So sorry everyone..it's been a little while since my last post! Jonathan and I have been extraordinarily busy with work. Last month I came in with a work hour average of 79 hours per week....and those were only 6 day weeks. I guess the bright side is that I'm finding out how tough I really am :-) Working as hard as you can for 30 hours straight without a break is not fun, but the little patients make it worth it!!! For example, our peds nephrologist went out of the country at the end of last month, leaving...shall we say a GIGANTIC void? I was the nephrology resident and this was not very much fun let's just say. I got through it and learned a lot (like how to write dialysis orders), but the most rewarding thing was seeing my sweet little patients get better! I had two little boys in particular during this time. They are both 7 years old and one has very severe nephrotic syndrome. It was really really scary to manage him without our attending, but seeing our little puffy guy improve was so much fun, and so worth it :-) The other was a little boy on peritoneal dialysis whose PD cath quit working. Surgery kind of fixed it...but again, we had to manage him without the boss, so that was quite the learning process (although at least I didn't have to write hemodialysis orders :-)) It was a lot of work, but he was a precious little boy and it was such a thrilling experience to see him get better too. The beginning of this month was insanity as we all changed services! I'm now on Cardiology as well as general inpatient. We have had SO MANY cards patients! Yesterday I was post call and had to round on 10 patients (2 of whom were really sick) which nearly killed me! Anyway, even though as I read back through the above it seems kind of unpleasant, I'm still enjoying it immensely and feel SO lucky to be doing what I'm doing :-)
Jonathan has been working just as hard over the last month. He finished internal medicine (YAY!) with flying colors (top grade and really excellent comments from his attendings) and is now on surgery. Today is his last day on ENT (a two week rotation), tomorrow he starts Urology which is for 2 weeks, and then he will be on general surgery at the VA for a month. He's really enjoying ENT! He's also become know as quite the smarty pants on surgery too since he studies all the time :-) He is still thinking that he wants to do Oncology, so he has really loved learning about all the head and neck cancers on ENT. He's also been really sweet to me! We get to see each other at the hospital now and he always makes time to have mini-dates with me at our favorite little spots around MCG :-)
Last, but not least...the Shih tzus. They have had a busy month too...they have stayed outside guarding the yard for longer hours during the day since we don't get home until later. They understand though and are ok with this. On one particularly bad call night last week, Jonathan did a photo shoot with them, printed out the picture, and then designed a frame for it. He brought it to work as a surprise for me along with encouragement cards from all the dogs :-))) (What an amazing husband he is :-)))
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