What am I really passionate about? Really ( Read more... )

Someone else came down to the radiology department with a vertebral artery dissection, and now they have a great big stroke.

Guess what they did the day before? Went to a chiropractor to get their neck worked on.

Never, never let them touch your neck. Backs are fine, but neck? Nothing but trouble. Big infarcted trouble.

I'm actually on call, even though I'm home in my office and just finished my dishes. I'm doing a neuroradiology rotation (slack city) but I'm signed up for a few neurology home-call rotations. So I'm tethered to my pager, waiting for it to go off ( Read more... )

I am not cut out for the invalid life ( Read more... )

I knew it was going to hurt when the bike sailed into the concrete post, but I didn't think I would actually go over the handlebars like that. So when it was all done, I was lying on the concrete of the biking path with blood oozing from my knee, pain in my right thumb...and a dull ache in my left collarbone that was starting to get worse and worse ( Read more... )

Third day of a three-day weekend. I'm back in the ICU again tomorrow - though only for half a day, with the second half being instruction on comas, eye motor systems, and then watching one of the fifth-year residents get put on the neurological exam hot seat. Half-days are awesome ( Read more... )

It's always a nice feeling to get your first paycheque. Well, I didn't actually get it; I went online and saw that it had been deposited. And I know that a little more than $500 got skimmed off for taxes, professional fees, all that stuff - most of which gets refunded ( Read more... )

So yeah, in amidst all the craziness I completely forgot that I have such a thing as a LiveJournal. So...yeah. Residency. It's not bad. Busy, but okay, I guess ( Read more... )

Well, now, this is just too hot. There's no call for 34 degrees.

Well, I'm here. I am now a resident of the city of Ottawa. I'm in my new apartment, barren as it is without the rest of the furniture. I have a whole pile of things to deal with and negotiate - today I need to get the gym membership, the cell phone and the library card taken care of. The apartment is beautiful, but I need a screen replaced and ( Read more... )