Week 21: Sods law is a real thing!

Finally I have finished all instruction required for the ATPL ground-school element of the course, and I can honestly say it is a huge relief to be in the home straight! The week ended with a really interesting lecture from the UK's leading mind on pilot disorientation, tying together our knowledge from both the physiological as well as psychological elements of human performance. The day ended with an exercise involving reverse glasses to prove how quickly the body loses it oritentation, and how the mind can be readily tricked by confusion from the visual cortex. In essence, the glasses have two prisms which reverse each eye, so what you see on the right is on the left, and vice versa.....

And on to the more entertaining part of the week.....as our mocks start tomorrow, cp112 were given the rest of the week off to study, so in a similar vain to module one I went in to make use of the quiet classrooms at Nursling. I had woken on Wednesday with something of a sore throat, thought nothing of it and went into CTC armed with a pack of Halls Soothers (which solve everything!). However, by about midday I was struggling to concentrate and found myself reading questions more than once as apparently my brain didn't pay attention the first time. This continued throughout the afternoon, and by 7pm my sore throat was giving me problems swallowing, and on closer inspection my tonsils were covered in white spots, a red flag for tonsillitis. Sod's law had decided to join the revision party!

I decided to go to bed around 10pm with the intention of taking myself to the Doctors the following morning, but at midnight was rudely awoken by my throat being completely closed as the two tonsils had met and stuck together! This seemed reason enough to see some sort of medical professional a bit sooner, so I went to Casualty only to find I was running at 39.6deg which needed sorting before anything else. After an hour enjoying a saline drip to sort my dehydration and various bloods being taken, my temperature was going in the right direction and I was confirmed as having tonsillitis which unfortunately for me had come on quite rapidly so my body didn't know what to sort first!

So for the weak stomached among you, try to concentrate on this side of the page, because I took that picture in my bored state whilst plummed in. Eventually I was released to go home at 4am, so back to bed for me and there I stayed all day trying to catch up on sleep and recover a bit! Proof enough for me that if something is going to go wrong, it's going to happen at the most inconvenient time!

Thanks to those that came and chatted with me whilst I was studying at Nursling during CTC's Career event yesterday, and i'm glad to hear the blog's of some use. Unfortunately after losing a days study I couldn't volunteer, but was able to chat during breaks so not the worst day ever! For now, back to study ahead of my mock tomorrow!