A Little Bit O' Ella

Here... figured it's been a while... here's what I've been doing besides med school...

Cooking!

Baked Brie en Croute with Raspberry Jam

Rosemary Seared Lamb

Tuna and Fennel Salad with Rosemary Olive Bread

Green Lentil Salad with Lemon and Olives

Pretzel Hearts with Sweetened Peanut Butter and Milk Chocolate

Fruit Tart with Homemade Sweet Crust

Decorating My Apartment... no that isn't a real butterfly... relax...

Growing a Garden!!

Loot from my garden....

Jazz in the Neighborhood...

Top 10 Things Heard in the ED

10. Is he dead or DEAD dead?
9. Room Q has an hmm-hmm stuck in his hmm-hmm
8. I dont know who shot me! I was just standing around minding my own bizz-ness!!.
7. Stick your finger up Room C's butt then get yourself some breakfast.
6. Is that guy... Oh god really...yup... he's jerking off....
5. NURSEDOCTORLADY!!!!!!!!! My phone is ringing!!! Reach it for me!?!?!?
4. 210/122? I'm not worried about that.
3. I can't get no motherfucking sleep in this place!
2. Nurse Doctor Lady?? Please tell the po-lice I'm too sick to talk to them??
1. But I'm ALLERGIC to Tylenol, motrin, aspirin, mobic, toredol, Naproxen, celebrex, AND actron!

On Birthin'

Per my very wise brother "watching the birth of your child is like watching someone throw your very favorite toy off the top of the empire state building". Fact.

Pink Nails

Remember that day.... way back my first year of med school when I saw the cadaver with the pink nail polish and I kind of freaked out? Well my last shift was kind of the same. Only the pink nails were mine. And I could see them a tiny bit through my gloves. And I just kept looking at them. While they did CPR. For the first time. On a kid. That died. It was awful. Numbing. And awful. And I just kept remembering the pink fingernail thing. Weird how things sort of come full circle. When I got home I took a pic of my hands to remember the way I felt today.