Well, 8 days until the match, so I figured now is as good as any time to update everyone... lol
Sorry I sort of took a leave of absence from writing in this particular blog... Honestly, I didn't have much to say.. I worked my tush off every day from 5 am until 8 or 9 pm usually, always doing orthopedics but in different areas of Ohio. It panned out to nothing. Most of the time the attendings made fun of me behind my back, and the particularly cruel ones did it to my face. No one wants another girl in their programs. So, that sort of left me crushed in the middle of December, scrambling to figure out what I wanted to do. I know that before I said I wanted ER more than Ortho, and I was really and truly hoping that I still felt that way when I began my rotation in Erie, PA.
This is where for the most part, it gets interesting. 2 days into my rotation there, one of the residents was so impressed w/ me, he took it upon himself to talk to the program director before my interview and tell him that he recommended me very highly for their program. Now, the hospital is St Vincents of Erie PA (not to be confused w/ St V's in toledo lol! I guess the'yre in the same catholic network too lol) but anyway, so during my interview everyone was very nice and told me right then I could come there if I wanted. So, I said to let me feel the place out (Heck, the only times I'd been in PA before that were for baseball games in Johnstown as a kid and then the Boards exam in Conschohocken sp?) Anyway, after a few more days, I fell in love w/ the program. The people were so incredibly nice, and almost everyone learned my name right away (residents AND attendings). So, basically everything happens for a reason, and i ended up ranking them number one on my match list. I find out in 8 days if they felt the same way, but I'm pretty sure they liked me just as much...
Another hting that happened while I was there:
While on my way to airport on Christmas Eve, I hit a patch of ice and totalled my Jeep... Yeah.. scary... I'm fine, but my jeep is currently STILL at the repair shop... apparently a jeep can be totalled but have nothing structurally wrong with it so it can still be repaired... so they are "repairing it" now. So, thus ensued a lot of car sharing between my family in chillicothe and myself... ugh! lol HOpefully that will get resolved soon.
So, big plans for the future:
Match day Feb 9th
car fixed (indefinite right now)
Trip to Washington State (twilight senior trip) Please see my other blog for details!!
Mary Ellen's Wedding May 23rd
My 26th birthday June 5
and of course... GRADUATION June 6, 2009!!!! 10 Am MEMAUD(TBAMA) Athens Ohio... please feel free to come and support me and pray I don't fall off the stage!
Anyway, thats a brief update of whats going on in my life...
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Saturday, September 20, 2008
sitting in atlanta's airport
Well, here I am sitting in the Atlanta airport... mecca of travelers... boring layover prolonger of me... I've spent the night here... not today... it was around Christmas... I missed my connecting flight because of a snowstorm in detroit, and by the time I got here, my flight to florida had gone, and they weren't willing to meet me in a compromise for a hotel deal, so I spent the night in the airport. I wouldn't suggest doing that if you have small children (i've seen several parents do that though). If you pack appropriately (which is hard to do in the age where you can have 3 oz or less of liquids etc) you can totally pull this off though. However, you get in so late, its too late to buy toothpaste or other essentials. But let me tell you why I think its a good idea. You can get the first flight out in the morning, because you never had to recheck in, you dont' have to go through security again. No security line means while they're being hasselled to take off their shoes, you're bugging the person at the gate to put you on this plane!!! hollar! :) it works every time!
Anyway, you don't care about that.... what you care about is what I'm doing now, and why am I in Atlanta airport, I was last in the ER at Toledo hospital... sorry about that... its been busy...
So, I ended up falling in love with ER... couldn't you get that from the post? i had some ridiculous patients... Football testicles. filleted legs. multiple complaints "She's just depressed" oh wait, except that she had a positive cardiac exam about a month ago and no one followed up ... those are highlights of ER... i liked it. I was called the "student plastic surgeon" for my suture skills. I stayed over an hour or so every day to drain one more abscess or throw a few more sutures.
One of my favorite cases was this 28 year old guy who came in drunk who had fallen off a bike head first over the handlebars. He had several face lacerations and they were bleeding still. He was a little bit of a wimp and couldn't handle the blood well, but he was also trying to impress me and not be all "girly" about the blood. He was very metrosexual if you know what I mean, but definitely not into the guys. He took one look at the needle i was going to numb him up with and said "i need to sit up i'm going to throw up" the resident let him sit up and then said "i think we should come back later, he needs to calm down" and she left the room. we had been really busy, and I don't blame her for leaving, beause honestly, I think he was being a bit of a child as well, but if you freak out at needles you freak out. anyway, the rails were down on the bed, which looking back was the only mistake I see, but either way I stayed in the room. I had a feeling if he's going to puke he shouldn't be alone. I was talking to his friend about something when all of the sudden i felt the patient slump into my side. He had passed out! I was like omg! I yelled for the resident and then started shaking the patient to get him to wake up; we laid him back and rubbed his chest and he woke right back up, but it was definitely one of those events I ahdn't seen before. I was like omg! he totally passed out! The nurse then told me I had "done quite enough" and that i "should leave" and i was shooed out of the room. I hadn't done anythign wrong, and I almost started crying because if I hadn't been in the room he would have cracked his head on the floor. So the resident got pissed off and sent me back in the room and told the nurse off.. yay! and I sewed him up and he looked great... but i still like ER better than any type of general surgery subspecialty lol :)
anyway
after ER, I did 2 weeks of ortho in Columbus... I hated most of that... they were very mean to me there. There were a couple of residents who just took it out on me that I was a girl. I got smacked in the OR. And I got yelled at. I don't know what I did to deserve that. I guess I got delt to X chromosomes. I don't know if thats normal or not. At any rate, I wasn't happy there.
Then I went to philladelphia and took my PE. It didn't go very well, I'm really hoping I passed it. I really feel like that test was very difficult, and I know I misdiagnosed a couple of people. I'm just hoping that overall I did alright. We'll see.
Came back, and I moved out of my apartment in Toledo. I no longer have a place to call my own... except my car... lol :) woo hoo! I will now be on the road forever... here goes nothing right?
then I went to florida to visit my mom and study for the written boards... which i spent a good 2.5 weeks studying for, and I think went SUPER well.. so i'm really happy with that... i'll get all those scores at the end of november.
I also visited an ER program in miami MSMC.COM look at it... its on the BEACH! SOUTHBEACH! its freaking awesome. I can't post stuff about the clientel on here obviously, but if you ask me, i can tell you that the people who stay on the 8th floor of that hospital might also be in some of the magazines you read in the checkout at the grocery store... HOW COOL! but yeah, the program's amazing... it really is.. and the director, a lady from OUCOM! and her core site was Toledo, just like me! if the core system was a sorority we'd be sisters!
anyway, I just thought that was awesome... so I think she liked me and I loved it there, so I hope I go there..
and now, i'm flying back, to do 3 months of ortho and I"m not sure if my heart is in it anymore... we'll see...
I need a place to stay in cincinnati the last two weeks of nov/first two of dec if anyone knows of any ideas, i'd love you for it...
thanks!
Anyway, you don't care about that.... what you care about is what I'm doing now, and why am I in Atlanta airport, I was last in the ER at Toledo hospital... sorry about that... its been busy...
So, I ended up falling in love with ER... couldn't you get that from the post? i had some ridiculous patients... Football testicles. filleted legs. multiple complaints "She's just depressed" oh wait, except that she had a positive cardiac exam about a month ago and no one followed up ... those are highlights of ER... i liked it. I was called the "student plastic surgeon" for my suture skills. I stayed over an hour or so every day to drain one more abscess or throw a few more sutures.
One of my favorite cases was this 28 year old guy who came in drunk who had fallen off a bike head first over the handlebars. He had several face lacerations and they were bleeding still. He was a little bit of a wimp and couldn't handle the blood well, but he was also trying to impress me and not be all "girly" about the blood. He was very metrosexual if you know what I mean, but definitely not into the guys. He took one look at the needle i was going to numb him up with and said "i need to sit up i'm going to throw up" the resident let him sit up and then said "i think we should come back later, he needs to calm down" and she left the room. we had been really busy, and I don't blame her for leaving, beause honestly, I think he was being a bit of a child as well, but if you freak out at needles you freak out. anyway, the rails were down on the bed, which looking back was the only mistake I see, but either way I stayed in the room. I had a feeling if he's going to puke he shouldn't be alone. I was talking to his friend about something when all of the sudden i felt the patient slump into my side. He had passed out! I was like omg! I yelled for the resident and then started shaking the patient to get him to wake up; we laid him back and rubbed his chest and he woke right back up, but it was definitely one of those events I ahdn't seen before. I was like omg! he totally passed out! The nurse then told me I had "done quite enough" and that i "should leave" and i was shooed out of the room. I hadn't done anythign wrong, and I almost started crying because if I hadn't been in the room he would have cracked his head on the floor. So the resident got pissed off and sent me back in the room and told the nurse off.. yay! and I sewed him up and he looked great... but i still like ER better than any type of general surgery subspecialty lol :)
anyway
after ER, I did 2 weeks of ortho in Columbus... I hated most of that... they were very mean to me there. There were a couple of residents who just took it out on me that I was a girl. I got smacked in the OR. And I got yelled at. I don't know what I did to deserve that. I guess I got delt to X chromosomes. I don't know if thats normal or not. At any rate, I wasn't happy there.
Then I went to philladelphia and took my PE. It didn't go very well, I'm really hoping I passed it. I really feel like that test was very difficult, and I know I misdiagnosed a couple of people. I'm just hoping that overall I did alright. We'll see.
Came back, and I moved out of my apartment in Toledo. I no longer have a place to call my own... except my car... lol :) woo hoo! I will now be on the road forever... here goes nothing right?
then I went to florida to visit my mom and study for the written boards... which i spent a good 2.5 weeks studying for, and I think went SUPER well.. so i'm really happy with that... i'll get all those scores at the end of november.
I also visited an ER program in miami MSMC.COM look at it... its on the BEACH! SOUTHBEACH! its freaking awesome. I can't post stuff about the clientel on here obviously, but if you ask me, i can tell you that the people who stay on the 8th floor of that hospital might also be in some of the magazines you read in the checkout at the grocery store... HOW COOL! but yeah, the program's amazing... it really is.. and the director, a lady from OUCOM! and her core site was Toledo, just like me! if the core system was a sorority we'd be sisters!
anyway, I just thought that was awesome... so I think she liked me and I loved it there, so I hope I go there..
and now, i'm flying back, to do 3 months of ortho and I"m not sure if my heart is in it anymore... we'll see...
I need a place to stay in cincinnati the last two weeks of nov/first two of dec if anyone knows of any ideas, i'd love you for it...
thanks!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
ER
So, I'm two weeks into my ER rotation... Guys, I love it. Its a lot of fun. I get to do a freaking TON of procedures, which are my favorite thing, hands down. I've sewn up hands, feet etc. I've gotten to incise and drain some really narly abscesses (and let me tell you there is NOTHING like numbing up an abscess and watching the puss fly across the room... further point... don't touch the walls in the ER, I don't know how well they're cleaned...) I've gotten to do just about anything and everything I want to do. It's great. So, now I"m torn because all along, I'm hard-core ortho girl, who was suddenly thrown into the wild-world of ER, and I really like it.
Now, let me tell you what I don't like about it so far... drug seekers who cuss me out. I don't like that. I don't like being lied to because they want their drugs. I REALLY didn't like the trauma lab we did today, but I understand the necessity of it. I won't explain it here, but if you have questions please ask and I'll explain it to you. Lets just say, I cried (afterwards) and prayed (during) and wanted to vomit (well, that feeling is still bothering me).
Otherwise, ER is considered primary care, I guess. However, its not primary care like I don't like because there is no real "follow up." I don't like following up on people who don't want to take their medications. If these people don't want to take their medications OH WELL! Well, thats not true, there are a good percentage of people who use the ER as their primary care physician, but I mean, its not SUPPOSED to be that way. I liked Mare's comment that her ER doc said, "What's your emergency today... is your runny nose your emergency ???" hhahaha thats how I feel! WTF! Its an emergency room now an "omg i have a cough and it couldn't wait until I could get into the clinic tomorrow" room!
alright, so here are some fantastic quotes just for you guys! (these should be reserved for eyes 18 and older, and probably not those faint of heart)
"the planned parenthood condoms aren't big enough for my man, thats why we don't use them."
"yeah I smoke, but don't worry its not cigarettes." ** that was supposed to comfort me!?!**
"I'm monogamous with him, but how am I supposed to know if he's monogamous with me" (That was a 17 year old... really, what are we teaching the youth of today.. i feel like we missed a generation!
"We were here when he was younger... i dropped the iron on him..."
"I'm a nurse, I understand, I just did my clinicals, but if you don't get me some F-ing pain meds right now i'm going to f-ing go off on u" riiight... nothing stronger than motrin for one of our finest in that room! *little tip, don't threaten anyone in the ER... that doesn't buy u friends or percocet... lol
"i'm not talking to no med student get out... I know i was at *other hospital name* earlier today, and I know they gave me percocet there, but i took all that already, and I need more!" (u should have stopped at "get out..." lol
alright, and I have a fracture picture to add up here... this little boy was skateboarding and fell...
I want the emphasize the importance of always ALWAYS wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads etc, but i don't think any of that would have helped him...
as you can hopefully see, he broke his radius (bigger bone) and ulna (littler bone) in his left arm... They ended up pulling it to straighten it back out and casting him. Pretty crazy! I thought you'd enjoy (or throw up haha)
anyway, take care!
Now, let me tell you what I don't like about it so far... drug seekers who cuss me out. I don't like that. I don't like being lied to because they want their drugs. I REALLY didn't like the trauma lab we did today, but I understand the necessity of it. I won't explain it here, but if you have questions please ask and I'll explain it to you. Lets just say, I cried (afterwards) and prayed (during) and wanted to vomit (well, that feeling is still bothering me).
Otherwise, ER is considered primary care, I guess. However, its not primary care like I don't like because there is no real "follow up." I don't like following up on people who don't want to take their medications. If these people don't want to take their medications OH WELL! Well, thats not true, there are a good percentage of people who use the ER as their primary care physician, but I mean, its not SUPPOSED to be that way. I liked Mare's comment that her ER doc said, "What's your emergency today... is your runny nose your emergency ???" hhahaha thats how I feel! WTF! Its an emergency room now an "omg i have a cough and it couldn't wait until I could get into the clinic tomorrow" room!
alright, so here are some fantastic quotes just for you guys! (these should be reserved for eyes 18 and older, and probably not those faint of heart)
"the planned parenthood condoms aren't big enough for my man, thats why we don't use them."
"yeah I smoke, but don't worry its not cigarettes." ** that was supposed to comfort me!?!**
"I'm monogamous with him, but how am I supposed to know if he's monogamous with me" (That was a 17 year old... really, what are we teaching the youth of today.. i feel like we missed a generation!
"We were here when he was younger... i dropped the iron on him..."
"I'm a nurse, I understand, I just did my clinicals, but if you don't get me some F-ing pain meds right now i'm going to f-ing go off on u" riiight... nothing stronger than motrin for one of our finest in that room! *little tip, don't threaten anyone in the ER... that doesn't buy u friends or percocet... lol
"i'm not talking to no med student get out... I know i was at *other hospital name* earlier today, and I know they gave me percocet there, but i took all that already, and I need more!" (u should have stopped at "get out..." lol
alright, and I have a fracture picture to add up here... this little boy was skateboarding and fell...
I want the emphasize the importance of always ALWAYS wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads etc, but i don't think any of that would have helped him...
as you can hopefully see, he broke his radius (bigger bone) and ulna (littler bone) in his left arm... They ended up pulling it to straighten it back out and casting him. Pretty crazy! I thought you'd enjoy (or throw up haha)
anyway, take care!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
week 2 of psych...
So... pardon the expression, but the hours of my psych rotation, are crazy!
I work 5:30 am until 8:00 pm tuesday/thursday and 5:30 am until 5 pm mon/wednesday and 4:30 am until 7 am and then come back and work until he tells me to go home on fridays
thats just INSANE! id idn't think they called it psychiatry because WE went nuts lol :)
anyway tho, its a lot of fun, its mostly kids with hyperactive disorders, or kids that are violent, and we calm them down with meds and send them off to talk about it with a therapist... honestly, i don't think i'd do it that way, but i'm not here to critique his practice, I"m just here to write his notes for him... lol I don't think i've fallen in love with any of the patients on this rotation yet, but I do see a lot of little kids that make me sad... I've had quite a few that I've said, 'they just need to play a sport, if they played a sport, they'd have a way to lose that energy and aggression" lol although maybe the idea of them taking it out on the other kids isn't the right answer... lol
I've been waivering a lot lately about the rest of my life... the big thing coming up July first is the opening up of the "match system" for the fourth years (thats us) so that we can apply for our residencies for next year. We start applying now so that we can interview this fall, so that they can pick who they want for next year when we graduate. Its sort of like when you apply for college/med school etc all over again.... it means yay bottom rung again... bring out the ole' suit again... i hope it still fits yay crash diet if not lol
anyway so I've been waivering, because i'm nervous... I'm scared I won't get ortho... ortho is sooo hard to get... and i'm a girl... yay double x chromosomes.. no i'm not blaming this on my father (if you're a girl or a guy... that is the one thing you can blame COMPLETELY on your dad... lol) but i just didn't do well at all on boards, and they usually look majorly at boards... and they look at gender (i know i know they can't write that one down, but if there's ever been a good ole' boys club that's it...) and i dont' know... but i like a challenge, and I knew two weeks into that rotation that I could do that every day for the rest of my life and be happy... and i think that means something...i really just believe that means something...
I don't know... we'll see i guess... if i don't get it... that means I have to punt... I'll have to scramble actually is what we call it, and find a spot somewhere else... if there is no ortho spot, which probably there won't be one... then I will have to take a TY (transitional year) where a do a year just doing like basically another year like I"m doing now... only then i'll be getting paid, then I can reapply... we'll see what happens...
Who knows.. i have ER left, I could always fall in love with that and completely change my mind.... doubt it... lol :)
anyway... graduation is T minus one year :)
I know that a bunch of other students are feeling like me... but I just get so stinking nervous! Ugh!
Anyway... I hope everythings good on the athens home front... i miss you guys...
I work 5:30 am until 8:00 pm tuesday/thursday and 5:30 am until 5 pm mon/wednesday and 4:30 am until 7 am and then come back and work until he tells me to go home on fridays
thats just INSANE! id idn't think they called it psychiatry because WE went nuts lol :)
anyway tho, its a lot of fun, its mostly kids with hyperactive disorders, or kids that are violent, and we calm them down with meds and send them off to talk about it with a therapist... honestly, i don't think i'd do it that way, but i'm not here to critique his practice, I"m just here to write his notes for him... lol I don't think i've fallen in love with any of the patients on this rotation yet, but I do see a lot of little kids that make me sad... I've had quite a few that I've said, 'they just need to play a sport, if they played a sport, they'd have a way to lose that energy and aggression" lol although maybe the idea of them taking it out on the other kids isn't the right answer... lol
I've been waivering a lot lately about the rest of my life... the big thing coming up July first is the opening up of the "match system" for the fourth years (thats us) so that we can apply for our residencies for next year. We start applying now so that we can interview this fall, so that they can pick who they want for next year when we graduate. Its sort of like when you apply for college/med school etc all over again.... it means yay bottom rung again... bring out the ole' suit again... i hope it still fits yay crash diet if not lol
anyway so I've been waivering, because i'm nervous... I'm scared I won't get ortho... ortho is sooo hard to get... and i'm a girl... yay double x chromosomes.. no i'm not blaming this on my father (if you're a girl or a guy... that is the one thing you can blame COMPLETELY on your dad... lol) but i just didn't do well at all on boards, and they usually look majorly at boards... and they look at gender (i know i know they can't write that one down, but if there's ever been a good ole' boys club that's it...) and i dont' know... but i like a challenge, and I knew two weeks into that rotation that I could do that every day for the rest of my life and be happy... and i think that means something...i really just believe that means something...
I don't know... we'll see i guess... if i don't get it... that means I have to punt... I'll have to scramble actually is what we call it, and find a spot somewhere else... if there is no ortho spot, which probably there won't be one... then I will have to take a TY (transitional year) where a do a year just doing like basically another year like I"m doing now... only then i'll be getting paid, then I can reapply... we'll see what happens...
Who knows.. i have ER left, I could always fall in love with that and completely change my mind.... doubt it... lol :)
anyway... graduation is T minus one year :)
I know that a bunch of other students are feeling like me... but I just get so stinking nervous! Ugh!
Anyway... I hope everythings good on the athens home front... i miss you guys...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
I could be a geriatrician
I got an 94% on my post rotation exam.. and trust me, you could too. Geriatrics was pretty much family medicine at a muuuuuch slower pace. And its slower not only cuz old ppl move slower, but also because they have about a million stories to tell you, and you cannot seem to escape.
My personal LEAST favorite patient was the one who made fun of my acne. I believe her exact words were "it disgusts me that professionals in health care can't even take care of their own faces"
well.... If i didn't have the stress of taking care of your decrepit behind I probably would have the amazing skin I had all through my teens... Give me a stinkin break!
Oh, and speaking of stinking, you know why old people wear so much cologne!? Its not because they can't smell it, tis because they can smell themselves but won't take a shower.
No offense to old ppl that I like, and who aren't old mean nasty people. I love you all. But seriously, be nice to the medical student, we are trying to learn. And we are trying to breathe in your stupid exam room.
augh! okay i'm over it
So now i'm on anesthesia. Yep, I'm helping put people to sleep before surgery! I got to put a tube down someone's throat (intubate) yesterday. I was pretty excited I got it. I could see the cords and i went for it... woo hoo!
I also got to push the drugs... it was pretty exciting.
Today we had this ridiculous mom. Now okay let me preface this with, IF I had kids, and my kid had some weird disease that affects 1:20,000 people, I would probably read up on it. And I would probably know absolutely everything there is to know about it... just in case. Wellt his mom didn't do that. She expected us to just blindly believe her. Well, we went and read up on this kid, and apparently his disease gives him a 5% chance just dying right there on the table while under anesthesia. I'm sorry, but if my kid had a 5 out of 100 ppl chance of dying, I'd probably be concerned... oh no, she was all "i have dealt with this kid for 18 years you're doing the surgery" wtf.. u want to risk your child's life when we can just wait one more day and do a freaking echo of his heart and make sure he's not gonna die on us? what the heck!?!?!?!
It's only his life lady, lets make this about you! ugh! bad parents... lol no offense to all the GOOD parents out there
anyway, thats about all the excitement up here.
I'm moving out at the end of august... I'll be living like a nomad until graduation. I'll be back down in Athens around march/april of next year, and I can't wait!!!
Let me know if you want invited to graduation/graduation party, so I can add you to the list and get an address for you. The party will be in Athens, whether my family likes that or not, I feel like thats where I'm from and where all my friends are.
Love you guys!
My personal LEAST favorite patient was the one who made fun of my acne. I believe her exact words were "it disgusts me that professionals in health care can't even take care of their own faces"
well.... If i didn't have the stress of taking care of your decrepit behind I probably would have the amazing skin I had all through my teens... Give me a stinkin break!
Oh, and speaking of stinking, you know why old people wear so much cologne!? Its not because they can't smell it, tis because they can smell themselves but won't take a shower.
No offense to old ppl that I like, and who aren't old mean nasty people. I love you all. But seriously, be nice to the medical student, we are trying to learn. And we are trying to breathe in your stupid exam room.
augh! okay i'm over it
So now i'm on anesthesia. Yep, I'm helping put people to sleep before surgery! I got to put a tube down someone's throat (intubate) yesterday. I was pretty excited I got it. I could see the cords and i went for it... woo hoo!
I also got to push the drugs... it was pretty exciting.
Today we had this ridiculous mom. Now okay let me preface this with, IF I had kids, and my kid had some weird disease that affects 1:20,000 people, I would probably read up on it. And I would probably know absolutely everything there is to know about it... just in case. Wellt his mom didn't do that. She expected us to just blindly believe her. Well, we went and read up on this kid, and apparently his disease gives him a 5% chance just dying right there on the table while under anesthesia. I'm sorry, but if my kid had a 5 out of 100 ppl chance of dying, I'd probably be concerned... oh no, she was all "i have dealt with this kid for 18 years you're doing the surgery" wtf.. u want to risk your child's life when we can just wait one more day and do a freaking echo of his heart and make sure he's not gonna die on us? what the heck!?!?!?!
It's only his life lady, lets make this about you! ugh! bad parents... lol no offense to all the GOOD parents out there
anyway, thats about all the excitement up here.
I'm moving out at the end of august... I'll be living like a nomad until graduation. I'll be back down in Athens around march/april of next year, and I can't wait!!!
Let me know if you want invited to graduation/graduation party, so I can add you to the list and get an address for you. The party will be in Athens, whether my family likes that or not, I feel like thats where I'm from and where all my friends are.
Love you guys!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
if you don't have something nice to say...
Sometimes, the lessons we learned in Disney Classics such as Bambi hold supreme even as we venture out into the adult world.
I haven't posted in a while. Basically, its because I didn't want to talk about Internal Medicine. It wasn't at all what I was told it was going to be, and it has almost turned into another pediatrics rotation, only this time I have an amazing co-student, just a resident who is extremely bipolar
However, in the last 24 hours + that I spent in the hospital were truly some of the best I've had on this rotation. I had no idea that we had a spanish speaking only patient, until I happened to just be tagging along w/ one of the interns and he's like "i feel bad, i can't even talk to this woman" and i'm like, dude, I can.... IT WAS AWESOME. Such a great feeling. I can't tell you how exciting it is, when I can finally tell someone "hey how are you feeling? this is what we're planning to do today. I hope that it helps. Let me get you something for that cough" she seemed soooo completely relieved. I can't imagine what it must be like to be in the hospital, with no translator and NO ONE can talk to you. Hand gestures can only get you so far.
My mom had a really good idea, I should make some flashcards for Mrs S and she can hold them up to tell the nurses what she is feeling. I think I'll make them and even if she is gone in the morning, they can possibly help another patient at some point.
Otherwise, I really don't like this rotation too much. I feel like I can't win for trying, ya know?
All I want to do is get through it.
ANyway, its a short post, but other than Senora S I really don't have anything exciting to tell yet... :) I'll let u know if I do....
I haven't posted in a while. Basically, its because I didn't want to talk about Internal Medicine. It wasn't at all what I was told it was going to be, and it has almost turned into another pediatrics rotation, only this time I have an amazing co-student, just a resident who is extremely bipolar
However, in the last 24 hours + that I spent in the hospital were truly some of the best I've had on this rotation. I had no idea that we had a spanish speaking only patient, until I happened to just be tagging along w/ one of the interns and he's like "i feel bad, i can't even talk to this woman" and i'm like, dude, I can.... IT WAS AWESOME. Such a great feeling. I can't tell you how exciting it is, when I can finally tell someone "hey how are you feeling? this is what we're planning to do today. I hope that it helps. Let me get you something for that cough" she seemed soooo completely relieved. I can't imagine what it must be like to be in the hospital, with no translator and NO ONE can talk to you. Hand gestures can only get you so far.
My mom had a really good idea, I should make some flashcards for Mrs S and she can hold them up to tell the nurses what she is feeling. I think I'll make them and even if she is gone in the morning, they can possibly help another patient at some point.
Otherwise, I really don't like this rotation too much. I feel like I can't win for trying, ya know?
All I want to do is get through it.
ANyway, its a short post, but other than Senora S I really don't have anything exciting to tell yet... :) I'll let u know if I do....
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
and i'm back!
I went to Florida last weekend. I needed a break. I spent easter on the beach, yes it was not warm enough to be there in a bathing suit, but I did it anyway! lol
Obviously everyone else in Florida had brains enough to not go but not me! lol :)
Anyway, I needed that break so badly. I started Pain management the week before, and its basically shadowing unless they can do an epidural in the tailbone, which means I get to do it, because there's absolutely NO way to hurt the patient. And to make matters worse, people were just not showing up at all, which as a medical student makes you worried because those make for "great teaching moments" because nothing else is going on. And Thursday was horrible. We were closed friday, so Dr E felt like it was his job to make sure that I learned tons on THursday... and none of our afternoon patients showed up. So for 3 hours he pimped me on Pharmacology and Physiology. I surprised myself w/ knowing something about physiology, but i bombed all the pharm... and he'd asked me a bunch on tuesday but clearly i didn't learn enough in that amount of time. I started CRYING. What is wrong w/ me?!?!?!? how totally embarrassing. I am really mad at myself for that. I need to stop worrying about letting people down. Its not about that. SO that was when I KNEW i had to get out of there.
So down to Florida I flew... Well, i spent 3 extra hours at detroit airport because of the weather, and spent the night in Atlanta's airport and THEN flew to florida, but I did get there. I spent the entire week playing nintendo, going to random doctor appointments (including a root canal YUCK) and going to the beach. It was great. I got bumped off my flight coming back and spent an extra day. It was nice. But now I'm back in crappy Toledo. Weather suuuucks lol
I'm going to Athens this weekend, and I am SOOOOO excited to go. I miss it.
I'm planning to move back to Athens in early 09 to finish up my rotations there. I really just don't see the point of spending so much time here when I am not happy, and I could be really happy there. So thats my plan! :) :)
So anyway, this is a short update but only because I had a week off and I'm just happy to have had a break!
More later!
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