Uniform

It's all very official now. I have my uniforms, my univeristy name badge, my fob watch and my trust hospital identity card. This time next week I will have completed my first shift. It's so exciting. I nearly had a wee greet when I got my name badge "Meg Sherratt Student Midwife". It feels a long time in the making.

I have learned how to take a blood pressure (and manged not to cry out when my class mates have crushed my arm - as I have theirs), given a fake arm a few injections (first one way too deep) and also taken blood from a disembodied arm hooked up to two bottles of viscous red fluid (and I managed not to pass out). I have practiced abdominal palpations on a model (which had no arms, legs or head - a really weird pregnant floating torso) and crammed my head with so much anatomy and physiology it's unreal. And it's only week five.

I am in serious need of a holiday (or to sleep for a week) but it isn't half fab. Time for some cell and tissue differentiation now....