-finally got a day off after working 13 days in a row.
-switched from services from Surgical Intensive Care Unit to Cardiology Intensive Care Unit. Intern year is like having a new job every month. I don't do anything long enough to feel comfortable.
-went 48 hours without sleeping.
-then slept for 13 hours straight.
-got a new couch for our family room. After all, two months of watching TV on the floor is enough.
-make cookies with Roman and Blaise.
Every post must have pictures, so today, you get cookies.-Placed a Swan-Ganz catheter, a catheter that measures pressures in a patient's right heart and pulmonary arteries, for the first time. A completely awesome procedure!
-Went pumpkin picking. And forgot my camera.
-Got the heater/cooler/windows/fan fixed in my car, just in time for weather to turn cold. Okay, Keith did this one.
-Watched snow fall from the window of a patient's room
-Balanced my checkbook.
-Yelled at the TV during a college football game.
-Make mashed cauliflower, which made the boys throw up at the table. I thought it tasted fine.
-Fell in love with my boys all over again.
This coming week, I plan on...
-Raking leaves.
-Celebrating Keith's birthday (two days late, because I am on call on his birthday. Boo.)
-Buying Keith a book for his birthday, and then hurry and read it.
-Carving pumpkins.
-Calling my sister.
-Going for a walk in the fall leaves. If it warms up just a little.
-Missing college football due to taking call on a Saturday.
-Considering opening my cardiology tutorial CD.
-Submitting a receipt for a ridiculously expensive textbook to hopefully get reimbursed.
-Kissing my boys after they fall asleep every night I am home.
You are so rushed you are at the list making end of living. But you ARE living and living fully!
ReplyDeleteThe cookies are almost too beautiful to eat, they could go in a mall window display.
Early snow made the aspens drop their leaves green. Waah! We are waiting for the great walnut tree to yellow and drop its leaves so we can do the leaf jumping.
A cardiac cath! Wohoo! Amazing things you are doing. I'm waiting for it to warm up so I can clean the garage. I think its sort of like waiting for good luck, right?
wow! you are amazing. I wish I had the engery you had. If I had worked that many days in a row, I doubt I would have the engery to do all the rest of that.
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