Next step

I arranged my Support Worker interview with the NHS Foundation Trust HR department for next week; which is excellent news because I have an interview (woop!), but also horrendous news because I'm on holiday hiking that week! Which means I need to leave my holiday half way through, attend the one hour interview and multiple tests, and then return to it. Which is quite the round trip! Thankfully I'm still in the UK otherwise the interview would have been totally out of the question, which would have been awful because this support post looks almost perfect. If you consider working in a medium secure unit for people with extremely challenging behaviours to be perfect. It's the ABI rehabilitation that intrigues me the most, experience of this aspect of human behaviour would stand me in good stead for when I study for my MSc Neuroscience. I only briefly covered this in Biopsychology and neuropsychology when a BSc Psychology student, it's what kept me interested enough to complete the qualification, even though we based our studies more on Alzheimer's, Autism, Parkinson's and Huntington's. Our lecturer was quite a delightfully cynical being who would inform us at 9am lectures whether or not he had been "lucky" the night before, as this would dictate his mood. Judging by the green sweat stains and constant dishevelled look he had, he never got lucky. He was, however, a very intelligent person, and his passion for neurological illnesses was contagious. Forget social psychology, forget developmental psychology, biopsychology was where it was at.

Somehow, 3 years after completing my BSc degree, my neuro- based textbooks are still on my bookshelf. As though their importance had never left them. All through my NVQ Veterinary Nursing qualification I thrived on radiography, MRI scans, neurological examinations and neurological illnesses/diagnoses, even though they were animal based. I found myself getting better at establishing cervical spondylomyelopathy (CSM) on radiographs (even though I was unable to formally diagnose). I also began to find working as a veterinary nurse tedious, I craved working more with neurological cases rather than kennel cleaning and anaesthesia for routine operations. I do tire easily, but for some reason I always go back to human neurology/neuropsychology. I never seem to tire of that. There are daily breakthroughs concerning the diseases/illnesses, steps closer to cures, and even now new parts of the brain structure being discovered. We are still finding what makes us tick, what constitutes our consciousness, our morals, our memories, our interpretation of our world. I want to be a part of that discovery.