I miss the days when I would sit down at my journal and let the words flow from my aching fingers like sad notes from a broken radio. Lately, I've become an old man. I go to bed on average at 9:30 p.m. everynight and get up in the 4:50-5:30 a.m. range to go to the hospital and do hosptial third year medical student things. I hang out with my ( Read more... )

I used to really enjoy this holiday and this season. Unfortunately it's fallen on an unfortunate time in my life: my surgical rotation. Currently, I'm doing my Orthopedics rotation and really not enjoying it, but enjoying surgery. I'm really excited that I get to do two weeks of neurosurgery and a month of general. Orthopods are kind of an ( Read more... )

I have my own chronic medical condition! Hooray! I'll be on meds for the rest of my life! Double Hooray! I have primary hyperhydrosis which excessive sweatiness despite normal thermoregulation. My hands and underarms are chronically sweaty. The only reason I've done anything about is because I'm doing surgery and I can't have my hands filling up my ( Read more... )

It seems like the only time I ever update this stupid thing is when I'm on call which happens a whopping two times a month. Well, it sucks to be on call on a Friday, but nothing's gonna break-a my stride because guess what? I'M GONNA BE A FUNCLE! That's right the moon! My brother just called me with the news that he and his wife, Susan, are going ( Read more... )

So far so good. We had a very productive band practice tonight. We nailed 5 or so songs that we've been working on and added a very, very cool touch to Just Like Heaven. One my bandmates, Roy, got a professional grade Shure mike which is really a joy to work with because I can hear myself louder and clearer than I have been able to in the past. It' ( Read more... )

So, I'm doing my first in house call at a real hospital. The VA while it resembles a hospital in form and function is not, in my opinion, a true generalized hospital experience. I'm at CUMC this month and I think after I get done here I'm going to mosey down to the ER to see if I can intubate a drunk or something. I doubt it, though. Why? Because I ( Read more... )

I'm at a very interesting new time in my life. I used to be an angsty, perpetually sad, anxious, tattered boy. And like a snake, it seems I have shed that old skin. I can scarcely come to terms with the person that I have become/am becoming. There is no more angst, there is no more sadness, no more desperate, lonely thoughts. It seems like between ( Read more... )

I had a rather interesting weekend which involved me getting more intoxicated at a party than I had planned to and being essentially paralyzed on the couch while people went back and forth, all I could do was sit there like a sedated animal. Autumn is coming. I both love and hate Autumn. I love the drop in temperature, the falling rain, the change ( Read more... )

I'm really getting more comfortable being a frontman of a band. It's funny the things you learn about yourself when you push yourself. Until I joined this band I've never had an opportunity to hear myself alone and be comfortable with how I sound. Most of my practice is just in a car with my CD player and maybe some lyrics sheets. Tonight we had a ( Read more... )

Something tells me being on call at the VA is a lot more tame than being on call at most hospitals. We're not a level 1 trauma center so there's no point in waiting downstairs in the ER. I'm in my call room right now. It's not bad except that it's in a creepy, creepy part of the hospital. I share a bathroom with a potential UNMC student. Now just ( Read more... )