An African-American With A Desire To Inspire.
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 […]
Read MoreIf there’s one thing that the Neonatal ICU has been good at, it’s keeping my mind from dwelling on the pandemic. I’ve just been so busy these past couple of weeks while working my daily 12-13 hour shifts in the NICU. The days are long and usually leave me exhausted by the time I get […]
Read MoreI’m on the home stretch of my second rotation of third-year! Which means that I get to show “the powers that be” how much knowledge I’ve accumulated while on this rotation via my Shelf exam this Friday! How exciting is that?? Like, when else will I get the amazing opportunity to impress upon myself how […]
Read MoreWhoa. I only have less than two weeks left of my OB/Gyn rotation. How did that happen?? It really wasn’t that long ago that I didn’t even know there were different stages of labor, and I sure as hell couldn’t have described each stage for you. Orientation for this rotation doesn’t feel like it happened […]
Read MoreSo I know that today is Monday and that I’m writing this post today as opposed to yesterday, which was Sunday…my bad y’all. 😅 I was up and about pretty much all day yesterday and got back to North Carolina late last night. I was going to write the post when I got back, but I was […]
Read MoreYeah yeah, I know the phrase “More Life” has been played out/is in the process of being played out (just like most of the other phrases Drake has popularized in the past)…but if you saw what I saw this morning, you wouldn’t be able to help but agree that it’s an extremely fitting title for […]
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