Amusing

I will update on neuro later, and there are pictures from the homecoming game up on facebook. For now check this out. Roll Tide 9-0!

What happens when you google Auburn National Championship?
http://www.gooogie.co.uk/?gid=275715&hl=en&meta=o&q=Auburn%20National%20

Yea Alabama

Ok so I'm actually 3 for 3 with the last few weeks, so yay for that. In other news my time on surgery is over (woohoo). I have to say I did really enjoy the actual surgery part and getting to suture people and all that but the hours are horrendous and you have no life so...no to surgery, mark it off the list.

I had Monday and Tuesday off this week, test Wed, R off and then test Friday. I was pretty worthless this week other than studying although I did get in some good walking/jogging because the weather has been amazing. It rained a tad bit yesterday so it was cool this morning and great weather to walk in my sweatpants and long sleeves.

Today I went to watch Anthony bowl, he is bowling the correct way now and getting much better. Then I went out to mom's after a trip to the store and we made a cookie cake and cheese dip to take over to Michael's to watch the game. The game was...marvelous the 1st half our passing was so pretty to watch. 2nd half, idk what happens to us but we need to figure it out. Also I cannot stand the CBS commentators, they apparently hate UA and love to be seen because several times throughout the game the camera is on them instead of the game. I hate hearing the crowd cheering about something when all I can see are the stupid commentators.

Let's see, other then that....I start neurology on Monday which will have much better hours (8-5ish at the worst) so even if it's not good I won't be there 14 hours a day again woohoo.

Below is my nephew who is cute as a button giving me his rendition of the fight song. I would say for someone who turned 4 in May he has got it down pretty good. He is all decked out in his bama shirt and spidey pj pants, a true bama fan. He also likes to repeat that Bear Bryant used to be the coach but Nick Saban is the coach now and that's a funny name. Watch and enjoy! Oh and ROLL TIDE 7-0!!!

Surgery is over...

How about I'm posting twice in two weeks, I'd say that's pretty awesome of me. Yesterday was a pretty cool day. For starters it was my last day of clinic work on surgery, which translates into my last day of waking up at insane early hours (i.e 3:30ish) to be at the hospital at insanely early hours (i.e 4:15ish). I was writing one of my notes around 5 yesterday morning and some intern/resident/attending walked by me to get a chart and then stopped and said, you must be on surgery no one else is here at this awful hour in the morning. To which I replied I sure am but it's my last day so I'm pretty excited about that.

I was hoping to have no surgeries yesterday like I did Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday I went into work at 5 am wrote my notes, and was back home by 7 because we had no surgeries and my extremely nice intern told us to go study there was nothing else for us to do.

Yesterday though there was a surgery so I had to go in on it. I was not excited because it was a CABG (coronary artery bypass graft) and they take FOREVER, and from past student experiences you can't see anything and you just stand there for at least 6 hours. Not seeing anything is generally a problem for me because I'm a good 3/4 foot shorter than most of the surgeons and they tend to put the table at their level because...well they are doing the surgeries. But anyway, the Dr was great. They made sure I had a stool, I had a perfect view in the 2nd assist position. So I got to stitch up the hole in the leg where they harvested the saphenous vein. I held a beating heart, got to use the blower to blow the blood out of the coronary arteries so the surgeon could see, and cut strings after he sutured the vessels to the heart. The let me hold scissors in the chest cavity mere millimeters from the heart...so cool. Watching the heart beat and feeling it beat, also very cool. The surgeon was so nice too he let me ask question chatted with me about Mobile, UA, football, he sang part of the fight song and said his dad was a music major up there in the 30s and helped with some of the music for the fight song and other things. We chatted about my high school and the good ole Semmes area, so he basically talked to me more than the resident and told me I did well after the surgery. So cool surgery with a cool surgeon was a great last day for my clinical surgery experience.

Today we had our oral test (as in spoken for some of you lol). We sat in a room, well hallway because the power was off in the office building so we were not allowed to go up the stairs. However our course director who is one of the most eccentric amazing people in the world that will make you smile no matter what day you are having because he is so out there yet so brilliant did sneak past the security guard and up to his 7th floor office to get our case stems for the exam; he's just that bad a. So the exam was one of us with one of the attendings given a stem like 65 yo female with abdominal pain for 3 days...and go. So we had to go through what all we would do and they would respond with good or now their BP is 80/30 instead of 110/70 woops. I think I did fine, even though I did have one patient code because I put in IVs before securing an airway, BUT in my defense I did say put in two large bore IVs WHILE someone else is but got cut off with patient is coding on the table what did you miss? After that she said I did well and it was my second trauma one, the first one I did fine on and I killed the acute abdomen stem so yay. Not that any of the trauma cases are realistic in the sense that they are for what one person would do but in the trauma room there are a bajillion people running around doing stuff all at once...a total adrenaline rush.

After the test I hung around a bit and then headed to the mall to buy some VS stuff for Heather's lingerie shower tonight, I thought I was going to be good and not spend a lot, but that didn't happen because I had to buy me some stuff too.

This weekend I am off, and then off next week except for a test Wed at 9 and Fri at 9 so I'm extremely pumped about catching up on sleep. In Dad news, he seems to be feeling better and has an appointment with the neurologist soon so hopefully he'll get some better news.

That's pretty much it for now I guess. Happy Friday everyone!

Update

Ok so Rachel keeps reminding me it has now been months since I have posted. My life has become the life of a very old person for the most part. I loved my time on pediatrics, and I mean LOVED it. I have been on surgery for the last 6 weeks (almost) and while the surgeries can be extremely cool the life sucks, correction is nonexistent. While on trauma and general I was at the hospital by no later than 4:30 am and left around 6 every day. Most of the day was spent doing nothing for long periods of time interrupted by some scut work for the residents and then every now and then getting to scrub in. The gist of surgery is to find out if they are eating, pooping and walking (if possible) and then move them along. I do enjoy the fact that I have now seen brain not in a bucket but in the head (pretty nifty how they de-scalp to reveal it), I can stitch or staple up a laceration, and identify a hernia with the best of them. However, I have had zero time to study and am pretty much exhausted everyday to the point of not being able to stay awake for my 9 o clock shows. Needless to say I will be excited at the end of my 7th week of surgery because week 8 is tests and I will not be working. After surgery I'll be on neurology for 4 with single digit hour work days and then psych for another 4, and apparently wearing a skirt on the psych rotation is a bad idea. I will have to say I'm pretty set on peds right now because my two weeks of peds surgery has been soooo much better than the other weeks on surgery mainly because I get to see kids.

So back to the being old. I have turned 24 in the past three months of nonposting. Also happy 25th to Rach, 26th (21st) to Alex, AND then my niece is now 12. TWELVE, she is now the age I was when she was born. Ashley had her first school dance last Friday and there is talk of a boy...they grow up so fast it's crazy.

I have a wedding to be in on November 15th which will make me the final of me heather w and heather to get married. Heather W the first, to be married is also now pregnant, congrats to her. All this makes me feel very behind the curve, but oh well.

Dad has been having bad back problems and went to the spine doc on Monday for some bad news. They told him there was nothing they could do to relieve the pain and his only option at all is surgery. The surgery they want to do is not a pretty one for the surgery and for recovery. So his goal right now is to try and get to retirement (another 4 years) if at all possible so he doesn't lose about 100,000 in his retirement. He really can't stand upright currently so he's going to try and get a second opinion or find someone that will at least give him an epidural, which these would not.

Let's see otherwise ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!