Memorial Day Weekend, and back to the brain.

I had an enjoyable weekend with some much needed time off from things around here. Much of it was just sitting around not doing a whole lot of anything, which is good in it's own right, but I also got to go down to East Bernard to party with the Kreneks and Jaseks (my girlfriend's family). They were celebrating two 40th birthdays at once and had quite the affair with barbeque, beer, and country music and dancing. It was quite an "interesting" experience.

I also had dinner and such with my folks yesterday including steaks and twice baked potatoes. We also made some chocolate chip cookies. It was all very very yummy and I'm about to go have warmed up left overs.

Back in the hospital today, it was our residents' last day before switching over to a new hospital. We'll have a new team to work with tomorrow so that should be interesting. One of my patients today has ALS which is pretty sad. For those of you not that familiar with Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis, it's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and it's a devestating degenerative nerve disorder that destroys your voluntary movements eventually leaving you paralyzed and unable to breath, or move anything. My patient today just had some weakness, but was otherwise ok. He's still in amazingly strong spirits and is keeping a great attitude about the whole thing. Much better than I think I ever could in his situation.