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I'm currently watching "Million Dollar Baby" that I got from Netflix. Pretty emotional so far, and yet there's a matter-of-fact-ness to it that keeps me from getting too moved. Maybe it's because people spoiled the ending for me. That's what I get for never seeing good movies in the theater. Also, there were a bunch of medical points I disagreed with, which sort of deflated it for me. Stupid knowledge getting in the way of good art.
Random thoughts: I love Morgan Freeman's acting. Maybe if I had a daughter I'd name her "Morgan." That might be cool, but it flies in the face of my "no male names for girls" rule. "Clint" is a good name too, but it's sort of intimidatingly badass, just by association.
So... do you like... stuff?
I'm definitely gaining weight on this rotation, as I did in my last rotation (OB/GYN). On the whole, I'm fully five pounds heavier than I was in early January. You might think, "only five pounds! don't worry about it" but I know better. I do not lose weight. I've only lost weight once in my life, and it was when I first went on the pill. I stayed at that "after" weight for 5+ years, never fluctuating beyond a pound or two here and there, even on a relatively binge-y weekend at Mohonk. Luckily, the rotation's almost over (only a week left in the hospital!) and I have ophthalmology next (score! a one-hour workday!), so I'll make sure to work out a lot.
And here's the other thing -- hopefully I'll be able to eat better when I leave surgery. Take today, for example. I didn't have time to go food shopping, so I didn't have any milk for my cereal this morning. So I had a bagel with cream cheese instead (always delicious, but not the healthiest choice) from Dunkin Donuts, along with something on my Top Ten List of Favorite Things, a large DD tea with cream and sugar. (Although, mindful of my recent weight gain, I got the tea today with skim milk and Splenda, and it still tasted great. Mmmm sweet dark lord of Lipton.) Anyway, I had the bagel at 5am. This lap G-tube placement went really long this morning (8am-12:15pm), and there was a case set to start at 12:30pm, so if I wanted to eat at all, I had to run down to the cafeteria and get a slice of pepperoni pizza to go, which I then inhaled on the elevator back up to the OR. I just mean, I try to make good food choices in general, but this lifestyle is one that doesn't make healthy eating easy.
So I guess there's hope that I might lose the weight when I get off this rotation. But it really all depends on whether my "set point" has been reset. Here's hoping it hasn't.
Random thoughts: I love Morgan Freeman's acting. Maybe if I had a daughter I'd name her "Morgan." That might be cool, but it flies in the face of my "no male names for girls" rule. "Clint" is a good name too, but it's sort of intimidatingly badass, just by association.
So... do you like... stuff?
I'm definitely gaining weight on this rotation, as I did in my last rotation (OB/GYN). On the whole, I'm fully five pounds heavier than I was in early January. You might think, "only five pounds! don't worry about it" but I know better. I do not lose weight. I've only lost weight once in my life, and it was when I first went on the pill. I stayed at that "after" weight for 5+ years, never fluctuating beyond a pound or two here and there, even on a relatively binge-y weekend at Mohonk. Luckily, the rotation's almost over (only a week left in the hospital!) and I have ophthalmology next (score! a one-hour workday!), so I'll make sure to work out a lot.
And here's the other thing -- hopefully I'll be able to eat better when I leave surgery. Take today, for example. I didn't have time to go food shopping, so I didn't have any milk for my cereal this morning. So I had a bagel with cream cheese instead (always delicious, but not the healthiest choice) from Dunkin Donuts, along with something on my Top Ten List of Favorite Things, a large DD tea with cream and sugar. (Although, mindful of my recent weight gain, I got the tea today with skim milk and Splenda, and it still tasted great. Mmmm sweet dark lord of Lipton.) Anyway, I had the bagel at 5am. This lap G-tube placement went really long this morning (8am-12:15pm), and there was a case set to start at 12:30pm, so if I wanted to eat at all, I had to run down to the cafeteria and get a slice of pepperoni pizza to go, which I then inhaled on the elevator back up to the OR. I just mean, I try to make good food choices in general, but this lifestyle is one that doesn't make healthy eating easy.
So I guess there's hope that I might lose the weight when I get off this rotation. But it really all depends on whether my "set point" has been reset. Here's hoping it hasn't.
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