choppy slicey stitchy

Firstly i would like to share this picture i found just now of max coz it makes me laugh, this is from sunday dinner one day when i made him whisk lots of things and he hates whisking, ha

I have been back and forthing between leeds and preston the last couple of weeks coz things keep coming up but I don’t mind coz its nice to see the fam etc and leeds it’s a bit quiet right now coz no one is around. Anyway this week I came home coz my dad was having his carpal tunnel done, its quite a simple surgical procedure and hes already had it done on his left hand but this time was his right. It causes him lots of pain, wont bore you with the science but basically its when theres pressure on the main nerve in your wrist and the operation releases it.

before

Hes a tough cookie so normally I wouldn’t bother coming home, would just send love from afar and send a card with a get well soon turtle on or something. But he was getting it done at a private hospital in euxton by a guy called dr malarkey (ironically he didn’t tolerate any malarkey) and we convinced him to let me go into surgery and give him a hand… slightly stretched the truth and told him I was a second year medical student with lots of medical experience but what he doesn’t know doesn’t hurt him… my dad maybe, but I was reallyyyyyy careful lol.

Originally the appointment was at 8am which I sighed and moaned a lot about but then got changed to 11 so that’s good but we got there and got bumped down the waiting list and they were single gender private rooms which is ridic so I wouldn’t be allowed in so we sat in the waiting room with no signal for like 4 hours blehhh no facebook or anything!. Spent many of these playing rack stare and hungry hamsters on my phone and I broke the coffee machine oops so we couldn’t get anything to drink and I broke the crisp machine oops so we couldn’t get anything to eat.

Eventually we got called in and I scrubbed up (which I later stole as a souvenir) and dad had to wear one of them gowns with no butt. It was all very official when we went into theatre, there was like 5 other people messing with lots of machines and a table full of knives and stabby tools, dad must have been scared but he was very brave.

after

First they squirted loads of local anaesthetic in his hand and cut off the blood and it went all white and shrivvely then made like a 2 inch cut at the bottom of the hand/wrist through all the fat and muscle which has got to be pulled open so you can see what youre doing. Then they split the transverse carpal ligament in two which releases the nerve but coz they have to cut through muscle to stop any bleeding they use this super hot pointy tweezer looking thing to burn the fibres which causes coagulation which = no bleeding. Was gross when they were doing that, there was bits of fat flying all over the place, like cooking bacon. Generally though it is all very clinical, I didn’t really know what to expect coz only ever messed about with cadavers but living flesh is very similar, just like doing dissections so I wasn’t really phased. Would have been well embarrassing if I passed out or something! The whole way through malarkey was quizzing me on my forearm knowledge but luckily I predicted this was coming and spruced up my carpal anatomy in the waiting room.

It was all successful and hes bandaged up and happy now so I wish him a speedy recovery J

so true

Recently iv moved house from my halls in Clarence dock to a big house with my girls in headingley. This has possibly been the most stressful experience of my life and it was made much worse coz I was the one that had to sort everything. Theres 7 of us living here… Me, Stacey, Zoe, Rosie, Kate, Lottie and Jess but theres only me and Stacey staying over summer so seeing as we are the ones who need water and electricity and stuff, we need to organise it. It must be annoying for the rest of them handing over money and worrying about things that arnt going to affect them for a few months so I don’t blame them for not getting too involved. I don’t really mind sorting everything but its still very stressful with moving all my stuff, having to buy loads of new things, natwest shouting at me for getting overdrawn on my already very large overdraft, sorting 7 people worth of bill paying, gas, electric, water, internet, tv, etc etc especially when iv been working lots but somehow still have no money and its lots of peoples bdays and fathers day and saving for holiday and have 2 rents to pay, the whole situation is one massive sigh! But I got called weaksauce twice today so iv manned up and everything is fine now. Doesn’t help when it’s a bad time of the month lol, my ovaries have been going crazy this week firing out hormones like theres no tomorrow! Do ovaries squirt hormones? Maybe the womb? I should know that probably…

my new room, appreciate how tidy it is

Well anyway we are all settled and happy now, got the internet today wooooooo which I couldn’t be happier about! Been cut off from the world far too long. Andddd i still cant do any grinding coz all my money was on full tilt like a fool :( on the plus side though my room is really cute, its got a pretty fireplace and iv bought lots of new stuff and stuck all my pictures up and I finally have a double bed so all is well :D Zoe has been to stay for a few days which has been nice, been out for tea a few times, visited some pubs, had some nice days out but shes gone home now and staceys not back til next Saturday so im on my bill for a few days, back to naked cooking it is. Plus its our housewarming party on 18^th which im very excited about! Everyone is welcome as long as you bring us a plant or beer or something :P

for some reason i dont have a pic of us all together so this is stacey, jess and me

Rosie, Kate and Zoe (left to right)

And beautiful beautiful Lottie

Going home on Monday coz I got us tickets for Jeremy kyle! Thennnnnnn tickets for x factor on Wednesday! Exciting stuff so watch out for me on tv soon :D

That’s all for now, stay classy leeds

Selina x