Thursday, April 22, 2004

I'm soooooooooo tired of studying for these OB/GYN exams that I want to cry from sheer exhaustion. Tomorrow night the block party is at a bar with a mechanical bull. I can almost predict that if I dare to get on that thing I'll fall off and hurt myself yet I'm intrigued and hey, I'll be able to say that I rode one...temporarily. The whiplash injury potential scares me.
I guess I'll read the handouts from lectures while I eat dinner then go to sleep early so I can get up easily tomorrow morning.
~me~ at 5:56 PM

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

All done with OB/GYN clinical duties! Now just to prepare for the tests on friday...starbucks here I come. I'm learning to enjoy the iced chai latte.
~me~ at 8:51 AM

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

I hate cancer.

Okay, let me expand since I think most people hate cancer but I really really hate it. There's so much crap to know about various female cancers such as the different grading or staging systems used to both describe the cancer and provide an estimate of prognosis and of course each cancer has it's own system. Actually this rotation has taught me that being a woman sucks. I think I need to revisit my urology friends and learn all about male only cancers and problems so I can be glad to have 2 X chromosomes. Oh but wait, there are genetic conditions where someone is XY and appears to be a female. Since I've had menstrual cycles, I can rest assured that I am genetically female. I hope Amber is right about not getting diseases once you learn about them. These are some nasty problems that I've read about.

Well, I guess I better review all those stupid staging and grading criteria for ovarian, cervical, uterine, vulvar, vaginal, and fallopian tube cancers...I might have missed one but you get the point of my frustration.
~me~ at 5:56 PM

Well...I had another dairy binge over the past week and now the lactase no longer is working. Yes, I made sure I just wasn't taking enough but with 3 lactaid ultras (the box says not to exceed 2 but that's just a suggestion) I still had major upset tummy issues. So now I'm using soy milk instead. And now I think my body hates peanut butter since I've been eating PB sandwiches almost every day at school for the past 2 months. I couldn't finish the sandwich today because it made me feel gross and my tummy got all weird on me. By the way, I'm keeping the language non medical today for your reading ease. Oh and then during preceptor soy products came up and that apparently can cause issues with bad uterine bleeding with freakish women...and you know I automatically qualify for having freaky physiology. I don't care...I'm sticking to the soy milk but that's mostly because rice milk tastes gross. Stupid lactose intolerance.
~me~ at 3:56 PM

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Robin had her baby! He was born on April 13 after 15 hours of fun endured by robin. In the end, the baby was given a shorter name: Remis Gabriel Repcak. Pictures will be posted later. This is so exciting! I can't wait when I go to Oregon to see this cutie...by then he'll be more interactive but apparently he already has little personality quirks...like making it difficult to change his diapers. Time to go to bed...no patients as of 8 pm so tomorrow will be nice. Wednesday is the last day on the job then exams on friday. Peds starts on Monday and so it will be cool to hear about Remis' milestones as I learn about them in the books.

~me~ at 9:50 PM