Who Else Feels Crappy?

[pseudoknot]

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Well, several of the clinic patients I was there to see were much less sick than I am.

You have a rotation where you have to see clinic patients? That sounds like the worst part of your story right there.

 

[Valerie2481]

Ok, so update from me: still drowning in lab work and reading, accompanied by money worries and a dash of awful back and neck/jaw pain. However, thanks to my awesome new doc, I'm now feeling much better. I don't know what the heck he did, but no more enormous painful knots in my back! Yay for osteopathic manipulation!

Quote from the doc: "Wow, are you always this tense?"

 

[alienwares]

Unfortunately, I think I may have broken a bone in my foot trying to dodge a campus biker.

This thread is nonetheless awesome.

 

[QofQuimica]

Still sick. Still tired. Still sick and tired. Still forcing myself to smile and be nice to unreasonable people when I feel like strangling them. I'm too sick and tired to try strangling them anyway, but not too sick or tired to cough, cough, cough. For the record, that is some nasty sputum I'm coughing up, and I have seen plenty of other people's nasty sputum in my five short months as a doctor. I think I've coughed up a gallon of it by now. Enough to fill up both of my lungs like two or three times over. Ugh.

 

[km17]

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[vc7777]

vc777, your story reminded me of this:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/04/wild-animal-simple-dog-goes-for-joy.html

LOL! Whoa...

WBD and simple dog must be the same breed: Canis non-cognito subspecies: mingere domus (literally "house pisser")

Because WBD not a month ago went berserk when she saw a life-sized ivory pony (where/why there was a small horse statue made out of ivory is a WHOLE other story...).

 

[n3xa]

I think I caught Q's bug via the internet.



😡 😡 😡

😛


🙁

 

[wholeheartedly]

vc777, your story reminded me of this:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/04/wild-animal-simple-dog-goes-for-joy.html

oh I Loved that one.


cracked me up soo much the first time I saw it. we had a cat like that actually.

 

[LupaCupcake]

husband is sick....
now I feel it trying to attack me!😡

 

[MD Odyssey]

Don't worry, your griping will improve with practice. My fellow interns and I are masters at it. I can't wait to see how much more I'll have improved by next summer when I'm a junior. 😉

Still coughing, still reduced voice volume. Six more days 'till my next day off. Dreamt that I was a fugitive and upset because my luggage got left on the bus after I was arrested but escaped the first time. It was a very hush hush arrest to avoid embarrassing my family, but still. That's my stuff, man. Sigh.

Just got back from visiting my girlfriend for the weekend. Haven't seen her in two months. Won't see her for another two months.

 

[dmf2682]

A quarter mile into my 14 miler I notice a twinge in my knee. A quarter mile later I notice I'm limping. Two miles after that my calf is so tight I've to stop and stretch it. At mile 4 I call it a day ( and season). Suspect IT band, and a possible Achilles strain. No ultramarathon for me this year, thanks for playing.


Plus all my sports teams lost this weekend, and my doorbell broke, a week before Halloween!

 

[LupaCupcake]

A quarter mile into my 14 miler I notice a twinge in my knee. A quarter mile later I notice I'm limping. Two miles after that my calf is so tight I've to stop and stretch it. At mile 4 I call it a day ( and season). Suspect IT band, and a possible Achilles strain. No ultramarathon for me this year, thanks for playing.


Plus all my sports teams lost this weekend, and my doorbell broke, a week before Halloween!

Sit outside for halloween ^^ Your running story reminded me of something.I was doing this running event a year ago. No markers were put out letting you know the route to take, but they had people out on bikes that were supposed to direct you when to turn and monitor people for health issues. The bikers split up when the runners started to. At one point we were supposed to turn left, but the biker forgot! The section of runners he was monitoring (including myself) ended up doing an extra 4 miles. If I was going for time and placement I would have been upset, but it was just for exercise and to benefit a local clinic.

 

[theseeker4]

Not as bad as I was, but still not doing great. Got sick the weekend I found out I was accepted, bad sinus infection. Our 8-month old son got sick at the same time, and we found out it was an ear infection as well as a sinus infection. Well, he had a 2-week checkup on Friday, and the infection isn't gone yet, so another round of amoxicillin was prescribed, along with an antihistamine that makes him sleepy. Now my wife has the sinus infection, and due to visitors at her school this week, she can't stay home and leave it all on her co-teacher. So she didn't get much sleep last night and had to go to work anyway, I am starting my third week needing kleenex as a constant companion, our son is tired all the time, so yeah, it has been a good month lol.

 

[Bluesun]

I have a level 1 MCL sprain and I can't do jiu jitsu or any lower body workout.

:cry:

 

[LupaCupcake]

I am feeling more and more sick...is everyone getting sick right now? Somehow my daughter is not getting any of this. Super four year old immune system of justice 😉

 

[uoka]

I can't register for classes until I attend "new student orientation". =_=

I've been accepted for readmission to my alma mater, it's within walking distance of work and volunteering which would save me an hour commute every day, and it's a great school. It also has ZERO adult friendly classes, doesn't offer trig-based physics AT ALL in addition to being more difficult in general, and costs twice as much as the other option. Called state public med school to ask if it would benefit me at all to go to the harder school, and admissions lady told me to ask the undergrad school. 😕 I know that attending would be a huge risk for me, but I really really lament that I can't take advantage of the convenience of location.

Aaaaand, my engine fan has been kicking into overdrive lately. My engine light is on for a totally benign but expensive reason, my right turn signal works selectively, and I am still upside down in it. Going to lose about 2k on it no matter what I do.

Could be worse, car is still running, and I do have school options. Stop yer whining already.

Edit: Oh right, and I have to be half time for student loans. If I take one class next semester and pay for it, I risk being in a bad position in march when my job is supposed to end.

 

[dmf2682]

I can't register for classes until I attend "new student orientation". =_=

I've been accepted for readmission to my alma mater, it's within walking distance of work and volunteering which would save me an hour commute every day, and it's a great school. It also has ZERO adult friendly classes, doesn't offer trig-based physics AT ALL in addition to being more difficult in general, and costs twice as much as the other option. Called state public med school to ask if it would benefit me at all to go to the harder school, and admissions lady told me to ask the undergrad school. 😕 I know that attending would be a huge risk for me, but I really really lament that I can't take advantage of the convenience of location.

Aaaaand, my engine fan has been kicking into overdrive lately. My engine light is on for a totally benign but expensive reason, my right turn signal works selectively, and I am still upside down in it. Going to lose about 2k on it no matter what I do.

Could be worse, car is still running, and I do have school options. Stop yer whining already.

Edit: Oh right, and I have to be half time for student loans. If I take one class next semester and pay for it, I risk being in a bad position in march when my job is supposed to end.

What do you drive?

 

[uoka]

What do you drive?

'04 Mazda 6.

 

[LupaCupcake]

I have a colorful box of kleenex next to me. *sniffle* It sucks being sick. I took some nyquil and thought "hey, I am gonna log into my classes". I have 3 classes going on right now and part of my classes includes mandatory conference posts and replies that show insight and knowledge of the material. DO NOT TAKE NYQUIL AND ENGAGE IN CLASSROOM DISCUSSION Whew...luckily I read over my answer to a conference discussion because it was bad. Somehow I two sentences swapped in the middle etc. I don't care about typos on social sites, but school is another matter. I logged out, no more school till tomorrow morning😉 I am falling asleep..nyquil is knocking me out.haha Goodnight SDN

 

[QofQuimica]

I have to bump up this thread again. If this wasn't the worst week of my intern year so far, it ranks up there among the worst. I was working all weekend, and we just got slammed. One of the local community hospitals lost power, and they transferred all of their ICU patients to us. So we got a whole bunch of super sick people all at once. That was fun....not. Plus, I'm still sick. I went to the doctor and they did a chest x-ray to make sure I didn't have pneumonia. I don't have pneumonia. I do, however, have costochondritis from coughing so hard for two straight weeks. It hurts like all getout every time I take a deep breath or even roll over in bed. I'm trying hard not to laugh, because it sets me to coughing again, but it seems like the harder I try not to cough, the more I need to. How long can a viral illness last, anyway? I'm thinking I must have picked up two or three viruses all at once. But either way, it's pretty miserable. 🙁

 

[BeachBlondie]

Rant thread! Mathematical!

Last week we had an arthroplasty conference that began at 6am every day. If it's one thing I'm already short on, it's sleep. So, I end up getting sick on Wednesday, and have to take Thursday, Friday, and today off as I'm hacking my brains out.

I used to never EVER get sick. But, since moving from San Diego to Boston, I've been sick 4 or 5 times in the last year and a half. This means that I'm nearly always out of earned time off. So, I never get the chance to take vacation because I'm always using those precious hours to recuperate. And if it's one thing I would absolutely LOVE to have, it's an effing vacation every once and a while. Only so much 80-hour weeks one can take.

To top it off, the bio midterm grades were crappy class-wide, AND I was too sick to receive my orgo midterm grade last week, so have now started sweating that one. I'm pissed that I may be watching my hard-earned A's drop to B+'s.

Also, my dad recently informed me that his wife is leaving him, while he's fighting cancer, and having a custody issue regarding my little sister. Man is a wreck, and I'm across the country/can't help.

Rawr.

 

[mmdp]

I have a giant cold sore the size of my head on my lip and I'm missing Physics lab for the 2nd time (we are not allowed makeup)...not to mention I'm the oldest one in this class...feel crappy indeed.

Ok...I should add I dropped General Chem for a 2nd time...so another big fat "W"...first time it was a summer course and I was working full time and couldn't handle it since I had to drive 2hrs one way just to get there. And now I dropped because the prof was awful as awful can be...the class average for our exam was 60 and he didn't follow the book because he didn't like it. Not to mention my physics midterm grade is at a damn C. Thats what I get for picking a school w/one of the top med schools to do a post-bac...or maybe its just me...though all bio and genetics i got A's...hate phys and chem...blah.

 

[wholeheartedly]

This is what my dog thinks about my choice in music.

A long groan followed by....

did it show up?

 

[wholeheartedly]

Now the above mentioned dog managed to get ahold of my pepper spray....

 

[dmf2682]

Just got a kick to the gut in finding out my score for my second organic midterm. Thought I did ok but it was an 88. My first loss of points this quarter, knew it would happen, but I guess I thought I did better. Lets hope the class average was off too. Does hoping my classmates did poorly make me a terrible person?

 

[Chip N Sawbones]

Just got a kick to the gut in finding out my score for my second organic midterm. Thought I did ok but it was an 88. My first loss of points this quarter, knew it would happen, but I guess I thought I did better. Lets hope the class average was off too. Does hoping my classmates did poorly make me a terrible person?

It doesn't make you a terrible person, but it does make you a neurotic premed, especially when you're stressed about a B+. Welcome to the club.

 

[dmf2682]

It doesn't make you a terrible person, but it does make you a neurotic premed, especially when you're stressed about a B+. Welcome to the club.

well f***. Must be rubbing off on me. That's what I get for looking at the pre-allo forum during work while all of us in the non-trad forum are busy at work 🙂)))))

 

[Neurocentric]

This semester has been kicking my *****. It seems it started right when I decided again I missed wanting to go to medical school.. being pre-med.. it's like a rash. It never quite goes away. But the stress has gotten to me, and my mother is still trying to talk me out of it. I hear some of the pre-meds talk about how their parents are FORCING them to go into it.. and my mother is trying to keep me away from it.

/mini rant

 

[wholeheartedly]

and my mother is still trying to talk me out of it. I hear some of the pre-meds talk about how their parents are FORCING them to go into it.. and my mother is trying to keep me away from it.

/mini rant

My mom tried this for, oh, 'bout 7 years (telling me it was a bad idea). She talked about the enormous debt, not having a life, so on and so forth. In the last three now she's 100% behind my decision tells me she doesn't like the debt idea but thinks I'll be a great doctor, and that I'll be 40 regardless so I might as well be doing something I'm passionate about.

I have no idea what changed her mind other than my persistence. 🙄

 

[wholeheartedly]

Just realized there's a time change this weekend and I work..... in a clinical lab ...... a very, very high volume lab.....with about 14 different analyzers that are going to get pissy with the time change and all of which will need their system clocks reset ... that talk to several computer interfaces that are going to be down for an hour and 10 minutes for the time change... the same interfaces that send our results to the charting system...... and patients and doctors don't give a %#Q if it's a time change and that they ordered their tests routine...... and my shift will be an extra hour long..... if it's anything like last year was I should just call in dead right now.... 🙁

at least for the fall back change my replacements on day shift won't have any excuse to come in an hour late...

 

[PMPMD]

Just realized there's a time change this weekend and I work..... in a clinical lab ...... a very, very high volume lab.....with about 14 different analyzers that are going to get pissy with the time change and all of which will need their system clocks reset ... that talk to several computer interfaces that are going to be down for an hour and 10 minutes for the time change... the same interfaces that send our results to the charting system...... and patients and doctors don't give a %#Q if it's a time change and that they ordered their tests routine...... and my shift will be an extra hour long..... if it's anything like last year was I should just call in dead right now.... 🙁

at least for the fall back change my replacements on day shift won't have any excuse to come in an hour late...

Gotta love this time of year... last time I was in the SICU with a bleeding liver transplant... the blood bank, labs, EMR, were all down at the same time. Fun times...

 

[Neurocentric]

Just realized there's a time change this weekend and I work..... in a clinical lab ...... a very, very high volume lab.....with about 14 different analyzers that are going to get pissy with the time change and all of which will need their system clocks reset ... that talk to several computer interfaces that are going to be down for an hour and 10 minutes for the time change... the same interfaces that send our results to the charting system...... and patients and doctors don't give a %#Q if it's a time change and that they ordered their tests routine...... and my shift will be an extra hour long..... if it's anything like last year was I should just call in dead right now.... 🙁

at least for the fall back change my replacements on day shift won't have any excuse to come in an hour late...

Oh, man, I hate the time changes.. I wish you the best of luck this weekend.

 

[SisterDisco08]

I live in Ohio. It's almost November. I live near the lake.

Fin.

pfffffff I live in michigan 😛

turns out being a medical scribe and doing grad school is a bad idea. 2 hrs sleep/night is not conducive to achieving my optimal level of productivity...

 

[Bluesun]

pfffffff I live in michigan 😛

Then you can appreciate the special kind of suffering 6 months without sun combined with awful awful snow can bring about! 🙂

 

[ksmajmudar]

I'm playing a show tomorrow night and I'm sick. I'm the lead singer (+rhythm guitarist, but that's not affected), and it's a tribute show to a friend who died 6 weeks ago. I wanted to be in good health so I could sing my best, as our friend was a musician. Not the worst thing that could happen, I'm just a little upset about it...

 

[wholeheartedly]

Gotta love this time of year... last time I was in the SICU with a bleeding liver transplant... the blood bank, labs, EMR, were all down at the same time. Fun times...

Ouch, I worked in the blood bank last year. We could get people blood, it was just a logistical nightmare that required a whole lot of cleanup in the computer after. Electronic crossmatches take <5 minutes here, manual crossmatches take ~35 if you're good.

That would definitely not be a good night for a liver transplant.

 

[PMPMD]

Ouch, I worked in the blood bank last year. We could get people blood, it was just a logistical nightmare that required a whole lot of cleanup in the computer after. Electronic crossmatches take <5 minutes here, manual crossmatches take ~35 if you're good.

That would definitely not be a good night for a liver transplant.

Luckily the BB is next door to the SICU at that hospital.

 

[blife]

+1 on feeling crappy. Got put on hold at my #1 a couple days ago and just can't shake it off. Combined with a cold, lots of traveling and missing the family and shorter days, I'm feeling pretty 🙁

 

[LupaCupcake]

<---THat...............is leading to this right now

 

[alienwares]

Booooo. I had a re-interview at my top choice school yesterday and it did not go super well... and I have noone to blame except myself this time.

Who's up for pizza later? I'll buy if you drive over here.

 

[LupaCupcake]

double mushroom! I love that tasty lil' fungus, don't forget hot wings. I was born in texas so I am with you in spirit haha

 

[CajunMedic]

Miserably failed an organic test last week (37%). had studied and knew the material going in, but as soon as the test was put in front of me, I vapor locked and couldn't remember a thing.

And this week I got so pissed off, I walked out of my Biology Lab after my group got yelled at and accused by the G.A. of deliberately sabotaging our experiment and damaging lab equipment..Finally had enough of her crap, and I'm getting an appointment to speak with her boss. Hopefully, he'll listen to me since I'm the only adult in the class.

 

[wholeheartedly]

efff

Guess the time change was the least of my worries last night. My lone colleague seemed out of it when he came in. Realized after awhile that was because he was very intoxicated. Had to call the supervisor at 1 a.m. to send me a backup and get him out of there before he put more patients at risk.

Damn hard phone call. Good guy, bad choices. 🙁

Had to run the lab by myself and try to keep him from accidentally doing something to hurt someone while waiting.

Of course day shift was annoyed we were so far behind, but I got no angry calls from docs and didn't find any errors so I'll be ok with that.

 

[LupaCupcake]

efff

Guess the time change was the least of my worries last night. My lone colleague seemed out of it when he came in. Realized after awhile that was because he was very intoxicated. Had to call the supervisor at 1 a.m. to send me a backup and get him out of there before he put more patients at risk.

Damn hard phone call. Good guy, bad choices. 🙁

Had to run the lab by myself and try to keep him from accidentally doing something to hurt someone while waiting.

Of course day shift was annoyed we were so far behind, but I got no angry calls from docs and didn't find any errors so I'll be ok with that.

not an easy phone call to make....but who knows what you prevented

 

[QofQuimica]

Time for another round of rants!

I'm sick of listening to other people b**** about their holiday schedules. No one has a worse holiday schedule than I do, ok? So they all need to just STFU. I'm on my ICU rotation now, and I'll be working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and New Years Day. I also worked Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, as well as July 4 and Labor Day, and I'll be working on MLK Day too. Basically, if it's a federal holiday, I'll be working it.

Anyway, what made me want to rant about it is that my senior was complaining yesterday about how she had to work Christmas Day *and* New Years Eve. Unsurprisingly, I was completely unsympathetic, and told her *my* schedule. She didn't have much to say after that except, oh, yeah, you really got screwed. And then we started debating about whether we should order Chinese versus Indian food on Christmas Day, seeing as not much else will be open. I think we're going to go with Indian. I already called the Indian restaurant to confirm that they'd be open, and they will be.

For the record, I'm also sick of Christmas music, and have been since about the first of this month. Christmas muzak is the worst though. Good grief, that song was bad enough in its original form, and now someone actually managed to exceed that level of awfulness and take it to a whole new plane of horror show. 😱

 

[wholeheartedly]

Time for another round of rants!

I'm sick of listening to other people b**** about their holiday schedules. No one has a worse holiday schedule than I do, ok? So they all need to just STFU. I'm on my ICU rotation now, and I'll be working Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and New Years Day. I also worked Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, as well as July 4 and Labor Day, and I'll be working on MLK Day too. Basically, if it's a federal holiday, I'll be working it.

Sheesh, Q, who did you piss off? Sounds like you should have no holiday's next year. 🙁

I hear you on the Christmas music, and I like Christmas music, just not starting in Nov.


For me, why the heck do I have such a hard time saying 'no, I won't trade days with you' I shouldn't need a reason, but I always feel guilty, even though I'm usually pretty good about swapping to help people most of the time and picking up extra shifts. Sometimes I just don't feel like it, and that should be good enough.

 

[QofQuimica]

Sheesh, Q, who did you piss off? Sounds like you should have no holiday's next year. 🙁

I used to think it was just me that the chief who does our scheduling hated. I mean, how else do you explain things like scheduling me to work nights where I get off at 8AM the morning of my first day of vacation? But it's not just me. Everyone else's schedules suck in similar ways, too. So I've decided that this chief hates interns in general. Well, it's not our fault that we can't take 24 hour call like they had to do when *they* were interns. Did I create the new residency work hour rules? Heck no, I just work here!

For me, why the heck do I have such a hard time saying 'no, I won't trade days with you' I shouldn't need a reason, but I always feel guilty, even though I'm usually pretty good about swapping to help people most of the time and picking up extra shifts. Sometimes I just don't feel like it, and that should be good enough.

I think what makes people have a hard time saying no is that they feel like they need to come up with a good rationale. But you don't. Just tell the person that you wish you could help them, but unfortunately you can't. No explanation or reason needed. It works for social events that you want to avoid too.

 

[DocGodfather]

Just finished the ochem series, and the final kicked my butt, even though I didn't think it was too hard. I can't believe I'm in the position where I'm crossing my fingers for at least a B, since I am close to the borderline (even though I aced the lab portion). Not a fun birthday for me on Sunday, as I stayed in and devoured coffee ice cream. 👎

 

[uoka]

I was soooo about to post in the "Who feels great?" thread this afternoon.

I came home to a house full of people who've been here all day. People who could have planned dinner or just taken something out of the freezer so we could go from there. I come home from working 8 hours a day (my last week of work, so not really a big deal, actually) and there's two women in this house that have been here all day who didn't think to see if we actually HAD FOOD to cook. And then they want me to drive out to the freaking Asian supermarket in rush hour traffic, in the rain and dark to buy something because they couldn't do it this afternoon. FFS.

I live here for free, just quit my job to go back to school, so NO, I have no right to complain. I'm just freaking frustrated. I want all these in-laws or whatever you call them when you aren't married to freaking go home already. Been dealing with this "teach your woman how to behave" bull**** for 3 weeks already. I think there would be all kinds of hell if we could communicate. 👎

Happy birthday, Socal. Share that ice cream preeze. 🙁

 

[QofQuimica]

I just got an email that one of my med school classmates is in hospice and may die within the next day or two. It's not a surprise, because we all kind of knew this was coming. But it's still crappy nonetheless. :cry: