golden girl gabs

I finished up my Cardiology/Heart Transplant rotation in August. Started Internal Medicine in September - can't believe its time for October already. Things just seem to get busier and busier. I feel like a snowball rolling down a mountain...the slope was no so steep at first, and didn't move that fast. Lately, I have certainly been picking up speed and collecting stuff as I go - I feel like at any minute I am going to be barrelling down the mountain side out of control!! But itsn't that what Residency is all about? They told us back in July it would get like this... I didn't believe them, but now I do.

Highlights of Sept:
-Auburn Football is starting off well - I was able to go to 2 games this month and thoroughly enjoyed both. Got to see many great friends too!
-I have built good relationships with my Internal med team and feel like I have really made a differnce in my patients care. Learning a lot in the process!
- I have decided on a church here - East Cooper Baptist Church - they have a Young Adults Sunday School class, plus I am going to join a community group of girls my age that starts this week.
- I just survived my first week of call (ended today at 8am) - I came to despise the sound of my pager, struggled not getting my normal sleep but learned a ton. Thankful to pass off the baton to my co-resident Holly today.
- Had some version of the flu... Andy started it and probably had the full-blown swine flu. Richelle and a few of my cousins got it as well. I only got some of the symptoms, mainly respiratory symptoms, but no fever - who knows?
-Happy that Jay Leno is back on the air as I have always enjoyed his show for some reason...Also - favorite shows starting up - Grey's Anatomy and The Amazing Race!
-Computer had some version of the "blue screen of death" - had to leave it in Auburn for a week and it is still not running right...time for a Mac??

How's that for random thoughts??

I recently listened to a sermon series on Ruth by David Platt from Brookhills in Birmingham (I really miss hearing his teachings every week) - It was awesome. Its a 4 part series - one for each chapter in Ruth. I encourage you to listen to it when you have time or are driving long distances (like me)! Go to brookhills.org
A few highlights of the sermon: God brings his people from death to triumph/life, from curse to blessing, from bitterness to happiness, from emptyness to fullness, from despair to hope -- all seen through the story of Ruth.

Game day is here! So excited for the college football season to start and to see what the new coaches at Auburn will do... One problem, I am in Charleston today working and NOT auburn... Very sad! I am having quite a hard time with it... I hate not being there. So much so, that I am now going to go next weekend to the Ms St game as well as the next weekend for W.Va (already planned). I've gotten plenty of text msg's today asking me if I was in Auburn and each one gets a sad reply.
But on a happy note, fellow Auburn High Alum, Ryan and Anna (Guerin) Thompson are coming over to watch the game at my apartment tonight. At least I will have someone to yell at the tv with! War Eagle.

So, one of my patients was on the news Thursday night because of his recent heart transplant at MUSC. Check it out here

So, night before last the fire alarm in my building went off at 3:15am... it was the loudest, most shrieking sound I have ever heard. Did I mention that there is a speaker directly above my headboard in my room? Very disturbing. Spent 1 hour out in the parking lot mingling with my neighbors. Turns out the guy in 7218 was cooking something with a pressure cooker at 3am and it boiled over. (b/c who doesn't cook at 3am?) Firemen took about 20min to come and 10 min to clear the situation. Then it took at least 30 more minutes for the homeowner's association representative to come to our building and turn the annoying sound off! Ridiculous... Glad I finally got to meet some of my neighbors. then had to get up for work at 5:30am...

So that was Monday night. It happened again last night (Wed)at 2:15am!! Again took 1 hour to resolve and another hour for my ears to stop ringing. No known reason for why the fire alarm went off. Interesting day at work on little sleep... :-(