Spring Cleaning

So, working 12 hour days, being on call every 4th day, and overall hating my life for the last 3 months did not exactly lend itself to coming home from work to clean my house. Plus, with The Cutest Boy in the World out of town, I didn't have the motivation or need to prepared to entertain. So, the Studio 54 has been slowly gathering a layer of dust, Louis hair, and empty water cups.

But now life is returning to its semi-normal state. So, today, was Spring Cleaning day. The Cutest Boy in the World helped hang pictures, do heavy lifting, and even the occasional sweeping. I spent the day trying to figure out where to put all the random stuff that piles up in 3 months, cleaning up old Lanie tail blood, rotating loads of laundry, and doing a whole lot of dusting.

Yet, somehow, hours later, the house still seems to be in disarray. Why is it that things just seem to get worse long before it ever gets better? And where does all this dust come from? And how much does it cost to hire a maid???

Senior Planning

The time is finally upon me to make the decision I have been postponing for 7 years... What do I want to be when I grow up?

Tomorrow we plan our senior schedules, the first year of medical school that we actually get to choose electives to help gear our education toward our specific future professions. And yet, here I am, feeling barely closer to making that decision than I was 7 years ago. So, when everyone is worrying and talking about what electives to take, I'm going to remain focused on the only thing I know for sure--- I'm going to get 4 months off next year, and love it.

Benign Gyn

I've started my OB-GYN rotation-- 6 weeks of va-jayjays, ba-jingos, and the occasional hoo-ha. And the rotation has started on Benign Gyn, a nice mix of Pap smears, hysterectomies; clinic time and OR time.

My thoughts thus far:
- I am definitely not a Medicine person. I'm finally DOING something!
- It's so so very nice to be back in the OR, even if my life does mostly consist of retracting with the occasional suction.
- Pelvic exams are a lot less awkward than I first expected. Much less so than the dreaded Dr. DRE. At least women who come to the gyno are expecting the exam... As compared to that person who comes in with fatigue and gets a surprise gloved finger up the rectum.

We'll see how it goes...

The End of Medicine

So, I have put in my time. I have finished my rotation on Medicine. It was... Well, let's just focus on the positive and say that's it's over.

(For clarity sake-- "Medicine" is the specialty that is kinda the catch all. Like if you were going into the hospital just because you were sick, you'd be treated by a Medicine doctor.)

As predicted, I'm just not a Medicine girl. It was 3 months, call every 4th night. And lots of sitting around (or often standing in the hallway) talking about things, about patients, about plans, about orders--- for hours upon hours... Yet never actually DOING anything.

Once again-- positive, it's over. Even more positive-- another specialty marked off the list.