Time for a Break

As you might have gathered from the frequency of posts on this site, internship kept me pretty busy. You would think that as the year went on, I would become more efficient and there might be more free time, but that didn't seem to be the case. It also seems like the most complicated patients from a medical, social, and ethical standpoint also came at the end of the year. This week I wrapped up most of the loose ends from my internship. I don't know if I will have a lot more discharge summaries to do in my career, but I can't imagine any of them being as long as some of the ones I dictated in my internship. My parking sticker was returned along with my ID badge. I think the best part was turning in my pager. I can still remember the first few times that it went off this year and there seemed to be some kind of excitement. As the year wore on though, it turned more into dread. A cross cover page or code blue at 4am is never fun. Overall it was a good experience and one that has given me many memories.

With most of my internship wrapped up, I headed up to Canada for a few days before starting my ophthalmology residency. Given that it is the end of June, I figured I would get some good weather. Today, I think the high was about 60F and there was a light breeze and drizzle. Tomorrow is supposed to be a little better. I can't complain though as it as nearing 100F the last few days before I left Dallas. With the weather, I used today to try to make some headway into the pile of online training that is required before I start ophthalmology in couple weeks and managed to knock out the training for two of the four hospitals.

What Lays Over the Fence?

It wasn't too long ago that I purchased my house in Irving. I can still remember the night of closing, not more than an hour after I signed the papers, that I drove over to my place to just take a look around. I stepped out into the small backyard. There is a pretty tall fence there and I had never really had a good look at what was on the other side so this time I took a jump and looked over. Much to my surprise, there was a funny looking animal on the other side. I had to just chuckle. You never really know what you are getting into. That said, I have certainly enjoyed living at my place and have good neighbors. Over the past few months, when I tell my friends that there is a pony living in my neighbors backyard, they rarely believe me. So today I had an extra few minutes and decided to take a picture of what I see almost every time I look out my back windows.