a lot of my placement has been me trying to prove I can speak swedish (for jobfinding purposes), so I've had to loose all my fears and just say stuff that I hear...so I accidentally told someone to hold thier breath instead of holding thier ankle still when x-raying... and of course they did.
Last week my dad travelled up to Scotland and bought a house. my parents are moving there which is exciting and understandbly strange.
anyway, now at the end of my placement I know a lot more swedish, how to inject (into the vein) and have met some nice people which is all fun. but as my confidence grows, so do the mistakes and missunderstandings as I try more and more to have conversations using no english.

Sweden

its been a long time since my last blog... hey

I'm trying to make it out here in Sweden. I am on placment in a city (town by UK standard) called Lund... i'd say its like a cambridge kinda university town with a super hospital... so I'm learning to do x-rays here, calling myself a nurse (coz thats what they are) and trying to speak as much swedish as I can coz I can't learn no other way fast... maybe the swedes are a little more serious coz I'm the only one laughing at the language mistakes I make... its a good thing i have a supervisor...this week I did my first injection of 'x-ray' contrast.
my head is so full stuff... but I'm having fun I'm hopeful...