Hard to Beat

It's hard to believe that a month of fourth year has already passed. I just finished my rotation in ophthalmology and it was great to finally have my weekends and evenings off. Coming off the Trauma and Emergency Surgery rotation, it was a welcome relief. There was finally some time to catch up with old friends and enjoy the outdoors. After third year, I had almost forgot what daylight looked like.

This weekend, I took the chance to drive out to West Texas. I guess it has been over three months since I have been out here. Anna, my youngest neice in Snyder didn't even recognize me. Weather permitting, there might be a chance to get up flying this weekend. It has been a while since I have been up. I guess it was one of those hobbies that has been neglected during medical school.

Last Friday, one of the ladies in my assembly gave me a DVD that had a 45 minute ABC (Australian) film peice about the "Exclusive Brethren" in New Zealand and Australia. From what I could tell it was about the group known as the "Taylorites." Interesting stuff. Over the past 10-15 years, I have met a good amount of various shades "open" and "closed" brethren. I don't know that I have ever run across any "exclusives" though. It is such a shame that there are so many small pockets of "brethren" across the continent that really don't have much to do with each other.

Well, the weather in Dallas has been unreasonably hot for the past few weeks so I thought I would throw in a picture of the snow.

Finally, a MS4

Well as you might have already been able to tell based on the frequency of my posting, surgery was a pretty busy rotation. I think that we were supposed to be on a 80hour workweek, but in reality it seemed like it was much closer to 90hours/week. That 90hours/week does not included studying either. Anyway, it is over with. Trauma was a very interesting two weeks. There was a huge range of stuff from gunshot wounds, stab wounds, motor vehicle collisions, motorcycle collisions, motor-pedestrian collisions, jet-ski swimmer collisions, to falling from several stories. Emergency general surgery was not that intesesting. We spent most of our time taking out gallbladders, appendix, and draining abscesses.

This past Saturday was truely the first day in about two months that I have been able to wake up after the sun was up, enjoy a regular breakfast and then decide what I wanted to do with a free day. In the end, a group of us college, post-college guys from the area assemblies met up for some ultimate frisbee and tennis. There were nine terribly out of shape people trying to move around the field. It didn't help that the temperature and humidity were both in the 90's.