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Hi Rod - Your parents passed your blog to us for viewing. Amazing! Very interesting to read your comments of living in SA. Shall look forward to reading further instalments as time goes by. Regards Ann and Ross Derham

Dear Road,

I am enjoying your blog, and the photos. Any of the locals in their yashmaks or djellabas ? ? (sp?) It must be frustrating for you to have to do more training, but don't worry, the comeraderie (if that is how you spell it!) in the NHS hospitals is good, and I have always had huge support from bosses and colleagues will more than make up for it! -WHEN you get here! I spoke to Pippi this morning, and she sounds cheerful, having just had a call from you! She will have a good weekend with Rani this weekend. Anyway, keep blogging -

Love from Katharine

Hi Son,

What a wonderful way to communicate. When I think about the 60s when I was communicating with my Mum and Dad by snail mail or by "booking a telephone call" makes me really appreciate modern technology.

I can understand you being a little depressed, but as one of your other friends suggested " stick with it" It can only be an advantage to learn other ways and means of doing things.

Dad had his first game of golf yesterday after having his cataracts done. We are both fit and healthy as we hope you are. No coughs, colds, old moles or pimples on the bum.

Love, Mum

Hi Rod,

I found your Blog on the internet today, and while I have never met you I do feel we have something in Common. I have just been offered a job in the ER of the hospital you have just joined. Unsure of a start date yet. Keep up the updates as they are very usefull! My wife will be also coming to work on a ward which I suppose proves if nothing else that you are not alone in being crazy!! I am from UK and currently working in manchester.

Bye for now.

Mick.

Hello hello!

Sorry to hear that there are emb*****ances in nursing wherever you go! Although I do understand that you don't have the American Heart Foundation tick of approval because you probably would clog the arteries and give someone a heart attack if they tried to eat you. Not much new here really. Although I think our tendancy to scream abuse at the TV is rubbing off on Pippi, and moving the guinea pigs didnt do much for Anouk's anxiety. Glad to hear that despite the neccessary dumb-down you're enjoying yourself. Will write a decent email shortly.

Greg

Hi Rod! Read your latest blog entry.. hang in there!!! You will never de-skill, you are much too smart. You will just adjust. ...And probably find leettle ways to get around the new system you're learning, without your patients probably ever knowing how you helped them ;)

Can't believe you wore a Zidane shirt; I trust you had Pippi's approval.

Trey x

I'm really enjoying reading your blogs, Rod! Keep 'em coming. I'm glad you seem to be settling in ok. Loads of love from Sam and Henri.

Pippi has assured me that you were bombarded with well-wishes before you left! So I hope you know that all my well-wishes go with you too : I know how you love to travel & traipse about and I am so very glad you married someone who understands that!!! Have a wonderful, life-changing-time in Saudi and I look forward to many many updates! xxx ps ur situ report of the hosp set up made perfect sense. Love Trey XXX

Gidday mate.... great reading... even for us non nursing bods. can relate to Dubai passed through it some years ago whilst under construction and it looked big enough then. Certainly not 41 degrees here. I'm freezing my butt off here at Table Top.

Enjoy the stay and the experience... as you do... Love the blog

Hello darling! Love the Dubai and Dammam blogs! Wish I was out there with you. The pictures are cool too. I like the one's of Sydney before you went too Its nice to be able to picture your apartment....you thought the kitchen here was small! Lucky for you that its cheaper to eat out! Nice b-day too! Can't wait to see you in October, counting the days!!!

All my love always

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p.s. Anouk is a pain in the arse!

Just to show you that you can teach an old dog new tricks! I have just got back from switzerland, walking in the Oberland, and it was wonderful, if rather like mountaineering up the side of a cliff! We ascended about 2000 feet a day, and then, had to come down again, sometimes using cable cars! It was boiling hot, and I think you and Pippi should meet there sometime, but you will have to earn mega bucks, the equivilent of £5 for a cup of coffee!

Anway, thinking of you and hoping you are settling in and have congenial company! Love from Katharine