A/I: Alive and back!

So...what's happened since my last update? As it turned out, I was not over the stomach virus as I thought. I made myself clam soup and noodles for dinner on Wednesday, and throughout the wee hours of Wednesday night/Thursday morning, I had such a horrible case of nausea that I didn't get any sleep all night. I even called a nurse hotline at 4:00 a.m. to ask what to do for my nausea, and she didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Obviously the clam soup was a mistake (even more so when I later talked to a classmate who suggested I may have gotten Vibrio from the clams. Just great...) I went to Baylor Clinic anyway and lasted through two patients before asking Dr. O if I could go home (b/c I really did feel horrible). She said yes and gave me the rest of the week off, plus Monday (President's Day was an official Baylor holiday) to rest and recover. Good thing I went home; I spent the rest of the afternoon in bed with a fever. As the week progressed, the nausea remained but I was more careful with what I ate. I tempted my stomach on Valentine's Day by getting a slice of cheesecake, but sadly, that ended up in the toilet and I immediately resumed a diet of bread, applesauce, and chicken soup with rice. Yesterday I finally felt well enough to go to the gym and eat a regular diet without feeling like there was a rock sitting in my stomach, so looks like I'm finally getting better. =)

Today I went to the VA for journal club and then went to TCH for lecture (that never happened). The good part was that it gave me time to work on my rank list and my take-home quiz. I stuck with Faria and Roshni and went with them to rounds, where attendings and residents sat around a table and discussed their patients. The children presented had diseases like SCID, DiGeorge, and chronic granulomatous disease, which I thought was cool.