Long time, no blog! I am sorry for the long delay, but I have a good excuse. For the last three weeks I have been working harder than ever in the pediatric ICU. I thought I worked hard before, but taking care of the sickest babies in the hospital has been the most challenging experience of my young career. I have only had 1 day off in the last three weeks and every fourth night on call I am lucky if I get to blink let alone lay down. I used to think that I may want to be a critical care doc but now I am quite sure that I don't. Things change rapidly in the ICU and I personally do not require an adrenaline rush as part of my day. What I do find that I require is a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks on my way in to the hospital at 5 am. Mmmm... Thank goodness I have the most supportive husband a girl could ask for. It helps tremendously to come home and vent for a bit. Ari is starting to feel a little neglected, though with me on call and then going to bed at 8:30pm because I am so exhausted. He has been busy too interviewing for jobs for July when he will be an attending! In the midst of this I am applying for my fellowship in hematology-oncology and promise to keep you posted on how that goes. The choices are Milwaukee, Children's Hospital of Denver, St. Jude in Memphis, Vanderbilt Children's and Duke. Ari and I wax and wane about where we would like to end up but I am sure it will all become much clearer after interviews. Also looming in the future is Step 3... last test to pass before I can become a fully licensed physician. I would appreciate everyone thinking happy thoughts on November 13-14 for me. The test covers all of medicine so I am going to have to review adult medicine, yuck! So I am off to enjoy my first weekend off, just one more week of stress until two call free months. Until then...
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