Hippocrates In San Diego

Happy New Year!

All the best to you in the coming year. Especially if you’re reading this — I’m not convinced there’s anyone out there to see it.

Pounding Headache

I worked an overnight shift on Wednesday night, 7 pm to 7 am, as part of a new responsibility for our group. We cover our smaller hospital with an attending in-house at night to supervise the residents, provide backup for when they’ve reached their limit of admissions, and to cover the Bone Marrow Transplant patients, which is run in the daytime by the Hematology group. It can be a busy 12 hours, but generally not overwhelmingly so. I often can get a few hours of frequently-interrupted sleep from about 1 to 4 am. Now that the daytime Internal Medicine teams are now staffed by 4 hospitalists instead of 2, the weeks I’ll spend on the daytime service there will be relatively light in comparison. So it’s a trade-off, but a good one, I think.

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Juris Impudence

I’m sitting in the “Jury Lounge” (I expected couches and smooth jazz) at the county courthouse, waiting to hear my name called to enter a jury pool. It’s been nearly three hours since I arrived; half a Diet Coke and 40 pages of “Young Stalin” down so far. Unfortunately I can’t watch my newly ripped copy of “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan” on my iPod since I need to hear when my name is called. Stalin it is, then.

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Pregnancy Update

Thirty-two weeks and 2 days today. Wow — in less than 2 months our little boy will be born. These 8 months have gone so quickly.

Train Jumpin’

I’ve been taking the train to and from work most days since we moved up to North County in May. It’s been a positive experience thus far; not only am I saving quite a bit of money and using far less gas (fillups only come once or twice a month now) but I’ve had more time to read in the last 6 months than I’ve had in the last 6 years. The relaxation time has been the best aspect, though. Despite living in Southern California, I haven’t really dealt with rush hour traffic since I started taking the train. Now, if only California and San Diego County would pay for a more broadly connected, highly integrated, and faster public transportation system, we might actually start to look like a large modern metropolitan area.

Oh! And…

Check out our most recent updates on the Pregnancy page.

Sitting here in the new house…

I realized that I haven’t written here for some time (can you hear the record scratching? That’s the sound of… count it… three consecutive posts about how infrequently I post).

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Forgotten Sundays. And Wednesdays too, for that matter.

It looks as though I forgot to update this past Sunday. Well, that didn’t last long. Only mildly embarrassing.

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Mandatory Sunday Update #1

Alright, the last couple months have been a bit ridiculous as far as my blogging. As you can easily see I haven’t updated since March (that’s getting to be a familiar refrain). So I’ve decided to make Sundays “bloggin’ day” to give me at least some motivation to update on a regular basis.

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Long time

Good Lord, it’s been a while. A lot has been going on as usual. N. and I were at Dr. W.’s office for a repro med consultation today. Things went well; we’ve decided to move forward with the process, assuming we don’t make any babies naturally in the meantime.

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