Less than a week left...

... till it's time to go back to the "real world"... which in my case would be my 12-week medicine clerkship (thankfully starting with a yummy 4-week surgical-subs elective with mostly 4th years whom I love :oD))

As I sit here nibbling on peeled orange slices (isn't it awesome when you get those? I know, I know, major fiber loss but sooooo much yummier with all the balls of juice just exploding in yoru mouth - okay, major digression) I wonder if I'll still remember how to write a friggin' SOAP note. Eh, worry about it when the time comes.

The worst part about investing your sweat, your blood, your cervical vertebrae (last I checked, my C-spine looked like that of a 65-yo woman; Even the radiologist wanted the tech to double-check to make sure it was mine. I knew I should've listened to dad all those years about posture...)

... is that you FORGET half the shittake mushrooms you worked to hard to learn, absorb, memorize!

Okay, so I rarely memorize. Not that I can't, but a) I usually don't get around to it, b) I hate it, c) I hate it... so I stick to understanding concepts intuitively and in the worst-case scenario where I HAVE to inhale random minutia (i.e. 55% of medicine)... I usually made stupid associations involving anthropomorphizing all the different cells and interactions and blah blah...

You would think I would remember things if I UNDERSTOOD THEM...

Nope.

Definitely easier to re-learn, but I must have a giant gaping hole in the back of my head where stuff just falls out with every step I take... it's just that no one's told me about it yet (kinda like that open fly you spend all day flaunting until you come home or happen to glance at a mirror yourself).

I swapped Neurosurg for ENT... a last-minute deal that I didn't think they'd honor, but did somehow. I love head and neck anatomy, so it isn't much of a downer. I just wanted to save Neurosurg for a later time when I have more surgical experience. I was supposed to have completed OB/GYN by now, but given that Im currently taking that rotation off, I don't see the point of walking into the OR without a single clue on how to even scrub in.

Hard to even IMAGINE where I'll be in about a week and half from my current vantage point... but that's what I love most about life... especially mine.