Animals and the City

I know it's like the cheesiest title for a blog entry but I couldn't think of any other title, so just bare with me!

I have started my 2nd week in my Peds rotation. All last week I worke in the outpatient clinic and I started to really like it. I know I have always wanted to do Peds, but it's just so cool to finally be doing what I have said I wanted to do all along. I saw a lot of benign cases last week; sore throats, colds, diarrhea, vomiting, all of the really "fun stuff" of Peds. I learned how to do a newborn exam, a throat culture and many other very useful skills. This week I am in the nursery which means I get to do what I love to do the most...play with babies!!! (I can see Nat cringe when he reads this). Today I went to 6 deliveries where I got to check out the babies when they are born to make sure that they are crying, breathing ok and are not too blue. I will be there all week so I hope to see many more deliveries and play with many more babies.

So getting to the true title of this entry. After the Yankee game last weekend, CL, Nat and I went walking through Central Park where I got this great pic of the Chrysler Building. Isn't it so pretty at dusk?

This weekend I had to say goodbye to Nat because he was lucky enough to get a week off from work so he decided to take the opportunity to go back home and do some fishing and hopefully some surfing.

Sunday afternoon, CL and I decided that we were going to revert back to our childhood and go to the Bronx Zoo; something both of us had wanted to do since we moved here. It was so much fun; we were the only two people there without kids, hehehehe! We took lots of pictures of all sorts of animals and went to the new Gorilla exhibit which was the best exhibit there.

Here's a picture of CL and I walking out of the Gorilla Exhibit.

We ended the evening by going to Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square to have our one decent meal for the week! Overall it was a very fun day but I wished that Nat was there to spend it with me too.

The results are in!!

My test results are in...I passed!! It feels so good to say that right now; it feels like it would never come. I guess this means I am now a board certified 3rd year medical student...hehehehe (stole that one from PP).


So yesterday I started my orientation at Maimo and got to see a bunch of SGU people I haven't seen in about 3 months. The hospital seems really cool, very busy and a really good learning center. It is so nice being only a block away from the hospital, it makes it so much more convenient. I also found out that I am starting with my Peds rotation, which I am very excited about because that is what I am most interested in pursuing. Today was my 2nd day filled with lots of lectures about hospital safety, HIPPA training, and clinical cases. I have orientation for the rest of the week and then bright and early Monday morning at 745am I start my first core rotation, Peds!!!

Well, it is now 4 days later and I am writing again to update. The rest of my week at Maimo for orientation went pretty smoothly; we had more meetings and more meeting people and all the other stuff needed, I guess, to start working at Maimo. This weekend was very fun. Friday night, Nat and I had date night and went out to dinner to an Italian/Cajun restaurant, it was very good. Saturday, Nat, CL and I went to a Yankees game; they were playing the Angels (which by the way are now called the LA Angels and not the Anaheim Angels, very wierd). We didn't have tickets but we went anyways and scalped them with the help of CL, hehehe. Anyways, it was a really fun game but the Angels did lose, bummer, but that's ok cause I am a Dodgers fan at heart. So Yankees stadium was ok, nothing like Dodgers stadium or Staples center, but now I can say I have been to a Yankees and a Mets game. After we went to the game, we decided it was too nice of a day to go back home; we all decided to go walk around Central Park. It was so pretty and there were so many people there. We tried to go to the zoo but it had already closed. We ended the evening with dinner at Chipotle, a little flavor of home. Today, we went to SoHo to shop for more work clothes for myself and to get Nat some new skate shoes. We met up with Jav, Nicole, Cheryl and Colin along the way...it was great seeing them and hanging out with everyone. We ended this evening by going to Whole Foods in Union Square, another great flavor of home. Anyways, I will post pics from the baseball game later. Wish me luck for my first rotation and pray that I don't try to take all the cute little kids home with me, hehehe!