| Going to Vegas in two weeks!!! YAY!!
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It's hard to believe that I'm already finished with 3 months of my 3rd year. I never thought it would come, but now that it's here, it is flying by. I honestly didn't know what I was getting myself into when I "signed up" for this med school business. It can be brutal, doctors think you're retarded, and you're asked to do crazy things.... but I'm loving every minute of it and am so thankful that God chose me to be here!
Things that I've learned on surgery:
1. Danskos (the ugliest shoes in the world) are also the bestest shoes in the world. When you're standing in the OR for 8 hours straight, your feet thank you.
2. Don't piss off the surgeons. Don't ask any questions. Speak only when spoken to.
3. Sleep is overrated. I learned that I can survive pretty well on less than 4 hours of sleep a night, except when trying to drive home post call.
4. You can live off of coffee and granola bars if you needed to. I think I ate lunch a total of 3 times during my month of general surgery. The rest of the days I survived on my stash of granola bars. The residents knew who to come to if they were hungry.
5. I am Master Foley-putter-inner. (a foley, by the way, is a tube that goes up the urethra to empty your bladder)
6. Waking up before the sun comes up and leaving the hospital when it's dark is just not natural.
7. I have no shame asking people if they pooped, peed, farted, etc.
8. Sticking your hand in someone's abdomen and feeling around for organs is pretty cool.
9. The female surgeons are scarier than the male surgeons
10. Asking old men about their sexual history and function is slightly awkward.
11. Asking grown men to pull down there pants so that I could check their prostate is even more awkward.
12. I have no shame
13. I loved surgery!
What I learned on Primary Care:
1. I can draw anyone's blood any day.
2. People are crazy
3. Life is good when you work 9-5 and have a 2 hour lunch! I'm loving life right now!!!
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| I wish I had a video camera. So there's this guy sitting right next to me at the coffee shop and he is dancing as if he's at a club. He's gyrating his hips, flailing his arms around, he even has the awesome facial expressions. I kind of want to laugh... but it's so cute. The only thing is... I can't really study with him doing these crazy choreographed moves that I would never be able to do.
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| Honestly... it's just not natural to study for 12+ hours a day. I don't think our body was made for this.
15 days till D-day!
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| I am officially done with my second year of medical school. The only thing separating me from third year are the BOARDS. eek...I officially start studying tomorrow. Five weeks till freedom!
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