so life has been kind of nuts. i've been working a lot and making slow progress on job hunt and application for the residency program. i feel like i'm moving in slow motion, but also like i'm busy all the time. GARR! my classmates have been helping me out lately in the career quest, so that's been awesome.
you know what's not awesome? today the doc and myself were incising and draining a HUGE vulvar (outside lady parts) cyst on a poor patient. we sliced it open and compressed it and lots of stinky white puss and blood came out. you think that's gross? it is, but that's not all. just before the doc was about to pack the incision, i was examining the area and said out loud, "you know, this part here still seems really full and tense" and gave a little squeeze. and, well....out shoots a few tablespoons of this white/red nasty all over the front of the MD. on his shirt, arm, neck.....thank Allah he didn't have his mouth open. and that he has a good sense of humor. i couldn't help but giggle a bit. even the patient in her excruciating pain may have snickered some. it was disgusting.
but i love stuff like that (not dousing my MD in infected vagina juice)...procedures that are kind of gross but take a little finesse. i think it's cool.
so aside from that, i'm just pushing through each day, learning stuff and getting closer and closer to graduation. i have had one interview but there are about 15 reasons why it's not the job for me. and i really don't think i'm the one for them, either. but they're desperate for a female PA and i am one of those (well, will be....a PA i mean....already a female....k...) so they did offer me the job. but i have to keep trying, looking elsewhere.
lots to do! lots to do! i need a secretary or an agent to get resumes out for me and contact potential job sites. that would be cool. "hi, my name is stacey and i'm calling on behalf of an excellent young PA...let me tell you why your clinic/hospital department can't live without her..." that would be cool. but i can't so much afford an assistant on my salary of nothing. i guess i'll get after it my own self. sigh.
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Ewwwwwwwwww! That's absolutely disgusting. I pray for her...and you in your job search and that the right one finds you.
Yay! I left a comment..I don't think I've done that yet. ;)
This should be submitted to reddit under the WTF category.
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