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It astounds me that I can say that I'm attending the #1 program in the nation for my profession. Craziness!
I LOVE it when I see a patient, tell them my assessment and recommendations, and then my preceptor comes in and tells them the EXACT same thing. I've had some issues with my level of confidence when I see and then present patients to my preceptors. I am just never sure of myself. Slowly but surely =] OMG only four rotations left! AHHHHHHH is PA school really going to be over and am I really going to be moving home in 6 months!? Crazy.
You know what bugs me? Girls on Facebook who whine about not getting a gift or demanding a better gift because they weren't satisfied with what they received. I would kill just to SEE Thai on Valentine's Day. Thai has gotten a lot done on our house, and is almost done with downstairs. Is it not April yet?? I want my spring break so I can go home!
As my cousin put it last week, things have really been looking up for me since I met Thai. I've gotten into Duke, been able to take some awesome vacations, and the best yet...gotten engaged to the most wonderful person in whole wide world who also just recently bought us a house! I cannot WAIT to come home and move in. The whole idea of us having a house to ourselves is so exciting. Thai can't sleep thinking about the house and what he wants to do with it all the time. He's actually already went out and bought practically all the furniture for downstairs and the appliances.
Do people who work in surgery ever sleep? I mean seriously. I have been on this rotation for 3 days and I am over it. My body just hates me. My legs stood for 11 hours worth of surgery yesterday. I hardly get any sleep. I have no time to study and then show feeling stupid because I have not had time to study anything if I want to be functional. I was falling asleep all day today. Is this month over yet?
Um, yeah. I've totally been MIA on this thing. Last post was in September??? Guess the clinical year isnt really conducive to blogging...in my spare time I'd rather catch up on sleep. Currently wrapping up rotation #5. While I whined a lot about this place, I really am gonna miss it. There are some really good people here at WAMC, people who love to teach. Even if I spent the day staring and not doing, they'd still make an effort to teach me something new. But all that aside, I am SOOO looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again...none of this twin bed in student housing business.
I'm not sure how I can't seem to get any luck with rotations schedules. 2nd rotation I end up with the notoriously worst preceptor. 3rd rotation I got like the majority of the overnight shifts. There are six 4pm-2am shifts. I got three of them. All of which are on Mondays. Including the first day (yesterday). I got home at 4am this morning. THEN I also got three 11pm-7am shifts. Five other students are on this rotation. One girl has ONE overnight shift. ONE!!! wtf. Another guy only works ONE weekend. I work every Sunday. Gah. Let's hope the ER is good to me.
Thai told me that his latest coworkers saw my picture and felt that I didn't look full Vietnamese. All non-Asian people of course.
"So they think I look mixed??"
"Yup."
"Mixed Vietnamese and what?"
"Mexican."
That would DEFINITELY be a first.