So back to work, that is why I'm here after all! This week has had its highs and lows in ED. Some days I get to do a lot and some nothing, it all depends. My best day by far was yesterday, I was on with a female consultant I hadn't met before (just goes to show how many staff they have in one department here!) was really good, she would tell me when there was something worth seeing, which made a change from being ignored. It was paeds day in the ED with lots of manipulations of fractures which was amazing to watch, and then there was a 5 week old neonate that required a full septic work up to exclude anything serious. This is what I like about this department, in the UK there are so many acute specialities in the bigger hospitals that you often don't see the variety of cases that they do here. Then a multiple trauma came in and all chaos broke loose, I was being asked to draw up anaesthetic drugs by the ITU guys that I had never heard of and was getting shouted at when I asked for help. It's not as if I look like the ED doctors, I wear different colour scrubs and stand along way back and out of the way during traumas. It was a very interesting case though and one I will never forget. I was quite tired when I got home, 13 hours later, but was buzzing on adrenaline that kept me up for hours. I'm not sure when seeing this kind of stuff will seem normal to me, will it ever? This weekend, I'm taking it easy in Wellington, I'm off out tonight for the birthday of an Australian nurse who lives on my floor, so I think I'll go and have a wander around town, sample some coffee, it's a lovely day, spring is definitely in the air. I am missing you all loads, Thinking of you, x x x x x x x x