sunset

I wish I had the energy for a real post, but I'm tired. I stayed up too late last night watching the girls gymnastic team finals and then woke up too early.
So here's a picture of a sunset on Lake Erie - taken this evening. There's also one of Jill and I having fun this afternoon.




Erie has these fish and frogs all over the city - they are designed my different artists and companies/schools purchase them as a fundraiser. More pictures to come.

good times

Just a brief update on what I've been up to - not too much. I think I'm finally getting used to clinic life and things aren't as exciting as they used to be. Well, they are still exciting for me, but I'm not quite as excited to share, because I realize that it's probably more exciting for me and I'm also still exhausted at the end of the day. Today was a full clinic day which was nice. I enjoyed myself. Then I went out to dinner with some of the residents and we went to see Mama Mia afterwards. Terrific movie! Better than I expected, minus Pierce Brosnan's singing.

This weekend was wonderful. I slept in on Sat morning then went to the beach! A few of my friends came into town from Hershey. Sat night we ate dinner by the water and came back and played a few games. Good times. Sunday morning brunch with AWESOME dessert! And of course Sunday night was spent watching the Olympics on tv. I'm completely in love with watching the olympics and could be glued to the tv for hours at a time if I didn't have so much other stuff to get done.


Then back to the real world today. Jill (see previous post) and I have been exploring Erie slowly. There are quite a few cute coffee shops we have yet to explore and quite a few restaurants we want to try. Good times, good times.


It's hard being away from Hershey. I miss Hershey and home just a little more, but am enjoying my experience here all the same. It really shows that it's the people that make the place. I'm lucky that I'll be close to Hershey for the rest of my rotations after this one and my parents are coming out to visit in a month!

Jump, jump, jump

The Ocean or Lake Erie????

Jill and I having a little fun. We found a nice woman who was willing to try and catch us in the air!
1, 2, 3... JUMP!


Not quite...


Too blurry!


We'll keep trying!




Ta Da!!! We did it!

Puppy

I've been referred to as a "puppy" 2x's in the past 2 days. Yesterday, Jill (a fellow Penn State classmate) and I followed around a respiratory therapist. We passed someone he knew in the hall and he mentioned that he had "2 puppies" with him today. Obviously referring to Jill and myself. This afternoon I spent with the IV team. I went up with one of the nurses who introduced me as the medical student who was following her around for the afternoon. The patient, "like a puppy"

So I have graduated college and have 2 years of medical school under my belt all to become .... a puppy!

This morning I followed around home care and made some house calls with a nurse. Then the afternoon was spent with the IV team. Interesting case of a woman coming down off of a drug OD. She had no idea what was going on. totally restrained w/ 2 nurses trying to hold her down while the other nurse tried to get a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) into her arm. It was an interesting site. This woman was completely out of it. One stick she said "ow" and the nurses said sorry - she informed them that they didn't need to be sorry, because the cat bit her. Obviously there's no cat in the hospital room with her. There was other rambling speech and babbling as you can imagine.

I've been exploring Erie as well the past few days. Pictures to follow soon!

the taste of summer

Locally grown blueberries, Brie, and a Bagette. Can't get much better than that!
:)

Erie, PA

5.5 hour drive by myself. This is the longest I've ever driven alone and I was fine. Didn't seem that long for some reason. Lot's of loud singing to myself perhaps. New favorite CD - Katy Perry, One of the Boys.
I arrived in Erie, PA last night around 9:30. I will be in Erie for the next 4 weeks on another rotation. This one happens to be in family medicine again. It is designed to be a rotation where we learn about under-served medicine and primary care.
It's late so this will be a somewhat short post, with pictures to follow tomorrow. I live in a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 other girls. Another from my class and the other a student from Drexel (a med school in philly). We live above a garage.... the catch is that this garage doesn't house normal cars...but it has hearsts. I park my car in a funeral home parking lot. So, that makes it sort of interesting.
Tomorrow is my first full day.

Hershey Country Club

Let's see it's been years, since I've picked up a golf club and swung. Partly because I tend to get a bit frustrated (ok, extremely frustrated) when I play. I used to play quite a bit with my parents and I have had a few lessons. I KNOW what to do and according to most my swing looks good, until you put a ball in front of me and somehow it all goes down hill from there.
Well, my friend Charlie is a cart boy (cart man if you ask him) this summer at the Hershey Country Club. He can play for free and take people with him for $25 - which is vastly less than what I would have to play otherwise. Let's just say if I didn't take the opportunity to play with Charlie I probably would never play this course. So, I picked a club back up and started swingin'
First hole - water hazard off to the right. I drive....ball bounces at the edge of the water/out and lands safely on the grass. Shot 2 - kerplunk...right in the water. Ball 1 down.































Despite my beginning water mishap, the couple year break surprisingly helped me out. For the most part I played better than I had in a really long time.

Below with me in the sand is a fun story. You have to note that this is my 4th attempt out of the sand. The 3 prior attempts were the fun part. At this point in the afternoon, I was sweating a bit. I swing on my 3rd shot and the ball flies right into the lip and rolls back down. The combination of my swinging , the ball hitting the lip, and me standing right there resulted in me being enveloped in a sand cloud. Sand in my eyes, my mouth and later I realized as I touched my face - that the sand nicely coated my entire left side - face, arm, leg, ears, etc. Like a day at the beach - we got your water and sand.














Other piece of excitement aside from playing a beautiful golf course - was.... see below....
an ALBINO squirrel! If you look hard you might be able to see him.