In my search for a new hair do, I decided to leave Queens today in search of cheaper prices to put some baby curl twists in my hair.  Granted that doesn’t have anything to do with my medical education but it does have a lot to do with my appearance when I am in the hospital. After a few days of trying to meet up with my friend Mohammed, we finally were able to meet up today in BayRidge.  Although, I was not so excited about taking the long train rides, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to finish reading my book ‘At first sight’ by Nicholas Sparks.  I did read the book during my ride but it got so interesting that I missed my stop in Manhattan (42nd Street), I was  7 stops past my that when I realized.  I looked out the window and I saw in large prints with the color purple ‘Spring St” and I say to myself where the heck is that.  I looked on the map and realized I had missed my stop a little bit ago.  I guess I forgot I took the Express E train from Queens to Manhattan.  I got off the train and headed back to 42nd Street.  After, I arrived at 42nd the walk to catch the N train heading to Coney Island was another trek on its own but one I had to take.   I caught the N train and finally arrived at BayRidge 2 hrs after I had left my apartment in Queens.  Mo and I took a train to Flatbush and we began another trek, this time in search for an hairdresser for me.  1st one I came across said that she did the baby curl twists after I had described it to her. I asked her how much it would cost and she said $180 and she also mentioned that it would take her 4 hours to do it.  What was very interesting was that she offered to give him a $10 discount since I was African, hmmmm… $10, I’ll say no more.  Anyways, before I wasted anymore of Mo’s time I decided that it was best for me to head back to Queens before it started getting dark. As we headed back to the train station, Mo and I discussed our experiences,  I told him I was just ready for a new rotation.  I really am.  Today, in the hospital i didn’t even do much at all. We had morbidity and mortality conference at 8am, lectures right after that for about 2hrs, no cases to scrub into the OR and headed to the library. Oh well, what can you do? you can’t force people to need surgery so you can stay scrubbed in till 6.30pm everyday.

I made it home, in time to watch my favorite show ANTM (America’s Next Top Model) and now watching the final presidential debate.  Its been very interesting so far, the last two debates I fell asleep about half way through.

Stay Blessed!

I remember when I first started to write a blog , I said everyone should ignore all my typos and spelling mistakes and now it seems I am paying more attention to them and starting to feel really bad.  The last post I wrote was also shared on my facebook profile and when i accidentally bumped into the synopsis on facebook I was traumatized by what I saw.  I definitely need to work on reducing my spelling errors and typos.  I hate editing after I have written something but I guess I will have to force myself to do so.  I have to say though that no one else has pointed my mistakes to me and I appreciate that but I am sure you’ve all noticed them.  So what’s new, I went to Chicago last weekend to spend time with my family. My sister came up from Minnesota with her kids and we all had a wonderful time together.  It was a house full of fun, lots of laughs, and gisting. On Saturday night, we had dinner at this restaurant called Grand Lux Cafe in downtown Chicago.  I had never seen a crowd that large waiting to be seated.  They had customers waiting at every corner and I knew that meant he had to be really good food there. While we waited to be seated we saw several waiters pass by with meals that looked so good that I was getting full just looking at them.  For dinner, I just couldn’t decide what to have so as usual I went for the safe bet and had the stacked quesadillas which turned out to be really good.  For desert we had fudge fusion and New Orleans beignets (ben-YAY).  Even my little niece Anu was eating up a storm too bad her younger brother and the recent addition to my family is still eating formula. Anyways, I was glad my sis Feyi took us there it was really nice.  If you’re ever in Chicago, you should visit. I do believe they have other locations so just Google them.

So, a few weeks ago I decided that I have to try something new. My new thing is reading fiction novels.  I always read non-fiction and self-help books but never thought I needed to read fiction novels, so right before my trip my girlfriend and I went to Barnes and Noble and I picked up a book called “At First Sight” written by Nicholas Sparks. I figured I would like the book since I enjoyed the movie Notebook so much.  He wrote the book as well.  So far, so good, I have been enjoying the book and find it to be a page turner I am looking to finishing that one sometime tonight and pick up another one soon.  Whoever thought reading fiction could be so much fun.  I must make an effort to stay away from reading too many romance novels because I hear they give you unrealistic fantasies and I wouldn’t want to be caught day dreaming while scrubbed in on a case in the OR (hehe).

New york living is somewhat tough but it got even tougher for me when I realized that my electricity wouldn’t be as cheap as I was expecting it to be.  I really don’t like paying for my utilities separate from rent but I guess I have to get used to it.

Not much is going on at work which is why i didn’t say much.  I am still in surgery clinic and will remain there for the next 2 weeks.  I am so tired of being on surgery rotation I am ready for a change.  This morning, I was in hand surgery clinic.  It was quite helpful because this time the Attending actually criticized my H&P (history and physical) and my presentation skills. I  was glad that he did that because that’s the only way you learn  how to do it better.

Hopeful task for tomorrow is to find a new hair dresser, the last one was not very good at all.

Stay Blessed!

I guess those ahead me weren’t kidding when they said the surgery rotation goes downhill from trauma. I am now in clinic and things just don’t work with a schedule. Today I was supposed to report to clinic at 8;30am which I was on time for but I was informed that clinic didn’t start till 11:30am.  So what do I do with the time I have since they were no general surgery cases scheduled. I went to the library to study. At 11:15 I went to the clinic and reported to the Physician Assistant who I discussed with for 30 minutes about how much we love our iPhones. The Attending finally came in at about noon and we started seeing patients. The attending was very nice and managed to involve me in all the patients we saw.  I wrote most of the H&P (history & physical), helped in patient examinations. And also wrote the assessment and plan for each patient based on the Attendings orders. Clinic lasted about 2h after which I headed home to continue studying.  That’s
was all that happened today- going to clinic was worth it. Tomorrow am not assigned to clinic so I guess I will be in the operating room.

Stay Blessed!

It’s nice to know I can blog on my phone whenever I am less busy. It’s been a while since I blogged but it’s not because I don’t have anything to write or don’t have time it’s because I am being lazy. So what’s new with me?  Well I have 4 more weeks of surgery to go which I will spending in several different clinics and the operating room in my free time. To date, my fav rotations have been with trauma and orthopedics. Much least fav has been my time in surgical ICU just because they really didn’t have anything for me to do so during that time I got to scrub in on some interesting cases in the operating room. I am now in urology and I am enjoying it. Only case seen in the oper.room is implant of penile prostheses. To scrub in on that case I had to scrub for ten minutes, not only was I ashy when I was done my arms were also very tired.  Nevertheless, it was an interesting case. For those of you who might not know what a penile prostheses is for I will
educate you now. Some men have difficulty / inability to have/ maintain am erection. For those men, an implant might be opted for.  So that’s what it is I’m a nutshell I am not going to go into details on what it looks like just use your imagination.   What’s on the agenda for the next few weeks? Family coming to visit I hope, having more fun, preparing for my surgical presentations and studying for exams.

Stay Blessed!