Night shifts

Again yes I am on night shifts. 

But these so far have been quite nice as far as nights go.

The first couple were so busy I couldnt wait to get home and sleep but last night and tonight have been nice. Nights like these dont normally come very often let alone two in a row.

So I have had chance to catch up on my training reading up on all sorts even heaven forbid..... answering my emails.

So its quite nice.... but I have veen more rubbish withy wating this time. Snacky bits just seem to lure me in :(

Fingers crossed for a good rest of this shift then a few days of gym and running :)

Night all x

exciting new role

Hiya all :)

So I've had a good few days :) I've been really trying with my shakes :) and healthy eating :)

I've been to the gym and been for a run too this week.

So yesterday I had a day off to myself. For the last few months really my days off have been all about weddings and catching up with friends who are moving away (selfish :(! ) but today was just a ME day.

I got up late and had my shake and some fruit and then did a bit of work :P I know I know you are going to say "but its your day off and you choose to do some work". Well here's why!

I have been nominated a position within my job already to be a lead nurse about..... NUTRITION.
I'm on my healthy eating journey and people have noticed how I'm doing it. Its not about helping patients to lose weight or improve their healthy eating per se; its about anything with nutrition from obesity to anorexia and how the lack of adequate nutrition can impact on healthcare. Patients who are malnourished actually stay in hospital longer. My aim is to help the staff on our ward notice malnourishment or to help patients notice the benefits of a healthy balanced diet. It also involves helping those who cant help themselves :)

Ok so the role means extra work for me and I don't get paid for it but it means all my colleagues will come to me for help with any problems and I will get offered extra training and study time to present to all of my colleagues how much of an important part of health is the diet!!!!

So anyway enough about that yes I did some work on my day off but after id done that. I lazed around :) to the point that I had done 2000 steps by 5pm. Normally on a ward day I would have reached my steps goal by then for sure. I knew I was going to go to the gym that evening so I wasn't too bothered :)

At the gym it was my night to have a real workout in my own time :) I went to the gym quite late as Mark was playing football at the sports centre where the gym was so we could walk there together and I didn't have to walk on my own in the dark :). So at 20:15 I was at the gym ready to take on my cardio session.

A few months back I worked out that if the day before I start night shifts I do a mammoth cardio session I can actually sleep the day after in preparation for the first night shift. And that's what yesterday was.

I warmed up on the bike even though I had walked to the gym :P then I did half an hour on the treadmill doing interval training and then 40 minutes on the cross-trainer/elliptical. by this time I was sweating buckets and was actually the last person left in the gym :P I felt cool :P

Once I had cooled down again on the bike I went out to finish watching Mark play football and stretched out my muscles :)

I felt amazing after burning what MFP said was around 1000 calories.

Today I definitely feel tired so its obviously a good thing for me to do the day before my nights :)

So that's you up to speed with my new role and my ace session at the gym before I start a week of nights.

I remember writing that I would take some pictures yesterday but I didn't get round to it so once I have finished my night shifts these will be done :) speak to you all then bloggers :)

Ward work

A nice day at work today despite the stress of the hospital I just wanted to say to all my colleagues how much I love how much of a team we are :)

Don't get me wrong.  I love my job but boy I miss having a social life. I quite enjoyed having 2 weeks off lol.

Weigh in tomorrow and im going to take some more pictures in the morning :)

For now im having an evening of time to myself whilst my man plays GTA5 lol im a playstation widow!!

Training day

Back to work today after a nice 2 weeks of very little work and lots of wedding fun.

And what to I come back to but an overfull hospital. Lukily for me im on a training day so once again I find im going to have to work extra hard to get my steps in today!

Sitting in a classroom and having someone talk at me for 8 hours..... I thought I was done with this when I left uni :/

So bloggers. Hope you are all keeping well and on track :-)

Opinion

So today I saw a consultant regarding the pain ive been having in my stomache.

After 2 ultrasounds and pain relief prescriptions they have decided that the best thing to do is for me to have exploaratory surgery to see what is actually causing it.

So the cyst I have been told I have will be looked at and they will look into any of the other problems.

This will all be done under a general anaesthetic by doing a laproscopy.

Im not sure how I feel about this at the moment as im nervous and unsure of what this will mean for me in the future.

But its going to take time. Its a 10 week wait list.

In that 10 weeks I aim to really work on my weight to reduce risks of the general anaesthetic and the other symptoms may be helped by weight loss.

! After tge surgery im not allowed any strenous exercise or to even work for at least a week :/ god knows how im going to cope with that :(

So that was their opinion so lets wait and see now.

Today I went to the gym with Mark. A welcome workout to relieve the tension id been feeling before my appt.

I havnt been able to get to the gym in around a week because of work and weddings  but now I should be able to get out more often again :)

More weddings and hair cuts

I went to post this the other day but it wouldnt let me.

Its amazing how much better you can feel after a bit of a pampering and a hair cut.

I didnt have much cut off like id wanted because of having another wedding requiring my hair longer.

The wedding of my best friend :) it was amazing :) I got far too drunk and ended up in bed early but s good evening all the same :)

Looking forward to getting back on it after all these weddings :)

Weddings and Tenderness

Why hello there

Its been a few days but I've not been far away. My fitness pals haven't heard much from me but I've been casting a beady eye on them making sure they are still there :) and thank you to them for keeping me on track by commenting and keeping me with the faith even when I'm feeling poorly :)

As you all may know I am having a few issues with TOM and having to see a consultant regarding this. Well this weekend it took a step up to Painful!!!

It was my sisters wedding this weekend and all the planning of dresses photographers and flowers worked out well and it was a fantastic day. She had a fantastic day and I felt great having lost nearly 2 stone from when she first asked me to be her bridesmaid.

But when the evening reception was in full swing things took a bump with the abdo issues. I suddenly became very pale and exhausted; I then had really acute tummy pains that bought me to tears. My sister took one look at my face and saw something was up and came up and asked me. I couldn't even speak in full sentences I was in so much pain. She called my Mum over who panicked as soon as she saw me. She thought that the cyst I have had burst and wanted to take me to hospital. I insisted I was fine and said all I needed was to take some pain relief  and go home with a hot water bottle.

I went home but really had an awful time with it frightening my poor other half Mark. I didn't really have any sleep and suffered a lot the day after. It was like having cramp in a leg muscle after intense gym session but the pain the day after was just so uncomfortable. Id had a week off work and was not looking forward to going back to working 28 hours in 2 days.

I went in on the Monday for my 14 hour shift and my senior nurse asked how I was and how the wedding was. I explained about what happened and they took me off of the afternoon shift for the Tuesday (today) and put me on light duties. I got home from my long day yesterday and had obviously done a bit too much still as again I was in a lot of pain; not as much as Saturday admittedly because I made sure I kept up with pain relief. I have been referred to the occupational health so that if I need to take time off with it I wont have an appalling sick record and that it will all be related to the same issue. This settled my mind a lot and I had a much better day at work today :)

I cant wait to get back to the gym and with TOM this week I have literally wanted to eat everything in sight. Its not been good on the diet front at all.

but  once this second wedding is out of the way and I don't need to worry that the dress won't fit if I do too much or too little. I will get back on it and really concentrate on hitting my 3 stone target :)

So there we are all up to date with my issues this week and I will be back to you soon :) hopefully on top form :)

Annual leave :)

So I officially have a week of work :)

Ive walked to my sisters and back and been to the gym today :)

♡ being at the gym at the moment I feel so energised ♡

This week im going to be getting some real workouts in an ticking all thecstuff off my to do list :)

Had a good workout today and planning on a nice long run tomorrow :)

Hope you are all well

Laters bloggers

Chest infections and hen do's

Yeah so my head cold wasnt quite a hwad cold. I ended up going to the doctors and being prescribed antibiotics for a rotten chest infection :/

And it couldnt have come at a worse time. You see I had a lot going on. Id joined the gym was doing well with my running and really getting back on track. I had my sisters hen party on saturday which meant I couldnt drink on :/ I guess that saved me a bit though.

So yeah now however I was finally able to post on MFP that I was feeling back to my old self nearly and that I was feeling up to goinf back to the gym and getting out there again

And hell yeah I did :)

I feel amazing :)

So heres to being back :) and hopefully nothing stops me for a while now ;) x