July 2009
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“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via kari-shma)
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Busy nothings
Friday night: the sky was dark when we poured into the little courtyard. A vine hung above us, vague and wild about the guttering. Bill had propped a 3-legged table in the doorway of the common room so that we could go back inside, and an out of place Pepsi machine stood with its back to the wall behind us.
In fact, the two of us were creeping into the triangular corner garden at the side of the...
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“Lying with her in his bed, he’d rubbed her back for hours until she said to stop...”
– -from ‘How to Buy a Love of Reading’ - Tanya Egan Gibson
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Nesting instinct
Does anyone else fantasize about a home?
The idea of being excited about going there because there’s someone there you can’t wait to see…or something there you can’t wait to have again (something you’ve been missing since you walked out the door). Whether it’s a nice salad, a hot shower, or a good sleep..or a feeling of warmth (a fan heater vs a scarf and...
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Universal law
It’s hard not to fall for guys who are good with kids.
Especially ones who will play with them when they are waiting for their parent to get off the phone.
Like….popping bubbles and getting excited, for the sake of the 4 year old in the room, when they’re at least 34 and a busy registrar with 3 more people to see on their consult list.
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Paediatrics is a microculture all...
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Sunday night in Paeds ED
Melissa: Hey, so I saw bed 4 - a 4 year, 8 month old Korean boy brought in by his father for 1 day history suprapubic pain, and fever of 40.1C tympanic this evening. Just now he was found to have 4+ haematuria in his urine. History was difficult as his father speaks limited English and K.K doesn't speak English at all.
Dr. M: Do you speak Korean?
Melissa: No.
Dr. M: Then how did you take the history?
Melissa: Gestures, mostly. And dramatic acting. :)
Dr. M: Er...ok.
Melissa: Anyway, it turns out KK's paternal grandmother also had albuminuria...
Dr. M: Hold on. How on earth did you get 'albuminuria' from gestures and dramatic acting?
Melissa: Sign language and interpretive dance.
Dr. M: ...
Melissa: Seriously!
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You Belong To Me Jason Wade
Here is the song I...
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Who is the luckiest girl in the world?
Me, right now (at least, I feel like it).
I’m clutching the business card of the head of the Cardiac Surgical Research Unit at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne (given to me personally from his wallet), and I’m happy.
This could be the start of something good.
(Or it could be a disaster. Who knows).
2010…bring it on. :)
I wanna make a difference to patient management. I want...
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Get up and go
I know I said I’d post a song…but then I moved house and internet hasn’t been connected. I’m writing this from the basement of the hospital, which always makes me cringe because it’s right next to the linnen press (I don’t like the smell of whatever they use to sanitise it with here).
So much is happening so fast.
I will say one thing: paediatrics is fun,...
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Thoughts before Semester 2
A list of achievements/ expectations/ status updates at the end of the intersemester break:
1. Moving house tomorrow…again.
2. Australian citizenship achieved! I’ve sworn allegiance, put the native plant I got given in the care of Samantha (it’s tipped over in the kitchen at the moment); I got an Australian badge too…which was really cute.
3. Won some money in the 90...
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