The calm after the storm

Hi guys,

Well I failed miserably at keeping this blog alive didn't I haha - I barely started so apologies for that. I am now fast approaching the end of my first year having just done all my exams and only having one placement to go.

The whole year has gone by pretty quickly really. It started off at a slower pace than I expected to up until Christmas and then the pace really picked up. I think it has been what I expected it to be. I have handled going back to uni as a mature student much better than I thought I would and have not been half as stressed I expected it to be. However, the one thing that has been a surprise is the real lack of money!! But I keep telling myself it won't be forever. I can truly say I have enjoyed my first year and having just had my exam results back it hasn't quite sunk in that my average mark for the whole of the year is 77%!! I'd love to get a first but I won't get too carried away as I know I have two very tough years ahead of me but I will do my best.

My next placement starts in a couple of weeks so until then I have some time on my hands to prepare for that and get over a busy May. Once I start next placement I will try and come on here regularly and keep it updated with how things are going but if it's anything like last placement I won't have much free time and will be pretty tired so bear with me if I can only manage a weekly update.

The way placement works where I study is that you are allocated to a hospital trust but you have one hospital as your base. Then over the course of your placement you might get rotated to another hospital in the trust for the week or maybe another department in your base hospital, in theatre or on mobiles etc. My first week on my next placement is going to be in theatre which I am a little (well quite a lot actually) nervous about. I am a bit squeamish and have only been in theatre once before. Let's just say it didn't go very well!! I had been pretty ill all week and I think it all got too much so hopefully this placement I can get over my fears. I have a whole week of it so I'm sure I'll be just fine (I hope).

In the meantime if anyone is reading this and has any questions feel free to post or send me a private message. Not sure what sort of things people will be interested to hear about but I'll do my best.