Finally, an update :o)

03/10/07 --> 03/30/07
I promised an update, and here it is… I’ve decided to quit medical school.

Hahahaha! Just kidding! (Not funny, I know, but I’m tired, so I can have a bad sense of humour)

Okay, so internal medicine has finally gotten better! I have finished the first month of it and learned a whole lot. The first weeks were very-very difficult—it was just very sad, and it really affected me. So after I vowed never to take another internal medicine course, things started to get interesting, exciting and… yes, fun, so I take that vow back. I moved to a new hospital during the second week. With this new doctor we got to do a lot of learning, a lot of answering questions… basically, a whole lot of thinking. It is interesting—it really is. We had several night lectures which I found very useful. After the EKG lecture, I started reading the EKGs at the hospital with greater ease. I cannot wait until cardiology next year. I think it will be a difficult but very interesting rotation.

Next week I will start the second part of internal medicine at an outpatient clinic. I hope it will be interesting. I’ve kind of gotten used to the hospital routine—get there early, read patient’s charts, talk to patients, talk to the nurses, collect labs and other studies, write notes and… round… long, tiring rounds. Hopefully the outpatient will be exciting.

What else? Weather has been gorgeous!!! It is spring time in New Jersey and I love it. The trees started to bloom and the grass is finally green again. Yes, only a week or two ago we had that bad snow storm, but hopefully it was the last one for the year :o)

I’ve been exercising pretty good—I take my neighbor’s dog “Chance” out on walkies, and it is tremendous fun for both of us.

That’s about it—KC and Vega are doing great. With the whole cat food recall that happened I was a little worried, but luckily their food wasn’t on that recall list. Lucky, really as IAMS was one of the foods I considered at the beginning. I was at the store and met a lady who lost 3 cats to renal failure after they have eaten the food—it is very sad.

Anyways, I must getting moving, I have to start making my Kneidalach for Passover :o)

Reut