Last Wednesday I presented two mortalities and my clinical correlations case at conference, then ran out to the side of the hospital to catch the procurement car before it left. We drove down to Springfield to get ourselves a liver and drove straight from there to Central DuPage for another donor liver. By the time we got back it was 2 in the morning. The livers finished by around sunrise, then we had two scheduled kidney transplants. And I was on call that night, trying to make sure that nothing crazy happened. On Friday morning I stuck around long enough to ligate an AV fistula, then somehow made my way back home, some fifty-four hours after I'd last walked out.
On Saturday I attended Sarah Lee's wedding. I still can't believe one of my old youth group kids is married now. And I - well, I am no closer to getting married than I ever was.
I have been getting a few offers from random people at work to be set up with their friends. I reflexively turn them down, in no small part because I don't trust that they know what I'm looking for. Especially since I don't know what I'm looking for. But the offers seem to keep trickling in. I guess the scent of desperation isn't hard to pick up on.
I'm writing this early in the morning after another long call day/night. I had an appendectomy, a liver and kidney transplant, a second appendectomy, and of course, no sleep. Hopefully I can get home at a reasonable time and get some ABSITE cramming in today.
Yeah, so maybe I'm a bit married after all. Ol'-ball-and-chain, thy name is surgery.
Monday, January 24, 2011
2 comments:
My friend says she has a lot of girl friends you might find interesting. John Choi is working on his magic to set you up as well. In few days, I'll be too old to turn down a set up either.
Remember what that kid told me three years ago? If you're not married and you're thirty, you might be gay? Time to redefine our relationship.
wake up, study, stress out, study, cry, study, pray, sleep. repeat. 52 days until the MCAT.. I don't know if you were depressed during this time, but I am genuinely depressed.. and losing sight of the bigger picture. Hope all is well. It's okay if you don't get married, at least you have your career! I'm 22, and I've realized that I might have to sacrifice marriage to this goal. At least there isn't a prenup. :)
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