Can I please have my personality dissected further?

Ok, 4 interviews down, 4 to go. And I am exhausted already. Not to mention getting sick again, which is NOT the way to start a new year. I don't even know what day it is anymore...oh yeah. Friday...I should be out having fun but no, I've turned into a miserable recluse with too many excuses. I even lied today to my staff and I didn't even feel bad (which I usually do). For all of my interviews I've had to be perky, smiling, and full of good things to say, about myself, about the interviewers, about the program I'm applying to. It's all getting really bothersome. I think I am turning into a cynic...oh wait. I was one before.

Ok I have nothing witty to say today. My shifts in the emerg are becoming quite mundane. That smoking woman I saw a few weeks ago with the breathing problems (diagnosis: smoking = bad)....she's been back into the emerg 4 times since the first time I saw her. She said, can you help me so I don't come back? I said QUIT SMOKING DAMMIT @#@! (well, in my head I said it). One guy came in today with intractable hiccups. The last time I had a patient with that he had pancreatic cancer. I hope that is not the case this time. It was pretty funny though talking to a guy who can't stop hiccuping. He was in good spirits and made jokes about it. I wish all patients were like that.

I think winter really does a number on my shopping addiction. Haven't craved it in over 2 days :) That'll change once I hit WEST EDMONTON MALL next week!!

My last words for today: don't trust anyone - especially with your life, limb, luck, or love.

Party mix of thoughts tonight

Oh wow. I have just discovered how to upload images onto my blog. Uh oh....spaghettios. Now I am going to be even more addicted to the internet.

Just had to put up some more interesting things heard in the emerg:

"See that scar? That's where they came in when I was sleeping and tried to poke me"

"Has your father ever been told he has an aneurysm?"
"Well I think they told him that he had a problem emptying his bladder, so yeah"

"Has your father ever had any imaging of his abdomen?"
"Yes I think he had an ultrasound of his liver because of -- "
"So your father is an alcoholic then."

Today I went shopping to look for a dress shirt to go under my suit for residency interviews. How come no one sells dress shirts that aren't white, cream, grey, or black? Ended up buying a skirt from Aritzia and should have used my $50 gift certificate, but hey...save that for another time right?

Also discovered that my last name in Chinese means "Is not/can not/do not". Why? No idea...
Interestingly, my middle name means "scholarly"....so my name means "Is not scholarly". Nice huh.

At least I am descendant from an emporer.

:)

Anatomy of an ER shift

3 pm - wait around for staff to show up

3:30 pm - staff shows up. didn't know you could be so nonpunctual in the ER. guess there's no punch in clock

4:00 - 50 something (or 60???) guy tries to pick me up for a good 5 minutes. says he wants to buy me a BIG steak dinner when i finish medical school. says his mom (who is being looked after in the emerg by the way) has a HUGE house in Goderich where I can set up my basement practice. was playing along, then he asked me for my phone number. WHAT?!?! oh yeah did i mention he is single? i'm sure he did.

5:00 - see a woman who can't breathe. hmmm....try quitting smoking!?!?!

6:00 - see a guy who had a heart attack 2 weeks ago. thinks he's having another

7:00 - see some minor pains, some guy with a kidney stone, some guy with a HUGEASS swollen testicle

8:00 - see that smoking can't breathe woman who's sleeping comfortably on her bed. "Doc says you can go if you can walk around the department without dying"....."OK....zzzzzzzzzzzzz"

9:00 - woman walks around ER in her socks and gown..makes it a good 100 ft before gasping for air, but she says she's good enough to go home. probably to have a smoke

10:00 - don't know what the hell i'm doing. woman is still there

11:00 - watch someone staple a kid's scalp back together. next one is mine he says.