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it has been storming here everyday for a week--we have been getting SOO much rain. our corn is still having problems though--definitely won't be knee high by tomorrow. I was checking out the hay today too--it's lookin good!! :laugh:
 
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Nikki2002 said:
hola 😍 did u have a good day?
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😀

ok get this. i'm on a team with 3 other people, each one of us was assigned a night to be on call this week in the neonatal ICU. I was scheduled to be on call tomorrow but we found out today that the peds department is giving all students the day off tomorrow.... translation, no call for me this week! :hardy:

and if that wasnt enough, we heard a rumor today from the students on the wards part of the rotation that the clerkship director has eliminated the oral exam from the rotation! on the last week we were supposed to have an oral exam followed by the national shelf the next day but it looks like the oral has been eliminated as a requirement starting with the class of 2008... ie, ME! :hardy: :hardy:

those were the highlights. the worst part of the day was examining a baby that was born today that was born to a mother that was drinking alcohol last night and using crack cocaine as recently as 2 days ago. 🙁

the baby seemed ok, he was actually larger for gestational age but that might be because his mom had diabetes during pregnancy and those babes tend to be bigger. we're just watching him for now and ordering labs on him and the mom to see if she passed anything on to him. the mom also had herpes but thats part of the reason the baby was delivered via c-section.

there was another baby in the unit whose kidneys were tiny and barely functioning. turns out his mom was on ACE inhibitors for the first 6 weeks of the pregnancy before she found out she was pregnant and thats what messed up the kids kidneys. he's eventually gonna need a transplant.
 
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that sucks bad that you were gonna be on call for the 4th of july but it definitely worked out! and you got out of one of your exams--that rocks.

That's a horrible situation with the mom that's addicted to drugs/alcohol. I'm glad the baby at least appears to be OK. I have an aunt and uncle in cali that adopted a baby who's mom had been using crack throughout pregnancy. My cousin is in high school now and she turned out just fine......she was rather (ok very) jumpy/hyper when she was younger and she has to take medication everyday.....it could have been so much worse. Actually they just adopted 2 other children 🙂
 
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Hello all, just got back from Pittsburgh. We went to Kennywood and I am a big fan, Phantom's Revenge is a great coaster.....diving right down a mountain on the edge of the Monongahela River. I think I road it 10 times, because it's the only steel coaster in the park, which I think is funny considering Pittsburgh is the "Steel City" :laugh: The park has a lot of great, old wooden roller coasters too.

I love amusement parks. Anyone else been to any good one's recently?
 
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ironmanf14 said:
Hello all, just got back from Pittsburgh. We went to Kennywood and I am a big fan, Phantom's Revenge is a great coaster.....diving right down a mountain on the edge of the Monongahela River. I think I road it 10 times, because it's the only steel coaster in the park, which I think is funny considering Pittsburgh is the "Steel City" :laugh: The park has a lot of great, old wooden roller coasters too.

I love amusement parks. Anyone else been to any good one's recently?
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I love Fiesta Texas - some of their roller coasters just rock!
 
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So I've been trying to finish up some secondaries and I just cannot bring myself to pay $130 dollars for Georgetown's secondary. I'm pretty sure I'll get in SOMEWHERE in TX, in which case I would choose to stay here over Georgetown. Should I just forget about it?
 
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Anastasis said:
So I've been trying to finish up some secondaries and I just cannot bring myself to pay $130 dollars for Georgetown's secondary. I'm pretty sure I'll get in SOMEWHERE in TX, in which case I would choose to stay here over Georgetown. Should I just forget about it?
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FAGETABOUTIT!

I had the same thought process, and I don't think I am a shoe in at any school......Georgetown's secondary is just too ridiculous, and it's one of the schools that I really would not like to go to (if I had a choice between any two) I axed it from my amcas at the last second 😀

BTW, I would bet my life that you're going to get into a TX school
 
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Arsenic said:
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ok get this. i'm on a team with 3 other people, each one of us was assigned a night to be on call this week in the neonatal ICU. I was scheduled to be on call tomorrow but we found out today that the peds department is giving all students the day off tomorrow.... translation, no call for me this week! :hardy:
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NICU 😍 That is one of my top fields I'm interested right now. I just found a NICU physician to shadow. I'm SOOOOOOOOO excited. They have "cuddler" positions in the NICU (volunteer) that I'm really interested in but no openings yet. I'm pestering them though.
 
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mshheaddoc said:
NICU 😍 That is one of my top fields I'm interested right now. I just found a NICU physician to shadow. I'm SOOOOOOOOO excited. They have "cuddler" positions in the NICU (volunteer) that I'm really interested in but no openings yet. I'm pestering them though.
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shut up!! you can be a cuddler??!! omg!!
 
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mshheaddoc said:
NICU 😍 That is one of my top fields I'm interested right now. I just found a NICU physician to shadow. I'm SOOOOOOOOO excited. They have "cuddler" positions in the NICU (volunteer) that I'm really interested in but no openings yet. I'm pestering them though.
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Yes, I do the cuddling once a week. It's insanely rewarding, especially when you get a baby suffering from withdrawal who really can't sleep unless she's being held tightly and soothed. And goodness knows, the mom's priorities are elsewhere; if we don't cuddle that baby, it just won't know a human touch other than the nurse's. The nurse usually has too much on her hands to sit down and have a good snuggle.

Really the only downside to that volunteer job is the occasional urge to sterilize (or just murder) some of the parents involved (or not involved) in the babies' lives.

But it's GREAT! I look forward to it all week. And every time I'm in there, I think, there's some poor pre-med schmuck getting his volunteer time in by cleaning some drunk's bodily fluids in the ER right now. :laugh:
 
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I really want that position. I am shadowing the doc who is apparently the med director at a local NICU this week (I start) and I'm hoping that can put me over the edge and get me a position. I would love to have more time right now to be on the peds floor (i've only been once this summer) but cuddling is really what I want to do. They have cuddling for the newborn nursery too but I really am interested in the NICU. I knew this summer I wouldn't have alot of time so I figured its not a big deal for now.
 
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Anastasis said:
PW and Mushy can relate to this...
TX storms are so amazing! I love watching them. I love listening to them. What I don't love is the absolutely hotter than hell feeling that comes about 30 minutes afterwards when the sun comes out and evaporates all the puddles and turns TX into ONE MASSIVE SAUNA!! :laugh:
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I don't know that it can be described any better. Living in TX, I never understood why people actually went to the gym to go sit in a sauna!
 
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Oh my gosh, the cuddling positions sound wonderful - those babies sooooo need that. I'm always in shock that there are parents with babies in the NICU who aren't there as often as they can be. 🙁 When both my daughters were in the PICU I never even left their room, let alone the hospital. If they had to be in the NICU, the only time I would have left is when they kick the moms out. I know different parents have different circumstances, but I think even if I had a baby there for an extended period of time, I'd at least be there several hours a day ya know? Heck, I won't even leave my 11 month old for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time yet.

I don't think I could go into neonatology - too much sadness. 🙁 I can't imagine the heartbreak when those little preemies don't make it or the babies who shouldn't have to be there (but are because their mom did cocaine or whatever). *sigh*
 
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oxeye said:
Oh my gosh, the cuddling positions sound wonderful - those babies sooooo need that. I'm always in shock that there are parents with babies in the NICU who aren't there as often as they can be. 🙁 When both my daughters were in the PICU I never even left their room, let alone the hospital. If they had to be in the NICU, the only time I would have left is when they kick the moms out. I know different parents have different circumstances, but I think even if I had a baby there for an extended period of time, I'd at least be there several hours a day ya know? Heck, I won't even leave my 11 month old for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time yet.

I don't think I could go into neonatology - too much sadness. 🙁 I can't imagine the heartbreak when those little preemies don't make it or the babies who shouldn't have to be there (but are because their mom did cocaine or whatever). *sigh*
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No doubt. I'd probably end up with about 20 kids by the end of the first year because I'd want to adopt them all!
 
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Anastasis said:
I've been looking for a new avatar but all the pics of VD I really like are too big. 🙁
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Ha I just now figured out why your name was VD. Never realized it meant Vin Diesel. I missed out on the convo where you were assigned that nickname.
 
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oxeye said:
Oh my gosh, the cuddling positions sound wonderful - those babies sooooo need that. I'm always in shock that there are parents with babies in the NICU who aren't there as often as they can be. 🙁 When both my daughters were in the PICU I never even left their room, let alone the hospital. If they had to be in the NICU, the only time I would have left is when they kick the moms out. I know different parents have different circumstances, but I think even if I had a baby there for an extended period of time, I'd at least be there several hours a day ya know? Heck, I won't even leave my 11 month old for more than 4 or 5 hours at a time yet.

I don't think I could go into neonatology - too much sadness. 🙁 I can't imagine the heartbreak when those little preemies don't make it or the babies who shouldn't have to be there (but are because their mom did cocaine or whatever). *sigh*
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yeah, i only saw a handful of parents in the unit today. definitely not enough for all the babies so i dont know where they were.
 
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Arsenic said:
yeah, i only saw a handful of parents in the unit today. definitely not enough for all the babies so i dont know where they were.
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🙁 A friend of mine had her daughter at 29 weeks - very sad, she was initially pregnant with triplets, then lost the fraternal one early one, then at 29 weeks one of the identicals died in utero so they have to deliver the other one early. Obviously she had a long NICU stay. She was there every day, doing kangaroo care, and only left at night. She said the nurses just raved and raved about how wonderful it was that she was there so much. Sadly, what she did just isn't the norm.

I've only been in the NICU a few times myself with the lactation consultant at the hospital - I didn't think much of it at the time, but there really weren't many parents there at all. 🙁
 
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gujuDoc said:
Are you talking from your new apartment or something??? Confused.
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No, I'm actually staying with my research prof for the rest of this month. I'll move into my own place the last weekend of July. 🙂

I wasn't sure I'd be able to get access here, because she didn't have a computer set up, but she must have a laptop that she took with her (she is out of town) and I was able to plug my laptop into her cable modem, and voila. 😎
 
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QofQuimica said:
No, I'm actually staying with my research prof for the rest of this month. I'll move into my own place the last weekend of July. 🙂

I wasn't sure I'd be able to get access here, because she didn't have a computer set up, but she must have a laptop that she took with her (she is out of town) and I was able to plug my laptop into her cable modem, and voila. 😎
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Makes sense now.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
 
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Well, it's official. The headaches I've been getting that don't get better with normal headache medicine are migraines. I went to the doctor and got some migraine stuff this afternoon for a killer headache that was making me feel sick to my stomach and cry because I felt so crappy. It worked!! I'm headache free for the first time in days!

This feels so good. 😀
 
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Nikki2002 said:
i am seriously scared of sparklers.


is anyone doing anything fun tomorrow?
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I would if I was at the place we go to in my hometown, but not here in the middle of nowhere wisconsin.

I am scared of sparklers and fire in general. Years and Years ago my mom started a mini fire by leaving the room when she had hot oil on the stove, and since then I've been scared of fire. I don't like lighting matches. The only type of lighters I like are those really long ones which caterers use to light candles at parties.


I like the snap and pop things that you throw on the ground and make a lot of noise with.


But mainly I just like to watch the big firework shows and don't care much for the other smaller stuff.
 
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Anastasis said:
Now that is too funny. I don't want to know why you *thought* I had that nickname 😱 :laugh: 😉
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I didn't think it meant what you are implying. Don't worry I knew that much. But I never did catch what it stood for either, so I was always baffled where it came from. :laugh: 😛
 
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Nikki2002 said:
i am seriously scared of sparklers.


is anyone doing anything fun tomorrow?
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nothing huge, just a bbq. damn it nik, i just saw on the activity sheet that we have to turn in at the end of the week that there is a section for "night call" that has to be signed by a resident. i'll probably have to make up tomorrows call some other night this week.
 
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