Beazlie is now a week or so out from her surgery and, after a few rough days, is doing okay. She had 35 stones removed from her bladder and the two troublesome claws removed from her paws. I was really hoping that I’d be able to bring her home on the night of the surgery, [...]
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An answer to that question.
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
happiness is….
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
- days/nights that are cold enough to start wearing turtlenecks and fleece vests
- locally grown apples
- the tomato plant in my yard still growing/ripening tomatoes
- a check engine light that spontaneously resolved less than 24h after appearing
- the parade of socks that await my return home from work each day
- that things at work are [...]
Lighting up the Darkness
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s “that” time of year again – it’s dark when my alarm goes off in the morning, and more often than not, the sun sets before I leave work. My car has frost on the windshield in the morning, and I’ve returned to wearing a hat and scarf.
I was about to write that I don’t [...]
The joy in small things…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My second year started with a bang – or a whiz’pop’whoops’zing!-bang. I started the year with a rotation that is new (and “improved,” as they keep telling me) but being in the first set to “try it out” means that the other resident and myself are the ones discovering which things weren’t quite 100% right. (missing vacation days [...]
The 53rd week.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This week was the 53rd week of my intern year.
The new interns arrived this week, bright eyed and bushy tailed and seeming more than ready to dip their toes into the ocean that is residency education. As that ocean is vast and filled with things like computer training, getting’to’know’you activities and patient encounters that ease [...]
three weeks til I’m a second year.
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
despite a long weekend (using up the very last of my vacation days) this is all I’ve got.
Iz and her tail, round one from kristen on Vimeo.
It’s Izabelle, on one of her calmer “tail chasing” sprees. Both Izabelle and Beazlie have been troupers during this recent change in schedules, though they have been “helping” me [...]
Inertia
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
the end is near – my first year of residency is over in less than 8 weeks.
(I can’t figure out how to keep writing because that alone is such a big “stand alone” sentence for me. This year has been simultaneously flying and dragging along and the notion that my residency is now nearly 1/3 [...]
happiness is…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
once upon a time, on a former blog of mine, I tried to come up with weekly lists of things that helped me to see the little aspects of my day/week that made life better. Given that my posting here is spotty (at best) I thought I’d dig in again, and see if this will [...]
The Teeny-Tiny Runway Challenge, part one
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ann (of Mason-Dixon knitting) has issued a challenge: pick a model (stuffed or statue’esque) and knit it something fabulous.
Step one: pick a model.
say you have at your disposal, the following:
- one floppy, very soft pink pig (that pic is from ebay; my pig can be see here, on the bookcase in the background)
- one tall and plump’in’a’pear sort of [...]
the “back to work” blues
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have much to say and lots to share, but I can’t seem to find a positive way to do it right now. Hopefully things will shift (ever so slightly?) I’ll feel better about what I’m putting out there.
Tonight is the last night of my vacation and I’m doing all I can to avoid the [...]
