Switching Gears

I’M REALLY GOING TO MISS ELECTIVE LIFE 😭😭😭 After my last day on my pediatric nephrology rotation tomorrow, I will be starting my third rotation of third-year in the pediatric ED. I’ll be kicking off my experience with a run of six nights in a row, which should be FUN. I actually don’t mind the […]

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Discovering My Purpose

I’m sure that I’ve said this before, but I’m going to go ahead and say it again because it’s sooo true: Elective life is the BEST life. I’ve spent the majority of this month rotating through my pediatric rheumatology elective, where I learned an incredible amount of useful information about rheumatologic conditions and how to […]

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Blessings On Blessings

Y’all. Don’t EVER let me go this long without posting again. I can’t believe it has been OVER SIX WEEKS since my last post!! SIX WEEKS!! I’m ashamed of myself…that’s by far the longest I’ve gone without a post since I started this blog almost six years ago. This is how people begin to slip […]

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Relaxed & Focused

I’m back to elective life and maaaannn I most definitely needed this break from the daily grind! I started my radiology elective last week and because most of it is virtual-based learning, I’ve been able to spend some more time at home than usual, which also means that I’ve been able to spend more time […]

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The Miracle Of Life

After 14 PICU day shifts, 7 PICU night shifts, 10 NICU day shifts, and 12 NICU night shifts, I’ve FINALLY arrived on the other side of my two month long ICU stretch!! I’M ALIVE Y’ALL!!! Like I said in my last post, doing two back-to-back ICU rotations is quite exhausting. Working 43 intensive care shifts […]

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Life After Intern Year

If any of y’all just so happened to be wondering if there was any kind of magical transformation or overnight revelation between the last day of intern year and the first day of PGY-2 year (post-graduate year 2), let me go on ahead and hit you with a newsflash. There is no magical transformation. There […]

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