted it.
Hopefully after xmas the DVD of the panto will be on sale, don’t think it’ll make highstreet stores though.
Not sure if I mentioned in the last entry that the naked calendar has now gone on sale and that everyone’s photos are great (can’t say too much as some people are getting one as xmas presents).
Rest of the time over the past week has been spent at John’s watching films, eating mince pies and drinking mulled wine with DD, Chris, Paula and Mat. So far we’ve got through some incredible classics…
- Home alone 1
- Home alone 2
- Hook
Monday night after the panto wasn’t as uplifting as had potential for other reasons, though Thursday night definitely cheered me up after spending time with Sarah in Bristol eating subways and having a drink. Also we’ve got tickets to see Get Cape in Jan which I’m very much looking forward to.
This weekend began mid-day Fri as I skanked out of Anaesthesia in the aft picked up my Han from Yatton and made our way over to Wales to pick up our puppy Alfie! He’s a miniature Schnauzer and he’s absolutely incredible (can’t say I’m that looking forward to leaving the house in 10mins knowing that I’m not going to see him for 2wks). He’s settled in really well at home and has such a confident strong minded nature.
Last night I went on the local practices xmas social to a murder mystery evening with Kieran. Ended up getting pretty smashed for relatively little (drinking with people earning definitely the way forward). Night was mainly spent dancing with old people, eating bread, and singing lots of xmas tunes with unnecessarily crude lyrics.
Now I’m off to Bris for a rotation group and a house xmas dinner, I’m going to feel so full.
PS: Reading his dark materials trilogy (fantastic). Going to dinner tomorrow night with Sinead (should be comedy).
Anyway currently I’m sat at home getting this rattled off before I drive back to Bristol for some xmas dinners. Essential items on the past week’s addenda include a pantomime, some films, year book, and the dreaded Anaesthesia rotation!
So work wise, I’ve completed my first week on Anaesthesia and it’s actually gone completely fine. For some reason there’s a general fear amongst the year of this rotation as some of the clinicians involved can be quite stressy, however if you don’t mind being shouted at a little and don’t take criticism to heart then it’s actually a interesting very practical based rotation. I did a bit of reading around for once before the rotation began which definitely helped a lot and so far I’ve anaesthetised two cats and a dog, one of which was a routine spey and the others non routine. The best thing about the Anaesthesia rotation is the copious amount of time off, there’s actually more days out of clinics than in, and when you’re in you’ll probably get one or two cases for the day. However, anaesthesia on call can be a bit of a nightmare as if pretty much anything takes place on Langford site your going to get called in.
Next week on Anaesthesia I’m only in Mon-Weds as I’ve swapped some of my days off, this is ideal as I can get sorted for skiing on the Thurs/Fri and there’s parties/xmas dinners on these nights.
Biggest talking point of this blog has to be the 2006 clinical review! Every year the final years put on a pantomime to run for two days at the end of first term. The standard of the night is always ridiculously high especially given that everyone should be immensely busy stressing over clinics and fretting about the ever looming shadow of finals. Our panto was called “the Lion, the Witch, and the little cupboard at the bottom of the stairs at Southwell Street”. Big parts included:
Avril, MRO, Mike, Allison: Em, Queen, DD, Adelle
Henry, Geoff: Etchelles, Big J Spence
Isllyn: Me
Aslan: Andy F
J Day: Pete M
I managed to land myself the role of narrator which I wasn’t aware of at the time of auditions. This meant I had loads of large passages of txt to memorise which was pretty time consuming.
The story for the panto I tried to organise last year by having meetings in the pub every 2wks so that whoever wanted to give some input could and that a general story board was set before the director wrote the script over the summer. I did pretty much achieve this, though the general story line didn’t deviate too much away from what Rich and I came up with a year and half ago one night in Weatherspoons (though if the director was asked now I’m sure it’d all be her ideas, not a soar point honest). Anyway the story Rich and I came up with was to have four clinicians based in Southwell street when they were young and for them to stumble through a secret entrance that transports them to the oppressed land of Langford ruled by the evil queen MJ Day who’s put a ban on fun over the land. The kids then set to restore fun and happiness back to Langford by overthrowing the queen. Character ideas included a centaur as narrator, Mr Thumlus as Mr Thomus and Avril as a goody for once as she’s always portrayed badly.
The first night mainly years 1-3 come to see it and a few 5th years who wanted to go both nights. This was last Monday and the performances by all were awesome with only a couple of very minor mistakes e.g. I forgot some lines.
The Tuesday night was fantastic and the atmosphere much improved with the addition of all the clinicians that were being played. No one made any mess-ups and the add-libbing by all was incredible. Best screw up = Henry and MRO’s mics packed up during a song so they restarted with Ian stepping on stage to do some stand up while they sorted it.
Hopefully after xmas the DVD of the panto will be on sale, don’t think it’ll make highstreet stores though.
Not sure if I mentioned in the last entry that the naked calendar has now gone on sale and that everyone’s photos are great (can’t say too much as some people are getting one as xmas presents).
Rest of the time over the past week has been spent at John’s watching films, eating mince pies and drinking mulled wine with DD, Chris, Paula and Mat. So far we’ve got through some incredible classics…
- Home alone 1
- Home alone 2
- Hook
Monday night after the panto wasn’t as uplifting as had potential for other reasons, though Thursday night definitely cheered me up after spending time with Sarah in Bristol eating subways and having a drink. Also we’ve got tickets to see Get Cape in Jan which I’m very much looking forward to.
This weekend began mid-day Fri as I skanked out of Anaesthesia in the aft picked up my Han from Yatton and made our way over to Wales to pick up our puppy Alfie! He’s a miniature Schnauzer and he’s absolutely incredible (can’t say I’m that looking forward to leaving the house in 10mins knowing that I’m not going to see him for 2wks). He’s settled in really well at home and has such a confident strong minded nature.
Last night I went on the local practices xmas social to a murder mystery evening with Kieran. Ended up getting pretty smashed for relatively little (drinking with people earning definitely the way forward). Night was mainly spent dancing with old people, eating bread, and singing lots of xmas tunes with unnecessarily crude lyrics.
Now I’m off to Bris for a rotation group and a house xmas dinner, I’m going to feel so full.
PS: Reading his dark materials trilogy (fantastic). Going to dinner tomorrow night with Sinead (should be comedy).
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