Okay so last nights sleep wasn't really happening. I could feel the train swaying from my top bunk every time we went over a bridge I could have sworn we were going to fall off. (No railings and about 30 meters above the ground) but eventually the hours passed and my alarm went off at 6am as we were us to arrive at our station not long after. Typically we were two hours behind so we didn't arrive in Ayutthaya until 9am, but this didn't bother us. We put our bags ...

Today I left the gap medics house in a red taxi (I still don't know how to spell what they're actually called) for the last time. We fitted 16 people and multiple packs into the tray of this taxi and set off into Chiang Mai dropping people off at their various destinations along the way. Sophie and I had booked massages so we dashed through the monsoon to the hotel and spend the next hour or so in total relaxation. We then met up with Emily for lunch before sayin...

Today was fairly slow, I was assigned to the recovery ward so all I could do was follow the nurses as they were checking on patients. Although the mother who's cesarean I saw was in the ward and I found it important that I saw her after her surgery, I guess the continuity of care is really important for me. After placement we all headed back to the house to pack. It was weird packing up everything that you'd lived with for three weeks into a backpack only to be u...

Today I was assigned to the recovery ward, which could have been interesting but I'm much more interested in pregnancy, birth and the newborns so I asked whether I could spend the day in the nursery instead. I could! So i spent the morning with the babies, I watched the nurse take blood, give injections and I was allowed to weigh the babies, take their temperatures and check their breathing and heart rate with the stethoscope. It is so amazing listening to those ...

This morning Emily and i went and jumped on Sophie because its her birthday! This afternoon we will take her to a spa and treat her to massages and other luxurious things before we go out to dinner to celebrate! Today I am working in the hemo dialysis ward. Here I see patients who have chronic kidney failure. They come here 2-3 times a week, each time for 4 hours and their blood is filtered using a machine as their kidneys can no longer. They have 2 tubes, one...