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.

pseudocyst on tour

  • Disclaimer No children, tonsils, cricket balls, tennis balls, Lost Ruins of Arnak components, Somerset cricket fans, or Nando’s peri-peri sauces were permanently harmed in the making of this blog. Some parental nerves were lightly grilled. This is considered normal. After the previous day’s cricket adventure for Ilton — because obviously the ideal preparation for a… Read more

  • Disclaimer No clinical advice here—just observational chaos from the sidelines. All sporting interpretations are based on limited understanding, mild enthusiasm, and a German attempting to decode cricket. Some terminology may be wildly inaccurate, but delivered with confidence nonetheless. This week’s episode of “Sports I Didn’t Expect to Be Participating In” took place at the esteemed… Read more

  • Disclaimer This blog contains board games, mild enthusiasm, strategic family negotiations, parking-related administrative dread, and at least one adult pretending that “I only need to learn a few rules” is a stable life choice. No meeples were harmed in the writing of this article, although several may soon be packed into bags and transported to… Read more

  • Disclaimer This blog reflects personal views and experiences only and does not represent the views of my employer, colleagues or any professional body. Any clinical references are shared in a general, non-identifiable way and not as professional advice. Some details of clinical situations have been intentionally altered to preserve patient anonymity in accordance with NMC… Read more

  • Disclaimer This blog contains family life, holiday enthusiasm, mild meteorological betrayal, and the sort of overconfident packing decisions that make perfect sense until footwear meets Cornish seawater. The Easter holidays are now behind us and, like all good things in Britain, they ended just as you were getting used to them. It was lovely while… Read more

  • Disclaimer No patients were identified, no confidential details were harmed in the making of this blog, and any clinical references have been kept deliberately broad enough to keep both professional standards and my blood pressure intact. Some details of clinical situations have been intentionally altered to preserve patient anonymity in accordance with NMC professional guidance.… Read more

  • Disclaimer No junior tennis players, parents, coaches, caffeinated spectators or innocent tennis balls were harmed in the writing of this blog. Any opinions expressed are, as ever, my own, mildly sleep-deprived, slightly over-analytical and written with the sort of deadpan tone that probably needs its own safeguarding policy. As usual, this is a blog about… Read more

  • Disclaimer This post contains board game enthusiasm, moderate exaggeration, and the sort of confidence normally associated with people who have only half-read the rulebook. Any apparent professionalism should be viewed with suspicion. There comes a point every year when sensible adults look at their calendar, look at Birmingham, and decide that the obvious thing to… Read more

  • Disclaimer This blog reflects personal views and family life only. It does not represent the views of my employer, any professional body, any tennis organisation, or indeed anyone with a functioning checkout page. As always, any references to children other than my own are kept appropriate and respectful. This is a parent’s account of junior… Read more

  • Disclaimer No children, referees, or baked goods were harmed in the writing of this blog. Any tactical observations from the stands were made by highly qualified parents with at least Level 3 expertise in sideline coaching (i.e. folding arms, nodding knowingly, and whispering “he needs to keep it in”). All views are those of a… Read more