Is this not a weird poster? Why do you need a naked lady on a diabetes
poster? And why does she have the body of a pin-up from the 1940s and
the face of someone who was around in the 1940s??

Doctor: "Have you been taking your medications every day?"
Man With Alzheimer's: "When I remember."
Doctor: "Do you think sometimes you forget?"
MWA, very matter-of-factly: "It's possible."


I feel much better today, so who knows what that was the past two days. Also, apparently it takes Mono (EBV) 30 - 50 days to incubate, so I'll let you know in a month what happens.

Bleh

I'm getting some kind of sick, a headcold I think. The worst part is that I feel so weak and achy. I'm just praying that I didn't catch Mono from one of the three patients I saw with it last week. Not that I made out with or shared a soda with any of them, but one poorly timed spit particle flying through the air and landing on one of my mucus membranes...
It's weird because I'm not sleepy tired, but my body feels very weak. I'm sure if I lie here long enough illfall asleep though -- that's one of my many talents!

Chief Complaint of the Day: (as written by one of the medical personnel)
Headache, snizzing, and cough.


p.s. why is it so so cold outside??

Also, congratulations to Chuck and Carol! They have a brand new baby girl :-)
They are going to be wonderful parents.

and it's only Thursday...

quote of the week, in reference to my leggings:

"Do those come off?"

--A family med doc at orientation on Monday

I was wearing a dress with leggings underneath and he was looking for a volunteer to demonstrate the leg exam on, and I was the only person in the room not wearing regular pants. While I was explaining that I also had pantyhose on under the legging (he looked confused, I was blushing), Adnaan kindly announced that he had gym shorts on under his exercise pants and he could strip. Thanks again Adnaan! Besides the awkwardness of the conversation, I really didn't want to have to sit on a desk in front of everyone with a dress on, and no leggings. (Why couldn't have have demonstrated the exam over leggings?)

I'm breaking out in hives... must be time to jump into a new rotation! Yay odd reactions to stress!

I didn't accomplish much this weekend except A LOT of cooking. It's one of my favorite ways to spend my time. And with the money that Glen and I would have spent going to out to dinner for Valentine's Day, I was able to whip up an awesome three course meal. We had cheese fondue, crepes with lobster in champagne sauce (my own recipe), and chocolate fondue featuring pretzels, pineapple, banana, maraschino cherries, mini raspberry cheesecakes, and home made caramels. We actually spread the feast out over two nights because we got full in the middle.

I also cooked for some friends who I thought could use a freezer full of food right around now. They got beef and veggie soup, macaroni and cheese, and coq au vin (one of my favorite childhood meals), all en masse. All of those recipes came from our collection of Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast cookbooks, which we got as weddign gifts and with our wedding money. They make the most amazing food! Although, "fast" is used loosely. I can't imagine the complexity of W-S's standard cookbooks.

So on a different note, I am currently taking suggestions for what I should do with the rest of my life. Preferably medicine.. or business.. -related. Please be nice.

Well, that was fun. There's nothing quite like taking a major exam to the steady sound of a urinal flushing on another floor. That is one busy bathroom.

Now I'm enjoying my inter-block weekend! And it's Valentine's Day, so we'll be cooking some goodies up over here.

I'll try to write more often, or at least post some amusing things..