Pediatrics is the worst

I made it to the gym this morning before the downpours started. Given that I checked the weather channel and it said it wasn't supposed to rain until this evening, I didn't really think that'd be an issue, but turns out, the weather channel was a good 12 hours off. I don't like going to the gym if it's raining because then I have to change my shoes (at least that's what gym courtesy tells me) and it's a pain in the ass putting shoes on this stupid air cast. So, anyway: boo yeah for getting to the gym before the rain!

Last night I slept without my air cast on because I had it on a bit tight before going to bed and my foot was all tingly, so I decided to sleep without it. When I woke up this morning, I thought the swelling was down, so I left it off for a while. But I think the air cast really does help support things because walking without it was a bit trickier and I was a bit more painful this morning, but I think that might just be the natural progress of this. I don't know. It's been a while since I've sprained an ankle. But it's not bad enough that I can't elliptical. I just wish I could Zumba. So sad.

Hmm...what else? Oh, I thought I'd like a salad for lunch today with some hard boiled egg. So, I boiled the eggs as I was making my breakfast this morning and then had my salad after getting back from the gym. This was a mistake that my stomach has been making me pay for since. I don't know if it's just having the salad after the gym or having the salad, but whoa nelly, my bowels are all, "Let's explode everywhere." It's not awesome. So, no salad for a while. This isn't a huge bummer, but it kinda sucks because the salad wasn't that good and I am being forced to pay for a mediocre salad.

Yup. That's about it. I've been brushing up on pediatrics today. I hate peds. Not because I'm not a fan of children (which I'm so totally not), but because I hate congenital diseases, growth and development, and viruses. Hate, hate, hate. For some reason, I did extremely well on pediatrics exam, but man oh man, I can't wait to never do peds-related things ever again. Like ear infections? Don't care. When you can say two-word phrases? Who cares? Congenital heart defects? Unless you're turning blue, meh. TORCH infections? They're all the same to me. I know, I know. I'm a horrible person, but the thing that sucks about pediatrics is that it's not even that interesting in practice either. I know some people are all, "You have to think harder because the patient can't actually tell you what's wrong. It's exhilarating!" My response to that? "Enjoy thinking hard. I'll be over here thinking less and enjoying life more."

Photos from today:

Breakfast

Boil all the things...or you know, a few eggs

Baha...soo good at peeling

Protein smoothie even though I didn't strength train

Salad fixings

My mediocre salad (without the tomatoes)

Lunch, part 2

Afternoon snack

My salmon dinner (minus the broccoli I was going to make cuz broccoli can worsen diarrhea)

Bailey's salmon dinner

Living the life of kitty luxury

Pretzels/salt to settle my stomach

This side looks slightly better

You can kinda see the bruising that goes up to my toes

Behind my ankle is all blue...and still swollen

Today's positive: Getting to read some Harry Potter at the gym and not procrastinapping because I hate pediatrics so much. I mostly stayed on task today. Minus maybe taking a bit longer to blog than normal.

Sick Day

Yesterday, I was pretty sure I had a fever and was super nauseated. I didn't go to work until the afternoon and when I did, I was sent home. But, as we had class in the afternoon, I ended up just going to school to study and then went to class. I felt pretty nauseated the whole time. Today, my nausea is mostly gone and I think the fever is too, but my sore throat was worse. I've been hydrating and all that good stuff to feel better, but I didn't go to the hospital so as not infect the kiddos. Also because I'm pretty sure being around the sick kiddos is what did me in in the first place.

I've been trying to study and eat well today, but my brain just isn't feeling it. Also, can we talk about serving sizes? Some of them are ridiculous. Like tonight I made some mediocre Buitoni pasta thing, but the serving size was 110 grams. That was like less than half a bowl, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it wasn't very good, but still.

In other news, I tried to really spice up my diet and eat something new every night. Lunches are obviously less exciting, but I think trying to add variety will help me eat a bit healthier and be happier about it - like I needn't eat the same boring "healthy" things.

Here are some food pics from the last two days:

Chicken noodle soup for the upset tummy 

Salty snacks also for the tummy

Not such a good idea for a bad tummy, but I was feeling better...

Breakfast this morning once the nausea kicked back in

Snack

Dumplings for lunch

Afternoon snack

Buitoni is gross and it broke my spoon

This is one serving size. Pathetic.

So I doused it with tomato sauce

Tomorrow I have a date with one of my close medical school friends to go do some zumba and study. Hopefully I'm feeling up to it. Right now I'm feeling like 50%, but I'll go as long as I'm feeling about 75%. It'll be my first outing for exercise all week. Don't blame me - I was all sick and shiz.

Pediatrics and pepperoni

Today was a slow, slow, slow day at work. Obviously, we rounded until forever and then I didn't have a whole lot to do. We had lecture at 3pm and before I knew it, we were free. Since lecture ended early, we got out early. That meant I could get to the gym before the 5pm rush. It was awesome. Well, my workout was mediocre because for some reason, I was struggling to get my intensity up, but it's better than not going, right?

When I got home, I made a pizza. My mom sneakily packed some pepperoni in a bag of food I brought back with me after a quick trip home last weekend, so I decided to put it to use. 

Dough rolled out

Pre-baking. I added some garlic butter to the crust - yum!

Then I ate 5/8 piece for dinner

The only bad part about having made pizza after a workout is that I was starving and so I ate 5/8 of the slices. Granted, it was a pretty small pizza, but I probably could have had less. So, I think I'll try and make that my focus for next week. I just need to cut down on my portions/overdoing it when I'm really hungry by eating a bit slower.

And now I'm off. Catch you later!

Oh yeah - here's breakfast!

Peds and pizza

Once I'm awake and showered, I'm a pretty functional person. That whole getting out of bed thing is still a struggle and it was again today. But, today at work was fine. I'm on my peds rotation and I'm doing inpatient work, which means I get to hang out with the kiddos who are sick enough to be in the hospital. For the most part, we spend a lot of time rounding. We get there in the morning at 6:30 a.m., hear about all the kiddos and what happened overnight. Then we go see our assigned kiddos. Then we sit and talk about them until 11 a.m. Then we go and do family rounds to update the family as to the plan for their child's care that day, which can last until 1 p.m. Then we get a break for lunch, work on following up on all the day's plans, do some teaching stuff, and then we're back in the room to talk about the kiddos at 5 p.m. and let the night team know what we did. 

After work today, I hit the gym, then came home and overindulged a bit. I ate some granola, but also munched on foods while I was making lunch (mostly veggies, but still) and then ate some leftover homemade pizza. So, not the best, but definitely not the worst. I'm making progress!

Some pics from today (sorry, lunch pics aren't included cuz tupperware isn't that cute):

Breakfast

Post-gym snack

Frozen protein oatmeal with peanut butter and milk 

That's all for today - sorry it was brief. I gotta study and get to bed!