Lia & Tommy's Wedding and a Weekend in Cornwall

I haven't written on here in a VERY long time (almost 2 years, I see), but I thought it might be kinda fun to start again. I partly stopped because I'd been writing on my other blog while I was away last year, but mostly I just got out of the habit.

Anyway I had a really fun time last weekend in Tintagel, Cornwall with a bunch of uni friends who I hadn't seen in ages. We went to Lia and Tommy's wedding and made a bit of a weekend of it.

Before the wedding, while the bride and bridesmaids were having their hair and make up done, the rest of us went for a walk along the cliffs and a swim in the sea.

Sophie, Dan, Frances, Andy and me 

Tommy, Lia, Lizzy and Rebecca 

Dan and Jenny 

After dinner they had a duck race! There were about a hundred ducks and we each chose a number. The man who owned the venue then released them into the stream and the first duck to reach the end of the stream won - which happened to be our Sophie!

Me, Frances, Andy, Megan, Owen, Jenny, Dan, Catherine and Sophie

Totnes District Show

This morning I finished my last ever shift of F2 - hurrah!! 

I've been on nights, but since I only had one night left I really wanted to go to the Totnes District Show yesterday with Sarah and Alex. I had the best time and it was super sunny =D

Sheep shearing contest!

Things my patients said vol. 8

Possibly my favourite referral ever from A&E "Poisoned by poison chalice at church"

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At the end of a very long weekend I had the most hilarious referral from the walk in centre. The GP phoned up v concerned that the pt had "really severe pain in her vagina" that was "so bad she was doubled up in pain". I was v annoyed when she walked onto the ward, clearly not in v much pain at all... I took her into the examination room to find out what had been going on. Turns out she had some hip pain, radiating into her groin (she had arthritis) and had put her arthritis muscle cream on her groin (bum up to genitals) and which had been very very painful and made it go very red. Turns out the cream was capsaicin - the main ingredient comes from chillis! She'd basically rubbed chilli cream in her bits and then wondered why it hurt so much!!

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Escaped patient has a seizure outside our house. 

Bystander 1 calls an ambulance: "...there are 3 doctors with him now..." 
Bystander 2: "And I'm a first aider!"

Patient begins to come round...
Bystander 1: "Don't worry mate, you've got 3 doctors here looking after you"
Bystander 2: "And I'm a first aider!!"

Bloody first aiders! Think we might have stolen her thunder a bit...

ReMoved

This is so sad and moving.