This was where I did my General Practice attachment.

I stayed at a B&B by the beach – BEAUTIFUL I love watching the sea, be it during a calm day and the sea would be azure, blue, turquoise, aqua… it changes. Or during a storm, when the waves crash the shore and white sprays of foam makes the sea seem more alive than usual. The fact that I can see surfers riding the waves is an added bonus. They’re great (I wonder how they can stand the cold sea…)

It’s also very, very expensive and I am broke. But who cares! I’m not starving anyway.

I love the practice too. Absolutely different from the hospital setting, obviously. Met all manner of people, quirky individuals: tiny old ladies with sticks, travel junkie teacher, an aspiring restaurateur with a Nigella-like flair, gypsies, normal people… you just never get bored. And I get to see a wide range of problems: atrial fib, COPD, palliative care, bipolar (Pie-ola, according to a lady). I just don’t know where to start or end. It’s so different from what I expected. What struck me most is how close the relationship between them and the doctor. Calgary-Cambridge anyone?

The doctors are nice too as expected.

I take half an hour to walk to the practice every morning and I don’t even mind this as the view is – yep – awesome.

I had to go to Ennis to catch the bus back to Galway and since there was no bus going to Ennis, I had someone drive me there. In an undertaker’s vehicle (dunno what it’s called). I had no idea at first, till I asked whether he’s a doctor, and he said no, he’s an undertaker. No wonder everything was black. But it could be said that that was one of the best rides I’ve been on. So smooth, even on the winding, bumpy country roads. I guess that’s appropriate for a job like that, since you don’t want to be bumping a deceased person. He’s really a nice, albeit quiet old man. And he’s Dr B’s father-in-law.

So much that I should write but I cannot find the words to describe everything (besides, I am sleepy).

Will be going back there on Monday. Tonight, just rest and do unnecessary things which are actually necessary in making me crack a smile and relax but unnecessary in the sense that they are non academic related. Whatever. I’m rambling now.

Yeah, it’s not that bad.

Spanish Point

Waves

Small house at the edge… couldn’t take a decent picture though

And then the weather changed. Look, a seagull :) I like the clouds

Angry sea

Equals surfing, see the tiny guy there?

I never can catch him when he’s doing real surfing, as in standing on his board.

Closer