Pseudocyst

The adventures and life of a Specialist Nurse in Upper GI and Bariatric surgery. If you then double and triple this by having a primary school age child AND being married to another Nurse then you have double the trouble….aehm I mean fun. Hobbies are playing chess, board games and being taxi for our son!!!

Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this blog are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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  • 3 0 blitz against GM

    I am small light in the world of chess. But on the rare occasion I can produce some great games. In a lichess tournament (Bundesliga tournament which is twice weekly) I produced a brilliant game against GM Parligras from Romania. In all fairness my opponent – who is over 500 points “heavier” – did not… Read more

  • Correspondence Chess

    I have – so far – written very little about my correspondence chess. I started playing correspondence chess (CC) when Somerset was looking for players for the national county championships. That was around 2010 and I thought it was a good idea to improve my opening knowledge whilst still playing regular over the board (otb)… Read more

  • Ark Nova

    When you look at my games, I have played this year one of the most games played so far for me is Ark Nova. I love Ark Nova – I am not good at it but I am usually happy to play it if it makes it to the table. Ark Nova is a game… Read more

  • County training

    The weekend off was quite nice. After the busy week we’ve had (more in my next entry) it was good to spend some time with the family. Well, my wife had to work on Saturday which meant daddy day care mode was initiated. Tennis, swimming, library, and some (board)games at home. The tennis session was… Read more

  • Through the Ages – A new story of Civilization (TtA)

    As people know I play board games as one of my hobbies. Over the years board games have come and gone, some made o very good impression on me – other not so much. Playing chess got me into board games. When still living in Germany I was part of the YMCA and we had… Read more

  • Post On-call weekend

    It looked like my consultant had so much more “Room in the Inn” than we could handle. A lot of sick patients in the hospital and bed shortages everywhere. In addition to this the F1 – who was on-call over the weekend – dropped out of medicine completely – and we were left on Monday… Read more

  • Day of decisions

    As expected, yesterday was a day where some really important decision were going to be made. The first one was the patient with the failed duodenal stent, and it turned out that during the gastroscopy some malignant gastric ulcers were found and despite not having solid oral food for more than a week large food… Read more

  • Back to the “Madhouse”

    After 9 days off it was back to work for me on Monday. I knew that colorectal was on-call at the weekend and therefore our UGI list wouldn’t be too bad. Having said that the colorectal consultant on-call doesn’t do any UGI related problems and therefore when I arrived on Monday morning 9 referrals were… Read more

  • First tournament since 2018

    Last month I had the usual email from a guy call Tim Paulden who organises chess events in Devon. I am still in his address book as I used to play in Devon for Tiverton – just over the border from Somerset. I usually ignore the emails, but this one was about an individual blitz… Read more

  • Annual Leave – Part 2

    Our neighbour came around to ours at 6pm. I know her since we started “Nursing School” together in 2009. It does help at work having friends in senior positions these days – not only working on the wards. Luckily, she works as one of the senior nurses in Interventional Radiology hence I do get stuff… Read more