Spring

Dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian. Or as Evy calls it, "the musayum." Oh yea, rock that southern accent.

We think Dan looks a bit like Copernicus.

Evy's first day of soccer. It rained. And that's her whole team right there. Four boys and the pale red-headed girl. It's good for her though.

This is what hospitals looked like- old school style. I really think the straw-tck mattresses really give it a homey touch.

Practicing paddling in the Indian village.

Chillaxing by the James River.

And of course- we make her sleep on the floor because we're evil. J/K. She's just practicing good horsemanship. Her horse, Beauty was "Sick." And she apparently decided to sleep next to her to make sure she made it through the night. We relocated her to the bed after snapping a few pictures.

Grandpa Sorrentino Visits

Grandpa Sorrentino came to visit us for a day last week.
We went to Maymont and let them wander around there. We rather enjoyed the otters at the end.

And one from Christmas since I realized I didn't post any from it! I'd say she rather enjoys the Taylor Swift CD. Turdette is all girl.

And happiest news: I've been done with surgery for nearly a month. I almost feel like a real freaking human being again. Just in time to start medicine wards up at VCU. So right back to long hours. But I'm sure I'll live, since it won't be surgery.

I also managed to seriously crash my bike the one day it snowed here. Bike is mostly fine. I bruised the crap out of my right side. Now I've got cool rainbow colors up and down my arm, ribs, hip, and leg on the right. Should be gone by swimsuit season though.

December

We cut Evy's hair! Before and after here!

We also visited the DC temple to to see the Christmas lights. Evy thought it was awesome.

They also had a bunch of Christmas stuff inside the visitor's center as well. They had a "parade of Nativity Scenes" from around the world. Evy's favorite was the one from Uzbekistan! Go figure.

And He knows the End from the Begining

I saw two people pass on last night. Rough night shift. May God bless their families and their souls and welcome them home.

Evy's Camera

We downloaded some of the pictures off of Evy's camera. Can I just say... wow... life from her perspective is fun. The only one she is taller than is the dog.

In Recent News

1. Halloween-
Fun... but seriously hard work... Making the costume was seriously the most retarded thing I have ever done... WHY the hell would someone willingly do that year after year??? Count me out from here on out... unless the Turdette wants to be ghost and all I have to do is cut holes in a damn sheet. It also rained, a lot. Dan and Evy fave up after about 5 houses. Laaameeee.

2. I worked my first week ever of night float... and that sucked some serious monkey rear end. Just saying. I did NOT enjoy my time. Maybe if I had had several more years to get my body fully used to being awake at night and asleep during the day- maybe it'd be less awful. But instead- it was just a week... just enough to seriously mess up my body. Yay!





3. Evy turns 4!! (technically tomorrow, but we celebrated today by taking her out to a lunch and movie and then having some cupcakes afterwards)

4. A little bit of artwork when I should be studying... oops.

5. "Seriously" seems to be my word of the day. Seriously.

First Contact

True patient encounter

Me: "So I hear you've been having some chest pain?"
Patient: "mmmm"
Me: "Can you point to where it is for me?"
::patient points to her breast::
Me: "So is the pain in your breast or under your breast?"
Patient: "No, it's like, on the skin, like."
Me: "So your breast is what is hurting?"
Patient: "No, it's my chest."
Me: "Ok, so it's your chest, but the pain is on the skin of the breast? And not under the breast?"
Patient: "Mmmm, it's chest pain, like I said."
Me: ::blink:: "Ok. Chest pain it is then."