A little recap...

Well, only a three month hiatus between posts. I’ll try to stick to something a bit more regular in the future.

I suppose a run down of my gassing/running/surfing activities wouldn’t go admiss.

Gassing. Actually going very well. I’ve been giving my own anaesthetics and everything seems to be going ok so far. This must of course mean there is a disaster hovering at my shoulder, looming, just waiting for my eye to come off the ball once before pouncing, ending my nascent career in a ball of flames and blood (my own).

Hopefully not, though.

I wanted to do more in the education vein with this blog, and that’ll be coming in the next few months. There’s not much ‘Web 2.0’ (is that even a phrase that people use any more?) resources on the web for anaesthesia, but I’ll be trying to track down what’s there and developing a system to keep track of it all. In the meantime there’s a few new-to-me resources:

· Anaesthesia UK (a picture feed (see below – intubated horse!) and news feed, both pretty quiet)

· Westmead Anaesthesia Blog (good, updates sparse (like I can talk)).

· British Journal of Anaesthesia (very worthy. Also quite dull)

· The World of Anaesthesia podcasts. Some nice American lads with good chat.

· Dr Podcast. Taking over the world of revision podcasts one speciality at a time. Luckily they started with anaesthesia and have loads of audio for FRCA revision. Note the ‘radical’ picture on the homepage: yes siree, I only listen to revision podcasts when I’m pulling some big air on my snowboard...

Ah yes, the FRCA. I’ve chickened out of the February sitting because I am a big fat chicken (insert favoured chicken noise here: I like a solid ‘B-BWAK!’).

So D-day is 7^th of June.

Hum. I will pass this exam (there, I said it on the internet, so it must be true).

Running. Just ticking over at the moment. I joined the SWRR, which sounds a bit like an Eastern European far-right political movement but is actually a very nice bunch of people.

By ‘eck there’s a lot of them though. It’s a big club. The Wednesday night run has six or seven groups that run for an hour at six minute miles (CRAZY) to ten minute miles. I’m firmly in the middle, plodding along at eight minute miles (they plod; I desperately try to keep up like an asthmatic guinea fowl).

Surfing. Awwww surfing...I hadn’t been for ages and then went to Saunton yesterday, awesome to be in the water despite not-ideal conditions. Probably something to do with the 5 buddies I went out with...props! Note to self: must start going more often...look up magic seaweed...decide on late afternoon surf.

(Nothing written about surfing today can omit mention of Kelly Slater, 10 times world surf tour champion and one of the best athletes on the planet. Check out the video of the final heat against Aussie Bede Durbidge, particularly Slater’s second wave - 10.00 perfect score...he's the bald one in red:)

Tis it for the moment,l you’ll be relieved to hear. It will get more educational next time, I really want to do a review of traumatic brain injury and get my Monro-Kellie hypothesis on (I know...what a loser...:)

PS after writing this I’ll be emailing the link to some friends and relatives who I know will be ‘fair’ with the criticism/slagging off. Incredible as it may seem, I’m the only one who’s read this blog so far...no, you’re right...not so incredible.

PPS Hurts (a trendy band for trendy people like me). They’re unfortunately a bit like a Savage Garden/Gary Numan love child, but this tune is tippety-top: