So, I'm almost done with my first rotation of 3rd year med school... Psychiatry!
I thought I'd take this oppourtunity to talk about a patient (abbreviated "pt") that I saw yesterday with my resident. Currently I am assigned to the VA, so 99% of the pt's there are men. When I walked into this guy's room, the smell almost made me barf. But, I held my mouth shut tightly in hopes of preventing that (I am not sure why, because I know this doesn't work. I did an experiment with Katie last year in which this was proved wrong. She always barfs when she goes on car rides, so one time when she was on a car ride, I held her mouth shut quite tightly. The barf gurgled and bubbled out the sides, and she looked more depressed than usual for a car ride.) But I digress.

So yeah, he smelled terrible. From the looks of it, he probably hadn't had a bath in 40 years. He was humoungus, and even though his clothes must have been XXXL, his gigantic abdomen hung out below his shirt by about a foot. My resident proceeded to ask him if he felt suicidal (psychiatrists are legally required to ask this.) My resident then asked him if he had anyone to go home to, and the pt said that he has had enough of women controlling him, so he had divorced his wife. This was the one time during the entire interview that the pt looked at me. Actually it was more like a glare. Ok, whatever. He hates women. But then my resident asked him if he planned to see "What's her name" after he got out of the hospital. The pt laughed and said that he doesn't need to, because he has like 4 women waiting for him in the area. My resident, being the good psychiatrist that he is, told the pt that he needed to pick one and stay with her, so she could take care of him in his old age.

My question: what the HECK kind of woman would ever take this kind of guy? And does the psychiatrist really think that he's helping this guy by telling him to find some poor woman to take care of him? THAT woman is going to need a psychiatrist. Or maybe an infectious disease specialist. Oh, and one last question: does "what's her name" mean "ho?"
Weird. It's just weird.

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Wow its been a long time since I last left an entry. I've started several times, then I've been overcome by the boringness of my own life and deleted it to prevent you all from having to poke yourselves in the eyes.

Anyway I might as well just give you some boringness. This is my last official week of my first year of med school! I'm pretty much already done since they had us finish exams early this year. WHAT A CRAZY YEAR! I never knew a universitiy could make students work that hard. It just seems beyond impossible!! Praise God that I survived (we already lost at least 15 students).

The past 3 weeks we've been working in the hospital pretending to be really dumb, really lost doctors. Ha, ha... Embarrassing. It's better than studying all the time though. And working in the ER was really awesome! Helicopters flying people in from accident scenes, people with parts of their hands missing, helping sew up wounds with blood squirting out, me getting hit in the forehead with part of a finger... almost every day, something exciting/awesome happened! I really like Emergency Medicine...

Today, I worked in the Pediatric Urology clinic. In other words, I saw lots of little boys (and a few little girls) with problems urinating. Working with urine! Isn't that what every doctor has always wanted to do! NOT! The interesting thing is, that is one of the very hardest specialties to get into... You have to be one of the smartest doctors in the whole country to get into urology... I just don't get it. Why is being a urine doctor the most competitive??

Among other things, I've joined the Air Force, and am all of a sudden called "2nd Lieutenant." Yeah it sounds as weird to me as it does to you. It's with a cushy med school program though so we get it much easier than everyone else, AND I'll get med school paid for, AND I'll get a $1200 a month stipend... sooo good!

But whatever. All of that pales in comparison to the lesson of trust in God that this year has been. And I'm finally beginning to settle down with some awesome Christian friends (though it's a good bit harder to do than it was at Ashland... man I miss you guys.) Also, I have an awesome boyfriend who is so in love with God... wow life is such a blessing. David James Holt is his name, a med student here at Loma Linda finishing his first year just like me... I never knew God would bless me this much. I'm crazy about him, and the feeling is mutual! It's neat to be able to share medical school with him. We even had been going to the same church before we started dating. As of right now, we've been dating for about 4 months.

Here's what else I am excited about: June 22nd is the day I go back home to Ohio! Yes I'll miss David and all my other friends a LOT, but I am SO excited about catching up with you all.. my dear friends back home and of course my family!

Ok I think it's time to stop boring you, especially since I ought to go make my bed. I could always just sleep on a bare mattress, but I must keep fighting laziness! It's so good to be done with exams, that I just feel like becoming a total bum. What do you think? Should I become a bum?