This will be my first public update in a good while....I am trying very hard to waste time. Have an exam this afternoon. On a Saturday. My differential diagnosis exam. Worth 70%. All about skin disorders and eye and ear disorders. And other things- like disorders of the reproductive system. Trying to think of little mnemonics to remember everything ( Read more... )

...running across the freeway...managed to trip...fell and rolled...got up and bowed...resumed walking...am such a twat...

Hi, Brenton here. Just wanted to check in seeing as I haven't updated since the early 90's, and to let you know that I'm totally stockpiling fur stoles and opera gloves for September because MIRANDA is COMING to SYDNEY and it is going to be THE AWESOME. I'm so excited I could pee.

Hugs and kisses y'all!
B.

PS Happy birthday Gemma!!!!1!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RACHEL!

It took me four glasses of wine to realise that animal husbandry did not mean the marrying of humans to animals, rather the breeding of animals ( Read more... )

My most sincere apologies to those of you who received a phonecall from me in the early hours of the morning. Yes, I was inebriated, and yes, there were too many expletives in my conversation. And come to think of it, I may have been slightly too forward on some matter (perhaps the Rules of Tired should apply to me in this case. And perhaps we ( Read more... )

Have been working 12-15 hour days. There is nothing to report.

Sitting opposite me at the train station was an old lady. She would have been about seventy. It was past midnight and the rest of the station was deserted, the only exception being the toilet cleaner and another middle-aged lady also waiting for the train ( Read more... )

I have finally watched the last movie on 'Miranda's List of Films To See Before You Die'. And I made it, before I died obviously. I finished it all of with 'Life is Beautiful', probably the best movie I could have finished with. I have owned if for a couple of months, but lent it out. I have finally had time to watch it, and it was phenomenal ( Read more... )

Some of the complications of haemorrhoids include anaemia (due to loss of blood), thrombosis (if the prolapsing pile is gripped by the anal sphincter and peri-anal haematoma (due to a rupture from the inferior haemorrhoidal plexus).

How embarrassing would it be to die from complications resulting from haemorrhoids??