Physics and Stupidity can sometimes be bad....

This Halloween weekend, or time change weekend, whichever you prefer actually started off pretty eventfully. I had to go into the hospital this morning to check on my psych patients as well as two others I was covering for. Afterwards, I had made plans to go to College Station to hopefully finish my costume seeing as this was my last weekend to do so (next I shall be in Lubbock for a rather horrific massacre I presume). On my way to my parent's house to check on my dad and drop off some stuff, I suddenly forget that I left something at my apartment that I really kind of needed to finish stuff with. On my way back to my apartment, I then found myself directly behind a motor vehicle accident immediately after it happened, so I then had to pull over to the side of the road, make sure everyone was alright and stay to give statements to the police and paramedics who arrived on scene. In all simplicity, there was a tan car who sped through a red light intersection which caused a white car travelling in the green light lane to broadside him directly in the passenger's side, this pushed the tan car over into opposing traffic to hit a green mini van. The driver of the white car was a 74 year old man who had some scrapes and bruises, and the driver of the green mini van was an elderly grandmother driving her family somewhere, she had back problems and was the only one taken by ambulance. No one else was seriously hurt. We stayed by as witnesses for the 74 year old gentlemen in the white car who had just bought a new car and there was really little he could have done to prevent the accident.

After that whole mess was sorted out, I finally made it back to get what I had forgotten and made it to my parents place to find the Aggies playing miserably on TV to Iowa State. I stopped watching that to play surgeon on my dad to inspect and change his dressings, and in College Station, we made Jack 0' Lanterns! So yeah, a pretty eventful weekend so far. I'll be sure to update more if anything else exciting happens.



Making Jack O' Lanterns



Getting a little messy



Susie and Paul



The Finished Work
(my Haunted house on the left, Suzie's Monkey (with banana in mouth), Paul's Spider, and Kristi's Bat that says "Boo". )

Yeah, I know it's been awhile

Things have been a little crazy around here lately, with the conclusion of my three months of Internal Medicine around the time of the multiple hurricane dramas and the rescheduling of all my exams, I seem to have forgotten to update this in quite awhile. Everything eventually turned out ok though. I have since completed two weeks of Dermatology, and two weeks of Anesthesiology as part of a month of medical selectives.

Derm was fun, we got to cut a lot of things off of people, and I even had a patient who gave me his book afterwards. It's an autobiography of his life after being born in France, growing up off the coast of India and then going to work for the American Intelligence agencies. Pretty cool guy. Anesthesiology was also fun, got lots of good experience placing IV's and a couple of good attempts at intubating people.

I'm now on my first week of two months of Psychiatry. I'm in an inpatient psych ward with some really sick people, it's really sad mostly. Some of them we're able to help, most of them not. I'm learning some interesting cases though, so it should be very worthwhile. Naturally, I'm not really allowed to discuss much on a public site though.

Jay also just had surgery again last week. He had to have a left hip replacement, acetabular arthroplasty in medical jargon. That pretty much just means that the ball and socket part of his upper leg and hip needed to be replaced by metal and synthetic parts. Overall, his surgery at the Methodist Hospital here in Houston went very well according to his doctors and his recovery should go very well and uneventfully. He just hated having to have another surgery.

Also, I've been in the process of making a Renaissance costume with Kristi. We've made plans to go to the annual Renaissance Festival near Plantersville with her roommate and her roommate's boyfriend, and apparently everyone has to go in costume or not at all. So we spent some time actually making hommade costumes from patterns and fabric and a few personal adjustments here and there. They're still not finished, but may be by Halloween. We'll have to see.

In other news, two of my best friends, Dustin and Lindsey, are expecting a new baby come mid next year. I hope he gets a girl... ;-) lol.

Lost post I know, hopefully it won't take me this long again to make postings here, if it does, just slap me upside my head and yell for an update and I'll get one rolling. :-)