i’ve just finished my third week of intern year!  woo hoo!  call has been less painful than expected, but i’m on night float this week, so we’ll see how long i last.  the entire hospital is buzzing about the last harry potter book… so i caved and read the first in the series yesterday.  i bought the next two today.  hopefully i’ll be caught up by the end of the week enough so that my eyes no longer glaze over when the conversations start.

woke up to scary alien millipede monster bug near my closet. freaked out, made ryan get up and kill it for me while i freaked out in the bathroom. then my mouse stopped working and somehow ended up in my work bag.  then… i shoved a kashi bar in my mouth and a can of coffee in my pocket and ran off to work.

today my team was admitting all the peds patients, so i watched them roll in– 6 in all. mine:

- teen with chest pain, troponins bouncing up and down, diffuse ST changes –> pericarditis

- practically-an-adult-should-know-better teen who drank some jimson weed tea and proceeded to wig out and become “mad as a hatter, dry as a bone, red as a beet”. CPKs are up, so we’re running sodium bicarb to counteract the acidosis from the ensuing rhabdo.

- huge-ass hordeolum on this poor kid. optho to consult tomorrow. it’ll probably be drained in the AM.

otherwise, i discharged my old kids and finished my dictations and now… it’s BBQ time.

first day on peds was less painful than expected– yay for me. people are nice, the list is light, and they feed me mashed potatoes. the hours aren’t as bad as i thought, either.

today:

- baby with hernia, s/p resection of ischemic bowl.

- baby with pyelo

- more babies with pyelo