| Another wasted night |
[Dec. 7th, 2010|05:02 am] |
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| | Another Wasted Night by Bishop Allen | ] |
It's nearing 5am but I've been up since 3. A round of 3rd shift ER rotations have wrecked by body, leaving it confused and sickly. I love the work, stapling the scalp of a gal with clonic seizures, stitching up the forehead of a clumsy drunk, watching codes and way laying drug seekers with chronic pain conditions. I just can't stand the shift work. It's impossible to be a newlywed with a commuting wife, trying to forge your new home together and simultaneously keep up with Christmas plans when your body never knows which end is dawn. The strain requires extra stores of patience and understanding.
I'm increasing frustrated at my absent mindedness and inability to focus. Married life is not like college life. There are no days allowable to sleep it off or binge on senseless nights of videogaming. It's about making the most of the time allowed to you and serving when you can and the joy always comes. I unearthed the last written entry of Greytown, to be isolated on this defunct website. Perhaps someone will read it, but it's far too grand of a story to just abandon. My hope is that I will read through it again and find the spare moments, either in the ER or otherwise, to start writing again.
( Grey Town: Mock Warrior ) |
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| Metro Moments |
[Aug. 27th, 2010|06:23 pm] |
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| | This City is Contagious by the Cab | ] |
I know no one reads this anymore, myself included but I need to put my rare writings somewhere so here they go
( Metro Moments: Breathing ) |
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| The List goes on |
[Feb. 24th, 2010|02:32 pm] |
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| | One Night in October by Little Comets | ] |
1. Anemia of Uremia
2. Diagnosis of Exclusion
3. Shiga Toxin
4. FAT RN
5. Holiday Heart Syndrome
6. Cytokine Storm
7. Moon Faces (pronounced face-ies)
8. Coke Stroke
9. Christmas Disease
10. Electrical Storm
11. Thoracic Catastrophe
12. The Cow’s out of the Barn.
Some more medical terms that make me chuckle. It feels like all I do is watch lecture. Cardio has been a real beast. We're up to 103 lecture hours worth of material and headed full bore towards a comprehensive final. Courtney quit her horrid job which was a huge relief. The amount of strain it was putting on us both was crushing. Even though she did the supposedly "irresponsible" thing of quitting and trusting God to provide a job for her, she's already got a temporary position lined up that's right off of Okemos, instead of having to commute all the way to Novi and back every day. I'm looking forward to a more emotional calm after these last few months of storm.
My 2 month long illness has finally ended. God is merciful. At most I have a little congestion. Getting motivated for board study when my boards aren't for another 3 months is difficult. I really need to get a serious schedule going. They key is always staying on top in med school. Fall behind and it's all catching up, all the time. Luckily I have some good friends outside of med school that bring joy to my life. Monday night CMA followed by guy's LAN with rousing games of Age of Empries III, the occasional Wednesday dinner at the Petersons, whose mastery of food is so absolute you'd think they were professionals (Jim cooks and Dani bakes. Love at first bite!), Board games on Fridays and bible studies on Saturdays. Just enough to keep me sane. Just enough. |
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| Bamboozle |
[Feb. 9th, 2010|09:25 am] |
Believe it or not, even after a full round of antibiotics and daily use of a steroid inhaler, this cough still plagues me. Granted I can get a good night's sleep now, but I wish I could shake it. My Cardio exam was easily conquered by God. I definitely focused too much on EKG interpretation and not enough on the pathology. Still God provided a passing score for me.
Our root beer kegger/zombie sheep movie night was still a success despite having scheduled it foolishly on Superbowl Sunday. Honestly I didn't even realize, it was just the first Sunday that I didn't have an exam the following Monday. We had the first half of the game on but no one was incredibly interested in it. Black Sheep was hilarious, not ground breaking but very amusing. In a surprising twist, the med school gave us Monday off of classes. My theory? People were too drunk from the combined MOCF ball on Saturday night then their Superbowl binge on Sunday to ever come on Monday. Unfortunately for all significant others of med students, our next big Cardio level is the Monday after Valentine’s Day. Courtney agreed to celebrate on Friday, the 12th. The only heart I’m going to see on V-day is the anatomical one.
( GreyTown: Aphasia ) |
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| A Jester's final bow |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|09:56 am] |
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| | Perfect Timing (This Morning) by Orba Squara | ] |
It seems fitting that the final installment of the Crystalys saga should end as it began, while the snow falls. It's hard to imagine that the snowball fight that started it all was over 4 years ago. Has it really been that long since life was simple? Those are the kind of memories you know you'll never lose; the kind that give you comfort when you're old and things are slipping. The memories that keep you grounded. Are there more adventures with Pollo and the gang? Most definitely! Will they ever get out of my head and onto the page? Well knowing my motivation and luck, unlikely. Still I'm grateful to have finished at least a story arc, slowly however definitely. Thanks for all my loyal and semi-loyal readers. You've given me the inspiration to finish this, and I hope you enjoy it.
( Requiem for Winter's Eve: Part 5 )
I still haven't shaken the cold I contracted at the beginning of the month. The PA-C thinks I was reinfected, but I think she just got the wrong diagnosis. I was able to convince her to get me some penicillin and an albuterol inhaler. Hopefully I'll be able to kick this by the end of the month. Our Cardio exam is coming up on Monday. The lecture hours worth of material is reaching in the ceiling of 40 hours. It will undoubtedly be the most challenging exam of medical school thus far and the shivers of terror are easily seen in the entire class. Lecture attendance is at an all time high. All thoughts and prayers so that I can maintain motivation would be very helpful. |
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| So this is the new year, but I don't feel any different. |
[Jan. 17th, 2010|08:38 pm] |
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| | When We Swam by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down | ] |
So my vacation was just as relaxing as I needed after a semester of catching up. My arm is fully healed, final check up on Tuesday. Unfortunately I've been sick with a clinging Upper Respiratory Infection for the past week and half. My general congestion, sore throat and most importantly sleep loss has passed, but I still have a cough that just won't quit. My new humidifier is helpful, along with cough syrup with codeine in it. Hopefully I'll find some motivation somewhere to get focused and stay there.
I can't feel left out with everyone posting delightful entries to their epics. Here's a GreyTown entry. The first arc of Crys will be completed here soon. Heck I might read through the whole thing again. Has it really been 4 years?
( GreyTown: Tongues of Men ) |
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| Med Terms 2 |
[Dec. 14th, 2009|08:38 pm] |
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| | Studying | ] |
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| | Medicate by AFI | ] |
So I'm studying for my finals. I'm sure over half my grade for Female Repro (essentially OB/GYN) is on the line this week. I lost the medical term list sometime spring semester and just found it again. I'm sure this doesn't sum up all the unique phrases I've come across but it'll work for now.
1. Proud Flesh
2. Canal of Schlemm
3. Saturday Night Palsy
4. 5-FU
5. Candido Jacuzzi
6. Chocolate blood
7. Cherry blood
8. Therapeutic misadventure
9. Rainbow pills
10. Thyrotoxic storm
11. Fat, Forty, Female, Fertile
12. Mammary Souffle
13. Maternal Surprise
14. The test of touch
15. Daddy’s Little Girl
16. Inside out vagina
17. Vaginal obliteration
Feel free to discuss or ruminate. I'm back to the grind. |
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| I'm the fool who knows your tricks, but still they take ahold of me. |
[Dec. 9th, 2009|07:44 pm] |
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| | I'm the Fool by New Found Glory | ] |
I've been trying to cast my burdens up and I've had plenty to cast, but I've experienced provisions too. My course coordinator refused to relent, and surprisingly Delta Airlines was more passionate than a practicing physician. We were able to reschedule our tickets the 18th instead of the 15th. Courtney was the one who haggled the final price, only 50 more as opposed to the originally quoted 400. She's so incredible, never giving up hope even when I had.
I got into my first car accident, luckily with a friend than a stranger. Following a friend home, I rear-ended him when he stopped for deer and I couldn't respond fast enough. Got a ticket that will hopefully be reduced to a minor traffic violation, a PLPD covered car (read broken) whose busted headlight makes it illegal to drive at night, and my radiator is questionable at best. Still with my medical bills, there is little chance that I can fix it till January.
It feels like everyone close to me is hurting right now, in one way or the other. Everyone is struggling and barely breaking the surface. Still I'm realizing how little I can do for them, beyond just being open and willing to listen. I need to let go of burdens that I can't change, so that I can accept the things I have sway over.
My age old epic is nearing an end. Hopefully I'll conclude this long overdue story arc as a Christmas present to my loyal readers.
( Requiem for Winter's Eve: Part 4 ) |
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| Holding onto hope |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|11:17 am] |
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| | Kids by Make Your Exit | ] |
My surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving was a successful one. I got my two pins out of my arm, the plates and screws are staying for the indefinite future. As of now I'm relatively painfree but I have a hard time dealing with the no driving addendum. One the one hand I feel perfectly capable of small drives (nothing on the freeway of course) but on the other hand I have the karmic nag of not being compliant with my own doctor's orders and then inversely having my own patients not obey mine in the future. I decided I might walk to school today, just for kicks
Unfortunately, that Tuesday morning was a 7am exam. I was far too drained from the full anesthesia to be physically capable of taking it. Unfortunately the course coordinators are strictly rescheduling the make up exam after the 15th. Courtney and I already purchased tickets for Florida way back in September. If they don't acquiesce than I don't know what I'll do. This trip is more than just a vacation from MI winter. It is an much needed oasis after a semester of catching up what I'd fallen behind from with my injury. It was the hope that pulled me through the more harried nights. I'm talking to the dean of student services. Hopefully the idea of mercy will be more clearly understood in person. I'm willing to accept whatever decision, despite the bitterness it leaves me, but prayers would be welcome as long as there is a possibility of a different outcome.
( GreyTown: Worship ) |
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| Return to Grey Town |
[Nov. 25th, 2009|09:53 am] |
Got my two pins out Monday. It was a minor surgery but the anaesthesia wiped me out for the day. Another exam I'll have to make up come finals. As long as it doesn't interfere with my trip to Florida afterward I'll deal. Spending the Thanksgiving holdiay with my lady's family. We just celebrated a year and a half together last Sunday at Dusty's. They're Creme Brulee is the kinda stuff dreams are made of. Only a cheffeur could create better. I'm currently at Caribou, who in their infinite wisdom decided that melting real chocolate into their lattes was better than syrup. I couldn't agree more. On with the dour epic that fits this stormy Wednesday.
ALSO, agent57 turned me on to this deal, Amazon is giving out 3 free mp3s. If you're an indie musicophile like me, you probably have some odd songs that you cannot find by other, perfectly legitimate and legal yet thrifty means. This is a great solution and knocked 3 songs off my forever searching song-o-longs list.
( GreyTown: Hot Nor Cold )
EDIT: I used my extra gmail account to make a dummy Amazon account so I could d/l 3 more songs. Do I have a problem. Partially I'm just suffering from insomnia. It's 3am on a Black Friday but I'm too poor to use this alertness to hunt out bargains so I'm fooling a website into giving me free songs. Also, you'd think the med student would know this one but, is Vicodin a stimulant to some people? |
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