5:30am - woke up to 3 alarm clocks blaring. 30 seconds later, my eyes start itching, followed by a barrage of sneezes. Hopped out of bed and went straight to the bathroom for the allergy medicine.
6:30am - off to the hospital for some daily workage. In desperate need of caffeine.
7am - going over the patient list with the docs. Only 4 preggos, which means...a short morning rounds and a longer breakfast time. To the caf!
7:45am - 1st cup of coffee, done. A little more awake. Feeling slightly dry from the allergy medicine, but grateful that eyes stopped itching/sneezing subsided.
8am - Clinic. Seeing many mom-to-be's, getting ultrasounds and measurements of their little (or not so little, I should say) bundles of joy. Slowly getting bored.
10:15am - saw the youngest mom in the lot for today (20 yrs old), followed by the biggest mom (easily 450+ lbs w/ baby - BTW, she's a very non-compliant diabetic). Staring in incredulity.
10:30am - coffee wearing off...must've zoned out as the tech tried to explain what she was doing (honestly, I can't help it. The room is made dark so the Ultrasound screen can be seen).
11am - resorted to standing up just so I can stay awake. Started reading paper on ectopic pregnancies - lots of crazy facts. Bottom line: ectopics are not fun. Trust me.
11:45am - Handed a tissue to a mom who was distraught over the news the doctor gave her about her pregnancy...located a mass (most likely benign, but none the less) inside baby's head...will need further testing and imaging. Felt bad.
12pm - Lunch. Got 2nd cup of coffee. Attending reached inside my pocket to grab a scrap piece of paper. And yet another round of tasteless, yet funny banter ensued.
12:40pm - Back at the clinic. Saw twins in the oven.
1:45pm - genetic counseling w/ K. Never saw anybody explain 3 genetic diseases so fast in all my life. Bravo, K!
2pm - Eyes are getting dry (unfortunate side-effect of the allergy medicine), which is making my teeth all achy (weird, I know...then again, it could be CN V), which is giving me a headache, which is accentuated by my caffeine-induced dehydration (diuretic effect), which is driving me up the wall. Is it quitting time yet???
3pm - was dismissed from clinic and headed back to the hospital to take my daily quiz...woo hoo.
4pm - dismissed from hospital. Next stop, Library.
4:30 - 8pm - Made copies of articles, read a little, dozed off a little, facebooked a little (ok, maybe not so little)...feeling overwhelmed by how much crap there is to know about women and their vags. Nothing is ever simple with you ladies.
8:30pm - dinner @ home. More studying afterwards.
11:50pm - Threw book across the room in disgust. Blogging about how I still having that twangy, achy feeling in my teeth because of my dry eyes. Prepping for bed.
Rinse.
Repeat.
Song of the day: "Junebug" - Robert Francis
5 comments:
I think I'd enjoy a day in your life...minus the alarm clocks. Yikes! Super fascinated by all the pregnancy stuff though - just found out a few months ago that my sister's preggo!
Great song choice today, by the way.
Sorry we are complicated. As to the obese non-compliant diabetic - I would have stared too, part of my brain honestly says these things - I'm self conscious about my body/sex etc and gaining baby weight, if I were to get pregnant in the far future - how, why and who caused this if you know what I mean.
Sorry about the allergies, at least you know what yours are in a general sense spent this morning in the allergist office and the lab trying to sort me out.
Ooooh, like the new layout! I'll be changing mine soon. Thumbs up to both NPR and XPN. In fact, i consider XPN to be the wind beneath my winds.
PS we happen to be calling the baby "Munchkin" since my sister and her hubs want to find out what it is only as it's traveling down the birth canal!
LOL, wow great minds do think alike - this was the other template I was going to chose
I liked your color scheme, but the template design you used had a more feminine flare to it. This one has a more "on the road"/vintage feel so I went with this one. I guess we're both tuned in to the same wavelength ;-)
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