Misery With a Side of Fries

I'd like to preface this post with the realization that there are officially 11 days of surgery responsibilities left. Less than that if you're not counting weekends.

The last 2 days of my general surgery rotation will be horrible. Today was mundane until they decided to to an ex lap at 4 pm. Usually, I've been home for over an hour by this time. So we go, I'm shooting bullets out my eyes, and then we can't see anything. It was a complete clusterfuck in the OR. So The Big One decided that it was too crowded and we couldn't see. Instead of telling us to just go home, she sent us off to study. Eventually, an hour and a half later, she comes and finds us in the surgery student lounge and tells us to go home. Ugh. HemeOnc doc and I decided that if it was anything else, it wouldn't have been as pissy. Like, if I was waiting to do a frozen section on some massive tumor, or she was waiting to do some bone marrow thingie. But the fact they wanted to open up someone and just go looking around at 4 pm was downright pissy. So I went to McDonalds and got some fries to make me feel better. It only worked for a couple of minutes.

I've also been fighting an internal/family battle. I've decided that my life may be made simpler with a blackberry. Downside: it's an extra 30 bucks a month. Something my mother (who pays for the phones now) refuses to pay. So it's either I don't get the phone or I pay the extra cash from my allowance I get every month. Wow, does it sound like i'm in high school? Because at first, that's what it sounded like to me. Now, being as I'm NOT in high school, I simply can't get a job to make up the extra money. Nor can I take out loans because that will result in a monthlong bitchfest starring my parents. Although I'm sure I'm going to have to take out a good chunk next year with residency costs and I'm GOING to do away rotations whether they like it or not. So I'm trying to battle it out if it's going to be worth it or not. I'll have until november to decide.

Otherwise, I'm absolutely PUMPED about starting family medicine. I just have about a week of surgery left, then the surgery test, then some path shadowing, then Family Med! Oh, and for those who aren't in the loop/not on surgery the secretary apparently "can't find a room" for us to have the test on Wed and may postpone it until thurs or friday. Seeing how I've made advance plans to shadow after emailing her stating i was going to make plans thurs and fri and double checked to make sure we didn't have any responsibilities after our WED test (she confirmed), I will raise all un-Godly hell if she decides she'll just have it another day. She's had it scheduled for Wed for 3 months. And "not having a room" or "it's not ready" is as good as an excuse as "i didn't get my notes done because I was tired and wanted to sleep in".

Bring it.