My Life (but who's interested anyway)

**kate0904** · 20-12-2004, 08:19 PM

I suppose as this is the first entry I'd better say a bit about who I am.
Well, I'm a sixteen year old sixth form student in Bristol and I hope to apply for med school in 2006. I'm involved in loads of "extra-curricular" activities including St John Ambulance - sessions usually involving a bit of learning then a trip down the pub!
I'm studying 3 sciences and maths at school (when i tell people this, they just look at me in horror!) and i love maths (something else that makes people think i'm crazy!)
Generally I think I'm just the same as most other sixteen year olds who have an ambition to be a doctor, ok, maybe i'm a bit crazier than most.
I have an older brother (who is a complete lunatic and drives at phenominally fast speeds) and 2 younger sisters (one thieving brat and one other).
Anyway, I'll keep this updated with my life as i start work on my personal statement and deciding where to study medicine.

**kate0904** · 11-01-2005, 08:25 PM

We've been back at school for nearly a week now and i really wish it was still the holidays as i'm in the middle of my AS modules - HELP!!!

Christmas was ok apart from the revision, and i got the results of a violin exam retake. How can it be possible to get exactly the same mark for an exam taken 6 months apart - that can't be right. I got the result on Christmas eve as well - what a wonderful christmas present (not).

Some good things over chrismas though, i went on a St John duty to a pantomime performance of Cinderella (with Julian Clary in it), and i really enjoyed it (I just hope the kids in the audience didn't understand everything Julian Clary said!).

Anyway, so far i've done maths, biology and chemistry modules - i'm in the home straight, only physics left (tomorrow), then a trip down the pub to celebrate having no more exams til May.

Arghh, school bell's about to ring and i've got to prepare for Badgers tonight - they're going to be so hyper!

**kate0904** · 21-01-2005, 03:11 PM

The end of another school week and here i am skiving off another general studies lesson (well i plan to skive off the exams anyway so what's the point of going to the lessons - that's my theory anyway, i doubt our head of year would agree!) Anyway, i'm also using this lesson to carry on working on my personal statement so it's not as if i'll just be playing games or something like that.

This week has been really long - or has felt like it! Some good things though, St John Adults was hilarious as we were doing team building games - some of them were just so funny, especially the first one. It was sort of a icebreaker, a chance for everyone to make a fool of themselves and not get embarrassed - always a good thing. We were split into two teams and each was given a tub of one pence coins. Two milk bottles were placed halfway across the room and the aim was for each team to get as many coins in their bottle ONLY USING THEIR KNEES! It is so difficult but so much fun.

I'm doing a St John Duty this weekend at the ballet of Sleeping Beauty so that should be fun but my dad isn't too happy about the 80 miles he's going to have to drive to get me there and back! Oh well, i'll start learning to drive soon so he won't have to drive me everywhere.

**kate0904** · 24-01-2005, 08:13 PM

Ok, Cat's been badgering me to do another post (well not all of us can average 1.05 posts per day can we?)

Anyway, nothing interesting going on here except having to start my physics coursework and complete an essay for chemistry, both of which i have to do tonight in between my piano lesson and relaxation time (vital).

My duty at the weekend was fun, a chance to watch sleeping beauty for free so i can't complain. I just want to know why the male "ballerinas" agree to wear such tight clothing!

**kate0904** · 28-01-2005, 04:03 PM

The end of another long week, and skiving off general studies again (with permission this time!). Why do some weeks fly and some just drag, i wish i knew. Took some time researching what unis like on the personal statements while watching Cat go mad waiting for response from Hull York. I guess this is what i've got to look forward to next year!

The weeks been pretty ordinary, boring lectures at cadets though we did get to make up a few incidents for the badgers! Adults was hilarious on wednesday - we spent have of the session just laughing!

Looking forward to my Ozzie cousins visiting - haven't seen them in 10 years so i'm a bit apprehensive as well - well two of them are 20 days younger than me and i hardly remember them.

**kate0904** · 31-01-2005, 02:50 PM

This weekend was a lot better than usual with seeing some of my cousins for the first time in ten years! (probably the last time for another 10 years if i can't find enough money to go to Australia and visit them)
The cousins arrived on Friday night and left on Sunday morning after some of our other relatives visited on Saturday night. Our other relatives brought our youngest cousin - Elle, aged 1 - who was messing around with our phones, video recorders etc. She stopped my casualty tape recording while i was at the pub with the older cousins!
Two of the cousins who went to the pub - Peter and Teresa, my twin cousins who are 20 days younger than me - were really annoyed when my uncle banned David, Daniel and Megan (the older cousins) from buying them any drinks as they were underage. In the end other people in the pub were perfectly willing to buy them alcohol!
What else did i do this weekend? Well I had a meeting with our organiser and Cat about the charity trip we hope to take to romania - looks like i'm doing a 10K run to raise funds but as i've already started training for it, it shouldn't be so bad when i finally do the run even though. (Then again i was always the one who was injured and couldn't do PE - i think i turned up for about 3 lessons in the whole of year 10 - that didn't make me popular with the PE teachers!) We also have to choose the date for our trip so all the plane tickets etc can be booked!
I have to get going to my next lesson now - my teacher for the first lesson was off sick but my 2nd lesson teacher is in school!

**kate0904** · 01-02-2005, 04:04 PM

My teachers are cruel - both of my maths teachers have given me homework due in tomorrow! I don't have time on Tuesdays cos i go to St John Ambulance badgers and cadets - it's also full uniform tonight and that takes ages to get into! Arghh!

**kate0904** · 01-02-2005, 05:27 PM

My physics teacher's of sick so i have a bit of time to start my maths homework and the work he set for us!
Anyway, here's a bit more about me and my life...
I have an older brother who is a complete jerk - smokes, drinks and treats women really badly - lets just say i don't get on with him!
I also have 2 younger sisters. 1 steals all my sweets, chocolate, money, clothes, make-up i.e anything she feels like and the other is addicted to Winnie the Pooh and owns 10 piglet stuffed toys! I share a room with her and she wants to paint our room pink and put up loads of Winnie the Pooh posters!!!

**kate0904** · 03-02-2005, 02:01 PM

Only 1 day left of lessons this week

! Then again i'm meant to be playing my violin the whole weekend as we've got a concert on sunday so i won't exactly have any relaxation time

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Anyway here's my update of the last few days... Tuesday night was badgers and cadets - teaching both first aid and listening to my sister illegally trying to teach the cadets when she knows only as much as the rest of them.

Yesterday i walked to the gym and back to carry on my training for the 10K run - I managed 1.5km yesterday (though it did take 20 minutes!) In the evening i was at SJA adults, doing more first aid (ECS training) and teaching someone how to make a Hangman's noose! We went to the pub after and i spent most of the time just sitting and listening as i felt too tired to do anything else.

Tonight i'm meant to be at ballroom dancing lessons in preparation for the sixth form ball at the end of February, i wonder if anyone will turn up this week! I'm hopeless at ballroom dancing, it might have something to do with having to do all the dances on my own!

**kate0904** · 07-02-2005, 07:24 PM

OK, lots has happened since my last post so this might take a while...

Not much happened on Thursday night but Friday morning was a different matter as i fell over my dog's barrier and hurt my arm. I ended up in casualty for the morning, waiting to see a doctor then only getting to see a nurse practitioner, then waiting ages for x-rays followed by another long wait to see the nurse practitioner again. Sadistic radiographers made my arm hurt even more trying to get me to bend it into awkward positions!Next the nurse practitioner tried putting me in most of the different slings available except none of them were at all comfortable so she evenually decided to put me in plaster overnight. They did keep to the 4 hour rule though.

Saturday morning: I spent the whole of saturday morning at fracture clinic for a 9:05 appointment! I was at the hospital longer for the fracture clinic than i was in casualty! After an hour and fifty minutes wait, i eventually saw the SHO for the first time (she was on a ward round that overran to start with then saw 3 patients in 1 hour and 10 minutes - talk about working at snail's pace!) She then sent me for more x-rays to fill out my medical history (i think i've had 17 x-rays so far - that's more than once a year!). Before she sent me for x-rays she had the healthcare assistant try to put me in a straight arm sling - i've never seen anyone make such a bad job of it, not even my cadets! Anyway, the x-rays showed nothing unusual so they were pretty pointless. The SHO called me back and checked my x-rays and decided to treat only my wrist, ignoring the fact that my elbow hurt more. My dad then happened to mention that he was a senior member of staff at the hospital so the SHO started to feel a bit uncertain about her diagnosis and treatment so she called her consultant off his lunchbreak! We were sent out to the waiting room to wait for the consultant and one of the nurses started grovelling and tried to explain why we'd had to wait so long. Eventually the consultant decided that i'd badly sprained my wrist and elbow with possible breaks of each as well! I'm stuck in plaster for 10 days before i have to go back and get more x-rays.

It's the timing of this injury that really annoys me; i was meant to be leaving on the school ski trip on saturday, meant to be playing in a concert on sunday, meant to be taking a piano exam in a few weeks and meant to be doing a St John duty watching Starlight Express. Why did this have to happen now?