yesterday i was in the emergency department of royal melbourne hospital. it was quite big and the nursing area did look kind of look like the reception area in ER. except ER was so much cooler. still, physio being a primary contact practitioner is cool and we played with plaster after an unusually quiet afternoon. i pretended i had a wrist fracture and had my right arm wrapped up in plaster of Paris for ten minutes. then, my supervisor cut it off. it was quite scary but the blades don't cut as they vibrate rather than spin. then a friend of mine had both his arms plastered so we got some practice. it was a fun first day in ED being a physio, rather than a patient.

for those who don't know, the cool scar on my forehead didn't appear overnight. i actually fainted while on placement in first year, hit the corner of the table and scared the hell out of the patient i was observing. i woke up a few minutes later with a massive headache and a voice calling my name in a thick scottish accent. weird thing was, i had a chat earlier that day with a friend and we were talking about how it would be like to be wheeled in a gurney and watch the lights go past. i actually was wheeled to the emergency room. AND had ecg leads stuck to me. then three stitches put in by a very hot intern with a chinese last name. he didn't look asian at all.

this morning, i had a construction worker yell out a good morning to me from across the street as i waited for the bus. that was after he nearly ran me over as i crossed the street with his huge trailer.