30 hours

It’s been a while since I updated! Surprise surprise. I’m currently on a dreadful 30-hr overnight shift. This is my first time being on call on a Sunday and I hate it for many reasons. One, I have to miss church. Two, there are no scheduled OR cases which means I am dying of boredom. Because of my ADD personality, I’d rather be scrubbing into surgeries and doing work on the wards than just sit around and wait for my trauma pager to go off. Ahhh this is so painful. Doing nothing is painful. I don’t understand how people do nothing. Lol. Well, at least I have time to write in this abandoned blog!

Anyway, so in my last post I left off at the end of peds. Since then I’ve finished ob-gyn (which I hated) and outpatient surgery (which I loved). I could write a whole post simply about how much I hated Obgyn. But long story short, there are way too many power-tripping chicks in it for my my liking. On the bright side, it’s becoming more and more clear what field I want to do. I still wanna do something in peds. But I’m also realizing that I’m more of a surgery person. I would never do general surgery bc I want to have too many babies (haha), but I like working with my hands, doing procedures, and fixing problems immediately. This is where I’m torn. Do I want to do general peds and have long term relationships with my patients? Or do I want to do acute/critical care like emergency or anesthesia? I don’t want to give up either procedures/acute care or the continuity of care that I get as a general practitioner. Maybe I’ll do a combined residency in pediatrics AND anesthesia? (UCI has a program). Hahaha.

I’m on inpatient surgery right now which is supposed to be the hardest rotation of the year. It’s been manageable and very pleasant so far. Sure, I have to wake up at 4am everyday and work 100+ hours a week, but you get used to it. My team is super nice and great to work with. The attendings are good teachers for the most part. I have 2 more weeks here then I’ll be at the VA to finish off my surgery rotation. I’ve just been counting down the days til winter break. Not only is break gonna be awesome, but my schedule is gonna rock after winter break. Bring on the super chill life of neuro and psych! Weekends off? Yes please! 8 to 5?? Yes please!!! It’s gonna be glorious. After the last 4 months of Obgyn and surgery, psych/neuro is gonna feel like I’m on vacation.

Otherwise, life has been good. Steve is an amazing husband and I thank the Lord for him. Last week he made dinner for me for no special reason, then packed the leftovers for me to eat the next day. I nearly melted. I don’t know how he can be so loving and gracious to me everyday. Im not saying he’s perfect and we definitely have our moments (we probably have the funniest newlywed fighting stories). But I’m grateful to have a God-fearing husband who genuinely strives to obey God in all aspect of his life, whether big or small. He truly lives out the lordship of Jesus in his life and leads our family in that direction. Its not always easy because I tend to be very fleshly and love the world too much. But that’s probably the reason God had me fall in love with a pastor! Hahaha.

Wow my fingers are hurting from typing on my iPhone. Until next time, happy thanksgiving everyone!!

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