Well, I’ve survived coming ‘home’, as it were, to Nowra Hospital. Or, let’s be fair - the Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital. Sounds to me that it should be built after the Shoalhaven is destroyed, or flooded by global warming, but hey.

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Orientation at the hospital, followed by visiting the surgical ward and meeting the reg, resident and intern, then we were at a loose end - so we visited a couple of patients, taking histories and chatting, then had an early lunch/coffee break. After that, we found that our theatre orientation (scheduled for 2pm) was cancelled… so we went to theatre anyway, met Dr Sithi and the reg again, and sat in on a cholecystectomy (via lap), and a combined gastro/coloscopy.

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Knocked off around 3.30, which isn’t bad. I managed to unpack most of the stuff from my car before the rain caught me inside, whereupon I changed, prettied up my (tiny tiny) room, and then as the rain ceased I decided it was shopping time.

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Staying in the quarters here isn’t so bad so far, other than the lack of really good cooking facilities excepting a microwave and a hot water machine - there is an oooold stovetop, but that’s about it - so I decided something microwavey would be the key. Before I wandered off, I met a nice physio person staying in the quarters, and chatted for a bit, then I ventured out into the wilderness that is Now-Town, and went to Woolworths.

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There I acquired: n2 x microwave pasta n1 x microwave butter chicken n1 x box cracker barrel cheese slices n1 x box arnotts cheese crackers n1 x litre dairy farmers full cream milk n1 x box instant mocha mixers (nescafe) n4 x premium tuna tins n1 x double pack of herb rolls/foccacia thingies. n1 x packet fruit mince pies n1 x 1.25l bottle of Agrum

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So I’m set for dinner today and tomorrow, breakfast & lunch for the week, snacks for the week (hopefully)… apart from maybe some bread rolls on thursday/friday.

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Other thasn that, and the fact that it’s almost time to eat, there isn’t anything to say. Tonight’s plans include some OCHM, some Drawn Together, and maybe a little fiction. Ah, the joy of it all.

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Alcata’riel.

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