Life + Train = Lifetrain?

Well life seems to have it's ups and downs in time. Lules and rushes. To this very second(about 1 minutes after I open this back up again) I don't know why I am writing here, since it seems like I have kind of given up on my blog. My wife kind of knows what I do everyday even if I do leave some of the more graphic details out of it. I continue to tease her everyday so that hasn't changed. Most of what I do on here was that. But it might be that right now I'm bored waiting for my proctor to get here, or it could be that I don't really explain much about my life. I might also be that a 3 month lapse was enough to make it so I could come back refreshed(ish). I'm almost done my 5th semester of medical school now. Currenly on my 5th rotation, 6th if you count my study time at home. Radiology is my new rotation which is quite a bit different than my last ones. In many ways it seems. Radiology is different than most other specialties in general. Sitting in dark offices looking at CT scans, MRIs, XR films, US, or Mammograms. However the differences don't just stop there. As a student in a busy office here, the doctor doesn't have time to stop and explain every little detail to me, show me exactly where he is looking and what he is looking for. In fact this particular doctor manages not only all the radiography of Astoria, but 2 other practices in Louisiana, and a New Orleans parish prison's radio graphs. So the hours are long, starting early and ending late. In addition I'll be coming in on the weekends with the doctor for anything that comes during those days. Instead of learning all the nuances of radiography, instead when interesting and different diagnosis come in I look them up, refresh myself on them and come up with a ddx, or try to at least. I study up on what would be the most advantageous model of radiography to ask for each clinical diagnosis. We do some interventional radiology as well such as barium swallows, epidural steroid injections, abscess drainage etc. Well those are what we've done so far, we might be doing some bone aspiration in a week or two as well. Anyway radiology is definitely off my list of what I might want to specialize in, although I hope that this month will be learnative for me. Even if I'm not interested in a specialty there is always learning for when I go to practice I can understand the science/art of medicine better than if I just focused on my individual practice with no outside understanding. Thanksgiving time is almost upon us, and we won't be going to the family trip this year. Well I guess Kristen could but somehow I don't see camping as her preferred choice of how to celebrate Thanksgiving. Especially with my family. Not that she hates us of course, she loves my family of course. But love comes in small doses (apparently she doesn't understand that tickling and light forms of physical torture equate to love {love you babe}). So what we'll do for Thanksgiving I don't know yet. I don't even think Kristen knows. Since she's pregnant I don't think that long term planning is really a forte of hers right now. She has become an expert at nap taking though. Although to be honest she is up when I get home these days. Although that could be because I am getting home 7-8 at night instead of 4-5 and so her 4 hour nap is done by the time I get home. I have also been told to make a better effort to leave anything marriage related out of this blog, and by marriage related anything she wouldn't want her family to know about especially with a 8 yo sister. So not marriage as in "marriage" but marriage as in MARRIAGE... hint hint nudge nudge sort of thing. I don't really know where the line is drawn since what I think is appropriate and what Kristen thinks is appropriate is obviously separated by a wide gulf. In fact I did have a funny story about what my wife watched the other night... but I cannot write it sadly. Anyway. So for Christmas I have Sarah and my brother-in-law Aaron who just got off his mission and is engaged to his soon-to-be wife in January I believe. I have been told to keep all presents PG or nicer(since when have I ever done anything else). Funny thing is that we had Aaron for last Christmas as well, not that it matters of course. Still can't believe I have to keep this blog PG just in case someone reads this(not that they will, but have to keep up appearences). As usual not much to go on, so I'll look around and figure out something they would enjoy having from the heart... usually weird things that no one ever knows about but are like... that's totally awesome afterwards. Getting kind of exhausted at my radiology rotation so I'm going to end this I guess. After 12 hours I don't know what to say anymore I lost my train of thought so rather than try to get it back. I'll gracefully exit

This is the song that never ends.

As promised here I am to write again on the blog, this is 2 weeks in a row, I'm so amazing. Especially because of the name of this post. I bet you started singing it over in your head huh? Anyway, big thing of the week was going to watch WWZ with Kristen Saturday. After weeks of chiding her and teasing her about it(she didn't want to see it) she finally gave in and went with me. I guess I went and saw enough horrible movies with her that she felt compelled to go watch it with me. About 30 seconds in she was cringing. 2 minutes fingers covered her eyes and ears. After that it got better(ish). Now at night I whisper things to her about zombies from the movie and it freaks her out. Last night was ..."they're attracted to noise... shhhhhh". Other than that it was a slow easy week with only 3 days of work due to the 4th of July. So we wached some movies, didn't go to the 4th of July breakfast because she slept in after the flag ceremony and was too embarrassed to go in a little late. Hubble got stung by a bee or something this week when he went outside with Kristen one day. She said he swelled up a bit, but I didn't see anything. He is always at the windows yearning to go out and have the freedom of outside. Whenever we open the doors to go outside he is always trying to escape. But when he gets outside he'll sniff around everywhere but is afraid of everything out there. Cars, dogs, ppl, anything freaks him out. A real scardy cat. I've seen a few members of the church here in the doctor's office. Which is weird, due to HIPPA I can't communicate with them until they talk to me first etc etc outside the office. Other than that I've seen a lot of allergies, uncomplient patients, have done a lot of OMT for Dr. Baxter probably because he wants to go on and see more patients and not get too behind. I did get to go drain a mucocele from a guys foot... it was pretty nasty, all this clear junk came out, lubricant like, very slick stuff. I've seen druggies and then watched/heard that they had to go to the ER within a few hours after see us from mixing medications and drugs or too much drugs etc. I went in with one, got her history etc etc etc, came out and was talking to Dr. Baxter. He told me to follow into his office where he showed me her nicotics history... hundreds of pills mostly given by a OB/GYN who knows why for "pain" so basically he said no to her lol. I was suprised that it appears to be so prevelent etc. Very sad. Drugs are a big problem around here in Astoria. For the 4th of July Kristen was like let's go to the beach afternoonish... afternoon rolls around and it's grey and cool and not the beach time she wanted. She made up for it by telling us we'd go Friday. Same problem... Finally I was like, let's just plan on going to the beach one day when we're free and it's actually warm outside. So basically who knows if we ever go to the beach or not. she wants to go but there isn't really much. I'm currently in the process of buying a new phone. Since I'm in rotations now, we've finally caved in and got a smart phone. It'll be for the applications and quick access to doctor stuff that I need. Dr. Baxter is already teasing me about how any books I carry around are outdated and that electronics are the way to go. I wish I could just do that, however we're poor and in school blah blah blah, so I'm slowly working on the cool stuff all the kids have. Since we're married we need to be more careful about what we spend money on. We're not single like all the other students who can just blow all their money on liqueur and cheap sex and cool gadgets. Oh well I think that's all for this week. Let me know if you guys have any questions/ comments etc... I'll talk to ya'll later