Matthew's Journal

There seems to be some confusion over what being "on hut" entails. Basically, in addition to my normal rotation duties, I have to do all the out-of-hours stuff, and have to remain on-site 24hours a day until Friday.

The weekend is different, and could well be more random, but the evening pattern is roughly:

8pm - do late treatments and walk all dog in-patients
8.30ish late rounds, drawing up treatments to be given later, and finish up treatments. Today this went on 'til about 10.30

3am - get up, do 3am checks and treatments. This takes about an hour
7.30am - get up, have breakfast, do morning rounds

The "3am" could be either 12midnight or 6am, depending on which the other people on hut wish to do.

Today, I've also done the RSPCA clinic, and I'm now hoping to be able to go back to bed and get several hours more sleep.

I was too stressy to sleep; it's funny how I seem to be really tired except when I actually go to lie down :/

I think the problem with being on hut is the enforced isolation - much as I have little or nothing to do until 6pm, I can't leave the site for a quiet coffee with my friends. So I'm over-tired, too stressed to sleep, and feeling lonely, since the people I'm on hut with are not my rotation group, and I don't know them very well; and its the social interactions with people that help keep me sane usually. I think that come Monday when I'm doing large animal during the day, things will be a bit better.