OBGYN is almost over :o(

01-22-07 --> 01-27-07

Hi everyone!

I have just finished a week of OBGYN at the clinic. It really reminds me of Family Medicine rotation, but just… focused. I really like this rotation… it’s either that I am at the right age for having children and therefore I get really excited about all these families having babies, or… that I really like the fact that this rotation has a little bit of everything (clinic, hospital, surgeries)! To be honest, I think it’s a little of both. After next week, I start pediatrics—since this is what I originally thought I’d go into, I am very excited for the rotation. After that rotation I am hoping I’ll have a better idea of what I’m going to go into…
Funny thing that keeps happening to everyone in the clinic: when we write out EDC (expectant date of confinement (aka ‘due date’)) we keep messing up the year… so instead of having babies in July 07’ we keep accidentally writing July 06’ Don’t you hate the first few months of a new year just for that reason? It really takes a little bit of time getting used to writing 2007.

In trying to plan my forth year (we have to set it up it ourselves) I’ve been talking to ‘R’ here at the local medical school. I’ve been trying to figure out when she’ll be done with planning their students’ forth year so I could find out when there are open slots for visiting students. She will not give me an exact date—I understand that she can’t, but… I really would like to plan next year already, so I will not have a disaster on my hands… uggg.

Outside of school things have been good—I have stuck to my exercising even when it was bitter cold outside— it is very pretty outside when it is all frozen and quite. I like it. Because of all the snow I ended up getting a pair of snow boots on sale for… 10 bucks! I think they are great and hope they’ll last me for at least 2 years.

Do you want to hear how clumsy I am? Well… last night I was in the middle of doing laundry and I wanted to hear some music on the computer, so I ran over and crashed into one of my chairs. Ouch! At first I thought the pain in my foot will go away in a few minutes, but it didn’t. And then my middle toe looked funny. And then it swelled up. I don’t think I broke it, but I am having a hard time putting a lot of weight on it at the moment (12 hours after). I gave up walking and volunteering this morning because I couldn’t quite walk right, but it is getting better. Another ugggg.

Another quick topic—everyone knows I don’t have a television, right? The idea behind it was that I didn’t really need one in med school… that I had too much work and that I’ll end up wasting time if I had one. Well… for the first 2 years it worked great—I really was busy, I really had other things I could do with my time. I appreciated not having a television. But now… I have a little bit more time on my hands. I still don’t want a television, but I found myself on the computer way more often than before… my favorite website at the moment is www.youtube.com where (to those of you who don’t know already) people put videos of everything possible. I really love this website, but it is really a ‘time wasting’ activity. It is ridiculous that I chose not to have a television and then chose to watch that website instead. I guess it’s alright.

Oh! Remember the paper I wrote for family medicine? I received recognition on it! That’s really exciting! I went back and re-read the paper and I still think it was an ‘okay’ paper, but not an ‘excellent’ paper. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t grade my own papers :o) I want to write one for this rotation but I am not quite sure what topic to research. I guess I have the whole weekend, next week and 10 days afterwards to figure, research and write it. Oh brother. I better not waste time on youtube any more :o)

That’s about it—I have a few things I have to finish today—one of them is to ‘buddy tape’ my toe to another toe so I could walk around more comfortably.

Kisses!

Reut