Finished 4 days of night duty and it does play havoc with your circadian,at 11 PM at night one is wide awake like an owl with no sleep in sight.One does get three days to get back but it just does not work that way does it?
I am so glad about it though,a year back I would have found this sort of rota for extended periods almost impossible ,ofcourse there is the fact that back home the rest part is not woven into our erratic schedule.
I would like to attend church today,hopefully I will be able to hold up for the day and catch up on sleep a little early tonight.Tomorrow I start my clinical week and I hope to spend the next five days in the echo department picking up some skills.
I have all of three months with the trust and another month travelling through UK if the Lord wills it,with my brother and niece.
I have almost begun my count-downs and all said and done I just have a handful of days.
This year has been a thought provoking year,hopefully I have shed more than just a few kilos of lard.
Mom and dad are travelling to Siliguri today accompanying my sister and her wards for a little more than a fortnight of continuing education ,it will be a break for them before they will have my sister from Australia with her children over.It is something my parents look forward to with a lot of joy ,they are a fortnight away and my mom has already been expressing her regret at their visit being so brief.That's parents for you.
Otherwise it is winter for you here in England.The second night after my night duty,it started drizzling a bit on my way back and the temperature just plumetted.I had a taste of hypothermia just walking back to my accomodation ,the heating had broken down and my flatmate was doing the rounds of the accomodation office .It took exactly a day after that for the heating to come back.The third night ,I felt a little sick to start with but managed somehow by God's grace.
It is frightening to see a spate of viral pneumonias come in through the emergency.They would never make it in our settings back home.Sometimes I get very impressed by the paramedical support system the NHS has built up.They do a fine job of filling in the gap for some very sick patients and that is a learning I would like to take back home and perhaps build on it.
I had my flu-jab this year when the season began and it has done a fine job keeping the flu at bay.Guess who is most surprised when medicine actually works?It is me.I remember a time when I had some physical pain .Dr KV had given me a word of advice which I think I will carry to my death bed.He said,'never be your own physician'.So Divya prescribed a diclofenac for me .I took it and was actually really surprised to see the pain stay at bay for a cool six hours atleast.It is the same with the jab.Some friends were complaining of feeling underweather post jab but all I noticed was I had become emotionally a little labile for a week after that.Like all things nowadays I analyse it with a cool head and the only change in my routine was the jab.I am back to my baseline now.
You become older,you become wiser,one understands another human being better,beyond the difference of the skin colour,background,social situation,beliefs,opinions ....we are just God's creation,different sometimes very very different but beautiful nevertheless.....a reflection of the utmost ,sometimes obscured by circumstances ,surprising you when we least expect it,and sometimes by grace we are able to connect with one another in this journey through life.For that I am always grateful.
I am so glad about it though,a year back I would have found this sort of rota for extended periods almost impossible ,ofcourse there is the fact that back home the rest part is not woven into our erratic schedule.
I would like to attend church today,hopefully I will be able to hold up for the day and catch up on sleep a little early tonight.Tomorrow I start my clinical week and I hope to spend the next five days in the echo department picking up some skills.
I have all of three months with the trust and another month travelling through UK if the Lord wills it,with my brother and niece.
I have almost begun my count-downs and all said and done I just have a handful of days.
This year has been a thought provoking year,hopefully I have shed more than just a few kilos of lard.
Mom and dad are travelling to Siliguri today accompanying my sister and her wards for a little more than a fortnight of continuing education ,it will be a break for them before they will have my sister from Australia with her children over.It is something my parents look forward to with a lot of joy ,they are a fortnight away and my mom has already been expressing her regret at their visit being so brief.That's parents for you.
Otherwise it is winter for you here in England.The second night after my night duty,it started drizzling a bit on my way back and the temperature just plumetted.I had a taste of hypothermia just walking back to my accomodation ,the heating had broken down and my flatmate was doing the rounds of the accomodation office .It took exactly a day after that for the heating to come back.The third night ,I felt a little sick to start with but managed somehow by God's grace.
It is frightening to see a spate of viral pneumonias come in through the emergency.They would never make it in our settings back home.Sometimes I get very impressed by the paramedical support system the NHS has built up.They do a fine job of filling in the gap for some very sick patients and that is a learning I would like to take back home and perhaps build on it.
I had my flu-jab this year when the season began and it has done a fine job keeping the flu at bay.Guess who is most surprised when medicine actually works?It is me.I remember a time when I had some physical pain .Dr KV had given me a word of advice which I think I will carry to my death bed.He said,'never be your own physician'.So Divya prescribed a diclofenac for me .I took it and was actually really surprised to see the pain stay at bay for a cool six hours atleast.It is the same with the jab.Some friends were complaining of feeling underweather post jab but all I noticed was I had become emotionally a little labile for a week after that.Like all things nowadays I analyse it with a cool head and the only change in my routine was the jab.I am back to my baseline now.
You become older,you become wiser,one understands another human being better,beyond the difference of the skin colour,background,social situation,beliefs,opinions ....we are just God's creation,different sometimes very very different but beautiful nevertheless.....a reflection of the utmost ,sometimes obscured by circumstances ,surprising you when we least expect it,and sometimes by grace we are able to connect with one another in this journey through life.For that I am always grateful.
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