Day 42 Hello everyone - I hope you all had a fabulous weekend for any number of reasons - skiing, birthday parties and cocktail parties to name a few! I'm definately on the mend and have eaten normally today, which has to signal a change for the better:) I made brownies for the staff at the clinic which seemed to go down very well, and everyone has suddenly become very appreciative of me - I think it has dawned on them that I'm going and they are hoping I'll st...

Day 39 Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good week - and Rah, I hope you had a fabulous birthday:) I'm still in Santa Teresa although I'm hoping to head into Alice today for the rest of the weekend - not really because I have any great plans, but becuase it would be nice to have a change of scenery! That also means I will be able to upload some more photos, which I know you have all been waiting for (haha!). The computors here are far too slow to upload anything,...

Day 35 I've been back at work for 2 days, and it feels like I've never been away! A few interesting medical cases over the last couple of days; including a severe case of vertigo lasting for more than 4 hours and occuring every morning - worrying in a girl of 24. Urgent referral for MRI and ENT review but am hoping to see the results beofre I leave at the end of next week. Today I saw a baby with projectile vomiting and diarrhoea (luminous green!) which was a li...

Day Twenty-eight Another couple of busy days at work - nothing hugely exciting to report; but several interesting cases - diabetes insipidus in a 10month old with severe failure to thrive - the mother is so caring though, it's really sad to see such a tiny kid, he looks about the size of a 4 month old! Have had some good teaching in the last couple of days as well, which has been really good and I'm trying to remember to learn some scine as well as the clinical...

Day Twenty-Six I have finally managed to get some sleep! Friday, which was a 14hour day last time I wrote, turned into a 21hour day during which I got less than an hour off. Manic. Essentially we had finally dealt with all the emergencies during the day and I had just made it home when the drunk fights started at the boundary. Santa Teresa is a dry community as it is strictly catholic, and following the government intervention to try and reorganise Aboriginal c...