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@coollyndz
Sep 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
After 5months in hospital, mostly spent in ICU with over a month on ecmo, today is home time for my best mate. No competition, this is my highlight of 2020. Massively proud of Anu. 😁❤️🥰🤩🥳❤️🥰😁❤️🤩🥳❤️🥰😁❤️🤩❤️ Today is a really fucking good day. #MegaProudCheerleader
Anu will say her own thanks in due course but here are a few of mine...

Firstly the icu team in @WythenshaweHosp including the fabulous @DrCliffShelton, the ecmo team in @WythenshaweECMO inc @Miko_Charleswor et al.
And my most memorable highlight. When my old reg from @RMCH_Theatres @LeDyslexicMedic helped her make a surprise WhatsApp video call from ICU when she was too weak to press the phone buttons. I think my surprised screaming may be etched on his brain forever. 🤣 #TotalLegend
(I’ve tried to get Noamaan an excellence report for this, if this hasn’t been possible can someone in @NW_Anaesthesia @MFTnhs please ensure it happens on my behalf 💪🏻)
And lastly my office buddy for the continued bantz throughout. Cheers @katezealley22 💪🏻

Now if the lovely ppl of Manchester could stop pissing about, social distance and wear a fecking mask I might get to visit before the end of the yr. #TeamAnu 💪🏻🥰🤩🥳🤩🥳🤩🥰😁💪🏻😁🤩🥰😁🥳
Also @ben_hock has just told me Cheadle is out of lockdown... is this right?! 😆

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Oct 3, 2020
James Bond as the new anaesthetic consultant... (yes I’m bored)

CCT day...
Pre interview visit with the CD...
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Aug 29, 2020
As an ex Blackall SHO ‘reliever’ I can only imagine the relief when the RFDS arrived. ‘Go to the country’ they said, it’ll be ‘fun’ they said. Prior to a month in blackall id been sent to Emerald... The day after I arrived the entire state of QLD was declared a disaster zone.
So much so it made made the news...

It did make future ALS scenarios pretty easy tho, I kept waiting for the scenario where you are the solo doctor for an area of roughly 30000 km2, the roof of resus falls in with water on top of the defib what do you do?
A really friendly and really grateful community, the local cops took me to the pub and took me home on my last night in Blackall and put the cop car lights on to make sure there weren’t any snakes hiding on the grass. Good times with a bunch of amazing guys.
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Aug 25, 2020
So it’s a yr since I started Operation: Forbes returns to Glasgow. Still love my Manch crew but absolutely loving being back in Glasgow... 😁😁😁

I get asked a fair bit for exam/interview advice. So thought I’d share a moment of absolute gold from my con interview... 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🤷🏻‍♀️
Clearly there’s background to this...

When I was doing my higher paeds block we did 24hour oncalls.

One night, having finished the evening pain round, I went off to get some takeaway... I tripped up in the carpark outside the hospital on the way back and figured...
‘oh I’ve just skint my knee...’. On getting ready for bed it became obvious I’d done slightly more than that... (see below). Image
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Jul 11, 2020
It’s 100days tomorrow since my best mate of 21yrs sent me a series of whatsapp messages at 4am just before she was tubed. I’ve mostly gone with the ‘yep I’m fine’ line. In truth, it’s all felt a bit surreal going from ‘oh it’s ok she’ll just be tubed for a few days’, to sheer
horror when she crashed onto ecmo. By day 14 on ecmo and no improvement that went to a weird acceptance of the probable outcome. That became an ecmo Groundhog for 34days. A really dark few months, which has turned into extremely cautious hope in the last couple of weeks.
I wibbled a little bit yesterday when she thanked me for looking after her hubbie and toddler and that I was one of two ppl she called that night to ask to look out for them. Me and her brother. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Jul 4, 2020
For me it was the feeling that no-one ever actually said well done. There’s an overwhelmingly negative attitude towards it. It feels like a tick box exercise of going to get told you’re not good enough with little appreciation of what you’ve achieved through the yr.
Would it be so bad to say ‘hey you’ve done x, y and z well, now how about aiming to do blah next yr’
Or ‘hey, we know this has been a total ballache of a yr, we’re really impressed with how your handling things, we know things aren’t going well but we think we can help by doing x, y, z.’
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Jun 18, 2020
A (moderately long) thread...

I’ve not done a whole post on here about this yet. Other than my ‘check me out’ photos its not something I talk about much really. But a few weeks ago someone asked for my reflections about this. So fuck it here we go...
A yr ago today I went gastric band to bypass after a few yrs of mulling it over. Gas for enough stuff and it probably makes you think about things a bit more, you can basically set up a trip advisor equivalent. 🤷🏻‍♀️ DOI: Nightmare punter.
I corrected someone on here a few wks ago who called it a quick fix, I know unlike me to have an opinion 😜. I’d say it’s anything but. More about recognising that there is a scary permanent option that involves not being morbidly obese.
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