Study leave haha

I haven’t blogged since April :O that was nearly 2 months ago. So a lot to catch up on. I started study leave last week, where we are supposed to be at home studying, emphasis on HOME. However, somehow, I’ve ended up having twice as many lessons and being in nearly everyday, apart from Wednesday, go Wednesday!

My first Chemistry exam was on Friday and it went really well, i did so much revision, an extra 5 chemistry lessons a week and i went through so many practice papers that i knew the mark scheme for most of the questions. If i didn’t get an A then it wasn’t through lack of trying. You would think the revision sessions and extra lessons would stop after the exam, but oh no its 2 weeks till the next one which is worth 50%, scary. So I’m basically working my ass off. I’ve got an exam this week and 4 in a row after the holiday so fingers crossed for those.

My last sailing lesson was meant to be tomorrow, i started 2 weeks ago. Sailing is amazing, lots of hard work, aching muscles and bruised knees, but a hell of a lot of fun. I had my test last weeks and passed, it was just common sense and some knots, not uber hard. But i was really looking forward to tomorrow, the wind was perfect last week and we actually got to go fast, leaning out of the boat at top speed fighting the tiller and trying not to capsize is a frightening adrenaline rush. Hopefully we will go again after exams yay!

My knitting is going really well, I’ve almost finished in fact. Perseverance was the key. Mum thought i would have given up by no but give it another month and I’ll have a pretty summer bolero. Which brings me to the North Easts newest weather extreme form raining Wednesday to a heat wave from Thursday till Monday and maybe longer. Short flimsy dresses and hand held fans has been the norm, well at least for the girls, for the boys its baggy shorts and monstrously hairy legs, yuck! XD But it has been fun to get the BBQ out and have some delicious ostrich burgers yum yum.

On that tasty thought I’m back to revising for my math resit, if i knew what i was dropping next year i might not have to do it, but oh well at least i can say i tried if i get an E.

Myocardial infarction

As you know i got an A in my biology test in January, this included a lot of information about heart attacks, the causes and symptoms. On Saturday night my mum was wheezing and having pains in her chest, by Monday morning they were getting worse, she shrugged it off as indigestion. She was rushed into hospital at 11am Monday morning suffering from a heat attack, another hour and it would have been fatal. My question is why didn’t i notice? After all that learning and doing great in the test i failed to even see anything wrong with my mother when i went to school that morning. This is why i want to go into medicine, so that i know whats happening and so that i can do something about it. I know that as a vet i would have been unable to help my mum but observation was the key skill here and knowing what was happening.

My mum is fine now. Three days in hospital and she wants to take on the world again although she’s grateful not to have to do house work for at least 4 weeks. She came home today amongst a crowd of relieved family and well wishers. I’m glad to have my mum back, i don’t think i realized how much i still needed her until she wasn’t there.

It was amazing to be able to recognize some of the equipment in the hospital from what I’ve been doing in biology. To be able to understand what had happened to her heart without it having to be put into as simple terms as mum had to, and to be able to understand the keyhole surgery which i will be trying a simulated version of in the summer. I was good to realize that not all my learning was in vain and that it has real world applications but i would rather keep my mum out of the hospital from now on no matter how fascinating it is.