Week 38 - Finishing & Indianing

Thursday #39 – I managed to start this Thursday with a bit of a sleep in after scoring the morning off my placement.  There was some debate over whether my cruisy 12 days up the coast counted as a placement; with M-Dizzle pointing out I was really only doing half of the 20 day placements everyone else was doing.  Pfft 12 days, 20 days; potayto, potarto.

I was relieved to have a phonecall from DTM who was finally booking our accommodation for this weekend.  An eternal backpacker, he was much more relaxed about heading to The Gold Coast with no accommodation on the weekend of a big marathon up there and the start of the school holidays than I was.  I remain blissfully unaware of what exactly he has booked and am crossing my fingers I don’t end up in some crappy hostel.

I managed to get in a much needed Simon Baker fix and finally got up to date in The Mentalist – mostly so I can say I’ve been using this ipad I’ve had on loan from DTM for the past 4 months when I really couldn’t care less about it.  It is very difficult to convince the man who sold his ipad 2 to buy an ipad 3 and then bought another ipad 3 because he couldn’t wait a week for me and the first one to arrive in Barbados; that I have no need or want for an ipad.

I headed off in the afternoon to finish off my placement once and for all.  A super blinky 3 year old boy stole my heart with his cute blonde hair and poor articulation, and is officially, The Whitest Tyrone Ever.  He came in with his 5 year old sister who was also pretty cute but didn’t have a badass gangster name like The Whitest Tyrone Ever did.  My last patient was a 9 year old kid whose eye exam involved lying on the ground and raising his arms and legs as we pointed to them…it was like having a real live human puppet…except he kinda sucked at it.  All finished at 7pm, I said my thank yous and goodbyes and headed back to The Farge’s where he was cooking up a gourmet Indian feast for me, complete with horrendous Indian music and incense.  The Souths Fan was rather jealous when she got home and remarked that The Farge hadn’t cooked for her in years.

After din dins we settled in for a night of TV with Hamish & Andy, Grey’s Anatomy and the always quality Desperate Housewives.  An interesting Thursday as I finally got to see The Behavioural Optom actually doing some behavioural optometry and I finished up my 4 weeks on The Central Coast.