A couple of updates from me ( Read more... )

I have no idea how long it's been since I last posted here.  I do pop in to catch up on friend's posts every now and then.

So, what's been going on with me . . .

I'm pregnant!  14 weeks and 4 days, to be exact.  5.5 weeks before I can learn if it's a boy or girl.  I've been nauseated pretty much since I learned I was pregnant, which has been . . . ( Read more... )

I'm on peds right now.  Night float, to be specific.  Currently, I am bored out of my mind.  I love coming to work.  I love the challenge, I love discussing (arguing) with attendings, I love working with patients.  But this week, I have spent every night up in the call room, trying to find something to watch on the computer (I've watched all of " ( Read more... )

So, yes it is 3:30 in the morning, and no, I have not slept since I got a 30 min nap around 2pm yesterday afternoon.  But I'm way too awake to sleep right now.  That, and my pager will go off anytime I get close to falling asleep.  Besides, if I stay awake, I can start rounding in 30 minutes ( Read more... )

 I saw "Wicked" on Saturday with Sarah.  It was . . . amazing.  I left the theatre wondering why I was still in medical school, and shouldn't I drop out to join the theatre?  It was magical.  Every single note was perfect.  The set was fabulous, as were the costumes and the voices.  And the lighting.  Oh, the lighting.  They made it rain on stage ( Read more... )

So, really quickly, since House was on last night, and we were barely into the second act when I had to yell at the screen--VDRL is KNOWN to be a poor test for syphilis. Honestly, no one orders it any more because it has so many false positives. Lupus causes a false positive VDRL test. That's why all modern medicine docs order an RPR, which ( Read more... )

So I should probably post that we had Match Day. I got my first choice, which is Florida Hospital at Orlando! Yay! Melissa and I have already found an apartment we want, and I got a bunch of paper work in the mail yesterday, so scary and exciting as this is, it seems it's actually going to happen ( Read more... )

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 Last Thursday, Victor's mom suffered a stroke.  Her heart didn't beat on its own for 35 minutes.  Because she did not have a DNR signed at the time, the doctors resusitated her, but she had already suffered severe anoxic injury.  Her sons arrived, and the next day a little before 11am she was taken off the respirator and the medications that were ( Read more... )

 The update on Victor's mom:  she completed her chemo, and then developed an infection requiring her to be moved to the ICU last Sunday.  Unfortunately, she developed sepsis, which means the infection got into her blood as was affecting her systemically.  Currently, she is intubated (a machine is helping her breathe), she has had to undergo ( Read more... )