8 days until the match....

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...