Organelles are structures inside eukaryotic cells that carry out functions. The main organelles are nucleus, cell membrane, chloroplast, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, cell wall and golgi apparatus. Most organelles are membrane bound, they have a unit membrane around them. Prokaryotic cells do not have membrane bound organelles. Some organelles are visible with a light microscope because they are big enough to be resolved.

blaaaaa

I can't believe the time passes so fast and doesn't feel like progress.
Easter hols have flown and I'm behind with work.
CELLS..BLAA
I am trying to remember what is in a cell and what the hell organelles are in the cell..it's gone.
Hopefully will wake up tomorrow and it will be magically in my brain. Computers give you brain drain
goodnight!

Course Structure

Today sat in room 3 feeling rubbish and snotty but still managed to take it all in!
Course structure is really intense, so many elements to figure out; placements, objectives within those placements; assignments, how to reference and the no-no's of plagiarism, PBL (problem based learning) keeping in touch with tutors, sharing knowledge and skills with fellow students. Placements in Theater (faint) surgery procedures, working within multi-disciplinary teams..and so on...oh yeah, and HOMEWORK! (for Wednesday) about breastfeeding.
It feels difficult to assimilate everything, but I guess once the actual practice begins we will be able to understand where everything fits.
Trying to cope with fitting all this together in a disciplined way along with family needs is going to be tougher, so we'll see I guess.
I'm scared of everything but excited too.
Tomorrow, biology. I think it's going to be a long day.

End of week one!

Being a silly girl

Friday today.
Yesterday I had to go to Derby for 9am, wouldn't have been a problem had I not allowed the stress from Wednesday (evening particularly) get to me and for my tired brain to give me the go ahead to consume a ridiculous amount of vino.
Getting up at 6.30am is not compatible with going to bed at 2am drunk. So with horror and shame I shifted my sorry sick butt down to the train station, puking intermittently and missed my first train. Woo! great start to the day.
Actually it did get tons better, I don't know how. Maybe it was the way that my personal tutor grabbed me on the way into lecture, put me in a room with occupational health who quizzed me about my health (oh god! the shame, do they know I got drunk?- not a good coping mechanism for a student midwife) and proceeded in jabbing me in the arm with Hep B vaccinationbefore I knew what was happening.
The day went wonderfully from there on in. I got my NHS ID (In which I look quite chuffed with myself) and had a laugh with the other students.

I really like my Tutor. She is very funny.

Today then is a reading day, obviously still get up early to sort kids but now Midday I am still sat in my PJ's sorting paperwork and trying to let this crazy week sink into my being.

Monday all the 'proper' study begins..can't wait!

day trois

You may sit in that class/lecture place and start drifting, thinking intensely about what those people before you are saying and REALLY REALLY wanting to take it in but the back of your mind there is always something else calling out... something else.

This is where I am today. Low and behold.
After soaking all the wonder and brilliance of Midwifery and the course to be , I trudge around looking for a BIG bag so I can lug all my paperwork, paperwork paperwok with me, at all times.

I get home to; a fraggle rock partner, two boys scrapping, wee girls laughing and eldest out. I bleed.

Tomorrow injections and ID's

A brave new world.

end of day 2

Be gosh!
I am so knackered, there has been so much information to absorb, paperwork paperwork paperwork! orientation around hospital, campus, modules lectures and meeting lots of new wonderful peeps...
We had a lecture yesterday about history of Midwifery which was fascinating and compelling, a lecture today about fire safety which was bizarre and fascinating (never thought it would be but there you go). More paperwork, tour round the library (a sci-fi wonder) and logged into the mother system to become a fully incorporated member of Uni technology. Phew!
Went on the bus back home with a fellow student, a wee might not much older than my eldest daughter and shared feelings on how spaced out we both were, glad to know in each others company that we are not alone in feeling like we have just entered the twilight zone.
Get home, him indoors feeling poorly (oh them boys to men) so I cooked tea and zazzed off for another couple of hours to file away them papers papers papers....

Now, a glass of vino and most probably snooze, hopefully tonight without nightmare images of needles and cuts, vomit and spit needling my subconscious...
till tomo xx

IN TRANSITION

My journey is in transition, I'm moving to the precipice, about to turn into a Student Midwife.

I have been considering this for the last 13years give or take months here or there wrapped in other preoccupations, and now, blimey! I'm looking over that big edge, about to jump...

Tomorrow, 10am , I have to turn up at the QMC hospital and find my way to the Midwifery Education Centre.

I am nervous, delighted, excited, strong, scared, emotional, and completely convinced I will turn up and they will say '' sorry we made a mistake..''!
I still can't believe I am here. Tomorrow the big day.For all of us here in my house, our home.
The kids just think it's funny that I have to have an upside down one strap watch.
They don't know HOW BIG this is, this jump.
I'm glad for that ..for now.