Learning to put gloves on...

Who knew freakin gloves could be so difficult to put on! I should have suspected that I would be all fingers and thumbs and find this hard to do.

Last week was the week of vaccination. I had to have Tetanus and the first (of three) Hep B jabs, plus the TB Mantoux. 2nd Mantoux this week and hopefully won't need TB. Still need to have polio jab though.

Fingernails are now very short, as per requirements (sob sob). All cut off and ready to learn how to wash my hands properly and put gloves on. It all started off so well.

I did really great on the handwashing. We checked under UV light and not one single spot was missed. They were clean as clean can be. My dermatitis did show up and I need to get that treated, but other than that all good.

Gloving however was a completely different affair. I was the class moron who managed to get all her fingers in the wrong holes and completely get confused and tangled. It's not as easy as it looks. I was thinking to myself that I'm not going to be a very good midwife if I can't get the freakin gloves on....lord knows how I'm going to catch a baby!!

Anyhoo...I managed to do it in the end, but need to practice it (lots and lots!!) so that I can get them on quickly. At speed I go the baby would be celebrating it's first birthday by the time I had the gloves on.

And of course I'm totally allergic to the soap and to the gloves.....and despite washing my hands at home have very itchy sore hands right now and have to go to the chemist and get special soap which I need to take on clinical with me. I need to check out about the gloves but assume I'll have to buy those as well.

Also made the difficult decision to resign from the Parents Centres CBE Advisory Team as I am finding the workload pretty full on and something had to go. I am still sticking with the CENZ role but I had to let something go and unfortunately the advisory team was it. I feel really sad about it but have to look forward to newer more exciting things (like gloving!).

Ah the joys. Remind me why I signed up for this again?