Is this thing still on?

When did September happen? Did you notice? I didn't.

I have been wanting to post for such a long time. My excuse this time is my lack of computer. You see, I don't have a laptop because Chloe's motherboard (yes, my laptop has a name. Deal with it. In my defense I have to say that Windows asks you to name your computer sometime at the begining) got messed up and I had to send it to HP to get it fixed. Damn you tiny-fancy-and-incredibly-delicate computers! Well, that was 3 months ago. THREE FUCKING MONTHS!!! So right now I don't have a computer because I have been procrastinating sending her for 3 FUCKING MONTHS!!! My computer! For 3 months! My God! I don't even know who I am anymore! I feel so 90's! I just thank God for Rhonda, what would I do without her? (Rhonda, my Blackberry)

Did I mention I still haven't send it? FUCK.

Anyways, having explained my probably unnoticed absence, I'll procede to explain my whereabouts of the last several weeks.

As you know I was in my peds rotation from July to October. After all the complaining, whinning, strep throat, conjunctivitis, etc it was't all that bad. I would actually consider going into peds, if only there weren't so many kids involved :P

The last month or so I rotated in my fancy, private University Hospital. The work was pretty slow, but somehow my stress levels got up, as usual. I had to study what I haven't during the first half of the rotation, hand in a gazzillion notes and clinical histories and finish my portfolio. Excuse me, let me correct myself, my HANDWRITTEN portfolio. This damn portfolio is an endless compilation of my clinical experience during my rotation, or at least that's what I'm told it is. To me, it is a flashback to the 90's where people actually wrote their school papers by hand. Geez, its like elementary school all over again. My hand cramped from all the writing, I had to literaly stop writing because of numbness of my upper limb. Maybe it was due to the fact that I did most of it during the very last week, but still, handwriting is so last decade.

Portfolios and exams aside, the rotation I liked the most was the last one. I was at the regional public maternity hospital. It's a big building that started functioning just last year. It get's an obscene ammount of parturient women from all over the state and even the neighboring states. Since we were rotating in Peds, our job there was to care for the newborn. So, forget about the lady and the obscure and horrid substances involved in giving birth, I was incharge of the baby. Newborns are fun. I mean obviously after they are cleaned out of all the gooey stuff they are born with. I really enjoyed rotating there. We had a lot work, specially at night. I don't know what's with pregnant women and their tendency to give birth in the middle of the night. There where times when I was barely finishing cleaning up one of the babies when I heard someone scream: "Pediatra sala 1!!". I would run to the place, almost putting my gloves on as I ran because by the time I was there, the baby was already comming out. I loved the rush of adrenaline I felt whenever an unexpected birth happend, and let me tell you, it was quite often.

But now, I'm on the other side. Yes, the one involving all the obscure and horrid substances.

ObGyn

God, I hate it! If only the stork would really bring the babies from Paris.

Since I started my 3 months of ginecologic hell in the lesser of 3 evils, that is, my University Hospital, I will spare you from the disgusting details. For now. Give me 2 more weeks, when I go back to that maternity hospital, and prepare to supress your gag reflex, cause things around here are going to get yucky.