weekend

The weekend was over pretty fast. On Saturday I didn't have to go in to terribly early. I got to sleep till almost five am.... While watching my patient and waiting for his surgery to start I did get some reading done and then I got to scrub in on the abdominal wall closure of the incredible gun shot wound. I saw how a colostomy was made for the first time and I also got to see all the anatomy from the first surgery. The residents were really great and let each of (scubbed in or not) take a look and appreciate the work they had done two nights before.... It was really great. After that I got to go home and spend the rest of the afternoon mostly hanging out in the living room with Deb watching Animal planet and Travel Channel (their wild life program is really great)... Later that night we watched another really exciting Basketball Game. UofL played the number one team in the nation. They did make a lot of stupid moves, but after all they won - making their fans happy. (As I said before: red rules and birds are awesome!!!!)
On Sunday I slept in.... That term definetely has a different meaning now, because I was done sleeping by 7.30!!!! I would have never considered that to be sleeping in 6weeks ago! But it is amazing how well the body adjusts to getting up early, even though I still don't enjoy it and I am counting the days till it will be over, but it did get easier over time! Saturday was a really nasty grey day. But Deb and I went out anyway and visited the Mohammed Ali Center. It is a really cool place, but there is so much to see, listen to and do, that one can't get it all done in one visit. They did a really great job displaying all the stuff, but unfortunataly almost everything was on one floor and should have been spread out a little more, so that one wouldn't hear three audiopresentations at the same time, even though only wanting to listen to one.... He was a very impressive person, extremely selfconfident and I really liked that poem that inspired him:

Rudyard Kipling
If

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Once we got back home, we had another couch potato night eating tasty left overs and watching a chick flick ("P.S. I love you") We had a great girls' night since Tim was out somewhere in the woods being a boy....

Today I had to get up early again, which is always hard after a day off, because then I don't fall asleep quite as easily at night and don't sleep quite as well.... When I got up this morning I was suprised by a winter wonderland. It is finally winter in KY. Not just cold, but also white now! It was a little scary though going down the driveway, but I managed to get all the way to the hospital without any major problems..... Probably also because there weren't all that many moroons on the street yet! They day in the hospital wasn't very spectacular. It was a good day. I got to assist change the dressing on my patient and do a few other things with our resident. Unfortunately I still did not get to put a central line in, but my resident knows that I would love to do that before the rotation is over and I hope I'll get the chance sometime during the next two weeks.
Now I am back home, hoping that the roads won't be too slippery tomorrow....