Friday, October 25, 2002

Pediatrics has been going really well, and I have a really cool team. All my patients have been doing very well -- they are simply adorable. I still think that I will like to go through a medicine subspecialty, but I'm really excited about somehow incorporating kids in my practice.

Tomorrow, I'm going to pay my respects for a dear friend. He has inspired me to become the doctor I'd like to be.

John "A Wild-Stars Wars" Fan
P.S: Thank you Anita!!!

Sunday, October 13, 2002

A suffering Minnesota sportsfan

Ok, I admit that I'm originally from California. However, I've been rooting against my hometeam Angels in favor of my newly adopted team the Twins. Aargh ... the pain, the agony. Only a page can save me now. Wait a sec ... I just got a page. I hope it's not another admission. Nope, it's for dinner. Cool.

Dinnertime,


John
P.S.: I really dislike the rally monkey!!!!

Thursday, October 10, 2002

It has been awhile since I've written a substantive blog, but forgive me in advance for rambling because I have just completed my first overnight call schedule at St. Paul Kids :)

My team is amazing! The residents are super nice, cool med students, the food is good, wonderful kids, great teaching, etc... It is probably my best rotation experience yet. Sure it started out pretty slow, but then I had two admissions and got 3 hours of sleep last night. However, during the down-time Brad and I threw my tornado red foosball back and forth to one another. We also made jokes about our fluid rounds :)

Anita's visit

My girlfriend came to visit me this weekend. I've been looking forward to that weekend ever since I started surgery. We had a brunch get together at Highland Grill with my friends Jessie, Gully, Tseganesh, Heather, Lydia, and JP. Yeah, it was the usual crew but I havn't seen them in ages. The night before I went bowling with JP and Kirk over at Rand-Ham. We then went to Stillwater to visit the antique shops, apple picking, hay ride, climb trees, and watch the autumn leaves. Afterwards, I made some apple pie (actually Tseganesh helped a little) and ate my Kiwi-Apple-Sugar-Cinammon concoction. The next day, Anita and I had an adventure locating Bethlehem Baptist church. We missed the first service, so we ate breakfast at this little underground water-hole over at dinkytown. Unfortunately I started panicking that we would miss the next service, but ended up being 15 minutes early to the next church service. This weekend was definitely one of the most special weekends in my life. I'm constantly delighted by all the little surprises that Anita thinks up. She always manages to bring a smile to my face :-)


John