Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Week 4

Sunday:

Caversham Wildlife Park! Amazing. Pics are on FB, will put some on here soon. Australian fauna is cute, and I want a small marsupial as a house pet. Kangaroos all have different coats of fur, so some of them are fluffier/cuddlier than others. All of them, however, can be cute, when holding your hand and giving you the 'feed me more food pls' look.

Moar food pls?

They can also be threatening. Having fed a particular kangaroo (kangaroo A), one of us decided to feed the lonely-looking one next to it (kangaroo B). This resulted in the original kangaroo (A) in hopping over to B, pinching the food, growling, and suddenly landing a nasty left hook across B's face with an audible thump that made everyone present stand up and move quickly away.

Another sleeping koala we met. What a surprise.

An awake koala! Moving! Aaaah!

We also met a wombat (Neil), who was fat and lazy and slept on the park staff's lap with his nuts on full frontal display. You then get a photo with Neil while touching his lower legs (only, please, no stroking anything higher like his back, or somewhere, for example, further away from his nuts). He was bristly.

This is Neil and his staff couch.

Us, awkwardly touching Neil's legs for the photo.

Monday:

Research all day. Lost table tennis 18-21 again. Getting better still, but returns are still my downfall!

Tuesday:

Clinic in the morning - very cool and a nice break from research. Lots of varied and interesting cases, including a lady who'd managed to use superglue instead of eye drops. We had to cut her eyelids open as a minor op.

Just...wow. Not impressive as an op (pair of scissors and patience did the trick) but scary for her, and had me wondering - HOW exactly, does one confuse the two? WHY would you keep them anywhere near one another?

Surely, when seeing a superglue bottle, you think, hey, this kind of looks like an eye drops bottle. Better be careful not to get them mixed up with my eye drops!

But we don't. Because most people don't keep a SUPERGLUE bottle anywhere near the same place as a similar-looking-but-entirely-different-function bottle of MEDICATION eye drops that GO IN THE FRIDGE.

Honestly, some people.

I do feel for her though - I've been through enough painful superglue experiences of sticking my fingers together to know that getting them cut apart hurts like hell - can't imagine what eyelids are like!

Thankfully no eye damage - glue won't stick to wet surfaces, so the conjunctiva and cornea were ok, if a bit raw.

Other cases included post-op corneal transplants, a facial nerve palsy and associated exposure keratitis (despite the ptosis-inducing gold weight implant), blocked lacrimal systems causing watery eyes, blocked pores causing dry eyes...all sorts. Learnt a lot. More fun than UK clinics, as it wasn't a "diabetic retinopathy" clinic, seeing the same thing over and over again. Included ED referrals (as per superglued eyelids lady) in the clinic too.

Dream job.

Speaking of which, I "finished" job ranking today. Probably won't submit them for a few days to do any last minute tweaks and changing my mind.

Will add photos tomorrow.