I was looking for something the other day and stumbled into an old shoebox filled with photos from my training.
The boys of 1984.

This is a shot of the male nurses I trained with. My mate Jeff (2nd from right) is wearing his 3 star badge, so we must have been in our 3rd year [...]

A few months back I heard a new word that I liked the sound of. The word was skanky.
And like a kid with a new toy I would pull  it out of my voice box to muck around with, in  an annoying repetitiveness that drove Kelly crazy.
“How long has that lettuce been in the fridge? [...]

:: You don’t have to believe everything you think ::
I was awoken sometime shortly after 3 am by a noise just outside the bedroom window.
Swiped away from counting M&M’s with Johnny Depp in the map room of a Spanish galleon just off the coast of Havana, it took me a few moments to orient myself [...]

That’s the thing about hills… you can go up, you can go down. Two directions. 
How hard could it be to get lost?
“Um, Kelly……do you think we’re lost?”
It was nearly nine-thirty by the time we pulled into the small car park at the trail head.
Still in shadow, the parking area was cold and wet underfoot, [...]

impactednurse.com is coming up for its yearly renewal.
As I try not to get caught up in analyzing visitor traffic statistics, I’m not even sure exactly how many people are regular readers, or occasional visitors or just accidental skip-throughs.
I do know that I have around 400 people subscribed to my RSS feed and around 250 who [...]

Nothing but a short movie of what Kelly, Smudge and I can get up to on a sleepy Sunday morning.
I have no idea how many other doctors or nurses rely on a little four legged life support equipment.

Around 9 years ago I decided to stop eating meat. I get quite a few people ask me why I became a vegetarian. Is it for health reasons? Or religious beliefs? Or am I just one of those people against animal cruelty?
Well, I could tap on about the pain and suffering inflicted during the production [...]

It is still dark when I slide a leg out of bed to test the temperature. And so cold!
Puling on tracksuit pants. T-shirt slips over my head but feels all wrong, so I pull through my arms and spin it around my neck and try again. Over this, my favorite thick wool jumper. The one [...]

I can hear them kicking in the neighbors fence. It must be Friday.
There is this family of teenagers living up the street that have been giving us grief for some years now.
For us it all started when Kelly had words with one of them for skidding his bike through her freshly planted garden.
His four letter [...]

Forget H1N1.
Even the most hardened Aussie ED nurse can be taken out of action by a decent case of Man Flu.
Its not a pretty sight.
(Gifts of tea, vegetable soup, and sympathy comments gratefully accepted.)
Oh, and if anyone has seen where Kelly is….could you let me know?