Sunday in the Park with... Lori and Banana?

14 October 2007

Hello everyone,

These past two weeks were pretty busy and I didn’t get a chance to write at all. I have completed and submitted my residency applications. I am so happy to be done with it! I have also received interview invitations and have scheduled 6 out of the 7 I received so far. It is all very exciting!

Peds cardiology is interesting. I definitely like kids better than adults… and I like clinic better than the hospital. I have just one more week at this rotation and then I’m off for peds pulmonology at a different hospital.

Last weekend was a blast! My friend Lori came for a visit. This by itself would have been wonderful, but my other friend Banana came along as a surprise. Ha! Double the fun!! It was great. Instead of driving to Lancaster, we decided to go up to Manhattan. On that day it was exactly 5 months since mom left and I felt both irritated by the fact I was having fun with my friends, but also happy because they kept me occupied and I didn’t over think anything too much. Overall, it was a gorgeous 85 degree day in the city and walking around the park was fabulous! We saw a street show by a couple of acrobats/comedians and rented a little boat and rowed in the water for about an hour. Well… I rowed. Lori was suppose to switch with me half way but Banana got scared when we started moving around in the small boat; so I ended up rowing the whole way. I was not ready to go see a Broadway show just yet, but our day was filled that it really didn’t make a difference. A day prior we went to see this great movie—it’s called “Across the Universe” and it uses Beatles music. I LOVED it!!! I have only one picture of this whole weekend—I forgot all about my camera…:o) That’s okay. Lori and Banana photographed everything and everyone like mad, and they promised to email them to me.



Well, after they left it was quite empty and lonely around here, and I was happy to return to work on Monday.

Dad came here on Wednesday and we had some homemade dinner and talked a bit. It’s always nice that dad comes here. Anyways—he had to go back to the city and I drove him to the train on Thursday morning and then drove back to the doctor’s house—the other student, resident, the doctor and myself then rode to a clinic that is situated about an hour and 10 min. south. I like that hospital. It is such a small, clean, beautiful little community hospital, and the clinic is very efficient. I enjoyed it.

Well that is really it. KC and Vega are doing okay—it turned cold on Tuesday morning, and from the 92F we had on Monday to the low 60’s we have as a high now, this was quite a change. The cats love it though… they come and curl up next to me in bed and sleep a bit longer. Vega still insists we must go out, even if it is cold…

Hope everyone has a good week!

Reut