Growing pains

Need more time! Can't believe it's 11:30pm already, and nothing done yet! Seems to be this continually growing stack of things to be done, but not enough time to do it =( Hmm bad time management though, tonight, with me having just watched half an hour of the commonwealth games. just plonked there and couldnt move anywhere! aiii

St John meeting was great tonight! Our superintendant gave us the lecture, which was great! Oh and i saw a member there whom i havent seen for like half a year!! Still as quirky, still as nice and still as smart! He's getting married on April Fools Day =) first and only person as yet who i know has purposely chosen that date hehe! suits his character =P ohhh it didnt top sunday night though, seeing all the 4th yr physios again after half a year!! Was awesome seeing them again! didnt realise that i'd missed a few of them sooo much....not gonna see them for a while seeing how they're still on clinical placement....

All growing up so quickly...too quickly i feel sometimes....all these friends of mine graduating, including all the pure exercise and sports science ppl (ie not nutrition) who are in my year. wrapping up the exercise sports science side of things this year...not bad actually for us, cos no offence to cumbo, but after spending most of our time at main campus last year, being at cumbo feels also suffocating at times....nothing to do. BUT ive grown to love some of the people there, so it's always great being at cumbo when they're around. im gonna so miss them next year when half of them will have graduated and i wouldnt be at cumbo much at all.

hmm kinda in the middle of doing the ALS (advanced life support) training course at St John, which will qualify us for working with oxygen masks, defib, and administering analgesics!! in wrapping up tonight, our superintendent gave us a warning about taking ALS seriously. paraphrasing his words, it's not simply another certificate, it's a whole notch up from Advanced First Aid/CPR/Senior First Aid courses, so we must take it seriously. if we go out to duties with no one else there having done ALS, we're expected to be the ones who'll be in charge, the ones making all the decisions and giving out orders and all, esp in cases involving cardiac arrests. It'll be a life or death situation pretty much, and there will be no second chances with it at all. Our superintendant warned us that there will be psychological and emotional consequences for us should we find ourselves in such situations, especially if we're forced to watch a patient die in our hands. To be honest, im actually not quite sure i'd want to continue on with the rest of this particular course....like the skills would be great to learn, and i'd love to learn them, but the responsibility it shall carry.....

Growing up aint that appealing these days >.< sometimes i just wanna find a nice little cacoon and hide in it. sometimes when i think about how the generations before us have done quite a bit for us, how they know so much (what they're passing onto us) and the quality of the services they provide for us...and then i think about our generation. i think we take a lot for granted in this day and age. there will be such large shoes for us to fill, and we'll have to step in and try to fill them sooner than we think. hmm sounds quite pessimistic hey...i hope and pray...pray that we'll bring God glory above all else!!