Tutorial 29 October 2012

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Tonight's tutorial was by Ahmed Yassin on uro-dynamics. I was unwell and unable to attend the tutorial, which was held at Stepping Hill Hospital, so it was not recorded. Fortunately, I had kept a copy of the tutorial he gave on the same subject on the 21st. February. The only thing that will be different will be the questions asked.

Our grandchildren started their half-term holidays on Friday. Emma, our daughter, decided to take her children to our holiday cottage in Anglesey and invited us to join them. Valerie and I had 'flu jabs booked for Saturday morning - Simon, our excellent GP likes all his geriatrics to be immunised! Eliza, our 4-year-old granddaughter decided she would stay with us on Friday night and come to Anglesey with us on Saturday. She sat in the front passenger's seat and I had highlighted the route for her on a map. She sat there ticking off the towns we passed, reading the sign posts, telling me the road numbers and looking for the turn-offs. I had turned on the Sat Nav as an added interest for her and she had a great time coordinating the two. The only downside was a barrage of questions about how a Sat Nav works. How does it know which road we are on? How does it know the names of all the roads? etc. etc. If you think explaining recessive inheritance in an OSCE is hard, try explaining the principles of Sat. Nav to a 4-year-old!
We visited the sea zoo, which is a great adventure for little girls - and elderly gents! You go from one tank to another round a series of passages. On turning one corner you are face with a glass panel that goes to the ceiling. Behind is a mock-up of a rock pool. As you peer in to see the inhabitants, there is suddenly an explosion of sound as a huge wave breaks in from the side and pours into the pool, When you are not expecting it, you are much startled. Of course, once Cecilia, at 22 months, was over the initial shock, we had to stay there to watch it over and over.....
A walk on Rhosneigr beach meant that Eliza had to strip to her underwear to go for a paddle. How she managed with sea temperatures of little more that 10 degrees and air temperatures rather less is beyond me! The paddle soon developed into jumping over the waves and this led to jumping while pirouetting with inevitable consequences as she fell into the briny. Fortunately, Emma had predicted this might happen and had brought her car, with lots of large bath-towels, onto the beach. But that was the end of the walk as Eliza had to be dried off, wrapped up and brought home for immersion in a hot bath.
Rhosneigr beach is a great favourite with wind surfers and has a webcam so they can see the conditions and decide if they make a trip worthwhile. http://www.wirralcam.org/rhosneigr.shtml. The quality of the picture is poor - it must be a low-quality camera - and it does not do justice to a very attractive beach.
On Saturday night I ran a fever and had episodes of vomiting. I did not get out of bed until the Sunday afternoon, which is a rarity for me as I tend to be up an about early. We decided that we would risk the journey home. By the time we got home, we both felt pretty lousy and there was no way I felt up to attending the tutorial. I am more or less back to normal today, but Valerie seems to be having the same symptoms, but with a 24 hour time lag as she is still in bed, though improving.