2 weeks of vacay, Over. Was very good and very relaxing considering that I did a whole lot of nothing. Just vegged out @ the rents' house, then off to Boston for Chris and Al's wedding, which was amazing BTW, got sick on the way back (short story made long), and did some more nothing! Except sleep. I did catch up on beautiful sleep.
And now, back to the daily grind.
Next rotation: psychiatry.
I started this last Monday. So far, it's been very interesting, although the stories behind a good deal of these patients are downright sad and disturbing (abuses of all kinds starting from when they were young and all along the way, it seems they just collect all sorts of bad luck and trouble). You look at them and think "geez, how are they ever going to get out of their miserable holes?" And unfortunately a good deal of them don't. Either they catch a really bad disease and die miserably, OD on God knows what kind of drugs they do, get murdered, or commit suicide, or get into a horrific accident...or all of the above. And the scary part to me is that at one point in their lives, they were for the most part, like any normal person, and unfortunately something or things knocked them off their even keel. Makes me wonder how closely we skate along the borders of sanity and madness. A few bad days? A few drinks? A puff? A sniff? A snort? A word? A loss? An injury? An action? An impulse?
4 weeks of psych. Lots of talking, reading, drugs, and crazy.
GO ANGELS!
Song of the day: "Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)" - Ray LaMontagne
2 comments:
Saw him in concert last year he was amazing, thanks for the song
Indeed, he's amazing. No prob, S&P. I miss his smaller gigs. Saw him @ Maxwell's in Hoboken a few years back. It was a free concert...and he was awesome, to say the least.
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