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. :-)