Single Handed Progress

Yep, that's my actual nerve there, all sutured up

It is now 5 weeks since I had surgery to mend my severed digital nerve and flexor tendons.  Whilst it was the obvious injury to the nerve in my finger that prompted my medivac, my prolonged UK stay is due to the tendon damage found in theatre.  As I approach the halfway point of my stay in the UK I thought I'd explain in more detail what I have injured, and the hows/whys of my long recovery.

A tale of a finger

The offending avocado.  It was tasty...

I have been woeful at updating my blog – so much for every two weeks!  I’ll blame this partly on a university assignment that swallowed up my December.  I’m going to post a series of catch-up posts over the next week or so outlining what I have been up to since I arrived at KEP.

However, first some disappointing news to share: I have had to return to the UK due to an injury

Preparing to go

This time next month I'll be on my way to South Georgia!  The last few months have flown by in a blur and I now can't wait to get going.  I'll be flying on 4th November on the Falkland Islands airbridge - a 22hr flight via Ascension Island (EDIT: looks like I'll be flying the long way now via Chile....with BAS the itinerary is never firm until you are on a plane and in the air!).  In Stanley I'll join the BAS ship RRS JCR (James Clark Ross) as she sails south to Signy Island and then on to KEP, South Georgia.

The focus has now shifted from medical training (and completing MSc module assignments!) to BAS-related preparation...

The Appendix Question

I had a great time on the Basic Surgical Skills Course - all docs should do it!

It has been a while since I last wrote and my time here in Plymouth seems to be flying by. Us BASMU docs are still feeling privileged to have the opportunity to refresh our medical knowledge in a whole range of specialities, and have been introduced to new skills too.
‘So you’ve be learning how to take someone’s appendix out then?’...