I am in a millennial age dilemma. Which of my latest excitements should I blog? There is the recent decision that I want to get a dog or dresses and balls. (Side note: if this blog was read by those I work with, one of those topics could lead to a large and long laugh about an inside joke, but seeing as none of them read this blog, the joke is lost.)
So I have decided to go with my dog because that happened first and its pretty cool. I asked my housemate what she would think if I got a dog, thinking that she may not want the bother and if not then I wouldnt be able to get one. But it turns out she has always wanted a dog but hadnt gotten one because she lives in a unit in Bris. So if we can get permission on our next lease, we/I are/am gonna get a dog. We have already named it. Petey. Sarah's choice - she loves the name and always wanted her first pet to be Petey. So we have many jokes about Petey piddling and pooping on the patio. hee hee. So now the question is what breed of dog to get??!??!?? Because while we do have a back yard it isnt huge and the fence is only waist height. Plus I want a dog that is small enough to come in my car to and from bris (if I buy it a cage/travel basket thing). And neither of us want a yappy dog and probably not one with really long hair. But one that doesnt get too stressed if its by itself cuz we both work shift work.
Speaking of which I finished night duty this am at 6:45am. It is now 6pm. I left for Bris straight from work and had 2 hours sleep halfway there in my car. So I am running on 2 hrs sleep in the last 24hrs. Its amazing I am still here. but not for long, I am gonna go hang with Farter Chloe who has to organise music for her party. Sayonara

Updating
So a certain sister of mine is buggin me to update my blog. So the latest exciting news in my life is ....... I got a visitor, I got a visitor, I got a visitor hey hey hey hey. For those who are too old or mature to notice my reference to childhood movies, recall Little Rascals. I have been remembering alfalfa's letter to Darla lately. Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts ... etc. So anyway, back to my visitor. Chloe is staying with me for a few days having finally finished her first semester of uni. She is very excited to get to stay in the spare room which is officially known as Chloe's room. Its so nice to have sister time especially without me having a 7 hour round trip to get it. And then mum is coming to visit after Chloe leaves. I love having visitors. So you should come visit me. I can't guarantee a great tourist destination but I can offer excellent company. I currently vacancies for the end of July, the end of August and the rest of the year after that. I have one more planned visitor in Bec, a faithful commentor on this blog. Another visit I cant wait for. So what are the big plan Wobo and I have for this next couple days, umm well, we cooked yummy dinner last night and she is cooking again tonight while I am at work. We might go out on the town today and i can show her the best of Chinchi. That takes about 20 mins. Then we may go out to lunch before I have to go to work this arvo. In fact, instead of wasting time writing this, I am gonna go hang with my sis. Thats a whole lot more fun. Ciao

Well the last two days have been pretty full on. There has been a rural doctors conference here over this weekend and as part of that, on Thursday there was an emergency resource management day that the docs could attend. This involve participating in simulated exercises of emergency patient situations using a SimMan mannequin that surprisingly accurately imitates many patient conditions. So I am 2 other nurses got to participate (for free) in this session cuz it was held at our hospital. It was soo cool. It might sound boring the way I explain it but when you have something in front of you that looks pretty much like a human, talks to you, physiologically simulates medical conditions and a scenario that is realistic, it is not hard to suspend reality and believe that this is a real situation. I nwas in the fiorst group to do this and we were waiting in the hallway to come in when one of the organisers came out and said ok its time to come in now. Everyone stood up to go in but then she said she only wanted me to come in at the start. I nervously walked into the room to find a patient having a heart attack. I tried to make up what I thought would be the best things to do but the patient kept whinging about the pain so (cuz nurses can’t give medication without a doctor’s order) I rang the Dr and she came in and started to do some extra stuff. In hindsight I actually did all that I could do before ringing the Dr. I was pretty excited to find that even though I was scared and felt like I had no idea what to do, I actually did everything right. Yay! I am becoming a good nurse. Our (fake) patient ending up arresting but we shocked him and he came back and lived. Excellent collaboration.
Then yesterday we had a mock disaster involving all the emergency services, the SES, about 30 Drs from the conference and our entire hospital staff . There was real fire and real cars out the back of the hospital and then the (fake) injured came in for us to treat. Most of the volunteers were med students who had come out for the exercise. I was in charge of the walking wounded and once we treated them, they all wanted to watch what was going on with the critically injured so I lost all my patients. It was a pretty good exercise. Lots of adrenaline. But by the end of the exercise (because I had already worked my morning shift before this started) I was completely exhausted and came home and did very little.
But all in all I have learnt pack loads in the last few days and I feel a bit less apprehensive about dealing with emergency situations.