Thank you all for your kind notes, both encouraging and congratulatory. You guys are seriously the best!
Weekends are not long enough. I’m still so tired from all the recent stress, plus the intensity of my last rotation and I’m trying to get sick. At least one more day of sleeping in would be amazing.
Instead, I start another Internal Medicine rotation tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. The information and experience I got from my last one was great and I feel like I learned a lot but, for the most part, I do not like the clinicians who work in that department. They are all type A in the most extreme, horrible way and most of the ones I worked with made me feel like I knew a lot less than I really did. I mean, we’re all learning, we’re going to get a lot of questions wrong, especially when these cases we’re seeing are complex and referred to us from regular, general practice vets who reached the end of their ability to diagnose, treat, etc. Blerg. Here’s to two weeks of feeling like an idiot!
In other news, this weekend has been great. After the wonderful news from my oncologist, we went home, hung out for a bit, and then Aaron and I headed out for the Franz Ferdinand Sparks concert. We got there early and managed to snag spots in the very front of the audience and were about 5 feet away from the stage. It was a really fun concert! The bands collaborated so well and truly seemed like they were having the time of their lives on stage. There was much terrible, nerdy, adorable dancing on their part. The lead singer of Franz Ferdinand usually does the goofiest things with his legs while playing guitar but at least has a guitar to occupy his hands, but for some of these songs, he didn’t play guitar and had the most hilarious, awkward hand motions. It was delightful!
Yesterday, Aaron, mom, and I went to Sever’s Corn Maze, not for the maze, but for the petting zoo. I’m never sure if I should be morally conflicted by things like petting zoos because they could potentially be stressful for the animals involved and children can be dicks, but I also really, really like petting and feeding animals. Luckily the animals there looked really healthy, the pens were clean, it didn’t smell, the animals were very eager to be fed by visitors, had lots of room in their pens, and the ability to move away form people if they’d had enough. It was so much fun! In addition to the usual goats and miniature horses horses, there were kangaroos (!!), wallabies (which are the cutest things in the world!), zebu, a water buffalo, various little deer creatures, Brahman cattle, emus, and ostriches! We spent so much time petting and feeding them all. I loved it. And I am in love with wallabies!
Terrible picture, but so cute! And little! And their fur felt like a cat’s.
Then we wandered around, watched a wildlife show involving a skunk, a tiny gator, another wallaby, and an anaconda. And then there were pig races, which are hilarious :) It was a good day.
I’m fighting off a cold type thingy. Last night my right tonsil was enlarged and now it’s back to normal, plus I’ve been mildly sore-throaty and so tired. I really hope I can avoid a cold until this Medicine rotation is over with. I have an externship the following block and it should be more laid back so being sick would be less awful since I’d probably actually be able to get adequate sleep!
I should go do some NAVLE studying (just over 6 weeks until the exam! Eek!), ponder showering, avoid thinking about this Medicine rotation, and relax while I can.
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