At long last, here are the answers to the questions commenters asked in a post last month. I know I’m inexcusably late in posting these, but I had an international move with a baby, organizing the house and the start of a new semester. I know, there’s always something…
Rather than spend pointless time editing […]
One of the things that intrigued me about my program is that we actually had a surgery class our second year, well before our official clinical rotation 3rd year. I assumed this was because by teaching us basic skills, we could do our clerkship being of at least minimal usefulness right away (at least in […]
Change of Shift, a nursing blog carnival sponsored by Kim of Emergiblog, has its third edition out. Nurses always have good patient stories, and a collection like this is always worth the read. Check it out!
I went to a local pharmacy to buy distilled water to make baby formula with. Baby does get breast milk, but not enough for her hungry appetite, so formula it is. Obviously, you don’t drink the water from the tap here, and most everyone including me has water service from one of several providers […]
…or so Bush’s personal morality would label me. I have tried very hard post-Katrina not to have hardly any political content on this blog. This is yesterday’s news, but I’m posting today because I was debating writing this at all; I don’t need to drive away the small (and dedicated–bless you) readership I have for […]
My iPod croaked on the trip back. That’s why I hadn’t posted last week–I was too despondent. Just kidding. I don’t know what happened to it, honestly. I never dropped it (recently), never spilled anything on it, and never subjected it to wild temperature variations (such as leaving it in […]
I’m finally back!! Actually, I came in last Thursday in the wee hours, but the fact that it took from last Monday to Wednesday night/Thursday morning to get here should tell you the hell we’ve gone through. Traveling with a newborn is hard–very hard–even for short trips across town, much less internationally. Traveling […]
This morning we are driving back to Mexico with our new (old) car driven by my sister-in-law, a trooper who wasn’t daunted by the drive (and staying for a mini-vacation). This is my/our first caravan into Mexico. I hate caravans. The drive is stressful and long enough by yourself much less worrying/coordinating […]
Hello from HOT south Texas. It’s been about 98 degrees with supersaturated humidity. I took the trash out the other day at around 9:00AM and broke a sweat. It’s surreal to not have your heart rate elevated, no feelings or signs of exertion, yet be sweating like there’s no tomorrow just from being […]