Really overdue update - idiot drivers should be.....

hi guys,

again i have to apologise for my not keeping the blog up to date...

so whats been happening in the land of rattles? ? ?

as a brief summary for now, i had my 1st lot of exams for my MSc - and after being ill for 8 of the 12 weeks the exam was really hard. I'm resitting it in August now.

Semester 2 started and was full on from the very start. we had a contact week followed by a private/distance-supported learning week contact weeks were great with interesting lectures etc, the weeks between were extremely full on. usually consisting of 5-10 hours worth of e-lectures with questions to answer on each topic and also involved case studies where we had to work out what the patient had, and why we thought it etc - usually by presenting this to the rest of the class. This was just for 1 module which had been split into 2 parts. The other module was a lecture each contact session and planning presentations in the weeks in between sessions. Every contact session following the first one in our set groups we had to present a condition related to the previous weeks lecture. By the end of this semester i don't think any of us get too nervous about presentations anymore lol....

i broke my ankle, then once it had healed went to my cousins wedding and had a lovely weekend break. Then crashed on route back home in the small hours of the Monday morning of my 1st semester 2 exam...
After calling 999 the police thought the car would be OK to finish my journey, i didn't sleep that well that evening. half way trough my exam later that day i had to stop the exam, My knee had swollen to 3 times normal size and there was just a tiny wound on one side of my knee-cap. i ended up in A and E who thought it was probably just badly bruised. after spending a further 4 days in agony and the wound gradually getting bigger and black in colour i saw the on call doc. i was admitted the following day and had to have an operation on my knee :-{ had to have an epidural as well as too risky chest-wise for a general anaesthetic...

had a VAC pump attached for 3 weeks and still in the knee brace now {prob got 2-4 weeks of this left to endure now}. So currently bedroom bound. i cant get downstairs by myself and need 2 people to help me at the top of the stairs at the moment due to neither leg weight - bearing.

i have however read a haematology text book from cover to cover {twice},
Managed to break my iPhone by spilling tea on it and did same to laptop - which is annoying in different ways... several letters on the keyboard are not working when they are pressed... they include the 'h' 'i' 'j' 'k' and 'l' as well as all the numbers with symbols so in order to type anything i have to google 'abcdef' it then correctly assumes i need the alphabet and then its a case of copy and paste things into place... takes forever.

2 lessons learnt over last few months...

the first other people on the roads are idiots at 2am and don't care who gets in their way on their journey, Will explain what happened in accident next time as I'm loosing patience with the copy and paste thing now... gggggrrrrrrrr.

and finally if you crash into the central reservation of the motorway at 70mph {ish} you are indeed lucky to be alive but it really does hurt after a wee while so don't pretend your fine with no real injuries etc as once the shock wears off it REALLY hurts.....

hoping i will be up and about again soon but till then will try and keep my blog up to date to relieve some of the boredom of daytime telly... :-}

Take care everyone and hope your all well,

Rattles Xxxxxxx