Second Year of Projects Week 31

So I haven't done any year of projects knitting at all this week, because I've been way too focused on my Celestarium.

I'm now up to row 120, and I got my cable connectors through, so I'm able to spread it out a lot more, and I'm back to constellation spotting. I'm considering putting a few beads around the border, to demarcate the edge of the star chart, but I'm not sure I'll have enough. I'll have to see when I get there, it might be a while still.

In life news, we have had so much snow (for England at least).

Photos taken by my friend out of the window of my car on our morning drives to Mansfield. It pretty much all melted in the rain that we had last night, but it was fun while it lasted (except for the 2 and a half hour drive home one evening... England doesnot  dealwell with snow).

So this is the most intensive 3 weeks yet of my course, since the entire module is over these three weeks, and it’s about an hour and a quarter each way to placement. I have to write two case reports and a home visit report, each 1500 words, do a ten minute presentation, do a mini mental state exam and be assessed on it, write three reflections and be on the ward all day from 8:30/9 - 4:30/5.

I found my first patient to do a case report on, talked to him and did an MMSE on him (very quick, he doesn’t know why he’s in hospital, or even where he is), talked to his wife to get a history, talked to the nurse, physio and OT looking after him and read his notes. I also saw him on ward round and went to the multi-disciplinary team meeting he was discussed in, so I have the doctor’s view as well. I do love this patient, both him and his wife are really nice people, and so willing to help out. Plus in the MMSE I got him to write a sentence for me as part of the exam, and his wife says he hasn’t been able to write for about 3 years, so she was so grateful to see it. I nearly made her cry though, because he had written “I wish I could do better.” She seemed really pleased that I had time to sit down and talk about her worries with her. He went home on Thursday, which I was really  pleased to see, because both he and his wife were desperate to get him home. He was definitely one of those patients that you remember for a long time.

And a silly picture to end

There was a scratching toy with 30% off in the pet shop yesterday, because a bit of felt was coming away. We bought it for Tomcat, since he’s started scratching the sofa. It’s got a snazzy scratching slope, and a hole in the middle with a dangling toy. I’m not sure he’s really got the hang of what it’s for though…

So nothing YoP related for my YoP update, but never mind!