Toiling the Hospitals

We were fairly lucky when it came to working, initially scared that there would be no work we pretty much accepted everything that came our way. Resulting in my working everyday for 6 weeks straight without any break. Initiation into the Galwegian ED was traumatic. Having to give 1st doses of all IV drugs, nursing walking chest pains in that had been waiting for 40 minutes, then not giving any oxygen until seen by a doc and acute abdomens getting panadol for pain relief. We were then posted to Merlin Park a awesome little off shoot in the middle of a forest where on ward rounds we can look out and see bunnies hop by! We were pretty much adopted by the renal unit and replaces a girl by the name of Maeve - Ireland's No 1. female mountain biker who broke her ankle whilst getting off the bike. In Merlin the air is clean, you get to sleep most on-calls and the units are so far apart that they used to have a bus to pick everyone up to go to arrests!

Here are our dorms where we spend some of our massive 56hr shifts.

It is a strange place, with many many weird inhabitant especially Unit 5/6 a source of endless gags. We had the patient who tried to smother the patient next to her with a pillow. We had the great escape where a 87yo lady in th emiddle of the night built stair up to the window, threw pillows out to soften the blow on her osteoporotic bones an dplanned to commando roll when she landed ( luckily caught by us as she was sitting on the sill and about to jump). Then there is the man who prefers to sleep on the ground. And the 2 long term patients that are electric wheel chair bound and race each other around the ground rain, wind or shine. We soon got involved in the Kidney crowd, both consultants were awesome, cool, well-dressed and knowledgable dudes.

Post Indian Shout By Dr Lappin

We even got invited to the Kidney Ball: To good diuresis

We even got to meet the villiage people:

Got to hang with Peter Doherty and MaryMullins

Us putting fake hair onto my consultant...he actaully is held behind his back by a nurse, who later spilt 2 baby guiness on him then went home with Graz.

I was next sent to rheumatology. Gee I love joints and steroids.