Beautiful (gray) fall

10-16-06-->10-22-06

Hello all and welcome to fall!

That’s it… despite that fact that ‘official fall’ had begun over a month ago, it is finally truly feels like fall around here… it has been cold, rainy, and windy. The trees are absolutely stunning, and the crisp air everywhere… Fall and winter are not my favorite seasons, and I will try my hardest not to complain about the weather too much until springs arrives.

Work is interesting. I definitely get to learn a lot. For the past week I have been getting better and better with the blood draws! Yes! Last Wednesday I drew blood from a lady who had very tiny veins (in my opinion at least), and was so happy to see the blood collect nicely in the tube.

To be honest, I haven’t really seen anything amazing this week… a lot of coughs, runny noses, sinus problems, and many people who come to receive their flu and pneumovax shots. I’ve given quite a few of those now, and I really do like giving shots :o)

The thing I do like about family medicine is that I get to see the patients many times throughout the time I spend in the office. This continuity is wonderful! I love knowing the people that walk in and know that I saw them the week prior for something and find out if they are feeling better or worse, or if they have followed through with tests… I guess you can say that I am always curious to find out what ‘happened next’, and the settings of family medicine allows for this.

The weekend was great! On Friday night I cooked some stuffed eggplants (YUM!) and after I ate them joined my friends for a ‘get together’. They ended up going to a movie, and I returned back home because I was very tired. On Saturday I volunteered with the animals! I had a good time. Cuddles (a nice poodle female dog) was still there and I petted her for a bit—she is going to her new home next week! There was another great dog there—He was a gray St. Bernard’s mix… he was shorter than a St. Bernard, but had the humongous paws and giant head. OHHHHH he was just too adorable! After that I came home and fell asleep for a good while, then woke up and worked on my presentation for a few hours. Today (Sunday) was my non-school day—I went shopping and cooked and did fun stuff with the cats… it was nice.

Well, that’s about it from here…

Kisses!

Reut

My Vega (Sheesh!!!)

10-09-06--> 10-15-06
Hello to all,

I just came back from the cold outside looking for Vega… I thought I lost her! I couldn’t find her in the apartment and didn’t remember seeing her go out when I went out earlier. I called her over and over again inside, looked in all possible places (under the bed, in the closet, on top of the cabinets, under the sofa, inside the cabinets, in the fridge, oven, etc...) Well, then I went outdoors and looked for her there, but decided to go look in the apartment one more time… She was there! She popped her beautiful head out from underneath the sofa (which she wasn’t under a few minutes prior) and seemed to say: “What? I was napping!”

Sheesh! I am so happy she didn’t run away!

Anyhow, that’s the event of the night…

This week was decent. I had been drawing blood for a while now, but had a short period of time when everything I stuck didn’t give blood… OY! I finally figured out what I was doing wrong and fixed it. Hopefully I can keep getting the blood out. As far as interesting cases, I suppose I really enjoy working with the kids. It is really hard to convince a child that doesn’t feel well to open their mouth and say “Ahhhh,” but it is worth it… they are definitely fun.

On Friday night I went to see a movie at the theater—“Little Miss Sunshine.” It was absolutely wonderful! Everyone came out with a great big grin. I highly recommend it.

The rest of the weekend went by too fast—On Saturday I volunteered at the animal shelter, and then went shopping for something to stop the cats from killing the carpet (they scratch it). Then I came back home, and my place was so cold that all I wanted to do was sleep… and that’s what I did for the rest of the day (Non-productive, I know.) Today started out good, I was intending to write up my complete presentation so I wouldn’t have to worry about it next weekend or the weekend after. I sat with the material and I came up with very little. Ugg. I did make up a good list of what was needed to be inside the presentation, what I had and what I needed to find. My plan is to get a lot done during the week.

Well, that’s about it… I am going to play with my two beautiful cats and then go to bed.

:o)

Reut

Vega's walk

PS

Just a short note... for the past two weeks I've been wanting to add a little something about Uncle(Dod)-Yigal, but nothing I wrote came out right... finally a song by the immortal queen just captured it right. It is called: "No-one but you (only the good die young)" and it was written about Freddie Mercury, yet is exactly what I wanted to say.

Just click here: Queen's: No-one but you

Family Medicine and Fall

10-01-06-->10-08-06
Hello to all!

Hmmm… it is quite amazing how short the weekends have become…

This week was quite interesting. Family medicine is filled with coughs, backpain, insomnia, earaches, runny noses, throat aches, headaches, fevers, elevated blood sugar, gout, rotated innominates, and all sorts of stuff! I can definitely say that I will get a good experience there filled with procedures (blood work, ultra sound treatments (not diagnostics), hernia checks, etc.) It will be a good rotation. Now having said that, I must confess that the first week in any given rotation lasts a bit longer than the rest of the rotation… it takes time to get use to a place, and to see what the expectations are. I have 3 different doctors I am under, and each one of them is different than the other. Dr. C, Dr. M and Dr. S. All very nice. I also got to meet the resident and the intern, and they are both great.

Well, besides the first week in family medicine rotations, all is well. Fall is definitely here, most of the days are chilly (at least in my desert influenced eyes), the leaves are slowly turning beautiful shades of red, orange, yellow and brown, and the air smells like rain most days now. I read somewhere (I believe it was in my daily calendar) that fall is like a second spring… each leaf is like a flower. I personally knew fall had officially walked in when I swapped my short PJ’s into long ones, and within a week I needed a sweatshirt to be comfortable during the night temperatures. I suppose the cats feel the difference too, because I find them sleeping on my bed every morning now, they are cuddling up and don’t hurry to wake up.

My weekend definitely flew by. Friday night I came home and pretty much crashed… I was so tired from the week, I just enjoyed going to bed early and getting in a good night sleep. Saturday morning was very fun—I volunteered at the animal shelter for an hour or so, enjoyed the new doggies, and had to run to the library to return some books. When I was there I happened to see Dr. R who was my psychiatry doctor—it was nice seeing him. Then I took the furry bunch to the vet. Oh man, Vega HATES the vet :o) KC of course LOVES the vet. I have such funny pets! They received all of their shots and I finally had them chipped, so if they get lost and then found they can come back to me. I came back home and attempted to take my post-psychiatry test, but for some reason my code did not work… As a result, I then changed my plans, and begun working on my honors paper. I worked on this paper the whole day today. I haven’t written a paper for school in such a long time that it took me a little bit of thinking and planning to come up with something I thought was descent. I still am not happy with it, but I’ll have Omer look at it and fix my grammar, and point to obvious problems. Then I’ll just turn it in, and will start thinking on my next paper.

That’s about sums it up…

Reut

My beautiful cats!