Outpatient life

This week and next week I am doing Peds outpatient clinic. It has actually been pretty good so far. I work with a different attending every half day, so my expectations and the way I interact with patients changes often, but I've been managing well I think. Ive seen one week olds all the way up to 17 year olds; mostly for well child visits, but also for some sick visits. I get to sleep in a little bit since clinic doesn't start until 8:30 or 9, and sometimes driving to and from clinic is a nice way to relax. Overall not so bad :)

Restful weekend

As usual I have been a bad blogger. It's hard to keep up when most of what I do each day I can't write about due to HIPPA. I have just finished a week on the newborn service, which was great. So many cute babies everyday! Best of all it was inpatient work, but all the patients are healthy and adorable! Other than that life has been much the same. Michigan played Penn State last night and actually won, so that was awesome! We spent the first half sitting near three group of people playing seat police and kept bringing ticket people to kick people out of their seats. I get it, but 90% of the student section is not in the exact seat they were assigned, so a group of 10 people shouldn't expect to have all their seats free when they arrive in the second quarter. It was ridiculous. We got annoyed and moved at halftime and enjoyed the second half much more. I also got a lot of rest this weekend, cleaned, did laundry, and actually made some food. Next up on the agenda is cleaning the fridge out and possibly going to the grocery store. Tomorrow starts two weeks of Peds outpatient clinic and then the rotation is over and I will be half way done with 3rd year! 

So Much Rain!

Yesterday was a bit crazy and super exhausting. I started work at 6am and did the usual. We finished all our work pretty early, so I got to go home at noon, which means I made it to the football game! I rested for a bit before the game and then met up with my friend Evie to head to the Big House. The game was really fun, until the 4th quarter. We had our ups and downs, but we were still generally in the game through the third. The best moment was a sweet defensive pick sick! The fourth was rough and was filled with many interceptions. Then the rain came. Man oh man it was WET! It was dumping and there was lightening and the game was suspended. We did not wait out the multi hour suspension since everyone was getting kicked out of the Big House and there was no where to wait really. Instead we got soaking wet as we walked the roughly two miles home. Luckily I was smart and had brought my hat and rain coat, so my legs were soaked, but the rest of me wasn't so bad. Once I got home I ordered a pizza since the traffic was nuts and I didn't want to drive to get dinner, and then I fell asleep on the couch! I was so tired. I tried to watch part of the Cal game, which was going great, but fell asleep before half time. Then I woke up to a dreadful 4th quarter. Sucks. My football teams just love to be disappointing! Oh well. Today I am getting some much needed rest. I am utterly exhausted!! 

New Peds Service

Today was my first day on the Blue team at the hospital and so far its been really good. Our attending is wonderful and the team seems like they will be good to work with, so overall I am very happy with how the next two weeks are looking. In other news, I finally got to a football game over the weekend. Michigan played Miami University (OH) and we won fairly easily. I sat up in the box area with one of the OB/GYN docs since I won the ticket at a charity auction last year, and it was really fun. Other than that I didn't do all that much this weekend. Caught up on some sleep, did some laundry, finally got back to Jazzercise, and relaxed. 

Quick Peds Update

This is now my second week on Peds and I am crazy busy. I get to the hospital at either 6am or 6:30am every morning and have never left before 5pm, but I usually end up staying later. It's great to be with the kids and I actually enjoy talking to parents as well. They really want what's best for their children and I've found working with the parents to be incredibly reasonable for the most part. They know their children better than we do! Besides the hours and exhaustion everything else is good. Since  at the hospital most of my waking hours I really haven't done much lately. I tried to ride my bike today, but when I got on the bike I found my tires were flat (ugh!) so now I have to wait until I'm off during business hours so I can go get my air at one of the two bike shops near my place. This weekend I am completely off and I can't wait for two days of rest! That's all for now. Tomorrow is an early day so I'm off to bed!

Denver

This weekend I went to Denver and met up with my mom to see Molly. It was a great weekend! We went to Red Rocks, Boulder, Cherry Creek, Taste of Colorado Festival, and explored downtown Denver a bit. I also got to see David Cook preform for free at Taste of Denver and I was really close, which was really fun! I definitely need more off time to re-organize my life as I need to clean a bunch, but that will have to wait again as more important things prevail on the list of priorities.

In other news I started Pediatrics this morning. I am spending these first two weeks on a team that includes General Peds, Peds Neuro, and Genetics. Seems like it should be good, but the days have definitely returned to mornings I deem too early (6:30am with the occasional 6am start). Hopefully it's a great two months though. My second two week block is on General Peds, Rheumatology, Nephrology, followed by a week of nights and an emergency department shift, then a week of newborn nursery, and finally two weeks of outpatient clinics. Lots of switching, but at least that should keep things interesting.

View from our hotel room at night

Panorama of University of Colorado Boulder

David Cook preforming

David Cook preforming

Clip of David Cook signing Light On (I missed the very beginning of the chorus)

Halfway through Neuro

I am now halfway through Neuro and done with my 2 weeks of inpatient service. It was actually quite a good two weeks with some very interesting patients. I saw some pretty bad diagnoses given, which was tough, but the specialty overall much more interesting than I ever anticipated. The next two weeks I will be on Neuro consults, so I will likely see much more acute issues (I saw some acute issues inpatient, but some more chronic issues for neurologic malignancies, seizures, etc.). Also, I got my surgery grade back and I did fairly well! Yay! Tomorrow is my day off so hopefully I get some good rest and recuperation!

Like Christine, I have run out of titles...

There are only so many times I can call a post Rotation Name, Rotation Name Week 1, Week 2, Finished with X Rotation, haha. Anyways, this week was fairly typical. It has been fairly slow, except for Thursday when the stroke pager went off 5 times within about an hour and things got crazy. I got to go to the ER, radiology, and Neuro IR which was pretty interesting. Besides that everything this week was just rounding in the morning, and learning stuff in the afternoons.

Today is my day off, so I slept in until 10am and now I am going to go out and do things. Fun times.

Neurology

I am now two days into my neurology rotation and it is going well so far. I don't have too much to say thus far, but rounds take much longer than surgery and I have more down time during the day to get things done. I am actually liking the rotation better than I expected, though still not clamoring to become a neurologist quite yet. I think I've mostly continued to solidify that I am not destined for an outpatient clinic based career. I definitely have preferred the inpatient stuff more so far. There still lots of time left to figure it all out though!

In other news I cleaned today! I finally put away all the clothes I have accumulated next to my bed during my family med rotation. Hopefully I can keep it that way for a while. Hope the fam is having fun at the beach this week! I am super jealous I can't be there this year!

Glorious Switch Weekend

This weekend was my second switch weekend. What is a switch weekend, you ask? Its the glorious time between two rotations when we have no responsibilities and do not have any pressures to be anywhere or to study anything. These infrequent weekends are so necessary and wonderful. I took the Family Medicine shelf Friday morning, and hopefully that went well. It takes a long time to get grades for anything which is weird after two years of instantly getting our scores for everything. Anyways, after the shelf I finally got my haircut, only eight months later than I meant to, and after that I went downtown with some classmates to catch up. It was a really fun night that ended with Snickers Ice Cream bars and My Big Fat Greek Wedding while laying down on my friend's floor. Good times.

Saturday was a day I had been planning for quite some time. I slept in and got some stuff done around the house and then met up with Lindsay and Stephanie and went to the International Champions Cup game to see Manchester United and Real Madrid play in a fantastic soccer (or should I say football) match. It was my first professional soccer game and it was also the most people attending a soccer game in US history! I have now been at the record setting soccer and football games in the US, all in the last year! The Big House is really cool for that. The Big House also holds the record for the largest crowd at a hockey game. Yay. Anyways, the game was super fun and we had a really great time! When I got home I made a Plated (which was AMAZING) and just relaxed at home.

Sunday I slept in again and didn't do a whole lot. I went to Jazzercise, got a new pair of lulu lemon pants, and rode m bike some. My bike ride was strange and somehow I ended up going in a circle and all of a sudden I was basically home and I didn't even realize it! So needless to say my ride was shorter than expected, but still nice. Besides being outside I did some cleaning and watched some Lifetime movies (why are they always so bizarre?!) and made some ravioli with a homemade mix of cipollini onions, fennel, and heirloom tomatoes with fresh basil from my balcony. Fun times!

Tomorrow it is off to Neurology for one month of localizing lesions and working everything up to no end. Should be an interesting month, though I hear there is a LOT of down time. We shall see. Also, I added some pics below of the new floors in the condo :)

The new coffee table

New hardwood 

New carpet 

My little balcony garden

A different kind of football in the Big House. We'll let all the red slide for Man U :)

Awesome flag in the shape of the country. Stephanie was sad there was no Alaska (her home state). There really wasn't a Michigan either though.

Manchester United in Red, Real Madrid in White

The halftime show with The Fray

Goat cheese and cherry tomato galette with herb salad from Plated