I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ‘N’… Nurse ? More like Numpty... It’s been a painful week. Painful in every sense of the word. Let’s start with the physical pain element and get that out of the way. I nipped into my favourite bargain shop on the way home from work feeling quite smug and prepared for the cold snap that’s been screamed out of every radio station. It’s clearly time for 100 denier tights and I grabbed a couple of pairs for less than the price of a mega kebab with chilli sauce! Happy days!! And that was where the happiness ended. Fast forward 12 hours…stumbling round in the dark trying to get ready for work and I am knackered before I even run for the bus, wrestling into these bloody tights. I swear they must have been sized wrongly, as they wouldn’t fit an anorexic scarecrow. I look in the mirror (just to check I’m not severed at the midriff) and see a giant black pudding ring staring back at me – which reminds me that I haven’t got time (or ro...

This week I feel fepic (that’s effing epic for those of you who don’t know).  I don’t know if any of you reader’s have missed me, but I’ve been so busy with the new challenging placements, I have been neglecting you. So last week I thought it must be about time Charisma at the nursing agency gave me a break.  As luck would have it she was able to book me in for a couple of lovely days at Sunshine Retirement Village, my old stomping ground. It was lovely to see the girls again and some of the residents even said that they had missed me!  When I got there, I was called in to see the Manager. I was a bit nervous, I’d only just got through the door so I couldn’t have done anything wrong – yet.  It turned out that she’d been working with the local uni and had agreed to take some ‘specially selected’ student nurses on placement and that a new one was due to start later that morning.  She went on to tell me that the last one hadn’t worked out a...