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