Me say...

So I'm pretty excited right now. Though I doubt the excitement will last for long and it's a pretty pathetic reason to be excited all things considered, but whatever. I was leaving the post-natal ward this evening when I stopped in to see if one of the consultants was still in his office. Surprisingly, he was despite it being past 5:30pm. I was able to get some good direction on how to proceed with my posting in O&G and now I actually have an idea of how I can be more proactive in my education. I also got a recommendation for a church in town, so I think may try it out on Sunday :)

Today was actually a pretty good day. The morning wasn't much as the labor ward was really dragging and not much in ways of goings on, so I went to see a scheduled elective C-section. It was pretty cool, though I found looking at the baby more interesting than watching the surgeon close the site. I had hoped surgery would be more interesting, but I guess not. lol. The opening of the site was much more so. Maybe I'd be more into it if I was actually doing something to take part of the procedure. The most interesting aspect of the C-section was that the mom bore a striking resemblance to Sigourney Weaver.

The coolest thing I did today was play translator for the doctors to a Chinese lady who couldn't speak a lick of English. Okay, that's not true, I heard her say, "morning" and "thank you". But it was nice to just actually feel like I was doing something and being helpful, since I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing around here. She is an asylum seeker so when she had her baby, she wasn't able to go back to her previous accommodations. Now she's staying at the hospital because the UK Border Agency says she has to go back to her previous address because that's the only address she has permission to stay at, but since she can't go back, she's staying in the hospital until other arrangements with Social Services can be arranged. Her case was fairly interesting as well, but I don't think I can go into that here. But my broken Chinese made up for her lack of English and at the end I think both she and the doctors were happy with the progress made in communication.

Oh and I bought me a sleeping bag today. It's a fairly nice Vango Fusion 2-3 season bag that was on sale at an outdoor specialty store so I got it at a fairly reasonable price. I weighed my options after seeing both the sleeping bags offered and the duvet + set offered and my choices were 1) get a sleeping bag that I would actually use after I left here but pay about $15 more or 2) get a duvet + set that was cheaper, and would make the room look more homey, but would probably end up just leaving here. I opted to get the sleeping bag as I could get more mileage for the money put in.

Anywho, enough. I'm off for food and a potential work out :)