Temporary Shower

So here I am more then halfway done with third year. I am flying home right now from a lovely vacation in Costa Rica with my husband, my sister, and her boyfriend. I can't say that I am happy to be going home. A large part of me wanted to just stay in Costa Rica and never return but I have accepted the fact that time seems to move more quickly when you are having a good time. The only good thing is that I will be returning to family and friends and another week of time off. I kind of broke right before I left. I moved in with a friend when I started burn and I was fine the first day but by the second night, I was so sad I didn't know what to do with myself. Part of it is that this year is so isolating and moving any from Dave was hard. Intuitively I knew it was only for a week and I needed to do it so I can make the 6am work time but it was hard. It was also hard because everything was so new: the resident was new, the location was new, the nurses were new, the attending w

I can’t believe I am done with IM! It was a beast! I have never studied so hard in my life! I actually finished last Wednesday since last Thursday was Thanksgiving, It was nice that they gave us some time off because I am pretty burned out. Haha. I had a checklist of things I wanted to do during those 4 days from doing my laundry to pre-studying for Surgery but with all the family parties, birthdays, baby showers, etc, I didn’t even make it half-way down the list. The important things are done though and I feel refreshed from having a few days off. I seriously think I need a week off between every rotation! Here are some pictures: I was going to update the blog sooner but to be honest, I hadn’t gotten my shelf scores yet and I was scared I had failed. I talked before about how internal medicine covers 80% of what we need to know this year and to be honest, even with all my studying, I didn’t feel great coming out of the exam. The question prompts were long and I fe