Treah’s Blog

This weekend was the best (though you would think that school did not exist for 1 weekend.) I ran around like I had no worries in the world and did things that were just plain fun. The downside to this was that I forgot my camera for all of them. Sad huh!

First on Friday night, after a 2.5 hour nap, I went to two friend’s birthday party. We sat and talked for the whole evening. They had martinis, or something in a martini glass, and they graced me with the lovely soda in a martini glass (I can’t get over the horrid taste of most alcohol.)

Then on Saturday I watched the draft with Julie. Ok, she watched the draft while I worked on hand quilting and talked. She explained the draft a bit which was fun. I didn’t realize what an ordeal it is. She made me scoop, which was AWSOME. It is a dip that involves salsa, sour cream, ranch dressing mix, cheese and other wonderful ingredients. We then took off to a wonderful park that is about 1 hour away called Ohiopyle. What a nice place. We did about a 2 mile hike and near the end we sat on a rock that looked out at the falls and just relaxed. It was beautiful. On our way up we saw a streetfair, which we stopped at and looked at the handcrafted items. On our way back through we bought dinner, a funnel cake and fudge there. Who would have guessed I would eat a funnel cake this weekend. I love back road driving. You come across the best things.

Then today I woke up to a phone call asking me to PLEASE come play softball with my classmates cause they were short a girl in the tournament they were playing in. Ok, when you think of competitive I am probably not in your thoughts. I went out there though figuring at least they can play if I am a body on the field. Heck, I ended up enjoying it. I had more fun than I knew it was. I got to bat, and actually hit the ball. I stood in the outfield, not much action in. I even made it to home plate one time (with the obvious help of the batting geniuses behind me).

To round off my extremely active weekend I took Vandy on a 45 minute walk. She has not moved since we got home.

I started a new rotation. Psychiatry. I am on adolescent psychiatry right now. Learning a lot I figure. The hours on this rotation are AWSOME but I am unsure on my schedule. Everything is written on different papers and then there are all these papers to have attendings fill out and stuff like that. I think all the paperwork is a bit over my head. Sad, in medschool and I think paperwork for the rotation is over my head. I am working a good 8 hours a day (which seems awsome) but there is more down time to just get to know the patients and understand more about where they are coming from. So I say the hours are awsome but it is also just that you have more time to just talk to the patients and learn from them. Other rotations you spend a lot of time at a computer looking up labs or running around trying to help with the days work.

I have been using my sewing machine for quilting lately. It has been going better now that I have learned that I HAVE to super baste. If you do not then the fabric just bunches up to a rediculous amount.

Off to study neurology (2 week part of this rotation.)

Today I had this brilliant idea to go look for a geocache. After wasting a ton of gas (and therefore money we do not have) we found the spot for parking - but three cars had already gotten there clogging the spots up. Not a pleasant moment becuase vandy was whinning and I wanted to hike. We then drove on over to the jeep dealership, parked the car and took a nice walk on the rail trail. At this time the daylight was starting to disappear. We probably went about 1.5 miles. Justin would swear 12 (he did see a mile marker that said 12.) Here are some Vandy in motion shots. It is all I got. All blurry.

Thank God she was cute again cause as of 4 AM I was not thrilled with this dog. Lets just say it involved a bezoar. You can look it up.

Today I started my psych neurology rotation. It was nice. These people have a much nicer lifer when it comes to time committment. I think I am going to like the work on this service too. I am scared out of my mind about the test at the end. It will be on my birthday though. That will make me happy. I will have 2 - 2 hour tests and then I am done for 2 weeks. I can fully relax from about 3 PM on that day.

So I want to send my three little (but growing up) girl cousins a fun package of small gifts. Here is a copy of the image I used to make postcards. They will each get 4 with their names on them. I just changed the name and moved it around for Ashley and Alyssa. Here are some pictures of their gifts. Along with their postcards they will get earings (an extra set for amanda because I left her out before) and small travel tissue holders. I hope they enjoy.

I hope they like.

Tomorrow I start my last 3rd year rotation. I could not be happier. I even saved the least time consuming one for last. The test at the end is hard though so I guess it will even out with studying. I bought books today off a 4th year who is selling his. $45 for the three books I wanted. I figure that will save me a good $50. Now just if I could have about 3 or 4 more days off to recuperate.

I have hardly moved this weekend. I figured I would clean and do some crafting but I did very little crafting (and any cleaning feels like a lot.) I mostly just did nothing. Is that bad? It felt good but now I need 3 or 4 more days to do stuff that just I want to do.

Off to write more reviews on Internal medicine. I had a couple bad experiences so those were heavily documented already. I now get to finish with all the nice happy people I worked with. Thank GOD for them!

I love this tree. It is in the front yard. I like the pink against my white house. These blooms literally only last about a week (if that!) Its sad to see them go.

So soon after I took the above pictures it rained. I apparently missed the big downpour due to my normal post test nap (ok, I can find a reason EVERYDAY to take a nap.)

After the above mentioned nap discussion I will continue on to house cleaning. I am not a clean person and probably never will be (sorry to all guests.) I can live in my clutter and I own a dog who creates hair faster than I can clean it, therefore, I do not try to keep up with that (though my mom tries hard when she is here too, even with sweeping every hour, it is impossible to keep up but it is nice to have her here trying!) Now we bought a Dyson vacuum about a year ago. I am still a bit creeped out by my ability to fill the container multiple times while sweeping the same spot on the same day. Could it be sucking out carpet decay. Once again I was amazed by the machine tonight. oh well, floors are still dirty. My dream would be no carpet. I dont even care that its in the bedroom.

The rest of my day was filled with tv and making little lovely packages for my cousins. I have more to make on those and little notes to write them. They are each getting some cute postcards with their names on them, some earings (Amanda gets 2 sets cause I left her out on my last trip) and hopefully they will each get a tissue holder to keep in their bookbags.

This takes place of a whole paragraph about the “happiness” found in medical school training. I deleted it. Lets just say today has made me want to blend in. I can be found hiding in the back corner of rounds. I like my residents a lot though.

 Tomorrow is good. I will be welcomed into the department I will continue my residency in. This makes me happy. I took call on this night just so I wont be late to my welcoming (thank you post call day!) Call won’t be bad because I am with a resident who I have to beg to give me work. I plan to study more than sleep.

 Call rooms are interesting. This year we were blessed with a new call area. We use to be in a small single hospital room that had 2 sets of bunks in it. There was a bathroom too. It was miserable. Luckily we have moved up in the world to a hallway with more rooms. These rooms are still small but they now include some with single beds (boys and girls still have 1 room with two beds in it each), a lamp, a phone and A COMPUTER!! The old room I would creep in at midnight and try to find an empty bed in the dark. Could have become a disaster. Now the bathrooms are down the hall so the lights are on to find them. The rooms are at most 2 people in a room (but most have 1 bed.) If my pager goes off now, it wakes me up. Not the other three in the room with me. I like that. I like not being with the person carrying the trauma pager (I use to NEVER go to bed because of that thing.) These call rooms are nice. Maybe it was the plan. Show us horrible call rooms and then rip those out and send us to nice call rooms. I think we all appreciate what we have now! At least I know I do.Â

 Off to study.

Oh, my parents started a blog. BusyDingBat!I like it!