First month as Ca-1

First month of GenA, straight out of orientation with 3 months of gap away from anesthesia.

Wow, What a month!!  The first week was like a deer in the headlight for me.  I gotta figure out what it going on and where is what since everything is pretty new. Boy, was I nervous for being on my own.  There's almost no hand holding, it's pretty much sink or swim.  I'm glad I have the personality of just letting everything flow and see where all things go and arrange it as it fits then.  Otherwise, I would be super duper stressed.  The first week, cases weren't that extreme but then they scheduled me a couple of times to the ambulatory center where it's a different system.  It's like starting to adjust and gotta re-adjust again.

Throughout the month, I got some days that are difficult in the sense that the cases and patients were more complicated.  They had me do craniotomy scheduled, whipple and stroke (on-call).  It's been a fast learning curve.  I was just happy that on those days, my staff were nice and more than willing to teach and lend a hand.

Got 4 calls for the month.  It's not bad at all cuz our calls right now fall under the new intern rule where it can't be more 16hrs of work day.  I'm also generally a white cloud and the bad calls would usually consist of being busy early on then when it's bedtime, it's quiet. So generally I get almost a good night sleep with hours. But we all know that we usually are still in the light sleep where we have an ear out for our pager going off.

Home for the holiday/wedding

I finally got to go home to Cali and it has been over a year.  The last time was right after graduation.  The vacation started off with going to my cousin's wedding.  It was a beautiful wedding, fairly extravagant with all the work and pomp, but at the same time very homey cuz they had people from church help them.  The reception was very elaborate as well.

Rhys & Flora Wedding

Had a good time. But for my own wedding, I'm more for something smaller and simpler.  This is just too much work, even for me attending it. But nonetheless, it was beautiful and elegant.

The rest of my time was spent at home, just enjoying my parents and my goofy brother.