whiteheadmed

Happy May!

Things have been kind of quiet around here.  Just working and cooking and sleeping.  Twitter has proven a better vehicle for my random thoughts because they rarely require more than 140 characters anyway.  My 'tweets' come up on the right of this page anyway, so I feel like I'm being doubly-productive... triply if you count the ones that also go to facebook.  [wow apparently triply is a real word.]

I'm enjoying internal medicine, although I don't love being in the hospital, so I'm still pretty confused about what I want to train in.  Geography and logistics may play a big part of my decision, so I have a lot more research to do.

One random thing -- I bought reading glasses.  I'm actually near-sighted and I've been wearing my contact lenses all the time because... well, the last time I wore my glasses into the hospital, they fell off while I was changing a post-partum lady's diarrhea-filled .... ok I'm not going to bother finishing that sentence.  So yeah, my glasses are bent because they're 6 years old and they fall off way too much for the hospital.  But, happily, my glasses are 6 years old because my prescription hasn't worsened in that time period.  I believe this is largely due to that fact that I try to wear my glasses more than my contacts and either take them off to do any reading or typing or look over the rather thin lenses at anything closer than a few feet away.  I don't need correction for looking at things within an arm's length, and it's less strain on my eyes if I don't use correction for that.  So now that I've been wearing my contacts all the time and reading and writing and typing with them, I can feel my eyes straining and have noticed my vision is worse when I take them off at the end of the day.  Soooo I figured I would just cancel them out with some equally but oppositely powered reading glasses during those activities.  At this very moment I am wearing my contact lenses and my reading glasses.  I dont' have to worry about them falling off onto patients because I don't put them on then.  It's actually working out very well, and my eyes are starting to refuse to strain and read with my contacts in if I don't have my reading glasses on.  Anyway, I'm kind of embarrassed by this whole thing, because really, who does this?  I'm nervous about someone asking about them (what 26 year old wears reading glasses?!)* and me having to explain the whole story that I just explained above... and them thinking I'm a weirdo.  As you probably think now (but you knew that already, obvi). 

*the same 26-year-old who is going gray** apparently.

**white, actually.  Redheads can't go gray, we don't have that kind of pigment.  I'm going white.