Saturday, June 27, 2009

Holiday makers and their health

Nowadays, holiday means going somewhere. My domestic lady spent 2 weeks in Spain. My colleague came back from Barbados last week after taking a bargain deal from lastminute.com . Sarah is a nurse from work. She was visiting Sidney according to her email. It can be said that going holiday is part of a human right. People do it regardless of their social and financial status. People with medical condition also enjoy their holiday.

A week ago, I saw a 78 year old man at emergency medical department who came in with acute breathlessness. He was recently diagnosed as lung cancer. He was from Lincoln, northern England. In east, once diagnosed as cancer, they are not willing to go far away from their home. They may stay inside the house. They may be praying for their health. They may be waiting for their time quietly. But in west, people try to live in their normal life style as much as possible.

Yesterday, a noisy air ambulance landed at hospital heliport, bringing a 69 year old man from the cruise ship which just arrived from Mediterranean with over 200 holiday makers. He had a heart surgery previously. His doctor advised him that air travel was not suitable for him. He did not stop and he kept going by cruise ship . Now he is in hospital with a massive collection of fluid around the heart. Of course, there is little or nothing relationship with travelling and his condition. But he might die if his condition deteriorates in the middle of an ocean where it is out of reach of air lift.


Coast guard

A German tourist is also in hospital. We had to use body language before interpreter arrived. The language barrier might lead to something went wrong. Anyway, he is fine now.

The most annoying holiday maker was from Lancastershire. He is 72. He has a long term air way problem. He drove his car along with his partner . He came down to see his daughter in Poole. He had a shortness of breath while staying at hotel and he needed hospital admission . He brought his medications with pill box. Unfortunately, there was no name on it. We did not know what tablet/capsule is what medication. He did not know either. We tried to contact his GP. But only answer phone as it was out of hour. The issue was sorted only after 12 hours when his GP was available in next morning.

Some people appear to consider their health condition briefly when they prepared for their journey. This might impose a risk. Personally, I would advise those with medical conditions should get a copy of their medical summary including medication list from their GP before going holiday.

Friday, June 19, 2009

2 days in Bristol

ALS means Advanced Life Support. Yesterday, I took ALS course. It is an intensive course under the management of UK Resus council. We have to retake every 4-5 years. I took a few years ago. So it was the time to take it again. It is a mandatory course for the professionals working in Acute and emergency medicine. Fee was £390. There are many centres across the UK. I chose Bristol as I had never been there before. I booked at Premiere Inn for £68 a night. After 2 day extensive practice and the test at the end of the course, I got exhausted physically and mentally. I thought it was more tiring business than PLAB and MRCP exams.

My mentor congratulated as I passed the test. There are many causalities. I mean some candidates did not pass. They have to redo after some time.

For me, only pain was parking fee. I left my car in NCP (Natinal car parking), costing me £30 for 24 hours. Premier Inn provides parking place (£8 for 24 hours), but no space on my arrival. Anyway, I am happy. I have done a task successfully. My course fee was funded by my deanery. :) Well, I still need to claim it.




the Premier Inn where I stayed over night. Fortunately my room was at the top floor (17). So good view.


inside the room


A view from my room. That is Bristol


Another look





University Hospitals, Bristol . A view from Education centre.


Some candidates

Monday, June 15, 2009

My cottage photos

During the last few days, I have been trying to organize my things. Still unfinished yet. Here are some photos of my new place in village. Hopefully, I can publish countryside photos after a couple of weeks. I have to attend a course in Bristol this Wednesday and Thursday. After that, my nights are from Friday to Sunday. Next week Tuesday is a long day again. :(


My cottage entrance


I start using my kitchen



Dining table


My fav roast duck


It's a mess. Now I've already kept tidy



My temporary sleeping place while waiting for my bed.


I still need to buy a proper TV stand


Someone's gift


Stair case to upstairs


Zoom in view from upstairs

Updated 02/07/2009 21:50 hours

My bed room အေလာင္းစင္နဲ႕မတူဘူးလား?

Monday, June 08, 2009

Moved to village

Last weekend, I moved to a village which is 5 miles away from my work. It is a very quiet place with organic farms around. House moving is a stressful business. I had to sort out a lot of things from removal of my belongings to address change. Royal mail redirect service cost me over £40 a year. The Internet is not available yet. I had to transfer my Virgin account that I left in Yorkshire last year. Since I moved in to Dorset, I have been using hospital Wifi network as I live in hospital accommodation.

Now I start enjoying England's rural life. There is a tiny pub in 3 minutes walk. That is the smallest pub in England, according to a neighbour. I may have some time to go there next week.

The only issue today is that I had to get up earlier than my normal time for my travel. (My regular bed time was 2AM and my radio alarm went on at 8 when I lived in work place). Later I learnt that it was only 10 minute driving time from home to work, which is quite good.

By the way, the name of the village is Godmanstone!



Fireplace at my new place. I did try last night.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Some old photos

These are some London photos found in my computer. Just sharing my memory.



London underground


A London passenger


London police


London shoppers


A London bus


A London girl


London trishaw




London Geese


London cheap panties.

Update:

စင္ကာပူ ေရာက္ၿပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္ေတာ့ မမKOM တခါ ေျပာဖူးသလိုပဲ ဘာမွ သိပ္မဆန္းေတာ့ဘူး ထင္မိတယ္။

Rita said...
06 June 2009 07:00:00 BST

ဒါေပါ့ မဆန္းပါဘူး။ အစက ဓာတ္ပံုနဲ႕ပါတ္သက္တဲ့ story ေတြေရးမလို႕ပဲ။ ေနာက္။။။။စိတ္မပါတာနဲ႕ ဒီတိုင္းပဲ ထားလိုက္တာ

Steve Evergreen said...
06 June 2009 07:07:00 BST