bonjour brightside

finally! i made an appointment to get my wisdom teeth extracted on wednesday. it is getting too painful to bear right now. i’ve been popping copious amounts of panadol and aspirin but they’ve stopped working, i feel like my head is going to explode and i wish someone would kill me now. tomorrow i shall stock up on enough panadeine forte and neurofen to last me a lifetime. i hate teeth. dentists earn too much money from teeth.

i am trying sooo hard to grin and bear it/suck it up, but the throbbing pain takes my perseverance away. i saw this woman in dr E’s rooms last week and she had urinary incontinence and prolapse and chronic pelvic pain… and she actually thought it was common for most women to go through that….. well oh well. i reckon women put up with a lot these days.

i am sorry to sound so sore but severe pain and ‘bright and shiny’ do not go well together……. oh last week i assisted in 3 surgeries! one hysteroscopy d&c, one cone biopsy and one laparoscopy. plus! the staff at the practice actually bought me lovely almond pastries from this italian patisserie on my last day, how sweet of them! i’m going to think happy thoughts from now on so i get less bothered by the painnnn

i have this pain in my tooth and gums that persistently aches and triggers 78263424 neuronal synapses when i bite on it. it also radiates to my head, giving me a throbbing headache that impairs my ability to concentrate….so much for trying to study. i am literally going insane…!!!! the pain is just incapacitating, even though i took 5 panadols. i saw the dentist on friday and he said my wisdom teeth were impacted and required extraction…… i wish he could have yanked it out there and then, but he said i had to get x-rays first. GAH! so i have to wait till monday to get the x-ray done and golly knows when they’ll send my films back to him and then he’ll ring me up to arrange for an appointment……. hopefully it won’t take long because my exams are in less than 3 weeks! damn wisdom teeth! i always seem to get into trouble just before major exams. last year i was terribly ill for 3 weeks just a month before the end-of-year exams…. it is a horror i don’t want to relieve. sigh please please please let me have the surgery and get well ASAP i don’t care if it hurts like mad or costs me a Louis Vuitton bag (my heart is breaking) or if i have to look like a chipmunk for 3 days. (well actually i care!!! but obviously i need to pass the exams….or risk dire consequences.)

hello, what makes you happy?

kai wrote a post on happiness…. i was quite inspired after reading it and so i decided to come up with my own 3 steps to happyness:

1. do a good deed everyday. bonus points if you do something nice for someone you barely know! i know it seems cliche but being nice and gracious to others can really give you a spring in your step. at least it works for me

2. spend time doing one thing you love everyday. treat yourself to some sticky date pudding, curl up in bed with a book, talk to a loved one on the phone, or….retail therapy!!. or exercise on the wii fit! i have to say it really motivates me

3. get enough sleep! i cannot stress how important this is. no one manages to smile and mean it when they’re running on 4 hours of sleep. i am most grumpy when i don’t get my magical 7 hours of sleep… that’s why i looove sleeping in on the weekends

there’s more of course but i figured i should stop before it turns into one of those columns in a lifestyle magazine. BIGGG exams are a-coming, which makes me slightly less happy, but i know that i have much to be thankful for, so i choose to be positive. and maybe if i work hard enough, i could probably treat myself to a luxurious advanced birthday present ohh the motivation!

+ wii updates!: day 5, and the wii is making me ache from top to toe. i swear i haven’t been eating (too) much, but apparently i’ve been gaining weight! still, it’s only been a couple days…. i shall persevere and see how it goes!

+ p.s. aren’t these mighty cool? these are drawings on the pavement by a chalk artist called Julian Beever. i think his works are absolutely fab and there’s more to be had if you head here

amazing. some people are just so incredibly gifted

+ started mentor week today in mitcham with my mentor who’s a fab gynaecologist. i actually didn’t get lost (hurrah!) and it was a tiring but (kind of) exciting day, and i am absolutely drained from 9 whole hours of clinical work. oh and i managed to correctly diagnose a transverse fetal lie in antenatal clinic today. i feel semi-competent. perhaps i’m really getting better at this! and this is the kind of thing that really makes my day

since it’s approaching wintertime and i haven’t been able to go out for runs now nearly as much as i used to (or rather haven’t been able to exercise AT ALL), i’m slowly becoming a couch potato sooo…. i hatched a little experiment: i’m going to use the wii fit program (courtesy of housemate) in the comforts of my own living room (with toasty heater!) and see how much weight i can lose in a month! of course i’ll continue with my normal diet and all and make a very concerted effort to stop over-snacking. i’ve tried the yoga and it’s a pretty good back stretching session, which i like, and the only thing i don’t like is having to run on the spot for 5 minutes. otherwise it’s pretty excellent and fun, i love how the wii fit trainers tell me off (gently) if i’ve had a snack too many, and encourage me even when my posture is severely skewed to the left. so yes in one month’s time i shall be reporting back on the wii fit’s results! stay tuned!

in other news, gynae clinics have been very enjoyable. i get my very own room to see patients in (on my own!), and my registrar is such a sweetheart. what’s not to love?

they make bhangra look super cool. i wanted to learn salsa but now ive changed my mind to bhangra! haha okay fickle i am.