Paramedics week 10: survived

Poor old blog has been alone and neglected lately.
 

Last week was a weird one. On Friday I found myself sitting in class filling in my worksheet whilst the girl next to me filled out a course continuation form. That was an odd experience. As much as I was a little jealous, I have come this far, I may as well tough it out for another 3 or 4 weeks. There was a lovely little lunch for her including an incredible cake made by a quite gifted member of our cohort. It is quite sad that this girl is dropping out, she is quite a character and brought so much positive energy with her to uni each day. THat being said, I completely admire her decision to pursue her passion.

I had one of the most hilarious clinical concepts prac classes on Friday. In prac we practice actually being a paramedic, using our fellow classmates as patients and bystanders. I enjoy the acting as the patient or a bystander way more than being the paramedic! I pretended to be a patient who's ruptured their appendix as well as being an additional scene distraction panicked overzealous sport parent. Prac classes are often great for a laugh and the MICA paramedic who was leading the class had a great sense of humour. One of my classmates cracked a hilariously terrible joke whilst he was being the paramedic, we were all in stitches.

Rather than just telling you how I've been for the best little while (which I'm sure you're all so fascinated by) I decided to represent my mental state diagrammatically...

I feel this diagram could be developed further but it's a good start. It combines the valuable skills I have learned from my inter-professional education subject, IPE1011, as well as Draw Something. Today I am at stage four.