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New Camera!!!

One of the things I haven't mentioned is that I like taking photos. A few months ago, I got a new camera which is slightly more advanced than the little compact I had, so here are some photos!

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The Awkward Place

So, like I mentioned in a previous post , I feel like I'm in an awkward place right now, health wise. Not good, but there are things that can be done, but then I worry that these things may not work... I have no idea what this year will bring health-wise, and that is kind of scary! - well, no one knows what the future will bring, and that can be scary for anyone. Having said that, by making some adjustments things seem to be better. But then there is always the doubt of "what if that is not enough?", "what if it just seems like you're better?"... Honestly, I've just been trying to avoid this issue (like I do with things which scare me), which is probably a bad thing to do! - I really should snap out of the "paralysed by fear" and confront it really, as ignoring it just drags the fear along... If that makes sense! But you know what? - at the end of the day, I'm still here and am still able to do what I want to do most of the ti

What is antibiotic resistance?

So if you have read my previous post on how a new antibiotic was discovered, then hopefully you have an insight into the issue of antibiotic resistance - but actually, what is antibiotic resistance? The antibiotic age began in the 1940s, when penicillin became available for use to treat infections. Now, this is surely a key moment in medicine! - however, the bacteria soon found ways to become resistant to these antibiotics, i.e. the bacteria find ways to make the antibiotic ineffective. As time has gone on, new antibiotics and antibiotic classes were being found, however this is not the case today. Therefore, we are in a situation where antibiotics are gradually becoming ineffective, but at the same time there are no new classes of antibiotics being introduced into clinical use. This is worrying for sure! Antibiotics are generally divided into "classes" based on their structure, as well as how they target the bacteria. For example, penicillin belongs to the

What have I actually achieved in life?

Weirdly, there are times when I feel like others my age have their lives sorted while I'm just stumbling around - of course, I'm not saying that it's true, as I don't know what their lives are really like - perhaps we're all stumbling around!? And I say "weirdly" because, you know, I have finished a Ph.D. and that's not an easy thing to do! - the thing is though, this fact often doesn't seem that significant to me, due to the fact that most of the time I'm around people who are either pursuing or have obtained a Ph.D. - I remember saying this to a few of my fellow Ph.D. students! It's as if it's become "normal" that you are either working towards or have finished a Ph.D. somehow... Perhaps even weirder is the fact that after the Viva (see this post for more about the Viva), I didn't feel like "Wooo, I've done it!", I just felt... flat... if I'm totally honest. That was unexpected and weird, bec

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