I am now on VACAY OF SORTS and not a moment too soon!  This week was shaping up to be one best spent away from patients.  Thanks to serendipity, I happen to ask off for the rest of it ( Read more... )

i just wiped out on my bike.

the weather was nice and superrice and i decided to take a ride into the country.  it is harder to do these days what with greedy developers casting suburban sprawl at odds with greedier resource companies planting gas wells across the landscape.  when i first moved to this area, it was nothing but cow pastures and rolling ( Read more... )

Ever get one of those little splinters where you can't see them but can definitely FEEL them?  I was the unfortunate victim of such a tiny barb.  I spent most  of the first half of my call wailing about between hammer-pages because I'd rub it just so and it would hit the one nerve in the vicinity connected directly to my thalamus ( Read more... )

Wasn't supposed to round today, but was recalled to do so.  Grrr.  Well, it did give me an excuse to wear my traditional Friday color:  all black.  Yup, Fridays and Valentine's Day are my designated black garb day.  I'll wear black other days too, but I always wear it on those days ( Read more... )