Monday, October 20, 2008
Stratton weekend
We went to Stratton this weekend, beautiful weather, it was a great time. We went to the Adams Family Farm and went through the corn maze, very expensive farm, was it Green Acres? We all had a great time in VT, we went swimming, made a fire, and my wife and I watched the Sox game at a local restaurant. I cant wait till my next vacation. Oh well back to my case involving a rotation of a leg, but it was a good case, did a fiberoptic intubation and then an epidural!!
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Our weekend away.....
Man it is funny how in residency whenever there is even a sliver of free time it can be condensed and made into useful time.. Take this weekend as a for instance, I am on call on Friday night, my wife and I leave for Maine on Saturday at 1030am after dropping our kids off at her parents house. We get to Maine at 230pm get ourselves organized in our hotel room and all of that and then go out shopping at the outlets in Kittery, we finally buy ourselves clothes, which is something I havent done in years, and we have a great time shopping together, so much so that we ran late meeting our friends for dinner.
So we meet our friends for dinner at 630pm at the Bull and Claw. We get a blue hawaian and have some good conversation with friends. My wife and I order the mussels and she gets a lobster roll and I a clam dish. The mussels were great as was the drink, but the main meal so so. The bill was large, over sixty bucks!!! So based on the bill alone I dont recommend this place, if I wanted to pay over sixty bucks I want french, tapas, or some four star dining, not some two star restaurant where everyone is wearing bibs... I would like an ambiance to come with that bill, this place didnt have much of an ambiance. But anyways the conversation was good, we talked about each others shopping exploits, talked about McCain vs. Obama, the recent crash of the market, and how different it feels to be without the kids for the night.
So we finish eating and the go to try to find the marginal way walk, we didnt find it but we went walking on the beach in Wells and talked about renting timeshares in D.C., we plan to go to D.C. for vacation in November and our friends spoke about how they rent timeshares when they go on vacation at a place called redweek.com.. had never heard of it, but will check it out.. Then after the beach we went and got a latte a local coffee shop, the downtown of I think it was Ogunquit and a cozy nice little area, lots of people all looking happy to be there and all comfortable with their ice cream or coffees. So we kind of window shopped and then walked a little more and then went home.
So my wife and I finally settled in at around 1030pm I got to watch my red sox and she zonked out. It was a great day, definitely a much needed change of scenery for the two of us.
The next day, Sunday, we again did more shopping from the Gap and Banana Republic outlets, nice outlet area in Kittery from the store you can see the ocean right out the window, definitely a prime piece of real estate and a nice experience to be together with my wife alone...Definitely a much needed break... The we meet our friends at 1130 and met at the Stonewall Kitchen, here we tasted a bunch of different jams and dips, our friends bought a bunch of stuff, but we dont really have the time, money or inclination to use dips or jams at this point in our lives, so we passed.
Then at around 1230 we went and walked marginal way. Such a nice walk, see the ocean see the horizons with the different color hues. Very relaxing walk. Then at 200pm we left. I slept during most of the ride home. We got to my inlaws place at about 500pm, played with my kids and ate dinner and left for call at 7pm. Did one vascular case for about 4hrs and then after that case slept for most of the night, with the exception of waking up at 4am to go to a code.
So as you can see, I had a busy, fun, relaxing, and much different weekend then usual. I am glad residency is only once, I need to get into a more regular schedule once I am an attending, I need a lot more weekends with my wife like this one, it is definitely lacking and definitely not helping our relationship.
So we meet our friends for dinner at 630pm at the Bull and Claw. We get a blue hawaian and have some good conversation with friends. My wife and I order the mussels and she gets a lobster roll and I a clam dish. The mussels were great as was the drink, but the main meal so so. The bill was large, over sixty bucks!!! So based on the bill alone I dont recommend this place, if I wanted to pay over sixty bucks I want french, tapas, or some four star dining, not some two star restaurant where everyone is wearing bibs... I would like an ambiance to come with that bill, this place didnt have much of an ambiance. But anyways the conversation was good, we talked about each others shopping exploits, talked about McCain vs. Obama, the recent crash of the market, and how different it feels to be without the kids for the night.
So we finish eating and the go to try to find the marginal way walk, we didnt find it but we went walking on the beach in Wells and talked about renting timeshares in D.C., we plan to go to D.C. for vacation in November and our friends spoke about how they rent timeshares when they go on vacation at a place called redweek.com.. had never heard of it, but will check it out.. Then after the beach we went and got a latte a local coffee shop, the downtown of I think it was Ogunquit and a cozy nice little area, lots of people all looking happy to be there and all comfortable with their ice cream or coffees. So we kind of window shopped and then walked a little more and then went home.
So my wife and I finally settled in at around 1030pm I got to watch my red sox and she zonked out. It was a great day, definitely a much needed change of scenery for the two of us.
The next day, Sunday, we again did more shopping from the Gap and Banana Republic outlets, nice outlet area in Kittery from the store you can see the ocean right out the window, definitely a prime piece of real estate and a nice experience to be together with my wife alone...Definitely a much needed break... The we meet our friends at 1130 and met at the Stonewall Kitchen, here we tasted a bunch of different jams and dips, our friends bought a bunch of stuff, but we dont really have the time, money or inclination to use dips or jams at this point in our lives, so we passed.
Then at around 1230 we went and walked marginal way. Such a nice walk, see the ocean see the horizons with the different color hues. Very relaxing walk. Then at 200pm we left. I slept during most of the ride home. We got to my inlaws place at about 500pm, played with my kids and ate dinner and left for call at 7pm. Did one vascular case for about 4hrs and then after that case slept for most of the night, with the exception of waking up at 4am to go to a code.
So as you can see, I had a busy, fun, relaxing, and much different weekend then usual. I am glad residency is only once, I need to get into a more regular schedule once I am an attending, I need a lot more weekends with my wife like this one, it is definitely lacking and definitely not helping our relationship.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
My second post.
It is kind of amazing that it has been over a year since I last posted on this blog. Wow a lot has happened in that time. I knew residency would be hard but I thought the hard part was going to be the number of hours and the dedication that would take on my behalf. I didnt realize the emotional strain that it would have on my wife and I.
Now that I am in my second year I have begun rotations in the core anesthesia specialities. I have my thoracic and cardiac rotations coming up soon which I am sure will be taxing as far as time and mental concentration.
What I have found to be true over the past year in anesthesia training is that my perception of myself drastically changes day to day or even hour to hour. One day I can do no wrong, intubate anyone that rolls in the OR door, place any epidural or spinal, make all the correct clinical decisions and the next day make wrong clincial decisions, be unable to get an epidural in anyone and basically have anything and everything go devastatingly wrong.
It has been eyeopening to see the new CA-1's come in fresh and green and not knowing much and then seeing myself with technical and informational saavy regarding anesthesia. But then a Ca-1 asks the simplest machine question and then I realize how little I know once again about certain topics.
To a new subject, I think it is great that McCain picked Sarah Palin. I think that there is a desperate need for someone to come from outside Washington and to have, hopefully a new outlook on ways to do things, hopefully she has the fortitude to stand up to the standard operation and the ways to do things that is embedded in Washington. That is why I love McCain, he has stood up to the conventional operations of Washington.
I look at Barack Obama and see nothing, nobody. When this guy talks, it is nothing but fluff. When McCain was asked questions in the first debate, he attacked Barack's stance on the issues and then immediately revealed his own vast knowledge and experience on a wide range of issues. Barack basically says his double talk "I agree with most of what Senator McCain says, but I have a different way of looking at certain important topics, and when I am president I will...." and his knowledge and experience about any and all subjects is severely lacking. It is amazing that such an inexperienced politician such as himself has made it this far in any election. He has a few things going for him, charm, being black, and when he speaks it is with smoothness, though there is absolutely no substance is about 95% of what he says. There should be an exam that both politicians should take on a wide range of past and present political issues and the results should be made public.
Thats all for now....
Now that I am in my second year I have begun rotations in the core anesthesia specialities. I have my thoracic and cardiac rotations coming up soon which I am sure will be taxing as far as time and mental concentration.
What I have found to be true over the past year in anesthesia training is that my perception of myself drastically changes day to day or even hour to hour. One day I can do no wrong, intubate anyone that rolls in the OR door, place any epidural or spinal, make all the correct clinical decisions and the next day make wrong clincial decisions, be unable to get an epidural in anyone and basically have anything and everything go devastatingly wrong.
It has been eyeopening to see the new CA-1's come in fresh and green and not knowing much and then seeing myself with technical and informational saavy regarding anesthesia. But then a Ca-1 asks the simplest machine question and then I realize how little I know once again about certain topics.
To a new subject, I think it is great that McCain picked Sarah Palin. I think that there is a desperate need for someone to come from outside Washington and to have, hopefully a new outlook on ways to do things, hopefully she has the fortitude to stand up to the standard operation and the ways to do things that is embedded in Washington. That is why I love McCain, he has stood up to the conventional operations of Washington.
I look at Barack Obama and see nothing, nobody. When this guy talks, it is nothing but fluff. When McCain was asked questions in the first debate, he attacked Barack's stance on the issues and then immediately revealed his own vast knowledge and experience on a wide range of issues. Barack basically says his double talk "I agree with most of what Senator McCain says, but I have a different way of looking at certain important topics, and when I am president I will...." and his knowledge and experience about any and all subjects is severely lacking. It is amazing that such an inexperienced politician such as himself has made it this far in any election. He has a few things going for him, charm, being black, and when he speaks it is with smoothness, though there is absolutely no substance is about 95% of what he says. There should be an exam that both politicians should take on a wide range of past and present political issues and the results should be made public.
Thats all for now....
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