Day 2953: Bye bye inpatient peds

I survived night float...barely. I got sick half-way through, and am only finally feeling better (about 7 days after first getting sick). Not sleeping enough, courtesy of inpatient pediatrics, really takes a toll on one's ability to heal. Anyway, pediatrics is over...the hard part. The 12 hour days start to get extremely boring after a while, especially as a medical student. I can't put in orders for medications or labs, I can consult other services but can't do anything about their recommendations. And, my intern (who I was paired with) and senior resident (essentially the boss of the team) were terrible. I am so glad to be done with inpatient peds. Probably the worst part of everything was the fact that my team was so awful, I had a difficult time looking past that fact and couldn't quite figure out if I enjoyed taking care of children. I think outpatient pediatrics (what I am on this month) will provide me with insight as to whether I can handle taking care of kids.

In other news, I have lots of visits in store! My parents will be in town in two weeks. My darling friend Tiff will be here a few days after that. Then, pediatrics will be over and I will officially be a fourth year medical student! On the way out of this peach pit! Holy cow!

Day 2163: Lots of cool stuff.

I had such a great week, let me tell you about it!

Monday: I worked in the pediatric emergency department, where I do research, and actually, finally, enrolled a patient without something wonky happening. For whatever reason, I have the strangest luck when I go in to do research and a patient will have to be un-enrolled in our Spanish Interpretive Services study. Not only did I enroll one, but I also got to speak Spanish! He was very sweet and said I didn't need the interpreter and I told him that I like having him/her there to make sure I don't mess anything up. Also, one of the doctors on the study was working that night so we got to catch up and shoot the sh!t and all that fun stuff. It's cool to be friendly with the ED staff. Hopefully I can get a few days in there on my pediatrics rotation next year and impress them with all my actually (wannabe) doctor-ing!

Tuesday: The male exam. An examination of the penis, testicles, feeling for the vas deferens and checking for hernias. Probably one of the most awkward moments in medical school for many students. Not for me! I loved it! It went too quickly! Maybe it's because I like awkward things or maybe it's because I don't care, but I am really digging urology. After my path exam on Monday (which, for all intents and purposes, I plan on pwning (aka kicking butt on), I am going to contact a urology resident and get some more information on it. It's competitive as all get out so I am starting to get insanely stressed about boards. (What's new there though?)

Wednesday: My jeans that I bought (aka split with Danny) off eBay arrived and they are gorgeous!

Paige Porcelain Leaf Skinnies

Only I would love such an outgoing print. And wear it with pride no less. I plan to hem these bad boys on Monday after my exam. Or maybe before since I am so bored of studying blood disorders and leukemias and lymphomas. Have I told you all that I am a sewing machine? (Thanks to Danny for that pun!) I have blind hemmed a bunch of slacks, finally hemmed a bunch of my jeans to my teeny tiny leg length and twerked some bootcut jeans into skinny jeans! However, I screwed up one of the legs of my skinny jeans (the fade between the front and back of the jeans is awkward) and feel uncomfortable in them so I plan on converting those babies in to shorts.

School-wise on Wednesday, I had a boards study group where we reviewed stuff for our exam on Monday and that was helpful. Showed that I knew stuff, but still need to get it locked down. Motivating stuff.

Today/Thursday: Hung out at home. Became obsessed with clothes again (have I told you? I am attempting to save money and/or buy investment pieces (like this silk blouse for rotations next year/interview season the year after that). I am also planning a major closet clean out over spring break.) Purchased my question bank for boards today. Fell asleep for no good reason from 4-6pm. Listened to Pathoma for 2 hours because I was sick of actual reading/writing/learning studying so listening seemed more exciting.

Okay. This little study break/update for you has been fun but it's time to go back to our regularly scheduled pathology studying. Snooze fest. Catch y'all later!

PS! Did you know this is my 400th post?! Crazy!

Day 1980: This week...

...at work.

As I said, I put in my first stitches, performed my first PAP smear and bonded (possibly in my own mind) with the younger doctor I work with. I'm really glad to hear there is some follow-through in the world and I feel so lucky to have this opportunity to learn these skills before we're actually taught them this year!

...in life.

I AM IN INDIANA WITH MY BEST FRIEND AND COULD NOT BE HAPPIER. Danny texted asking how my time has been and honestly, just being in the same room as her is more than enough! I love (BEST) friends!

I also had a Google hang out session with my sister, cousin and cousin's baby. So much fun! We're trying to coordinate another one with our other cousin and his baby so it's going to be a joyfest of cute Asian babies. Love it!

My sister got a big kick out her double image on screen.

I had no idea you could have face things. I love them!

Day 421: Have there really been 421 days?

It's a little weird to think that I've been writing in this thing for more than 400 days! I barely sleep that consistently ;)

Anyway, updates!

• My lab cohorts, 9 1/2 and J-Town, and I are so inefficient and ineffective that our boss has separated all of us and placed us with different lab people.
• I have my second (of four) calc tests tomorrow.
• My best friend is home from Ireland for the week! Jubilation!
• I start my MCAT prep class this weekend. -- You know, I was kind of against this class for some reason. However, upon being signed up for it and registering that I'm really taking this class, I'm rather grateful. It'll be nice to have someone teaching me instead of me teaching myself.
• I realized I only need two quarters of calc and one quarter of stats (for a year of math, total) so once I finish this class, I'm done! (With Calc anyway) ...then, all I have to take is stats and Bio 2. Holla!
  

I think that's all really. Oh. There's one more thing. I'm getting braces. Okbye.