Flaming red arrows

1. I am committing questionable academic suicide to go to do an away elective in Memphis, TN with a series of free clinics that seek to train the next generation of medical missionaries for the plains of Siberia and Africa in the ghettos of urban America. I will be focusing on peds HIV.  This is happening because of a printer network dying in the library six days ago (while I was printing the final form for a DUKE elective…which i am now giving up for this), a little old lady who was in front me in the grocery store line, some PEEPS (the yellow chick shaped marshmallows), a very annoying endocrinologist, contracpetion for adolescents and strange recollections.  All of which together have to be part of some divine plan…either that or I have finally lost it…Sometime I will write down the whole insane story.

2.  I had a revelation today or maybe more of a personal resolution. I am sick of my lf hip. I am moving from the precontemplation stage to the contemplation stage of resurfacing surgery. Down side I can’t drive for four weeks afterwards (meaning planning it is going to be slightly less complicated than fixing the economy), Up side residency would not be the a death march for my left hip (somewhat literally).  I can’t get to the dude in Baltimore and do all the things I need to do in my life right now so I looked up someone here.  He has excellent training include some peds ortho and hip arthoplasty for young adults. I e-mailed my Rheum for a referral.  heck…I have lost it….I am actually going to an ortho out of my own free will with surgery at least on the table.

3.  I passed int medicine but the word perseverance and some other serious disabled tiny Tim crap  somehow ended up in my freaking summary statement…yet its no where to be found in ANY of my evaluations…i wonder if a certain eavesdropping incidence involving my rheum felow (who is completely innocent because he apologized profusely for it), my lf hip,  gen med and a nameless attending has any thing to do with that….there will be an angsty blog entry about this at some point.

For now I have to go eat dinner…its nearly midngiht. I am so exhausted.