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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  • The day off wasn’t worth it

    I’ve had a day off yesterday which is normal for me during the week. It does tends to be Wednesdays however depending on how my wife works it could be any of the other weekdays. Dropping our son off to school this morning a text message arrived explaining that our cover F1 is off sick. Read more

  • Is the weekend for resting?

    I guess when you don’t have children and you have a Monday -Friday 9-5 job then the header is true. I barely remember a lie in before we’ve had our son let alone having a weekend for yourself to do what you like. I am pretty sure it must be the same for my wife. Read more

  • What a week

    Halfway through the week I did had my day off which was needed. It’s relatively rare that we have to palliate 2-3 patient in a week and despite finally making the decision within the team together with the patient and family it is still “stressful” For the family and the patient to come to terms Read more

  • Crazy start to the week

    Post on-call for the second in a row (last Friday and now Monday). In all fairness this rarely happens as we share an on-call service with the colorectal team and they have twice more consultants than the UGI team. When arriving on Monday morning and looking at the lists to combine them we have 30 Read more

  • Saturday – Did you call daddies taxi service?

    Saturdays are always the same – Tennis at 9am, swimming at 11.30am, then usually library to swap books and (if it’s the last Saturday of the month) board games at the library. Today was no difference. The main difference was that I did the tennis AND the swimming run as my wife stayed in bed Read more

  • Back to the routine

    Back to work today and we were post on-call. Unfortunately having had two days off meant I didn’t really know a lot of our patients and in addition to this a bunch of new sick patients. Having to drop our son off to school first – Red Nose day today – I got to work Read more

  • Daily entries or what?

    The plan is to use it as a diary throughout the week. May recount some of the work issues/problems or just pure fiction – who knows. Whoever is going to read this at some point might be disappointed or find it refreshing. What tend to be the usual disclaimer when watching something: The story, all Read more

  • Setting the scene – hobbies

    I started playing chess when I was 6. I started playing it a bit more when I joined a chess club when I was in my mid teens. Strangely the local chess club has had several GM’s and IM’s and some FM’s who did some of the training. Considering that the local football club was Read more

  • Setting the scene – home

    Married to a fellow nurse (yes, of course we met at work – where else really) and we have a 6 year old son. I was married before and unfortunately that didn’t work out and after 6 years of marriage we went different ways. I think since the divorce I have seen/bumped into her 5/6 Read more

  • Setting the scene – work

    So, workwise I work for the NHS in a medium size hospital as part of the UGI and Bariatric team. We have 5 consultants, 3 registrars, 2 SHO’s, 3 F1’s, 2 bariatric specialist nurses and 1 Clinical Nurse Specialist (aka me). 4 admin are also part of the team. Usually we have 3 theatre days Read more