So it has been couple of months since my last post – oops. So few updates.
I finished A&E block as of last week, officially! Yay! 4 months of A&E has flown by to be fair and although at times, it did torment me with horrible rota and difficult patients sometimes, overall I have been blessed with amazing colleagues and learnt a lot there.
Now, I have moved onto my academic block. As a AFP FY2, you do one block (4 months) of non clinical rotation. Either in research, medical education or leadership and management. My track’s focus is in medical education and I am joining as a clinical teaching fellow at my current hospital, teaching medical students. It’s a very different job to my previous ones as I have no clinical duties but purely teaching. I have to organise, learn and set up the materials for different clinical years and also mentor and give pastoral support to medical students. First week has been so far so good and I forgot how much I missed normal work pattern of 9-5! These days, I get home and I still have an evening to myself and time to see Kieran, it’s so great!
One thing I will miss from A&E for sure, is the my salary. Unfortunately, sociable working hours of my current job means not a good news to my bank account – as I will not be getting paid for all the unsociable working hours that I will be doing in A&E. Hence as a way to celebrate myself for getting through A&E, I got myself a new laptop. It’s a Huawei Matebook 13 and I actually love it so much so far. It’s super light, portable, fast and I can now play games on it! (I downloaded Among Us and Overcooked 2 eeeee) I don’t really have a list of what I want fort Christmas hence Kieran offered to pay for some of it as my Christmas present. My old laptop was 8 years old so I hope this one will last for the next decade.
Recently, it has been very hard to sleep at night – and this is the case for both of us. And we know exactly why. The bloody alarm!!!
So we are still unsure of which car or building is the culprit. But we think! it’s the block opposite us, a decapitated building that’s currently being redeveloped to presumably another luxury block of flats. But every single night for the past few week, it has been ringing so loudly from about 9pm until midnight. And occasionally throughout the night. It is driving us insane. We have resulted to using earplugs, and yep still currently in the phase of ignoring it hoping it will go away. Just hope it stops soon as I have a whole essay to write for my PG Certificate in Medical Education and an exam to revise for (yep the exams never stop in Medicine!)…
As I now have more time to spend at home, we bought a nice 6 ft christmas tree and we put them up and decorated it.
It’s our first Christmas together in our new house so we decided to make some effort π
With Birmingham in Tier 3 still (very high alert and we are not allowed to dine out or mix households) my food adventure might be a bit limited. I am doing a lot of cooking – mainly Korean food and also shamelessly, lots of deliveroo and uber eats! I am looking very much forward to Christmas period when the lockdown is eased so we can travel and see family – it feels like it has been a lifetime honestly.
Now UK has introduced a new COVID vaccine ahead of any other countries in the world, here’s to hoping that it will get better soon enough x