To start off: a picture of the belly with baby at 30 weeks gestation (8/28/10).
Let's see , what happened between last post and this one....well, LOTS!
#1 I finished Step 2 in Houston - Yipee! I have no clue how I really did since I couldn't get a read on the standardized patients. They were super stoic and unrealistic. OHSU has much much better actors and actresses! At least you can believe that they are real patients with real problems. I suppose as a nationalized test they have to be able to be "standard" as possible, but golly, they had NO interpersonal communication skills. Maybe it's Houston, maybe it's just the test protocol..I don't know. I can't imagine that it's that great at evaluating foreign students because real patients don't answer with so many "yes/no, nothing like that," rather they ramble and ponder until you get them back on track. If you didn't understand or speak English that well, a real patient's subtle clues would be harder to pick up on. Anyhoo, I just hope I passed. That was the most exhausted I have been in a long time! I went from working night shift to flying to Houston, adjusting to a time change, visiting with my aunt and cousin, trying to study and adjust to the heat/humidity, having a difficult preggo sleep, and then up early the next day for an 8 hour exam prior to my evening flight.
#2 Finished my Peds ED rotation. I really liked my time in the ED, but still not sure if I want to specialize in Peds-specific ED. I definitely got better at interviewing, examining, and treating little ones and their parents. Much of the time, kids bounce back quickly, but there are also several difficult cases that come into the ED...and its never their fault. I guess I need more exposure to the adult side of Emergency Medicine to really see if I can see myself as an EM doc.
#3 Volunteered for our Hood-to-Coast team. Wow, I wish I was running! I miss running/getting a good workout so much. My legs and arms feel like jiggly jelly, which is embarrassing. I know I should be swimming more and continuing to workout no matter how pregnant I am, but working at the hospital, sleeping, and eating have taken over my life the past month. Hood-to-Coast = AWESOME! The team I'm super proud of = Sole to Sea :) Being a volunteer wasn't bad at all since I got to see all the crazy teams and decorated vans. JD was a trooper driving the mini van almost the whole 197 miles, except during the ~18 miles he ran (3 different...difficult legs). I think we were both tired and crabby at the end, but sounds like it was well worth it!! (I have no excuse, I was tired because I had stayed up late with my mom shopping, sorting through hand-me-down baby clothes, organizing the dresser drawers, and being women with power tools trying to put up curtains....that we unfortunately we messed up on).
#4 Missed out on weddings, boating (wake boarding, etc), skydiving, climbing Mount St. Helens - but at least got to hear great stories and see pictures from the hubby's adventures. I guess such is the life of a med. student, or resident/intern. I guess I wouldn't be able to do much being pregnant anyway!
Just about to drive off to Bend from JD's dad's house. At this point, I didn't think that I would be seeing JD at all for 4 weeks. I was leaving for my Internal Medicine Sub-I in Bend, luckily staying with JD's momma where there's a nice bed, good company, and amazing meals!
Actually 31 weeks here, chillaxin' with the hubby when he came to visit in Bend! Super excited to get Labor day off AND be able to see JD after his weekend filled of fun at the cousin's bachelor party!
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