It was so hard to get up at 6am Monday morning to get back into the swing of 7.30am hospital starts. One thing about having a week off in Adelaide is i did feel more revived and ready to get back into the last and probably toughest few weeks of our fourth year with exams coming all too soon!! It was really noticable the difference in how i felt compared to the others who hadn't had a break, they were over it and you can see how important breaks really are. Although i missed last week, Monday was a public holiday which given the circumstances i think me turning up that day was equivalent to 3 days of a normal week! There were barely any doctors and the only students i saw were myself, my team mate and Emma. On a positive it made talking to patients so much nicer and less intrusive with less people around!! After chatting to a few i headed back to work on my case study. I also caught up with Lex and had a lovely lunch out in the sun along Matilda Bay with Tilly close by. I almost felt normal joining all the families and friends enjoying the lovely public holiday weather :) I also treated myself and went for a run through Kings park, uni games have made me more determined to get back into running again as i realised i still have the want and determination to!! I went to Kokoda stairs and realised just how much running strength i have lost, i was sore the next day but it was so good though.
On Tuesday i went to the morning hand over meetings but couldn't find our team of doctors, so i headed back early to work on more case studies! Had a trip to the shops to get some little bits of food and had to have a sleep i was so tired today! Once i was awake i went to an RPM class before more study, a typical study day! Wednesday was more exciting :) after usual rounds we went to gen med clinic and got a tutorial on diverticulitis and abdominal x-rays, i ran to CTEC to get a WWC form signed then made it back to theatre to see an incisional hernia repair and a laparoscopic cholecystectomy!!! It has been on my 'list of things to see' for surgery i was always so interested in how they get the gall bladder out of the little endoscopic holes! The anatomy we saw was amazing, they put aitr pressure in the abdomen to lift the abdominal wall off the organs to carry out the procedure, i was actually looking at a real and healthy liver, gall bladder, stomach... wow! I loved the green/blue colour of the GB an dhow the liver was a ruby red. Of course the GB had stones and the lady had pain from them so we were taking that out... and i realised the GB was alot smaller than it appeared, and so squishy like a jelly fish it just easily slipped out of the endoscopic ports! We actually got to hold it and being to squishy and slippery (apart from the stones) i was worried i would drop it! Thankfully i didn't :)
The rest of the week was lots of study, trips to the Post office to get my working with children check renewed, tutorials, labs and a few trips to the gym. I have started going to CX30 classes more now, i really like them. Pump classes don't hurt my core anymore but these classes i feel like my core is strengthening!!! It uses an elastic tube to work your glutes, legs and arms as well all in a sweet 30min class :) I also had another kings park run and trip to kokoda stairs, thankfully i didn't end up as sore after this trip even though i did one more stair climb compared to last time yay!
Saturday with some beautiful spring weather Kyle and I decided to head to Kings park for a picnic! He bought the picnic basket, buns and chicken and i got some salads. We walked to Synergy and joined the many families and parties around the park. I think we had the best picnic, it was amazing :)
I had another run through Kings park Sunday morning and although i enjoyed it i better stop for a few day or else i will hurt my foot again, but it was a nice way to start the day followed by washing and of course study. I headed to Kyle's in the evening and a group of us did some OSCE practice for the exams in a few weeks! And just like that it was Sunday night again and in front of us our last week of Surgery... our last week of fourth year actually! (providing we pass exams) Scary, but i am looking forward to the summer break.
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