I never thought I'd say this....

But it's HOT here! It's like 88 and humid, and there is no air conditioning anywhere. I mean, I can't really complain, because when the summers here are cold and rainy I am miserable and whine to my husband all the time. But when it's this hot, and there's no air conditioning, life can be miserable. I ran my scheduled 6 miler this morning on a tough, hilly trail and I almost died. It was so.freaking.hot. I have been having a lot of trouble sleeping because it's so hot!

Buuuuut...I don't want it to go back to being 55 and rainy so I guess I will just shut my mouth!

Week 5 of 12

I'm in the middle of week 5 of my half marathon training. It's been going surprisingly well **knock on wood.** I have been able to get all the runs in, although I've missed some of the cross training days. I'm really proud of myself for what I've accomplished so far, and I'm exciting to keep progressing.

Work has been going well. It's been busy, especially this week since I have a delirious patient who is taking up a lot of my time! That has been interesting, to say the least. On Monday, she was convinced she was in labor (she's 85). On Tuesday, she thought her life was over. On Wednesday, she kept talking about bears and angels. Today, she was singing children's songs. Never a dull moment, that's for sure!

They call me Doctor

Yeah, I know, I haven't updated in a while. Life has been crazy. My hysteroscopy on June 19th ended up being a disaster...they couldn't do the procedure. Long story short, I have a new consult on July 30th, and then we'll see. So we'll be TTA for a while.

Things have been going really well at work though! People call me doctor. Or they say "Are you the nurse?" And I say "no...I'm the...um...doctor..."

The old people are hilarious. One day, this happened:

Nurse: "E [old man with dementia] just told me he broke one of his teeth while eating. Can you take a look at it?"
Me: "Sure..." OMG I don't know anything about teeth. What do I do if it's broken? Call a dentist, I guess...

Me: "Hi E, the nurse tells me one of your teeth is broken."
E: "Yeah...it hurts."
Me: "OK, can you show me where it hurts?"

E then proceeds to take out his fake teeth and put them in my hand.


My attending said some really nice things to me last week, so it's nice to feel like I'm making progress and am not just a total disaster!