Status Update.....
Big post about my surgery rotation brewing but in the mean time..I am done with surgery, have two weeks off, which I am using to visit the west.. New Mexico and Northern California specifically.
As some of you know my Mom has had some significant health scares of late. She had what appears to be a toxic reaction to a cardiac medication that landed her in the cardiac ICU about a month ago. So this is my second trip to California in less than a month. She recovered well enough to have spinal surgery about a week ago that had been scheduled before her cardiac event. I am in Palo Alto to help. She is recovering well. She has only called me Nurse Ratchet once.
The weekend before I finished up Surgery I was rear ended by a teenager in her Daddy's Audi while I was on my way to get a coffee at Starbucks so I could wake up enough to study for my surgery final. My perfect new to me but old to everyone else '95 Nissan Sentra was totaled, but no one was hurt in the accident. The insurance company will be buying me a new old car. I feel like I should issue some sort of disclaimer, no really, my life usually is not full of so much chaos. But as Len reminded me.. bad new comes in threes and now I have had my three.. it should be smooth sailing from here on out...
I will be at a new hospital in early September when I start back, this one with a more urban population. I will be starting internal medicine.. and I am looking forward to it. This is the big split in the medical world.. medicine vs. surgery-- and I have always been reasonably sure I wanted medicine. It feels a little like starting over .. beginning again with what is really important.
These are some of the facts.. Real stories to come.
posted by Sa @ 11:21 AM
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