Holy cow... I just got offered a job on a silver platter and essentially I can say I need x, y, and z and they'll give it to me. Sounds great right... it's in Tennessee ( Read more... )

OMG, shoot me! Today sucked!! I figured simple tricuspid valve replacement wouldn't be too painful... didn't think we'd have to go back on pump (well almost) 3 times!!! 245 minutes, my longest pediatric run yet... second to the Argatroban case... why can't surgeons realize what they're good at and refer those cases they know they won't do well to ( Read more... )

I'm still baggage-less. 5 days later and they still aren't any closer to finding it. Saga of my week ( Read more... )

Last night ( Read more... )

So I did my first case at Children's hospital today... first all by myself pump setup and going on bypass, coming off... it was great. So it was an 18 year old kid, but whatever, it was still doing real perfusion FINALLY!!! So YAY for good case ( Read more... )

So living in small apartment complexes, or townhouse style apartments, I haven't had to deal with fire alarms. So last night went to bed at 11, got woken up at 2am by the freaking fire alarm. Whenever I hear alarms now i freak out, because that means the patient is at risk. So I jump out of bed and I'm frantically looking at this bookcase next to ( Read more... )

Okay so Chris is coming to visit my family in Phoenix for a week. He's never met them before. My house has 4 bedrooms all of which are occupied. All have twin beds, except the couch pull out which is a double. Chris and I basically lived together when I was in Indy: I slept at his place every night, or he slept at mine, ate meals together, ( Read more... )

52-14 Arizona over No. 7 UCLA--WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM?! Hello, we don't know how to win games, and not by that much over undefeated teams!!! Oh well...

GO CATS!!!

Funniest sight today... so you think surgeons are all high and mighty on the todem pole and for the most part they are. Well today a nurse lost a teeny tiny needle. They were looking everywhere for it. The surgeon finished up and broke scrub and started crawling around on the floor. He was under the tables, under the back tables looking for this ( Read more... )

OH MY GOSH!!! YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW THROUGHLY PISSED OFF I AM ( Read more... )