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Who Am I?

I’m Lydia, a biology grad and ex-science teacher studying medicine in Southampton, UK. I’m originally from Poole in Dorset and currently live in Winchester with my partner Jack (we met at uni studying biology). I started this channel to give advice to those applying to medicine as a mature student/graduate and I’ve been vlogging my medical school journey (highs and lows) from my very first day of term back in the pandemic days of 2020. I’d say I’m a positive, sociable and busy person but I’m currently struggling with losing my dad to cancer in Oct 2023 so I’m now navigating grief while studying medicine.

Your This M Well my hair’s nearly dry so that’ll do welcome back to a date in my life I am on my first day of OBS and gy placement today so I’ve got an induction at the hospital I’m going to catch the train into Southampton with Ellie because she’s on the placement with me which is

Great to have a friend from Winchester going to Southampton every day I’ve got loads of revision to do this afternoon so I’ve got a really busy day and I thought today would be a perfect day to film this video is kindly sponsored by hellofresh I’m really excited to be

Working with them because Jack and I are big fans of hellofresh and we have been customers in the past I put my to-do list on the screen for today I’ve got quite a lot to get through um especially with the induction I don’t really know how long that’s going to take and what

We’re going to be doing today I am going to take my scrubs as well because I don’t know whether or not they’ll send us onto the wards I’ve already had quite a busy morning as well I’ve been for my run for my January challenge which I

Spoke about in my last video um I’m raising money for prostate cancer ukuk trying to to run 70 m in a month and I have managed 51 miles at this point so I’m doing pretty well we still have like 9 days of January and I’m really getting into my

Running I’ve run a 10K now and on Saturday around another 5 miles so I’m getting like better at running which has been like quite satisfying that is today it’s going to be a busy one but I’ll bring you along and we can see how we

Get on now I’m just going to go and pack my bag ready to go to placement here is what I’m taking with me today so I’m scrubs I’ve double checked I’ve got a scrub top and a scrub buttons because that is a mistake I’ve made in the past

I’ve got my ID card I’ve got my stethoscope and then over here I’ve got some lip balm a very important hairbrush my diary a pen claw grip iPad and laptop I think that’s everything that’s coming with me and uh I don’t know if I’ll need the scrubs but it’s always good to have

Them perfect timing right hello fresh is here just in time because I am leaving very soon but I’m going to unbox this now so as I mentioned Jack and I have been hellofresh customers in the past and I’m so excited that we are working with them this week because this week is

So busy and one of the best things about hellofresh is that you don’t have to think so much about what you’re going to be cooking every evening and everything is just in this box ready to go this gives us a chance to kind of mix up our

Meal plans as well because Jack and I are quite guilty of cooking the same meals every single week you probably know this already but hellofresh is a meal delivery service that provide fresh pre- prepped ingredients ready to your door so you can cook the meals that day

Or that week and it’s just the most convenient thing ever so in the Box you get your recipe cards and then you get the bags that have everything you need for each card so they’re kind of number coded so for example this is number 38 so I know that I’ve got everything I

Need for recipe card 30 so it’s very very easy to use I definitely think considering this week I am so busy and I don’t know what placement going to be like just not having to stress about dinner is definitely a massive Plus for doing hellofresh also worth mentioning

The app is really easy to use and if you want to pause your subscription or change your delivery day edit your meals anything like that you can do it all by the app and I can’t lie guys the best thing about this is it means that

Tonight Monday night we don’t have to go to the supermarket which is my least favorite thing to do on a Monday right enough of me waffling let’s have a look at what meals we’ve got for this s Teriyaki Sriracha salmon and ginger Rice Bowl then we’ve got the ultimate butter

Chicken and buttery Nan and finally a creamy Cajun spiced cherito oo I am so excited and I do think another amazing thing about hresh is you are reducing your food waste because they only send you exactly what you need and the worst thing is when you have to throw away

Stuff that you haven’t used at the end of the week if you use my code you’ll get 60% off your first box and then 20% off the following 2 months I will leave the link in the description for you guys to use it and I’ll will put the QR code

On the screen here just in case you want to scan that and go and have a look at the discounts and see what hresh is all about thank you so much hellofresh for sponsoring this video I’m going to put this away now because I need to leave any Minute [Applause] good Yeah and the second one I was wh I’m not Sure R Jack it’s dinner time could you pick up the recipe cards for me and tell me which one you’d like for dinner tonight Rel thatx so there teraki sriracha salmon and ginger rice bar yeah it does look interesting but I already have broccoli for lunch okay not

What creamy Cajun spiced s so oo that does sound good that does sound good doesn’t it and it’s look it’s one of them quick ones only takes 20 minutes oh yeah but you’re cooking so I don’t care about that okay oh ultimate butter chicken and buttery on yeah not sure about the

Coriander oh no they got coriander tasty well as long as we can leave the coriander off I think we can okay I I’d like this one please okay coming right up when it’s ready coming right up so Jack has spoken we’re going to have the butter chicken I’ve got the recipe card

Here and I’m just going to follow the recipe as it says very [Applause] Simple That’s my coat while my dinner Cooks I will give you a quick rundown about what happened today on placement so we had a very long induction and it was quite complex like there was so many different things to go over because you’ve got like the obstetric part the Gynecology

Part then there’s all the like assessments we have to do what’s expected of us how to get on to clinics and do W rounds what time different things start who do we need to report to like there’s just a lot to remember but we got there in the end and then we did

A tour of the hospital and that took quite a while actually there’s quite a lot to it and then we did some simulation training we did examination of a pregnant woman so what kind of things you’re looking for when you examine them how to measure the fundle fund

Syesis the basically the bump how to measure the bump um where to measure it from how to try and find the position of the baby um within the mother and then what else yeah like how to work out where the head is and how to work out

Where you would take the fetal heartbeat from so that was quite good and then we also did speculum examination and a b manual vaginal exam is that what it’s called but it was just such a long day even though it wasn’t even a full day and the only thing I’m a bit concerned

About there’s 14 of us on this placement at this hospital and we are responsible for organizing where we’re going to be when so like we all sign up for different W rounds and different theater lists and different clinics we aren’t just giving the clinics we have to like

Pick them ourselves and I do worry that maybe that’s going to make it a little bit difficult but anyway I’ve signed up this week for um two clinics diabetes clinic and then an endometriosis clinic and then very excitingly I have signed up for the elective cesarian list on

Thursday so I’m going to hopefully see babies being born on Thursday I’m very excited and then I think next week is when I’m actually going to be on the labor Ward so that is very exciting and I don’t want to speak too soon I don’t want to speak too soon but may maybe

Maybe I like OBS and gyy maybe this is what I want to do I don’t even know yet cuz I’ve not even seen any of it yet but just I have a good feeling about me and this specialty and you know what it actually kind of runs in the family because my great

Auntie Mary was a famous Midwife her name was Mary cron she has her own Wikipedia page you can go and read all about my auntie Mary so my nana Joan had a brother called Joe and he is still with us he’s 99 years old um so he is my

Great uncle his wife Mary who sadly died in 2018 they were married for many many many years and she was a midwife and she was also an expert in the breach position and child birth when the baby’s in breach and she was Midwife from like

The 50s so that was around the time that cool the Midwife is filmed like that kind of time and era um so she was a midwife in those days on her little bike going around the aisle of white delivering babies what a legend and yes she’s my great auntie so obson guy runs

In the Family and here we have have the finished product and one for you thanks darling what do you think looks lovely thank you very much you’re welcome right empty plates all around what do you think of that butter chicken recipe I thought it was tasty yes I’m glad you

Enjoyed it I would just like to add that it was a good portion size and I had to give some of my nan to Jack which he was quite happy I enjoyed that yes yeah extra food is good and now we are very full up and we’re going to watch

Traitors Australia because we’ve seen the whole of Traitor UK haven’t we yes and you’re obsessed thank you Jack for partaking in this section of the video right everyone I think I’m going to end the Vlog here because I have had quite a chilled out oh I’ve got hiccup in the evenings at

The moment which this is going to be so predictable but I’ve been watching one born every minute which if you don’t know know is a document it’s a documentary about babies being born and it was on channel 4 many years ago but I think it went on for a few year years

And the main reason I started watching it is because the first two seasons are on Netflix at the moment and both those series are set at the princess andos a hospital in Southampton where I’m doing my placement and now I’m going to read my book I’ve only just started but I’m

Reading The Ballad of song birds and snakes by Suzanne Collins which you probably know is the prequel to The Hunger Games I went to see the movie in the cinema with Jack in the summer was it in the summer or end of last year I don’t know yeah went to watch the movie

And enjoyed it so I thought better read the book because when I was in year 10 The Hunger Games books ruled my life I was was the one reading The Hunger Games on my lunch break so I thought it was only right to read song birs and snakes

Oh my God my hiccups I think my sister got me that for Christmas I hope you guys enjoyed today it was a busy one but it was productive and I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot today and I’m very much looking forward to this placement now thank you so much for watching

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