The, if not shrinking, staying the same size Midwife...
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Sunflower2
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Many happy returns on the day of your birth, miss piggy 
iggy:
And you're not old!
<3
iggy:And you're not old!
<3
I know I'm not old, but I'm not a teenager anymore and it doesn't feel good!!!
Course is going alright...
Passed my first assessment with 80%
But we've got an essay due in on Jan 11th, which would be fine.. Except you have to use your own experiences and how you used what you are writing about in pratice.. And I'm not out in practice until December!!!
Which would be fine if everyone was in the same position.. But we're not!! Some are out in placement already.
It's so unfair!
Someone also nearly got a homebirth on her first shift too!
On the up side I bought a Littmann (Holly will know what that is if she still reads..)
For everyone else.. It's a stethoscope.. And the "industry standard" at that!!
25% off :O
And I can take an accurate blood pressure manually!!
But thats about it to be honest so far.
Joined a student midwife weight loss group lol, we weigh in every week so I shall be losing again soon hopefully not maintaining. I have gone up to around 206 but was at 203 the other day but I still don't trust my scales because of my wonky floor!
Not updating my ticker until it's a loss though. I'm not going to put it back up because it's a reminder of where I've been and a note to myself that I can do it!
Course is going alright...
Passed my first assessment with 80%
But we've got an essay due in on Jan 11th, which would be fine.. Except you have to use your own experiences and how you used what you are writing about in pratice.. And I'm not out in practice until December!!!
Which would be fine if everyone was in the same position.. But we're not!! Some are out in placement already.
It's so unfair!
Someone also nearly got a homebirth on her first shift too!
On the up side I bought a Littmann
(Holly will know what that is if she still reads..)For everyone else.. It's a stethoscope.. And the "industry standard" at that!!
25% off :O
And I can take an accurate blood pressure manually!!
But thats about it to be honest so far.
Joined a student midwife weight loss group lol, we weigh in every week so I shall be losing again soon hopefully not maintaining. I have gone up to around 206 but was at 203 the other day but I still don't trust my scales because of my wonky floor!
Not updating my ticker until it's a loss though. I'm not going to put it back up because it's a reminder of where I've been and a note to myself that I can do it!
jjjay
New member
Sounds like its all going really well!! Well done on your first assessment!
I'd write your essay based on what you think its going to be like, then when you are out in practise, you will be really struck by the things that are completely different and not how you imagined at all, and those that were along the right lines - and you can update your essay to incorporate this stuff. That way you won't put yourself under too much pressure over Christmas time.
Did you see I am coming up to the place very near you for my big meeting at the end of November! Exciting stuff!! Will it be very cold and snowy there? Have the gypsies at the station gone?
I'd write your essay based on what you think its going to be like, then when you are out in practise, you will be really struck by the things that are completely different and not how you imagined at all, and those that were along the right lines - and you can update your essay to incorporate this stuff. That way you won't put yourself under too much pressure over Christmas time.
Did you see I am coming up to the place very near you for my big meeting at the end of November! Exciting stuff!! Will it be very cold and snowy there? Have the gypsies at the station gone?
I'm not sure about the gypsies but it will definitely be cold and if not snowy, rainy
And with all the crappy paving and silly hills round there make sure you've practiced walking in your stilettos!! (see I'm still lurking if not posting)
We've decided to write our essays now and leave gaps for when the situation arises out in practice. If we do it on vital signs for example, we've already had a go at it and know we have the theory and know for definite we'll be doing it on placement.
Although dignity and respect is tempting as I'm going to be in an area with a very high jamaican community, and being so ignorant as I am I haven't even researched it yet. So I figured it might be good if they have any different takes on things to how we do stuff in England. Then there are language barriers etc, if I can't understand their accent, or if someone of a different origin doesn't speak english. There is a lot I can cover with it. Especially as not far from there there is also a large muslim community, and you see a lot of women in burkhas and I would be interested to see how they view birthing situations, with regards to homebirths and hospital births, are the men there etc.
There is too much bloomin' choice!!
Weight is poo.
I've been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ill
I've been eating what I can when I can, which usually involves chocolate and whole milk and not a lot else.
Although, I did try and have a tomato today but it had gone funny
So I had egg, sausages, bacon, beans and some chips (but not many) and I do believe thats pretty much all I've eaten all day.
All my calories must be coming from wine and chocolate or the weight would be dropping off!
Although.. 2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 3 sauages, .5 tin of beans and 10 chips...
Yeah thats sooo not my calories for the day!
WAIT
It's coming back to me... I had a cherry muffin and one of those nutri grain oat cookie things this morning. So 450 cals there...
Nope still not enough.
Have had wine and coke this evening though, although again not much.
It really must be the chocolate. How depressing.
I'd do without but my TOM is lurking around still and I'm ill so I NEED it
I really wanted ice cream the other day but I resisted! Thats something I really can do without. It's empty calories. I eat way too much at once.
I should probably get back into the habit of drinking lots too, I've barely drunk recently and I was having water every day at one point (up to three bottles and 2 pints a day) and I'm not down to... 2/3 mouthfuls if I'm lucky.
No wonder I'm ill!! I lose all track of time through the days I'm not in uni which never helps.
Been working on a different project though, got quite a way through that one, but this week and last my uni hours have dropped to 3 a week...
Last week I had a guided study to do at home not in uni, so that was two hours off, and this week my ct scan ran over so I missed a tutorial and a lecture
But I can catch up easy enough. Done some of it already and it was only yesterday.
Wait, I just said I lose track of time when I'm not in uni.. It's wednesday today.. I've been in for a two hour tutorial...
Damn the days have soooo many hours when you get up early
Anyway!!!!
Bedtime, night night xx
Got a pooey inspection on friday so have to spend all tomorrow cleaning but yay exercise lol
And with all the crappy paving and silly hills round there make sure you've practiced walking in your stilettos!! (see I'm still lurking if not posting
)We've decided to write our essays now and leave gaps for when the situation arises out in practice. If we do it on vital signs for example, we've already had a go at it and know we have the theory and know for definite we'll be doing it on placement.
Although dignity and respect is tempting as I'm going to be in an area with a very high jamaican community, and being so ignorant as I am I haven't even researched it yet. So I figured it might be good if they have any different takes on things to how we do stuff in England. Then there are language barriers etc, if I can't understand their accent, or if someone of a different origin doesn't speak english. There is a lot I can cover with it. Especially as not far from there there is also a large muslim community, and you see a lot of women in burkhas and I would be interested to see how they view birthing situations, with regards to homebirths and hospital births, are the men there etc.
There is too much bloomin' choice!!
Weight is poo.
I've been sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ill
I've been eating what I can when I can, which usually involves chocolate and whole milk and not a lot else.
Although, I did try and have a tomato today but it had gone funny
So I had egg, sausages, bacon, beans and some chips (but not many) and I do believe thats pretty much all I've eaten all day.
All my calories must be coming from wine and chocolate or the weight would be dropping off!
Although.. 2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, 3 sauages, .5 tin of beans and 10 chips...
Yeah thats sooo not my calories for the day!
WAIT
It's coming back to me... I had a cherry muffin and one of those nutri grain oat cookie things this morning. So 450 cals there...
Nope still not enough.
Have had wine and coke this evening though, although again not much.
It really must be the chocolate. How depressing.
I'd do without but my TOM is lurking around still and I'm ill so I NEED it
I really wanted ice cream the other day but I resisted! Thats something I really can do without. It's empty calories. I eat way too much at once.
I should probably get back into the habit of drinking lots too, I've barely drunk recently and I was having water every day at one point (up to three bottles and 2 pints a day) and I'm not down to... 2/3 mouthfuls if I'm lucky.
No wonder I'm ill!! I lose all track of time through the days I'm not in uni which never helps.
Been working on a different project though, got quite a way through that one, but this week and last my uni hours have dropped to 3 a week...
Last week I had a guided study to do at home not in uni, so that was two hours off, and this week my ct scan ran over so I missed a tutorial and a lecture
But I can catch up easy enough. Done some of it already and it was only yesterday.
Wait, I just said I lose track of time when I'm not in uni.. It's wednesday today.. I've been in for a two hour tutorial...
Damn the days have soooo many hours when you get up early
Anyway!!!!
Bedtime, night night xx
Got a pooey inspection on friday so have to spend all tomorrow cleaning but yay exercise lol
jjjay
New member
LOL. I will be wobbling my way in my high heels from the carpark to the front door to the meeting room!!! Needless to say, I'm sure I'll manage to fall over - usually a distance of a meter plus someone important watching are all the ingrediants that I need to achieve this.
Howcome you have been ill? Just winter cold stuff or more serious I hope not!
The course sounds really interesting - particularly the enthic minority communities around. I grew up in a big west indian community in London (i.e. at school, white kids were the minority!) and some stuff was just completely different to what you'd expect - I still feel kind of at home with lots of it though as when I was a kid that felt like the "norm". Carnival and goat curry, akka rice and salt fish, eating raw sugar cane (oooooh it is SO sweet!!!), west indian stories and playing steel drums, reggae, even the pidgeon english...it all feels like a part of my childhood.
Uni-time is good though - you get lots of sleep and time for exercise!! and cooking good stuff!!!
Howcome you have been ill? Just winter cold stuff or more serious
I hope not!The course sounds really interesting - particularly the enthic minority communities around. I grew up in a big west indian community in London (i.e. at school, white kids were the minority!) and some stuff was just completely different to what you'd expect - I still feel kind of at home with lots of it though as when I was a kid that felt like the "norm". Carnival and goat curry, akka rice and salt fish, eating raw sugar cane (oooooh it is SO sweet!!!), west indian stories and playing steel drums, reggae, even the pidgeon english...it all feels like a part of my childhood.
Uni-time is good though - you get lots of sleep and time for exercise!! and cooking good stuff!!!
I'm poorly ill
I thought it was a side effect of my hep B jab, but alas, twas not meant to be... I'm still ill
It's a proper cold and I hate colds *cries*
On the up side... I did almost 3 hours of exercise yesterday!!!!
How> I hear you gasp...
I BOUGHT A FRICKING KINECT ARGH OMG I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!
Eeeeeee. It's so much fun
Dance central is amazing and even kinect adventures is good.
Bought fighters uncaged too as it was only £20 if you buying something else.
They're so good and you really get a workout!! Even not in workout mode!
I was soooo sweaty by the time I'd done, so I had pasta beans and cheese for tea and started all over again
I'm apparently a flawless dancer But then again I already knew that 
Hehe
Gunna play again later today when I get up....
I'm off back to bed after being woken at 6:20 after less than 6 hours sleep!!
The last two/three nights I've had like 2 nights worth of sleep. 4 hours one night, 6 last night, maybe even less the day before.. I keep forgetting because I lose track of time because I'm awake for so many hours!!!
Anyway, this morning we wake up to a banging on the door and the doorbell being pressed loads. Martin said " It's prolly my parents". Which made sense because his mum does that with doorbells... Til we saw what time it was... 6:20!!
Some guy is hammering on our door shouting to be let in and looking for ed.
Open the door
Wheres ed
I'm fucking freezing
ITs so cold
Just let me in
etc
I tried to reason with him. I'm good in situations like this, but it ended with him shouting
oh fuck off
and leaving.. So I called 999 because I was so scared.We thought he might have been drunk and lost his friends etc
But then we wondered if he was jsut trying to get in
So we googled the guy he was looking for supposedly and it turns out there is someone by that name in leeds, and he's a second year at my uni, so I messaged him on facebook.
I hjust want the peace of mind really. I'm not that bothered it if it was a genuine drunken mistake (no excuse for kicking our door though) I just want to be certain we're not being targeted.
I've asked him if he lives close enough for his friend to be mistaken, and if he does actually have a friend called jack.
The police can't follow it up because we didn't dare look at him through the window because he'd seemed a little violent. But they said ring back if there is anything else bothering us.
Going to get the landord to put in a peephole thingy too.
Right bed time!!
I thought it was a side effect of my hep B jab, but alas, twas not meant to be... I'm still ill
It's a proper cold and I hate colds *cries*
On the up side... I did almost 3 hours of exercise yesterday!!!!
How> I hear you gasp...
I BOUGHT A FRICKING KINECT ARGH OMG I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!!
Eeeeeee. It's so much fun
Dance central is amazing and even kinect adventures is good.
Bought fighters uncaged too as it was only £20 if you buying something else.
They're so good and you really get a workout!! Even not in workout mode!
I was soooo sweaty by the time I'd done, so I had pasta beans and cheese for tea and started all over again
I'm apparently a flawless dancer
But then again I already knew that Hehe
Gunna play again later today when I get up....
I'm off back to bed after being woken at 6:20 after less than 6 hours sleep!!
The last two/three nights I've had like 2 nights worth of sleep. 4 hours one night, 6 last night, maybe even less the day before.. I keep forgetting because I lose track of time because I'm awake for so many hours!!!
Anyway, this morning we wake up to a banging on the door and the doorbell being pressed loads. Martin said " It's prolly my parents". Which made sense because his mum does that with doorbells... Til we saw what time it was... 6:20!!
Some guy is hammering on our door shouting to be let in and looking for ed.
Open the door
Wheres ed
I'm fucking freezing
ITs so cold
Just let me in
etc
I tried to reason with him. I'm good in situations like this, but it ended with him shouting
oh fuck off
and leaving.. So I called 999 because I was so scared.We thought he might have been drunk and lost his friends etc
But then we wondered if he was jsut trying to get in
So we googled the guy he was looking for supposedly and it turns out there is someone by that name in leeds, and he's a second year at my uni, so I messaged him on facebook.
I hjust want the peace of mind really. I'm not that bothered it if it was a genuine drunken mistake (no excuse for kicking our door though) I just want to be certain we're not being targeted.
I've asked him if he lives close enough for his friend to be mistaken, and if he does actually have a friend called jack.
The police can't follow it up because we didn't dare look at him through the window because he'd seemed a little violent. But they said ring back if there is anything else bothering us.
Going to get the landord to put in a peephole thingy too.
Right bed time!!
Holly88
New member
Hey red!
That guy sounds scary. I hate situations like that 'cause I'm real panicky when it comes to confrontation. I hope it was just a mistaken one off thing.
You sound like you're doing ace on your course! Well done
I might well know your bf's friend, or at least I might know of him. There are a lot of us medical students though.
Have a lovely weekend xx
That guy sounds scary. I hate situations like that 'cause I'm real panicky when it comes to confrontation. I hope it was just a mistaken one off thing.
You sound like you're doing ace on your course! Well done
I might well know your bf's friend, or at least I might know of him. There are a lot of us medical students though.
Have a lovely weekend xx
It's a her but maybe
She'll be in her... 4th year now.
I think her younger brother is at the same uni and they're set to graduate in the same year, which always felt really odd to me.
Well I went back to bed and felt much better about it all when it was daylight!
Spoke to the guy he said he was looking for and he doesn't know him or live near but he thinks it could have been someone on his pub crawl who had just got too drunk.
Two other girls involved in the society both texted me offering help and support which was really nice of them
Danced and jumped and sweated my way through two ish hours of kinect again, about to have pasta for lunch.
Pasta twice in two days isn't brilliant but it's what I'm in the mood for.
Right I have to go because I might be burning it!!!!
She'll be in her... 4th year now.
I think her younger brother is at the same uni and they're set to graduate in the same year, which always felt really odd to me.
Well I went back to bed and felt much better about it all when it was daylight!
Spoke to the guy he said he was looking for and he doesn't know him or live near but he thinks it could have been someone on his pub crawl who had just got too drunk.
Two other girls involved in the society both texted me offering help and support which was really nice of them
Danced and jumped and sweated my way through two ish hours of kinect again, about to have pasta for lunch.
Pasta twice in two days isn't brilliant but it's what I'm in the mood for.
Right I have to go because I might be burning it!!!!
Sunflower2
New member
mmm, pasta *drools*
That guys sounds like a bag o' dicks. Hope he doesn't return!
That guys sounds like a bag o' dicks. Hope he doesn't return!
Aye, getting it done ASAP.
SOrry for my shit post, was not in a good mood
BUT
I now have a new PMA (positive mental attitude) So I'm all upbeat about it.
I've sorted uni out and I might be getting to go out into Placement early And I'm getting well on with my essays.
And then 6th dec I'm hopefully having my op so I can be well enough and off the meds for some lovely drunken xmas do's
I was off the meds after a week last time so hopefully I'll be better this time knowing what to expect and my own limitations.
Food = so so
PMA = quite high
Weight = not bloody shifting!!!
Although getting weighed at the docs ages ago it said 100kg *faints* and this time it said 97. Which included a hell of a lot more clothes! Big skate shoes, jeans, studded belt, purse and phone, hoodie and three tee shirts lol, over one tee and just jeans last time!!
So that was quite good
I'm off to book my op in the morning so I'll keep you all updated
SOrry for my shit post, was not in a good mood
BUT
I now have a new PMA
(positive mental attitude) So I'm all upbeat about it.I've sorted uni out and I might be getting to go out into Placement early
And I'm getting well on with my essays.And then 6th dec I'm hopefully having my op so I can be well enough and off the meds for some lovely drunken xmas do's
I was off the meds after a week last time so hopefully I'll be better this time knowing what to expect and my own limitations.
Food = so so
PMA = quite high
Weight = not bloody shifting!!!
Although getting weighed at the docs ages ago it said 100kg *faints* and this time it said 97. Which included a hell of a lot more clothes! Big skate shoes, jeans, studded belt, purse and phone, hoodie and three tee shirts lol, over one tee and just jeans last time!!
So that was quite good
I'm off to book my op in the morning so I'll keep you all updated
Sunflower2
New member
Any news, mate? Hope all is well. Hate that you're poorly