Happy Birthday Becky

Becky is a lovely girl
You know she is my friend
And I can't wait until the day
Her exams are at an end

She has locked herself away
It makes me feels so sad
But when she passes her exams
Life will not seem so bad

There'll be a party with champagne
We'll toast to body parts
For she'll be a pathologist
Dissection her life's art

Let's all raise our glasses now
To halloween's sweet child
And remember all our happy times
When we were free and wild
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This song reminds me of a cocktail party at Annerley and we all danced and sang.....

An Oldy but a goody

Okay Jade, here goes, I know I didn't quite get around to putting it on a separate blog, but I'm sharing!
Hunter's and Collectors - Holy Grail. The 80's video clip was too lame, so I chose this one with clips from the Narnia film.. How can you not love Holy Grail.... Here's hoping my first attempt at embedding a youtube video works...

Melancholy Beating

I did not know
When I arrived
That it would be like this
That the melancholy beating
Would begin again
Compounding all those things
That have long threatened
The insides of me

I feel unable
Completely unable
To reach out and find
The touch of someone else
To draw me out
Of this stifling well of emotion
Disconnectedly
I collapse inward

Not quite RIF pain

:( For the last few days every so often I've gotten little twinges of pain in my right lower quadrant of my abdomen. Last night, I got up and peed and then the pain was not good at all and I couldn't sleep for two hours and it was enough that I dragged my lazy bones out of bed and went and got panadol before curling up in a little ball. I had this idea that if it still hurt at 5am (when I had to get out of bed to get to work in time because I was in Brisbane), I would maybe make my way to hte Wesley - but it kind of got better. Most of the day I have had it but nowhere near as bad, just kind of background. But I checked and I don't have a temperature, so it's probably not appendicitis (plus when I was laying down I felt my tummy and I definitely don't have guarding or rebound tenderness). I did a dipstick and there's no sign of infection or blood, so it's probably not my kidneys. Sometimes it seems to be in the RIF, but sometimes like now it's actually reasonably higher (almost RUQ). I have an appetite, even though I'm nauseated.... Probably I'm ovulating, I bet it's something really benign like that. I'm such a little panicker sometimes!

So let's take a vote. When you have abdo pain, do you:
1. Hope it will go away?
2. Hope it will go away some more?
3. Write yourself a bloodslip but not finish work in time to get blood taken?
4. Wonder if you'll have time between cleaning the house and going to the markets to get to QML while it's open tomorrow morning?
4. Wait till the weekend and hope it doesn't get worse and that you're not going to end up having to go to the hospital?

Very good, the correct answer is all of the above!