Rank lists were due yesterday. Eliyahu decided he is going to St. Joes and taking the Shomer shabbos spot. since there is only 1 shomer shabbos spot and St. Joes is not really amazing otherwise, I moved it down on my list. Here was my final top 7 (corresponding with Eliyahu going to St. Joes ( Read more... )

Rank list is due in less than 1 week. And we are making no grounds on decision making. By we I mean Eliyahu. I really want to put up the list at this point, but he does not. It is very aggravating to rely on someone else for this kind of thing (we have a joint list since we are couples matching ( Read more... )

I cancelled my interview today, but I told my rotation I had an interview, so I'm off today ( Read more... )

Four more interviews left, thank God!!! I think I had in the high twenties, with both anesthesiology interviews and preliminary year interviews (you are required to do a year of medicine or surgery or combined med/surg prior to starting anesthesiology residency, which of course means twice the number of interviews, woohoo!) I'm so fed up with ( Read more... )

Ilana is a real person now! She sleeps 6-7 hours every night followed by 2 hours, and sleeps intermittently throughout the day. She's starting to fall into a real workable pattern. She has been sleeping in her own crib every night for the past 3 weeks which is amazing! Ever since she started doing that our lives improved drastically! She is a ( Read more... )

1. I am full term now! If the baby is born s/he is fully cooked and will do fine. Doesn't mean anything about if s/he will be born any time soon, however. At most I have 4.5 weeks to go! (and only 2.5 until my due date ( Read more... )

I am in a bad situation. I sending in my residency application in 3 weeks and at this point have NO IDEA what I am applying to! I did my emergency medicine rotation last month and LOVED it. Unfortunately I am doing my anesthesia rotation now and I LOVE it also (especially peds anesthesia.)! Because I love both so much people in both fields keep ( Read more... )

At this point I am 100% sure that I am going into anesthesiology. I really love the field, for many reasons that people who have not worked in the field will not understand. Even other doctors who have not been exposed to anesthesiology do not understand what we do. But anyway I am very excited about having finally made a definite decision! I just ( Read more... )

I had a weird experience yesterday in the hospital that I felt like reflecting about ( Read more... )

I have bronchitis again ( Read more... )