My dog has been very miserable lately. Now, numerous visits to the vet (and hundreds of dollars later) she has been diagnosed with a nasty case of otitis externa. Her ear is full of gunk: blood and pus and muck. It's all down the side of her face too. Twice a day, I have to clean it and then put antibiotic drops in. Today when I was cleaning her ( Read more... )

Now, there’s a movie coming out in September called ‘Snakes on a Plane’, starring Samuel L Jackson. The movie is exactly as it sounds: there’s an aeroplane up in the air, and someone lets out some snakes. I just stumbled across it when looking at the movies coming out this year, and after doing a little searching, I realised it has already achieved ( Read more... )

I have been having a lot of issues with getting IVs in lately, so today I brought home a whole heap of IV stuff to practise on my ever-obliging family. I just got one in on my brother, first try! So I am on a bit of a high now. My sister's hands are covered in EMLA cream (she's a wuss) and my mother's not home yet, but hopefully I will have two ( Read more... )

Still doing neurology. I am getting bored now, people with strokes are all the same to me. One of our stroke patients is becoming psychotic (maybe), so that's interesting. The psych reg seemed to think it was just his personality but this is what he said to us this morning ( Read more... )

Shalini told me I HAVE to update. NOW ( Read more... )

I went shopping today, and I bought:
- Two tshirts
- A jumper
- A blouse
- A dress
- A vest
- A bra
- A skirt

Yes, I went a bit nuts. But! All up, it cost me less than $200! Can you believe it? I even got a dress from Review for $20!!

My hottest 100 votes:
Filthy Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Dance Me In - Sons And Daughters
The Beast And Dragon Adored - Spoon
Portions For Foxes - Rilo Kiley
My Doorbell - White Stripes
All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey - Dandy Warhols
The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
Hounds Of Love - Futureheads
Dare - Gorillaz
Gold Digger - Kanye West

( My not-so-shortlist )

It got up to 44 degrees at my house today. That's 111 Fahrenheit. Gah, I wish we had air conditioning.

I just got this information from Mosvold:
"Ingwavuma is very remote but there is a good tarred road all the way to the hospital. Distances from major towns are: 430km from Durban,~650km from Johannesburg and 300km from Empangeni which is our nearest big town ( Read more... )

Christmas day yesterday was fun, with only a couple of tantrums. I got some cool presents (a nice teacup, a backpack for my trip next year, a litre of vodka, Party Monster book, Sin City on DVD, season opera tickets) and we had a seven hour lunch, which was fantastic. We got my dog a squeaky toy, and wrapped it up. I was so excited about watching ( Read more... )