burns, boats and babies

this past week was unexpectedly and unwantedly interesting when the other half was extensively burned in a work accident. i spent a few hours in sydney's specialist burns hospital, a few hours driving back and forth to said hospital and am now doing a crash course on burn care. as burns go it was not so bad, partial thickness is what they call it and he didnt need hospitalisation but he has lost most of the skin off one side of his back/shoulder and there are all the practical and emotional challenges that always go with injury: how to be a good patient or a sensitive nurse, how to shower around it, how to dress the wound and how to dress the patient and how to sleep.........

in other news, we went for a lunch cruise on the harbour today, in honour of the mother-in-law visiting and while the lunch was pretty average, sydney never fails to captivate me.

i came home to an email from my doula teacher offering a possible opportunity to attend a birth, as required by the course. i compete for that opportunity with a couple of others and i dont know how it will be decided but i'm sure the right opportunity will come at the right time and it's good to feel that i'm a teeny bit closer to doula-dom. in a coincidental twist the hospital where the baby will be born is the one hubby was treated at before his referral to the burns specialist, i haven't been there in twenty years and now it pops up twice in a week.

so many things in life seem to be circular, dont they?