Me=Boss Lady

Well, not exactly..... but I was chosen to be on the leadership team for the all-student run free clinic (the place where I originally presented to Dr. Kenton Hadley)... and I'm totally stoked! This way I can stalk her much more legitimately.

Juiced

Ewe. I went to my preceptorship this week. In a clinic room the physician pulled out a patient's drainage tubes. I purposely stood wayyyyy in the corner (nonchalantly of course), so as to avoid any nastiness... yet I couldn't escape. I got juiced. With I don't know what. Some sort of gastric-bypass nastiness that came flying out of the tube, across the room, from above, definitely landing on on my arm and my coat... and most probably in my hair as well. Oh well.

Oh My, Oh My

It was so much better than I expected. In fact, incredible would be an understatement. In a mere 5 hours I saw the following...

1. A multiple GSW victim
2. A stroke patient (activated @ hour 2.5)
3. Peds epileptic seizure
4. Pulmonary Embolism
5. Sickle Cell
6. 2 belligerent drunks
7. 1 missing person from the other side of the USA
8. Chest pain
9. Dehydrated
10. Gastric pain

It was awesome. And I loved every minute of it. We rounded lightning quick (no time to be bored), saw 30+ patients, 5 hours FLEW by in NO TIME FLAT, and all the residents and staff were super duper awesome cool. I'm so in love with EM it is ridiculous.

YAY! Sort of...

I'm headed out to my first shift in the Emergency Dept. and bleh, I'm sick as a dog. I'm going anyway... hoping no one will notice nor care... as I have repeatedly heard that EM docs have to have actually DIED in order to call in sick. Hopefully that's true, and I don't get my ass chewed.

Kissed, Made Up, and Together Again

Dear Anesthesiology,

I'm sorry if any of those things I said in the past hurt you. Yes, you may be a bit less exciting than EM, but I really thing that we could have a stable, happy, loving relationship. But after talking it over with friends, and doing some soul searching, I've decided that I may have judged you unfairly.

I hope you will reconsider our relationship as well. I'm not sure what I have to offer you, and visa versa... and as you know I am still in a committed relationship with EM... but maybe we could spend a little time together and see how things go? We can do a few procedures, a lot of crosswords together, drink cafe au lait, and leave the rectal exams to the internists.


Love Always,

Ella