Well, surgery is almost over. 1 more week to go. And I will be spending that week in "pee-pee land". At least that is what the urologists refer to themselves as. Am I looking forward to it...maybe. I guess it all depends on what I get to do and see.
I have call tomorrow. I have to go in at 8am, so I decided today would be a free day of walking around and exploring brooklyn. I took the B16 bus to Bay Ridge, walked around a bit. Saw GI Joe the movie (which was very action packed). Took the B63 bus to cobble hill. Walked around a bit. Then headed home. I was gone from 9am until 6:30pm. Long day, and my feet are extremely tired. But, it was a gorgeous day outside and I saw alot, so the day was not wasted!
This past week, we had our written and oral examination for surgery. The written was a typical SGU test....one with no relevance to what we are actually doing NOW...which is surgery. I felt I was taking an internal medicine test for the entire 2.5 hours. I had to rely on lots of stored medical knowledge from Grenada in order to answer some of the questions. Whether I got them right is another matter. The oral was better, although I quickly realized that from the moment my preceptor said "You have 15 minutes", my downfall began. I was too worried about not having enough time so I was rushing through the exam, trying to spit-fire all of my answers. I received a B+ on my oral. And I have an A average for all of my write-ups submitted over the last 12 weeks. I'm hoping that my presentation, which is wednesday, will be good enough to bump my overall course grade to an A. I'm presenting on traumatic aortic injury.
Last weekend I traveled home for Sacco's wedding. I arrived late thursday night after my flight was delayed by an hour. On friday I had lunch with Laura and some of her co-workers. I went out to dinner with my family (minus my sister because she was working). After dinner I headed to Mit's for a beer and some chatting. On saturday I had alot to do. Running around in the morning, giving the dogs a bath. I missed the wedding ceremony because of all of these little things, but I did not miss the reception which was very nice. Sacco looked beautiful, as did the hockey team!!!
After the reception, Laura and I met up with Dy and Amanda at the Electric Company, stayed until closing, went to Denny's, then passed out at 3:30am. My flight was supposed to leave on Sunday at 4:30pm, but Jet Blue cancelled it. Any other time I would have been excited except I brought only one medical book with me to study from, with the rest of my books and notes at my apartment in Brooklyn. I figured I would be home early on Sunday and could do some studying. No such luck. My flight was changed until Monday at 12:30pm. So, I watched Law and Order marathons and Discovery Health on day and night on Sunday.
And that is the re-cap of the last 2 weeks!!
Okay, it's 8pm and I'm off to bed. Everyone have a great night. Talk to you soon!
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