Thursday, July 12, 2007

*snore*

This morning I checked on my pneumonia patient, who is doing a lot better. Once again she cried an awful lot when her mother wasn't in the room with her, so whenever I had time, I'd go into her room and talk to her. She was very interested when I showed her a picture of Pearl that I keep in my PDA, so that was cute =) One of the chief residents went over my progress notes with me today, ranging from lousy (Monday's report) to much better (today's report). I've been seeing the same patient all week now; hopefully she'll be able to go home tonight or tomorrow.

Today was a very tiring day for me. I couldn't stay awake during lecture (again) and ate some chocolate-covered coffee beans hoping they'd wake me up (and knowing they'd give me a stomachache later), but it didn't work. I ate a little too much, and felt a bit nauseated before and during dinner. Needless to say I didn't feel too much like laughing and joking with the others and later took a drive to clear my head. Everyone needs some alone time once in a while.

2 comments:

bgetter said...

Sounds really neat being able to establish a relationship with patients like that. In Family med, I have met a hundred patients for five minutes each.

Cinnamon Bagels said...

O cool u keep pictures of ur bunny and show them around ....