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.

  • 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

  • Annual leave – Part 1

    Easter Sunday started with an Egg hunt and there were eggs all around the house and in the garden. It took our son a good 1hr to find all of them – some by accident – like in his shoes and his coat pockets. My wife was working until ~2pm and once home went out… Read more

  • Easter weekend

    Weekend off and its a long one with Friday (well, I was working Good Friday) and Easter Monday off. My wife was slaving away on the surgical admission ward whilst I entertained our son. Not sure which is easier sometimes. Tennis at 9am for 1hr. That just one of his 2x 1hr weekly sessions currently… Read more

  • 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