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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 – 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