Week Re-cap!

This week flew by!

On Wednesday, my M&M presentation went great and then at noon our team handed off our phones and pagers to the attendings so that we could have our annual resident retreat. 

The weather could not have been any better. This whole week has been beautiful. As homesick as I get, I cannot deny that I love the North Carolina climate.... I am convinced my mood is directly proportional to the temperature and inversely proportional to the number of hours I have left on call - HA!

We started with a team lunch at this delicious Sushi & Burger spot called CowFish in Raleigh.

Lunch with my fab team

Then we met up with the rest of the residents at the bowling alley.

The next four hours were spent with my class, outside (as you can tell, we are all starving for Vitamin D) at this adorable coffee shot as we came up with our schedules for THIRD YEAR. I cannot believe it! I feel like we just got here...Then the whole program and their famlies got together for dinner in downtown Durham. It was a great day!

I got my new necklace this week that I talked about in this post: link. I love it! 

Currently finishing up my weekly ritual of laundry and cleaning the house. Now all I need is some motivation for working out...

This week I start my Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility rotation with UNC Fertility. I'm going to miss the OB-heavy service at Wake, but this will be a great learning experience on treating menstrual cycle irregularities and how to help couples who are battling infertility. I'm really excited! After that I will have been through all the subspecialties of OB/GYN.

Hope you all are having a great weekend!

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Happy Spring!

Things have been stable over here...Still working...a lot. LOL

This week is my last week at Wake Med and my last rotation here as an intern. It's so hard to believe that I am almost a second year resident! My second time out at Wake has been so much better than the first. Mainly because I know a lot more than I did in August. I am starting to really feel like I have a good grasp on this OB thing. And in preparation for second year, I got to even do some GYN surgery - which was a huge change of pace from our OB heavy first year. I think my heart is with obstetrics, but I must admit that laparoscopy is pretty cool!

Below is a video of a tubal ligation. You use a camera and instruments in one tiny incision to clamp the fallopian tubes and preventing pregnancy.

We finally managed to get some family photos taken around Valentine's Day. I thought it would be poor form to send out Christmas cards that late, so we will try again next year haha...

 

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we also had a couple of "winter storms" in Carolina. One of which, caused me to have to stay in the hospital in between my night shifts...still bitter about that one. Everything shut down for multiple days, but you could still see grass!!

My Midwest kid was pretty excited about building a snowman :-)

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The littles are doing awesome. It hasn't gotten any easier being away from them so much, but we are all taking this crazy life in stride.

Happy Match Day! I cannot believe it's been one year since The Match. Such an amazing day... I hope all you fourth year med studs out there get to go to the program of your dreams! So ready to hand off my pager to the new interns ;-)

#FBF Headed to UNC!