Ah, it's been a while. For the past 2 months I've been a slave to surgery. First Urology and then Transplant. My shelf was Friday and now I'm on spring break (wait...is it snowing?). Urology was a lot of fun and I got to participate in a lot of cool cases. I got to use a scalpel to open someone up. They let me cauterize between the aorta and the renal artery (I think the resident was more nervous than I was), and I got to do pretty much an entire cystoscopy and hydrodistention by myself. As far as I know, all of these patients are still alive and well :) Oh, and I learned how to do a pretty wicked awesome running subcuticular suture.
Transplant wasn't as much fun, but the hours were a little better. I worked between 12-15 hour days on urology, and then 10-12 hour days on transplant. Unfortunately I didn't get to see an actual transplant while I was on transplant, just a lot of cholecystectomies and liver resections. I did get to take care of some pretty interesting/sick patients though. It's pretty cool to see someone on the brink of death who gets a whole new life after receiving a new organ. By the way, if you're not an organ donor, you should do it....and make sure your family knows!
So yeah, that's what I've been up to for the past 2 months. What else is new? Um....oh yeah....having a baby. But don't expect me to be all ooey gooey annoying about it, because that's just annoying. And to be quite honest, I don't really have time to think about it and get all sentimental and introspective. And I won't be posting any belly pictures on facebook, so you can just forget about that.
More updates to come over the next week. My next adventure is trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. Apparently it gets a little more complicated than just being "a doctor."
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