P.S.

I feel like my latest posts have been somewhat downer-ish, so I thought I'd mention that today was a great day. I got to see a lot of different procedures and do a lot of different things. For example, I debrided this guy's hip ulcer and got to do a beautiful subcutaneous closure on this woman's pacemaker repair. Ah, nothing like the sub-Q closure. No visible stitches! I did a nice job, unlike the last one I tried, so I was proud of myself. Ooh, and I got to help sew a guy's skin graft on, and as the attending watched me take the needle through and tie the knot down, he remarked, "You're a natural plastic surgeon!" He was probably just being nice, but I was tickled. And after being busy and having fun all day (I even think I picked up an abnormal heart sound on one patient I checked today! Although my team didn't care. Typical surgeons), I got to leave way early, at 4:45pm. Now, the weather is crap, but if that's the only bad thing about my day, I'll take it. Huzzah.