This princess is a little tired...

.....But it's all good - a good tired, if you know what I mean? While the men of the house are watching "Dawn of the Dead" I decided to take five minutes in to write a post. So how is everyone? I miss you all - I really haven't had the time to sit and post and (and read posts) and I miss that, too. Oh, and while we are on the topic of you guys - I'm spewing.. SPEWING.. that I won't be able to meet you all. It totally sucks living all the way here in Oz (well, at least because of this, not normally!!) The BOOBS meet is just not gonna happen for me and I'm  (insert pouty face) very disappointed about it. You have no idea how much I would love to meet you all. 


So how's the band going I hear you ask? All fair on the band front. Weight loss is sloooowww, nothing new. I am holding fast with a 100 gram (is that all? lol) loss in the past few days. But that is probably attributed to eating on the run. I had a horror run last week - at least for a few days. Couldn't keep a damn thing I ate down. Almost every meal I ate I PB'd and then I actually had a stomach ache by day three. All that upchucking had a consequence. I went on liquids for 24 hours to help the inflammation (which I think it was) and things quickly settled down again. I'm back to eating normally. Not terribly hungry all the time which is great. I usually have a banana 'Up and Go' for breakfast because I'm out the door by 7am or earlier and I get to drink it usually an hour or so later. That carries me through until around 1pm when I finally manage to find time for a quick bite for lunch. 


Last week I was 'buddied' with two girls as I did my home-care rounds. And two out of three of those times I had to tell the girls I had a band (and they were both great about it - but aren't people mostly like that anyway?) Because we are stopping so briefly for lunch (if at all) I was finding it hard to make good food choices and ended up suffering and having to duck to the loo a couple of times to PB - these were the two days I had trouble with. It was a little embarrassing by they were pretty cool with it. Today? Well, today I was out and about on my own for the first time. It was daunting, but funnily enough I wasn't as nervous as I was that very first day last week even though I had help at hand. 


I only had two clients today because I had to travel to Mandurah work to go do Medication Competency Training also known as Clinical Care Orientation. And my head was spinning. Ack - so much information to take in. The training included oral (liquid and MDAA which is a fancy way of saying tablets), ocular (eye drops and ointment) and topical applications. More forms to fill out and check and triple checking you give the right medication to the right person and in the right way. There is also competency training for dysphagia (trouble swallowing), pallitive care, eye care, continence and catheter bag care. So I still have these ones to go. But right now, I'm full bottle on the medication side of things. It's a start and I'm loving it. I've always loved anything to do with medical stuff so this is tapping in to an interesting part of the job. I really should have become that nurse I wanted to be way back when I started working, but I drifted off into the writing side of things instead. Maybe I should have written medical thrillers aka Robin Cook and nailed two birds with one stone lol. Who knew! 

Oh, and before I go I had to tell you about this NSV I had today. Grabbing a bite to eat from the cafe where I work before I started the training I was dithering over what drink to choose from the cooler. I ummed and ahhed and finally settled on an iced coffee - full strength. This lovely older man was standing next to me and as I reached, so did he - but for a diet coke. I scrunched up my face and laughed and said, "Look at me, going the unhealthy option." He laughed, patted his stomach and said, "Ahh but I don't need the extra calories. You're so thin, you don't need to worry." I almost dropped my drink. Someone thinks I'm 'thin.' Thank you, band....Whaaaahooooo!


Cara xxx