25 things

Jen has tagged me following a rather extensive and informative list of 25 cardiology points, which actually I knew.. go go gadget brain. Also revision works!

Apparently you are meant to list 25 things abut yourself, habits, goals etc. But instead I thought I’d list 25 things that happened to a junior doctor today… which is me by the way!

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged.

1. I woke up twice overnight with drenching night sweats. No I do not have TB, lymphoma or thyrotoxicosis but simply a nasty viral infection. My boyfriend says it’s mild flu and blames me entirely for not having my flu jab.
2. I had Special K Red Berries for breakfast, with the poor man’s Lemsip
3. It took me 19 minutes to get to work today.
4. I arrived on the Medical Assessment Unit at 9 (ish) am and changed from my comedy boots into ballet flats.
5. I started my ward round at 9:15am
6. One of my favourite patients asked me how I was, I did not say I felt rubbish, because I did not want to worry them. They have dementia and ask me if I’m ok everyday. Sometimes before I’ve managed to ask them. I managed to stop them drinking from the hot tap.
7. The first patient’s capillary glucose measurements were running high so I increased their insulin
8. Another patient has started drinking. This makes me happy. It may only be small amounts of milk but at least it’s a start. But they probably are starting to get *another* hospital acquired pneumonia
9. I have a patient who I hope makes a century. I heard their voice for the first time today. It made me happy, before they just mouthed things to me
10. Sent a patient home with an exacerbation of COPD, probably non-infective, but the consultant had started antibiotics yesterday so who am I to quibble?
11. I don’t like antibiotics
12. Maybe I shouldn’t have started them in that pneumonia patient… ?
13. I have three favourite patients. They are all old men with dementia. One is on a different ward now, so isn’t mine anymore
14. That may have sounded very specific. It isn’t. I have many old patients with dementia. And I love them all
15. I want to be a geriatrician with a special interest in falls and dementia
16. I am obviously into cutting edge intervention and diagnostics
17. I stopped a patient’s lisinopril as their creatinine had gone off
18. I took blood from one patient and organised them a Doppler
19. They earned themselves warfarin… hello massive femoral DVT
20. I started feeling faint and unwell
21. Saw a patient mismanaged by A&E. Collapse with loss of consciousness, positive urine dipstick and postural drop does not equal trimethoprim and home. It equals at least some electrolytes, a Holter, a CXR considering the left sided creps and temp of 38.7, maybe an echo with the barn door left ventricular hypertrophy on the ECG and a systolic murmur
22. Felt more faint so my Registrar (like attending) sent me home
23. Phoned Argos as my bookcase hadn’t arrived
24. Had food and an iChat
25. Revised before paracetamol and bed

See exciting isn’t it? I should’ve worked til 21:30 today, but I felt like a pile of arse.

I don’t have 25 people to tag.

Fin