Em was able to come for the first two weeks, and as you can read from her post, we had a lot of good times. The day that Em had to leave was very sad, but it was really cool though what happened that day. I was supposed to do my saturday morning to sunday morning shift but the resident told me to go and spend the rest of saturday morning with Em and take her to the airport, and to just come back after that. He said that family was important to the program.
Backtracking a little bit to the first day of the rotation, I would have to admit, I was a little nervous starting out again at a new place. Being around a bunch of new faces, 100% new faces, and having to make all new first impressions was a little overwhelming. I mean, I was a little nervous about finding my way anywhere around the place, this hospital is Gi-normous! However, it all worked out just fine because everyone was so helpful. Everywhere I turned someone was willing to help me on my first day.
The first two weeks, I was on the foot and ankle service where at this program they have four attendings (that is a lot for this specialty…most programs only have one). I clearly had no idea the variety of things that are being done and can be done in this subspecialty of orthopaedics. It was pretty cool because some of the procedures were done right in the clinic, such as simple tenotomies for contractures.
During the last two weeks, I have been on the sports service. It has been a really good time, as well. On this rotation, I really have got to learn a good deal of the physical exam in orthopaedics. Prior to this rotation, I had not had much exposure to patients with meniscus tears and the like, so it was really neat being able to see these patients in clinic and then seeing them in the operating room to literally see what the condition of the cartilage inside their knee was like. Dr. Maloney is one of the sports attending here at Rochester, and he is a Machine! This man had 16 cases scheduled on Wednesday, and got through every single one of them by 5:15 pm.
In addition to my duties at the hospital, I have gotten to enjoy a few extracurricular activities while here in Rochester. I have found a very competitive group of ultimate Frisbee players who play pickup within walking distance of the hospital. This has been fantastic! It’s been really fun getting back out there and playing some competitive ultimate again. Apparently there is also a very competitive bowling league here as well as a paddle ball league. One of the patients I was seeing was delaying his surgery until the spring that way he did not have to sit out for too much of paddle ball season. I still have no idea what paddle ball is… I thought he was referring to ping pong, but apparently it is not that!
I was also able to check out a local church in the area. It was really nice, and I really enjoyed the worship time there. They had a huge crowd on stage playing tons of instruments, but it worked really well, people were really having a good time praising Jesus which really is a cool sight to see. The pastor there was very very enthusiastic and walked about the crowd interacting with those who dared sit in the aisle near the front. I am sooo glad that I chose to sit near the back! He came within two rows of me during the service, but did not quite make it to me! While there, they were on the series called, “the Jesus Life: Part 6” from Luke 6. It was a good message.
I just want to say thanks to all those who prayed for us while we were up here, it really has been an amazing time, and it really is awesome to have such awesome friends and family who support us. Thanks for taking the time to read this ridiculously long post, and I will sign out at this point!
I want to end by letting you guess the movie quote(this is an easy one): “What is this?? A CENTER FOR ANTS!? It needs to be at least……three times bigger than this!”
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