What was supposed to be a stressful morning turned out to be pretty good when I got the email saying that I'd matched =) And it looks like all my friends matched, so congratulations to everyone! I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and post "I matched!" on Facebook, though, because while I'm glad to know I have a position waiting for me, I don't think I'll really be able to be happy and celebrate until I find out where. So I'll save that news for Thursday.
One of the techs made lunch for the entire clinic today, and she really outdid herself and made a true Southern meal: cornbread, chicken dumplings, purple hull peas, and jambalaya. Shandy was shocked when I told her I'd never had purple hull peas before and said she could eat an entire pot of them. I've never been a huge fan of peas, but you know what? These peas were good. Dr. RP commented that I wouldn't be able to get a good Southern meal like this at any of the places I applied to, which is probably true. But it was still delicious.
I saw several familiar faces in the office today. One was a guy with metastatic lung cancer who's almost completely lost his voice due to recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. Another was the colon cancer patient who didn't want chemo and ended up in the hospital with a 3 cm cerebellar brain met; interestingly enough, he asked Dr. RP if cancer could ever be cured. Dr. RP said that there were thousands of people doing cancer research every day in hopes of a cure, but afterwards he wondered why this patient would ask such a thing when he didn't want chemo even though it could have cured him (and now it's too late).
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Congrats! By the way what are "purple hull peas" are they really purple?
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