04.11.09
Waterford
After my previous experiences in Waterford I was a bit apprehensive about going there for the 3rd time. This year started off slightly badly. Myself and my classmate were unable to get our apartment key on the Sunday night. That meant a 5 am start monday morning to drive to Waterford on time for work. Working with the community midwives is both amazing and annoying. The times I have work to do, it’s great. But sometimes you might only have 2 check-ups to do in a day and a small bit of paper work. I constantly found myself at home at 1 or 2 pm. I’m not complaining, the rest is great, but there’ll also be days that are unbelievably busy so it certainly makes up for the quiet days. My classmate was getting very annoyed at the fact that we had nothing to do. We can usually find something to occupy us on the wards when things get boring. I understand where she’s coming from, but it wasn’t bothering me.
Waterford is going pretty well so far, much to my surprise. The apartment is lovely, a 2 minute walk from the hospital. I’ve gotten 3 deliveries in this week which is bringing me closer to my 20. A positive attitude can change everything. This experience has already been completely different. Granted I had a friend down there for this week because of the Easter holidays. But i’m sure the next two weeks will be fine. We have NTL to keep us occupied when things get boring. Unfortunately, this has led to me watching numerous episodes of ‘The Hills’. Which is pretty terrible. But if that’s the worst of it then I definitely won’t complain 
Having had such a quiet start to the week. I thought it would be fine having friends down one of the nights that I wasn’t on call. My friend arrived at about 6 o’clock in Waterford. I was *still* in the hospital. I spent the day with a first time mother in labour, she didn’t deliver until almost 8 o’clock. I think I got home at about 9. I felt really really bad about leaving my friend there doing nothing, but it just goes to show how unpredictable the community work is. I’ve learnt my lesson about having friends down now.
I had to resign from my part-time job. I actually felt great about it. It was soul destroying working there. Granted i’ll need to find a new one in the next couple of weeks. But for now I can smile at the fact that I don’t work there anymore. I’m looking forward to getting back to mountain biking, which I had to give up when I started working there. Even hoping to get in a summer trip to France mountain biking. Les gets here we come, hopefully
I’m hoping to steal one of my friends 3G wireless broadband things for the next 2 weeks. I’ll have one more distraction to add to the list when i’m home at 1pm. Think i’ll stick to this positive attitude thing. It’s far more fun.