THANK GOODNESS IT’S SPRING BREAK!!!
I’ve been on break now since last Friday at 3 p.m. after my final midterm. Needless to say it’s been amazing! 
I was able to sleep in, not have to get up at any certain time, and, best of all, I haven’t had to go to class!!!
Monday was great, as I spent time with my sister and nephew. He’s gotten so big. He’s only 3 months old and already weighs 20 pounds…and he’s wearing clothes for 9-12 month olds. He is so cute though!!!! And he’s a really good baby….he’s just ALWAYS hungry! Didn’t really do anything Tuesday, just relaxed and did some stuff around the house…same on Wednesday as well.
Yesterday I came back to STL for a conference…it was on various topics ranging from Trauma Case Studies by the chief trauma surgeon at SLU, to toxicology of various party/date rape drugs, and my personal favorite, forensic death investigation by the chief medical officer of St. Louis (also a SLU doc)
After the conference I drove up to Chicagoland, which is where I am now. Spendin’ some time with the boy while I can. He’s tryin’ to get my to buy a 360 so he can kick my ass in COD2 from 300 miles away….LOL.
Other than that not a whole lot has been happening….same ‘ol stuff….class, study, and work.
Work has been exciting lately. With the weather turning nicer, more people have been getting out. And when some people get out, things tend to go crashing….and then we get a trauma. Exciting for us, bad for the patient. For instance, last weekend, Level 1 trauma, guy crashed his car into a tree. He was a freakin’ mess…got the whole works: 3 IVs, labs, xray, CT scans, 4 units of blood, and a chest tube all before goin’ up to the ICU.
Once we got him up to the ICU, he started crashing…he ended up getting a lot more blood and two more chest tubes. He coded and they called it. They shut everything off, took him off the monitor and vent…then he started spontaneously breathing on his own. So they had to put him back on and everything and resume working on him. I think they finally stabilized him….after 3 hours.
I’m taking this weekend off from work since I’m up here visiting Scott. We’re just gonna be hanging out and relaxing…he’ll probably kick my ass in Call of Duty 2 some more….he likes to do that…LOL.
In other news, I have to have surgery sometime this summer. It’s nothing major, I’ve actually had this particular operation three times before. It’s an operation on my left ear, to replace the implant that serves to connect my incus bone to the cochlea. More than likely, the implant in my ear has either been displaced or simply stopped working, which has effectively made me deaf in my left ear. After my last hearing examination, my hearing was less than 50 percent…so apparently i only use my right ear to hear stuff. Prolly why Ii’m constantly asking people to repeat stuff.
Well, that’s pretty much all that’s new with me….time for lunch!
