Sunday Funday

Having a random night shift in the middle of weeks of day shifts is a bit hard to adjust to. However, it still allows you to have somewhat of a weekend, which was kind of nice.

When I went in to work, there weren't any laboring patients, so I had it pretty easy. I saw quite a few patients in triage and sent most of them home. Despite the fact that it wasn't very busy, the time really flew by and I had some great med students helping me out. When I got home, I fell asleep almost instantly and woke up with no low back pain or hip pain. I was pumped. Yesterday was the first time I'd woken up without back pain and I was a little worried it would be a one time deal. But, nope. So, that seals it - I'm definitely heading back to the chiropractor this week.

After waking up, I hurriedly put some things together to head to my friend Monica's place. She was having some people over to hang out and go swim in the lake she lives on. It was just what I needed - hanging out with some non-medical people, eating some not so healthy food (read: pizza and brownies) and spending time in the sun relaxing.

Now I'm home and cleaning up a bit so that I can start my last week of OB off on the right foot. Tomorrow will also be a fasting day, so I'm taking a look at what my meals will be now so that I don't go too far astray from my goals. Tomorrow is also my hardest day of the week because I run the board and triage all afternoon by myself, meaning I'm responsible for all of the patients in labor. It's a lot of responsibility and I'm still pretty darn slow. But I'm usually too busy to think about being hungry.

Tomorrow the other interns and I are planning on doing some anatomy review and so I'll either hit the gym late or not at all. We'll see how I'm feeling. Anywho, I didn't take any photos today - sorry about that!

What's your favorite summer activity? I definitely love to be outdoors swimming in a pool or on the beach!

Impromptu beach trip!

Today was 1000% exactly what I needed. I went to my radiology rotation this morning and had a doctor who actually wanted to teach. Woo hoo! At 11:30ish, he encouraged me to go to the residents' lecture at the other hospital and told me not to bother coming back after. So, I went to lecture, learned a few things about the radiological views of different types of arthritis and was free by 1 p.m. Soooo, since it was beautiful, I headed to Holland to go to the beach with a friend of mine (who lives in Holland).

The day was absolutely perfect for it. There was hardly anyone there (because school was in session), the weather was about 78°F, so it was awesome, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was so, so, so awesome and exactly what I needed to recharge and feel great. After we were done beaching it, we headed back to Chelsea's house to see Allyson (my friend from 7th grade who lives with Chelsea) and had some dinner, watched some TV, got some froyo and just hung out. It was awesome, awesome, awesome. 

And with that, I shall leave you. I think I'm getting sick (got a majorly sore throat and some mild ear pain), so I want to get into bed ASAP.