Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Ongoing Changes

If you can't tell, I'm in the middle of shaking somethings up around here.

You may or may not have noticed if you came here from a bookmark or previous address, that there was a feeder page and my blog has a new URL. If you're currently going, "What are you talking about?" you can pretty much ignore what I am, in fact, talking about. I originally wanted my blog to be orderly and systematic in its makeup. That flew out the window when my desired address, to match my desired title, "Paging the Doc," was not available. This led to the use of the alternate address -pagingdocgib- that you know and love (or maybe just bookmarked). Imagine my delight when I discovered my ideal name, that which so perfectly captures the essence of my writing (or maybe just the title of my blog), was available. I snatched it up!

So what does this mean for you? Nothing if you don't want it to. You can go to pagingdocgib.blogspot and be redirected here (although you will no longer see new posts in feeds/notifications), or you can do what the cool kids are doing and delete that old mismatched bookmark and save yourself a new new. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.

"But MG," I hear you -faithful reader- calling, "What about a real update?"
Well. If you insist.




From where we left off, I have now successfully finished my first year of school and am currently doing some summer work in Pediatrics. Let me repeat that.

I HAVE FINISHED A YEAR OF SCHOOL.

This is also known as, Good-lord-how-did-time-go-by-so-quickly or I-don't-feel-like-a-quarter-of-an-official-doctor. Other milestones? I have also now been married for over one year and, as expected, lived in a new city/apartment for the same amount of time. I cannot believe it.

The summer work in Pediatrics is going swimmingly. I have really enjoyed getting to see how the hospital system works, met some really interesting and fun patients, and its nice to see if I might want to do Peds for real. You know, when I'm done in 3 years (=insane.) The most amazing part thus far? Just how resilient and upbeat children can be. Some of these patients have acute problems that will be done in a week, others have lifetime chronic illnesses that will put them in and out of the hospital every year or six months, but all of them are so joyful and happy. They really add perspective, in the best possible way. Sometimes it's been heartbreaking, yes. But overall? I wouldn't change a thing.

Well. One thing. That my own sinuses would obey me and stop acting out so that I could be at the hospital now, rather than at home, seemingly blowing my brains out through my nose. I haven't had anatomy of the head yet, but I'm sure there's some kind of pathway/condition that could make that possible.

Until next time.