MrsKToBe

You absolute sicko. Gynae oncology is cancer. It’s not just peering up women’s vagina which as a non gay woman doesn’t really concern me

You know what gynae oncology is right 🙄

Oncology, more specifically gynae Oncology  I’m a student nurse and I’ve requested an Oncology placement for my second year 

My mate was in the audience of a few of them- she went to school with a member of a famous 90’s boy band and he used to get her tickets. There was one show came on randomly on one of the channels and she said suddenly ‘ooh look! There I am 🤣’ She said she was usually out of her tree drunk and can’t really remember much 🤣(she was over 18 at the time 🤣)

On our wedding day. We were worried sick about keeping my late dad and my father in law apart.  (Neither of them were happy about us getting married. My father in law’s family are from Northern Ireland and are not Catholic. My dad’s family are from the South of Ireland and are Catholic, as am I) There was a lot of complaints from both of them. However on the day they absolutely got on like a house on fire and had several drinks together.  My mum is a total snob though, as is my stepmother in law and unfortunately they didn’t get on too well- there was more frost than the North Pole there.  They haven’t met since as my dad passed away 5 days after the wedding (he was terminally ill)  I had bought my dad a very expensive bottle of Irish whiskey as a thank you gift for my wedding, and when he passed away my mum asked me to give it to my father in law and asked him to have a drink in my dad’s memory. My father in law was visibly moved and said it would be an honour. 

An Uber from my house to uni or the station is usually around £17-21, about 10 miles distance. 

I was in the same position- I kept my maiden name on my passport and I’ve never had an issue. 

I suffer from horrendous hayfever and allergies so I absolutely hate them. Coupled with a) menopause and b) being an Irish Rose so when I go outside I have to wear half a bottle of factor 50 at all times, really hot weather is miserable for me! 

Postie’s wife here (and he’s been doing it nearly 40 years) unless you can drive then I wouldn’t bother applying as all jobs now you require a full driving licence. And I don’t know if you could even do it at 17- you might have to be 18.  Are you not at school or college? I thought you had to be in education or training until 18 now. 

We couldn’t wear trousers to travel to school in unless there was exactly 6 inches of snow on the ground, and then we had to change into skirts upon arrival at school  No jewellery until Year 9 (I never got that one. What suddenly changed when we got into Year 9?! And even then it was only either a crucifix or St Christopher, and a plain ring plus a watch) 

That’s baaaaaarmy 

I always thought my maiden name was more unusual as I didn’t hear it often. That was until I started work at a large utilities supplier and discovered there was someone there with the same first name, middle initial and surname as me 🤣It also stood out a country mile when i discovered through ITV DNA journey show that I’m distantly related to some famous people.  My married name is Irish and pretty common, but I’ve had to become used to saying ‘yes, that’s 2 Ls’ I didn’t consider keeping my own name when I got married, although I kept it for my academic work as my Masters thesis research was very niche. 

I bumped into Chris Ramsey once at Wetherby services- I was walking into the entrance of the loos with my husband and he was walking out with his son who was a toddler at the time. We had got to know each other a bit from chatting after his gigs so I said a polite hello. He gave me a massive grin and said ‘what you doing here?’ I introduced my husband and explained we were on our way up to Newcastle to visit my mam, and he told me he was coming back from I think it was Manchester where he’d been filming something. His son was getting fractious so he had to go then but he was really lovely.  I’m not lucky enough to bump into celebrities randomly usually! Although I quite often see the lads from the rugby team I support in the gym I go to which has lead to some quite funny situations, they aren’t really famous. 

I never got a detention even though I wasn’t the best behaved. Undiagnosed AuDHD and dyscalculia didn’t really much help to be honest. But I quickly learned that if you were threatened with detention, a parental note overrode most things. I was a real daddy’s girl and he would happily write me a note for whatever minor misdemeanour I was trying to wriggle out of. The best one was when I was hospitalised with severe bronchitis when I was 14. My Maths teacher was a horrible old witch who hated me anyway because I struggled so much with Maths and she threatened me with detention because I hadn’t been coming in to do the work. So I set my Mum on her. My mum is half Scottish, red haired and has the temper to match. She quite firmly told her that I had been extremely unwell, in hospital and that if she put me in detention she would go to the governors and the local paper. She also said to this teacher that she wasn’t a medical professional so she had no right to insinuate I was making it up. To which the teacher retorted ‘well you’re not a medical professional either and she could have been pulling the wool over your eyes’ Unfortunately for her my mum is a retired nurse and she absolutely gave this woman the hairdryer treatment in telling her so. When she had finished this woman had gone pale and said ‘no-one has ever spoken to me like that before’ She was made to apologise and encouraged to retire at the end of the year. 

I had a teacher like that for my English GCSE. She was absolutely horrible and bullied my friend so badly that her mum removed her from the school until she was changed classes.  So once she had gone she started on me instead. I was good at English and she didn’t like that, predicted me an F and a U out of spite when I needed predicted grades for college, knowing I wanted to do English A-Level. On results day she clearly didn’t know my results and smirked at me until I waved my results paper literally right in front of her nose and said ‘funny looking U and F Miss- 2 B’s!’ The smirk soon disappeared. I had hoped she would be at the service I went back for a few years ago for the centenary of the society of nuns who founded the school- so I could tell her about my 2:1 English degree and my Masters in English Language with Merit but unfortunately she wasn’t! 

Same here. I’m a student nurse so I’m in uniform when I’m on placement but before that I was a civil servant where very much anything went. 

Still a thing for me in the 90’s with the books- we had to cover our exercise books but not text books  I hated using fountain pens and the teachers very much discouraged me from it as I’m left handed and made an incredible mess 🤣when I went to give notice for my wedding was the first time I had used one since I left school and I took one look and said ‘I’m left handed, can I have a biro please’ 🤣I was told get used to it as you’ll have to use one to sign the register- and on the day the registrar went into a right flap, she literally shrieked ‘argh, left hander! Get the blotting paper’ 

Still a thing for me in the 90’s with the books- we had to cover our exercise books but not text books  I hated using fountain pens and the teachers very much discouraged me from it as I’m left handed and made an incredible mess 🤣when I went to give notice for my wedding was the first time I had used one since I left school and I took one look and said ‘I’m left handed, can I have a biro please’ 🤣I was told get used to it as you’ll have to use one to sign the register- and on the day the registrar went into a right flap, she literally shrieked ‘argh, left hander! Get the blotting paper’ 

I did French and Latin to GCSE, and German to GCSE and A-level. I was surprised how much I’ve actually used my German though- I used to work on a hospital ward where we had two German speaking patients. One spoke no English and the other spoke excellent English but as her dementia progressed she lost more and more of her English. There was only me and a housekeeper whose husband had served in Germany so she spoke a little German, who could communicate with these patients. Tbh I never expected to have to use it in those circumstances 

Medicine also uses a lot of Latin. I went to a state school and I learned it until GCSE, but I wish I had kept it on as I studied Law at A-level but I’m now studying nursing and there’s a lot of Latin abbreviations.  There were only five who took it to GCSE in my school- one is now a dentist, one a doctor, one a vet and there’s I think two lawyers as well. 

Ah hey! We could have technically had ours on Dec 1st when they became legal as my dad was dying, but my civil partner is a postman and couldn’t get time off. We had ours in February and the registrar was quite flustered as she had never done one before. 

My mum has to have that too. She calls it the black pudding factory 🤣

I used to use cheques regularly in the early noughties. I still mourn the loss of cheques as I hate using a card where I can’t use Apple Pay (I’m severely dyscalculic and hate chip and pin) 

We didn’t get a phone until I was 14. 1994 this was so not even all that long ago. 

I can answer that- I’m in one.  Civil partnerships are dissolved differently from marriages. The ceremony is also different- the wording is different. We chose the full shebang and did have wording but you can choose without.  They became legal for opposite sex couples following a long campaign in 2019; ours was the first opposite sex civil partnership in our registry office and only the second in the registration district. 

I heard a good one on Saturday. Bristol Rovers had been playing Notts County and Cardiff City had been playing Mansfield Town. We were on the Cardiff Central train with those two lots of fans.  Suddenly my mate cracked up laughing as all we could hear is ‘you can’t read and you can’t write but you can drive a tractor’ Her new man’s parents own a farm 🤣🤣

I remember my ex used to sing that when he was drunk, but I heard it being sung by a bunch of Cardiff fans on the train on Saturday about South Wales. I’m also pretty certain there was some mention of sheep 🤣

That one is funny 🤣I also liked ‘cheer up Peter Reid, oh what can it mean to a sad Mackem bastard and a shit football team’ 

I lost my beloved Dad in 2020. It was five days after my wedding. He was terminally ill so we knew it would happen at some stage but he held on long enough to do the one final thing he had promised me- he walked me down the aisle. I was very much a daddy’s girl so this meant the world to me.  I was on honeymoon when he passed away so I never got to say goodbye, but I got to see him in the funeral home. I felt strangely peaceful doing this but my goodbye to him made my mum and her friend cry!  I had a big part to play in the funeral- my dad was Irish Catholic and I, as the only practicing Catholic in the family (my mum isn’t Catholic and neither of my siblings practice) helped arrange the funeral Mass and got up and did a reading. My husband (while we were just married, we had been together for fourteen years) along with my brother and two adult nephews, helped carry the coffin into the church. I’ve never got over losing him and I’m not sure I ever will to be honest.  I’m a student nurse now and my special interest is end of life care. I saw a couple of deaths on my last placement but purely from the medical side- the actual process of the body shutting down fascinates me. 

I have a Hoodrich zip up hoodie that I love, but it’s black and the branding on it is also black so it’s not as noticeable. Some of the stuff I see is bad enough though.

I had the gold D&G one 🤣

I left a Catholic primary school in 1992 and we had one teacher who loved to slap kids around for the least little thing. I know my parents spoke to her on more than one occasion about it. She went too far I think (not with me) on one occasion with someone whose parent was a police officer and she was made to retire after that. But when I went to secondary school there was nothing like that (also Catholic school) 

My stepmother in law- I don’t mind her, I think she’s alright but she’s never hidden her disdain of my husband. She’s always resented having to bring up another woman’s child and her own child always comes before my husband. My mum tries to look after my husband as she knows his stepmother doesn’t bother with him. His bio birth giver died about ten years ago and again I never minded her but she abandoned my husband when he was a baby so he never forgave her for that either. 

I literally once got mistaken for Fiz from Corrie in a pub in Liverpool 🤣before I developed alopecia I had long red curly hair and I was wearing a jacket very similar to one she wore on the show. Some bloke came up and asked for my autograph and when I looked at him funny he said ‘you are Fiz from Corrie aren’t you?’ Er-no. My then partner was absolutely peeing himself laughing 🤣

I had crushes on 3 of them when I was younger 🤣(not Kenneth Branagh tho) 

I applied to uni in 1999 but my offers were all from very low ranking unis- Missed them all anyway 

Academia  Neither of them had any qualifications 

A big blanket chest full  Plus about 10 pairs of Irregular Choice which are kept separately 

Have you thought about a coach?  There’s a coach from Victoria Coach Station at 11.59pm. Gets you to Birmingham Coach Station for 4.55am; the first train from New Street to Nuneaton is 5.19; gets you back at 5.48 to Nuneaton.  You could sleep on the coach; it gives you a bit longer also- if you leave just before the end, it means you’re missing a minimal amount of the show and you would be safe on the coach. 

I married a postman and my mum is forever haranguing him about the state of Royal Mail or asking him where her post is 🤣I tell her the same thing every time- we’re 200 miles away, speak to the local office 🤣🤣

When I was a teenager, I had a boyfriend whose dad was an absolute insufferable snob.  I lived on a rough council estate and neither of my parents worked (both were severely disabled) but when they did one was a clerk and the other a kitchen assistant. This man was a teacher- and I believe he didn’t even have a degree as he trained when teachers didn’t need a degree. He stopped me and my then boyfriend from seeing each other as he said I would end up ‘living in a squalid flat with five kids and no idea who the father was of any of them, and I would never get any qualifications and totally waste my life’  When I got my Masters degree, I briefly considered taking out an ad in the local newspaper to tell him I now lived in a 250k house owned outright, I had more qualifications than he could ever dream of and I’ve got no kids 🤣

It’s ironic that many tradespeople like plumbers and sparks like your brother earn just as much as doctors do!!! 

I’ve been in London these last couple of days and I keep it in a purse type case- I’ve had the wrist strap around my wrist as well as the hand strap around my hand and the zip on the inside. I’ve also kept it in my pocket where possible. 

My first degree was some kind of Combined Honours thing. My A-Levels were not good (one was down to poor teaching, one due to the entire year being taught the wrong syllabus and the other, my strongest subject- possibly down to the fact that my dad was rushed into hospital at 2.30am the morning of the exam) so that was the best I could do. I dropped out at the end of Year 2. I finally got my degree in English from the OU nearly 20 years later. 

I wish I had kept Latin on. I did A-level Law and now I’m studying nursing- the bits of Latin I do remember have been really helpful. There was I seem to recall five who took it- one is now a dentist, one is a vet, one a doctor and there were two who are now lawyers. 

This is why I refused to give my surname out in my previous job after I got married- my husband’s name is very typically Irish. 

I used to work with an African nurse called Martin 

We always make sure to buy my husband’s dad and stepmum really good presents, even when we don’t have much money. For example, for husband’s stepmum’s birthday we gave her a £25 All 4 One voucher and a Jo Malone candle.  In return we just get random crap from Costco- last Christmas we got a rotating spice rack! Possibly useful if it’s something you might use but it’s not in our case. Last year I got a Cath Kidston toiletry set (despite me politely asking don’t buy me stuff like that as I have allergies)  My mum thinks it’s hilarious but she goes out of her way to get us good useful stuff, particularly for husband as she knows his lot are useless at it!

I exist in Gymshark stuff. Not the cheapest but so comfy! I have stuff for home that’s no longer good for the gym, stuff for the gym and casual stuff- a couple of tracksuits and a Varsity style sweatshirt, plus a pair of camo pants- for outside wear. I even have Gymshark pjs that are incredibly comfy (but it’s getting a bit warm to wear them) 

I wish I had kept my own name!! My first three degrees are in my maiden name, including some incredibly niche research for my Masters thesis. However degree number 4 I’ve had to use my married name as it comes with professional registration and I have to use the name I will be working under which is probably my married name. I am not happy at all about this!