9 months.

sweet!

just like grey's anatomy.

this week i started an anesthesia rotation. i'll finish it up next week. 2 week rotations are great.

this doctor thinks i actually am an anesthesiologist. he stays in the room long enough to start the case and then leaves me to play with the gases and keep the patient still. and breathing. yikes.

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here's my new haircut. i love it. love.

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my roommate and i went to see the world trade center movie tonight. depressing. good. but depressing.

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so i've had a headache for the past 4 days and today the doctor noticed. so he took me into an exam room in the pain clinic (where we worked this afternoon - but i hadn't met any of the nurses there yet...) and cracked my neck, then gave me a shot of toradol (cousin of ibuprofen, but much, much better), then turned out the lights and told me to take a nap.

a few minutes later, i hear a nurse outside talking about how she thinks there's someone in room 5. she opens the door and asks if she can help me. i explain to her who i am and she leaves the room. i hear her a few minutes later explaining to another nurse that "there's a med student sleeping in there. it's just like grey's anatomy!"

boards.

so totally over. for a couple years anyway.

boards.

tomorrow. eek.

quite a cluster.

so, i've been up for 2 hours now. left my house at about 8... drove around for about an hour and ended up back at my house. see, first the road to the coffee shop that we study at was blocked. so i thought i'd try one of the other roads... and then another and then another. then i thought i'd stop and ask one of the cops that was blocking the way except he screamed at me to keep going (which made me even madder because he was young and cute)... then karen (my roommate who left 45 minutes after i did) asked a lady who was helping direct traffic and found out that there was a gas leak or something. so then we decide to go to panera. except panera was BUSY. and karen doesn't deal with lots of noise well when she's studying. so we made the decision to just get coffee and then come back home to study. so here i am. if i fail boards, i'm totally blaming the cop who screamed at me.

who'd've.

as in, "who would have"... can you have a word with 2 contractions in it?

i can stop studying now.

proverbs 17:22 "a cheerful heart is good medicine"

it's official.

i'm a 4th year!

can't sleep.

insomnia? too much coffee? too much excitement over the end of internal medicine? could be all three.

little old ladies say the darndest things.

little old lady #1 who had some double vision and stumbling yesterday at the fair:

little old lady: "we had a couple beers..."
a little later: "2 or 3 beers..."
later still: "3 or 4 beers... i probably had 4 beers."

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little old lady #2 who had lost her license after an accident that was not her fault because the cop wrote the word "confused" in his report. we had to do a mental status exam to determine if she was, in fact, too confused to drive:

dr king: "starting with the number 100, count backwards by sevens."
little old lady: "oh, but i've never been very good at history!"

studying.

or should i say "studying"... because i've been here at my most favorite coffee shop in the quad city area for an hour and a half and have yet to crack a book or answer a single online practice question. but that's about to end. right after i finished this update. because i know how important the updating is to my friends and family. :-)

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the awfully slow doctor complimented my progress note writing ability today. it made me slightly less disgusted with his slowness today. that and it's thursday and i have thursday afternoon off. and who doesn't love an afternoon off??

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my favorite barista, lizz, asked me about why the honey jar says not to give honey to babies earlier. so i guess that's kind of like studying. because i totally knew... don't want no floppy babies! (for those who might not know, honey can have botulism spores in it which create the same toxin used for botox injections, which, if ingested by babies leads to floppy baby syndrome. and floppy babies are bad, just so you know.)

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i just got off the phone with my good friend sarah. i miss her. she's almost done with her year of rotations in detroit. she's sick of school too. i'm going to see her the first weekend of september and that will be fun! this is another of the pictures she just sent me from my time in detroit. those were good times.

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17 days until boards. 9 months 3 weeks 3 days until GRADUATION!!!