One more day

Only one more day of surgery!! I am so freaking excited. It has actually gone by really, really fast...especially as much as I dreaded it. I gave my presentation today. It wasn't bad and Dr. Record said I did a good job. So I can go into work tomorrow stress free:) Just some rounding on patients and med recs. I guess I should explain med recs since some people that may read this are not pharmacy people. My job on trauma surgery (besides making drug and dosing recommendations to the team) is to collect home drug information from the patients. So I either get information from them, their family, or their home pharmacy. That way we can see what they are on at home and exactly how they take it. So if they need it and there are no contraindications we can start it back in the hospital and also see if they need to restart it once they got home. Tons of fun!:) But anyway...Adam and I are going to celebrate after we both get off work tomorrow. yay! I love having a great boyfriend. I'm glad he's not working far away tomorrow since it's supposed to snow. I don't like when he has to drive far away when it's supposed to snow...even though we're only supposed to get 3" now. Mom and Dad are supposed to get more in BG. Warren County schools are already closed tomorrow. So ridiculous. It's not fun anymore when you're in the real world and need to be at work. And next year will be even worse, because if I can't make it to the pharmacy it can't legally be open...talk about stress:)

Who wants to do my presentation for me?

So once again I am exhausted. It's not like I actively do much on this rotation...but it is just the fact that I get up at 4 AM and usually don't get home until 3-ish. Today I got home at 2...so bonus! I have to finish my presentation though. I have been working on it since Monday, but I still have to finish at least a 3rd of it and then feel comfortable knowing what I'm presenting. I vote for Sofjan to go first tomorrow since he took a personal day today:) I shouldn't have stayed up to watch the UK game last night. But I'm a fan, so I took a nap yesterday and stayed up to watch the game...which was pathetic. Yes...they played like absolute crap. I'm tired of other fans saying that it was the refs fault. Kentucky played like shit. If they had played like they were capable of playing it wouldn't matter that picky fouls were called on them and not on South Carolina. So it was not the refs fault. Kentucky needed a loss. You could tell the players were starting to get cocky. Most of the team had come straight from high school and were put on a pedestal because of the great start to the season. So maybe they will be a little more down to Earth. It just stinks that they had to lose to Coach Horn and his child molester haircut. He's had that hair ever since he coached at WKU (probably ever since he played for WKU) and it is so gross looking...agh. It's kind of funny that people are blaming Obama. The general message is that he's screwing up our country and now he talked to the team and they screwed up. Pretty funny. It's a whole different sports world here in Lexington:) So people calm down. UK will be in the tournament, and will probably still have a #1 seed if not the overall #1 seed.
I;m starting to get majorly stressed about getting out of the real world. Where am I going to live next year? How are Adam and I are going to be affected? I know we will be fine but it will be a different dynamic. What kind of car am I going to get? How will I handle having to pay all of my own bills and my huge loan payment. Everyone tells me I have all kinds of money...but they don't see the bills I have to pay. I know everything will be okay. I'm just nervous...

Snow, Snow, Go Away!!

I do not want it to snow anymore!! I know it is only the end of January, but I want Spring weather. I have gotten used to the 40 degree weather the past week and would like for it to stay that warm. I hate, hate, hate cold weather!!! Argh. It's not fun when you have to be up and presentable in cold weather...no more sweat pants or jeans for me:(
So this weekend was fantastic at work. I think I ended up getting the best weekend for the month on this rotation. Saturday I got out of the hospital at 11. And yesterday I left at 9 after being there for only 2 hours. Today, all 3 of us got to leave at 10 AM because we needed to work on our presentations. So I am trying to be inspired enough to put together a presentation on cocaine withdrawal/overdose and the pharmacologic treatment. Yippee.
After Friday I will only have 2 rotations left. Crazy huh? I know some of my friends remember when I was applying to pharmacy school and worried about getting an interview and being accepted. I remember Beth writing all over our dry erase board in the dorm in Northeast when I got the e-mail saying I was accepted. I remember Lori getting me through first year and coming to my white coat ceremony...and in less than 3 1/2 months I will be walking across the stage as a Doctor of Pharmacy. It blows my mind and I am super excited!

Motivation

I seriously need some motivation to start working out...or some sort of exercise. I mean, I don't even get off my butt anymore once I come home from work. I am always so tired from being up at 4 AM and at the hospital at 5 that I just want to come home and take a nap or relax. I am going on a cruise in less than 6 weeks...but I have kind of given up on looking good in a two piece. I mean...I'm going with 4 of my good friends who know I'm not ever gonna be the skinniest thing ever...so yay.
So I have never followed politics that much, and I don't really claim either party anymore. But I would like to say that I am somewhat relieved that the Democrats didn't win Mass again. I mean, being a soon-to-be healthcare professional, I don't want to see socialized health care. Working in a pharmacy already, I see people everyday that are taking advantage of Medicaid and it is so irritating. But I also see people getting screwed over too. But at least there is some opposition to Obama's plan so that at least there will have to be some sort of compromise to get this plan passed. I don't want something that is going to give everyone everything. That will squelch motivation for people to work. I already see too many people that have no work ethic and still get their expensive drugs for free. But I digress off my soap box because drugs are too expensive too. And people that have to buy their brand name Prozac are stupid when there is a much cheaper generic that has been out almost forever and works just as well...argh.
I'm almost halfway done with my trauma surgery rotation. This has actually been an enjoyable rotations (besides the going to bed at 8 PM and having no life part):) I've got to see a lot of cool stuff...like the butcher who slipped at work and fell on a life...cool huh? And there are really positive things too...like the woman who has been in the hospital for 3 months and was pretty much a vegetable at the beginning of the month due to a really bad motor vehicle collision that killed her husband. But last week she started eating, walking, talking and comprehending. She is back...and actually went home today. I was so excited!
I have really enjoyed being in Lexington this month. Adam and I are settled back into our routine. Whenever he doesn't have to close we'll eat dinner together and hang out and watch tv. I am so lucky to have him in my life. We hang out with our friends too. I hate when people totally drop their friends for their significant others...since that has happened to me several times in the last 6 years. Hopefully Adam and I will continue to have social lives as well as personal time. One of my favorite things is cooking dinner together. We always cook together, and it's fun to spend time together in the kitchen. I am one lucky girl. Oh yeah..and I graduate in less than 4 months!!

Trauma Surgery

I have finished the first half of my 8th rotation!! I am at UK on the Trauma surgery service this month (otherwise known as Blue Surgery). I have dreaded this rotation since September...but I hate to admit that I actually like it. The worst part is not having a life since I have to go to bed before most people even think about it, but I really like the rotation. I have to round with the team at 6 AM. So I usually get up at 4:15 to leave my house by 5 so I can get to the hospital and look up labs and drug information on my patients before we round. I really like that the doctor I round with values my opinions and listens to my recommendations. Since we are the trauma service, we make sure that patients are on anticoagulation to prevent deep vein thrombosis since most cannot walk and are very immobile. This service really is a good lesson to why you should pay attention when you are driving...and also a good message against driving while intoxicated. Many people have multiple broken extremities and undergo multiples surgeries. We've seen several people that have wrecked while having alcohol blood levels of 0.200 or higher. It's crazy. My craziest patient of the two weeks is a man that came in due to a chainsaw cut to the neck. He was using a chainsaw and it kicked back and cut him in the neck. Luckily the chainsaw only cut the nerves and blood supply to his right arm...and not any other major artery. At the moment he has lost the use of his right arm (besides wiggling his fingers), but he is very lucky to even be alive with an injury like that. Even better than that...he's already out of the hospital in less than a week. Pretty impressive if I say so myself:)
I'm going to go ahead and wish my brother a happy 30th birthday tomorrow! I can't believe he's already 30:) I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it home to celebrate, but I am sending him well wishes from here.
The cruise is booked and flights are booked!! I'm so ready for February 28th to get here. Six weeks...yay! I really need a vacation:)

2010

Happy 2010! I am so glad the year that I finally graduate for good is here!! I have been waiting for this for 20 years...so I'm excited to say the least. I got to spend time with some of my great friends on New Year's Eve downtown. Then Adam came to visit me after work so I got to ring in the New Year with him...even if I wasn't the nicest:( But I've made up for it. Then yesterday and today I stayed in Versailles with Adam and watched sports all day. It was great to lay on the couch ALL day yesterday and watch Bowl Games. I love football. I probably could watch it all the time. Today we watched the Cats beat the Cards. Both teams played pretty crappy, but I was just glad to beat Rick Pitino. I think it's funny how Pitino is talking about players not having morals and he's the one cheating on his wife with someone in a restaurant booth...yeah..real good morals. Anyway, I digress:)
I have to start Surgery rotation on Monday. Not too excited about that and the early mornings. But I think Adam and I are going to hang out all day tomorrow before we both have to start working again. I've really enjoyed the past few days, but I guess I have to start earning my degree at some point:)