Eternal Refuge

Well hopefully I wasn't really!

As I told you I was working Saturday afternoon/evening on Main Reception.  Part of the job is finding what wards patients are on, or just confirming they haven't been moved.  In an 850 bed building that can mean a lot of extra walking for the visitors!  Brilliant ... well it was until the last 90minutes or so.  We had a new "complete" system that links everything together ... and although I love computers (Hee, what am I typing on?), I was always sceptical that there would be problems.  Well, that last 90 minutes was a nightmare as I couldn't help people as to where their relatives were.

However, what bothers me is how do treatments etc work when you can't actually get hold of notes, as everything is on the computer now.

So, call me old-fashioned but I really do not like it!

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Rant over!

I have a great day yesterday - and there will be photos to share at some point.  Christine came up and we did some sight-seeing in and around Exeter.  It was lovely weather, and we walked about 5 miles overall ... so good fun, and good for the calories (although we did finish the day off with cake!

This morning clinic went well, and shopping done ... now I am here posting this.  I hope to get some photos done and posted today but can't guarantee it.

But before I get on with that -



20. Do you hold grudges? Are you holding one now?
As I am fairly quick tempers I tend not to hold a grudge.

21. June 21 is "International Yoga Day". Do you do, or have you ever done, yoga?
No .... But more important than yoga, today is
INTERNATIONAL GIRAFFE DAY


Right, photos are calling ... see you later x

11 Do you like having your picture taken? Why or why not?

Another easy one - no I don't!

Easy answer as well, it's for the same reason I don't look in mirrors, I don't think there anything special about me (and yes I dare say people will want to comment at that ... but please don't). I was bullied from 10 - 18, and sadly it has left me not liking what I look like. Terrible to say, and it used to break Mum's heart, I know, but "friends" can cause long-term pain.

Anyway, that's my problem, not yours! (And, yes, you guessed it, I am putting a no comment link on this)

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On another note, I don't work Fridays ... even in the past when I was fully fit & well. However this evening (yes I have to be in by 6pm) I have a 2 hour training course as we are having a new computer system ... it's been a 2 year project for the hospital, but now down to the last month, so all training has to be done by then for all the 9,000 members of staff

Day 21 → your favourite websites this year

Well, it still is LJ! Even if I have been a bit MIA this year, I still love it, and miss it when I can't get too involved.

My other website I like is Instagram, although I tend to use a different one called 6tag. But I do like sharing a few photos ... but also looking at other photos, especially ones about travel, or giraffes .... or Westies and other dogs.

The other sites are MSN & BBC news, Wikipedia, ... and eBay, of course.

My router appears to have died.    And my phone is useless!

 

So I will catch up with you when I can.

 

Miss you all
*hugs*

Well, first it was dad's computer dying ... then my friend jaded_jamie ... now my one has switched itself off a few times ... I need to make sure everything is backed up - just in case.  Mind you my Kindle also cleared the memory and the re-filled itself ... so maybe Jamie's was nothing to do with me, and the others are reacting to my "sparkling" personality!!

Last Friday I went to Physio, and was annoyed with her explanation of the injury ... it isn't often (now) that my past training comes up ... but that was surely it!  She said the injury was because I had high arches - and was nothing to do with the patient falling "onto" me ... in other words, that's what goes on the notes if I sue (which I am not going to anyway!)   Still I now have a crutch to help with walking, and will admit that makes life easier. (I worked for the first time yesterday - just bed making) ... and the bruising is, at long last, beginning to seep out.

Saturday saw me back at Torquay hospital - this time with mum. Her breathing got really bad and I took her in. They say she has started to build up the fluid on her lungs again. I played it down to her, but it is worrying. We didn'tget back till 1am .... she was very upset to muck up the evening - but I just teased and said I had never had a chance to take her out on a Sat eve, so it was good!!!

I am working again, making beds, later - and will admit I have dug out the "nasty" pain killers to get through.  Then 2 days off before I go back to physio (boooooo, hisssssss)

Well I had better go and rest my leg if I want to stand on it later.

Hope you are all well.

PS -

Any James fans .... over on marsters_daily they are doing a countdown to his birthday and showing a lot of great, previously shown, pics .... but still fun!  He is in recording studios, doing another book narration this week ... Carnival of Souls

Some of you noted in my meme thingy that I was sad not to see James this year - yet he will be over at a Con. Sadly, even for James, I know I would never cope. Just the thought of it, as I type screws up my breathing. If he were to do a concert that I could get to, yes I'll be there ... otherwise, sad to say, no James. Thought I should explain that a bit more.

Just wanted to share something I was listening to at Church yesterday.

We have been having a series of DVDs by Wayne Grudem (of Chicago) and yesterday he was talking about Creation.  He pointed out one or two things we may have forgotten.

Thank God for  creating colour.

We could live in a B&W world ... some of the shades and tints have no purpose other than to give us somethig to look at.

Thank God for creating music

In a similar fashion - everything could be a basic mono-tone.

Thank God for creating computers.

Yes, without God's creation of sand, we wouldn't have silicon ... and without that we wouldn't have computer chips.

He then went on to wonder what else is out there, yet to be dscovered.