Busy Little OB

while finishing my last week in Ob/Gyn elective, i've been mailing and emailing my CV around town, completing the *&(@# EKG exam, and starting to study for a comprehensive exam we have coming up, PLUS snotting all over myself with this sinus infection. i've been drowning myself in chicken(less) noodle soup and herbal tea and decongestant hoping that i'll be plug-free for scuba diving this weekend. in an inland lake. that's cold. and green-bottomed. and fish peed-in. i'm really excited about that. :)

things are great. i've loved this rotation and feel that, although i still have a lot to learn, i've really found my niche in medicine with Ob/Gyn. the doc i'm with is fantastically kind and a great teacher. and it's fun getting to know some of the patients on routine visits. mostly for prenatal visits, which toward term happen weekly or every other week. maybe more fun for me than them, since they're 8-9 months pregnant and now that it's 1000 degrees outside and we're in a typhoon, they don't seem all that comfortable leaving their houses to waddle into the office. no deliveries this week. c-section last week where i did a lot of suturing and assisting and am still a little high from the rush of being in the OR.

my challenge now is to find a way to be able to do it all as a PA. deliveries, prenatal and annual visits, assisting in surgery, all of it. i'm still researching my options and my state's limitations for PA's. i'm even considering further education to make me more of a tour de force(ps).

:) we'll see.

next i go back to primary care with one of the docs i was with for internal medicine. 8 wks of that and then i take a few more ball-busting exams and i graduate. (gulp).