the smell of jolly ranchers is quite intoxicating.

qoop has partnered with flickr!

wooooo!

i just ordered a book for annie.

this is quite promising.

ok… so i’m on call again– this time, without my trusty cell phone. poo! i have time to spare, so i’ll be updating regularly.

the good thing about today is that there are plenty of residents/interns around, so they help lighten the load of A-sheets. the bad thing is that i’m now competing with them for procedures.

0800: c-section for twins at 37 weeks. one boy, one girl. LOTS of blood, a big boggy uterus, and 2 placentas. sadly, i pretty much watched and cut sutures as the doctor did all of the work.

09ish: vaginal delivery of a full term (short, pudgy) baby girl. the newbie resident delivered the baby, i took care of the placenta. the mom and family kept laughing and shouting, “gordo, GORDO!” after the kid was out. hahahhaha.

1130: the head of the department hands over 90 bucks to a nurse to buy the staff lunch just for fun. the rest of the nurses bicker and whine and bitch over the type of food until the nurse gives up and decides to give the cashola back to the head honcho.

1300: watched as an inmate gave birth to a little baby boy. i pretty much held the little squeezy suction thingy. usless! the poor woman ended up with small labial tears. ouch.

1616: delivered a baby girl! woo hoo! the mom was a screamer– from the time she came in until the end of the delivery, you could hear her for miles. it was all in spanish, of course… so i had no idea if she was calling out for her mother or summoning the dead. next time, i think she’ll opt for the epidural.

1807: dinner. ew.

2130: schizophrenic-bipolar pregnant lady who likes to dance.

2235: EFF all the nurses. seriously. fat, lazy, angry, @*#%&#$& nurses. i’m bored, i have nothing to do, and i’m getting crabbed at. how is it that these people have not developed social skills yet? ::shakes fist::

0545: another A sheet

0630: rounds

0924: home.

the rest of the day in clinic was slow– vaginal exams and pap smears for random wierdness down there. it’s not exactly the most glamorous job… i’ll be glad when these 6 weeks are over. tomorrow, though i’ll be up on L&D– perhaps i’ll catch a few babies.

ryan and i jumped on the gold line and headed down to chinatown yesterday to meet up with katrina (and crew). it was… the chinese food festival of LA, a gathering of restaurants from around the area, with entertainment from random chinese youth groups, chefs, and a giant (soy sauce pushing) chicken.

after a short nap at home, we headed out to old town for dinner with maggie. after wandering down the street for a while, we decided on kabuki. mmmmm. i tried the sinus-clearing, quite painful to eat, horseradish filled tuna tartare (never again!)– a dissapointment to say the least. it looked pretty, though.

dessert was at the local Ghirardelli ice cream shop– where we stuffed our already filled bellies with an obscene banana split.

today, i’m boycotting food. we’ll stick with wedding planning and running at the gym. i don’t think my tummy can take too much more of this.

apparently, i have become a mentor– showing a nice lady the ropes in the clinic– how to fill out the h&p paperwork, what questions to ask patients, what you do for prenatal care, and how to do pap smears/pelvic exams. the strange thing is… she’s a resident. she and i worked on patients together all morning so she could get oriented, and would have done the same all afternoon if she didn’t have to run off to another floor. she asked me what other days i was working so that she could come down during her off time and shadow me.

uhm, yikes.

the clinic was busy today– we didn’t finish until almost 530– and i took 2 patients at once just to get things done (mostly because i was the only female in the clinic at the time, and the woman didn’t want a male to examine her).

now… i’m watching annie bake. cake is a wonderful thing.

this morning i rounded on our lone gyn patient before joining the team on ob. it’s great to follow the patients from L&D to postpartum to clinic. i feel like i know them.

clinic was crowded today– too many students, and too few patients. i saw a handful of patients, most notably:

- the not-so-sedated dementia patient who kicked me multiple times when i tried to do a pap smear on her.

- the nice patient who, after being hesitant about having a student examine her, decided to let me have a try, and afterwards gave me her buisness card and told me to call her after i became a doctor and tell her where i was practicing. ::sniff:: she likes me!

- and lastly, the r/o lichen sclerosis patient who actually had the freakiest looking fungal infection i’ve ever seen.

and now… time for a much needed day off.

saturday call has been strangely slow– i have time to hang around the floor and read. too bad i didn’t bring a book.

this morning started out fun, though. the resident and i were called out of morning rounds to deliver a baby. yay! i got to deliver my second baby– a big ‘ol slippery girl. too bad it all happened so fast that i had no time to put on booties– i ended up with gunky gunk on my shoes.

then… it was off to the tubal ligation. i have officially sliced a fallopian tube. woo hoo! it’s much more fun than cutting sutures.

luckily, the resident is quite busy, so she sends me off to do random things… like remove staples from a post-c-section belly.

after hours upon hours of non-activity, i was paged for a dilation and curretage for a missed abortion. it’s a 10 minute procedure… so now i’m back… waiting for midnight to start my notes. i’d be on AIM, but the hospital has blocked it. leave me happy comments to keep me company will ya?

in the morning, right before rounds, i scrubbed into a c-section with bilateral tubal ligation. i got to snip off the tubes. i have officially destroyed 3 fallopian tubes.