Sunday

SO. Today started bright at early as we (FINALLY) made it on time to the car. Claire and I rushed to the delivery ward to make the 7:45 meeting, but almost as soon as it started, Claire was whisked away to scrub in on a cesarean section of twins. They let her cut, cauterize and suture the subcutaneous layer of the skin!!! She was so freaking adorable on her adrenaline high, post-surgery. Absolutely beaming, absolutely full of joy and excitement, it was awesome. : ) My day…. Well… it was neat, sort of. During the morning, my doctor literally had nothing to do, nothing for me to do and so we wandered the hallways looking for anything she could give me. There weren’t even patients in the clinic she could steal from other doctors. Claire was rounding with the other physician, and so had a pretty busy day… I simply did small talk with my physician until she finally decided we’d wandered enough and let me go off to find my friends in the peds ward. At 11 I sat down to pediatric rounds, then went to lunch. The one interesting correlation that happened today was that in Gyn-ie we discussed this 12 year old with an abscess in her ovary, and then in pediatrics we discussed this same girl. The differences in perspectives and approaches to this same patient was fascinating to me. What’s really cool is that I know absolutely nothing (it feels) and yet, I can make pretty good guesses about diagnoses, problems, complications, etc. Yay! Go basic-science-knowledge-go!!! : )
Then this afternoon, I spent over an hour with Ahmed as he taught me Arabic. The grammar, the alphabet, etc. Thanks to Riyad’s tutoring, I didn’t look like a complete fool and it helped me learn fast. Problem is, the letters went a bit awol in the hour afterwards… but those 4 letters I’m sure will be filled in soon ;) Plus – he forgot a few letters… hmm…. I need Riyad. While I was learning, the teacher suddenly interrupted us, and I dashed back to the delivery ward. After some teaching, I was rushed into a room and given an apron. “You catch the baby.” I what? Lol. And so I prepared. And… And then nothing happened. I was changed out of my apron, and had to leave because my ride was so show up and I had no other way home. It sucked. I was so looking forward to being a part of birth! I feel bad for Trevor and Claire, I was mildly depressed when I got into the car, lol. Sigh… Tomorrow, they said. Tomorrow come soon, I want to catch a kid.