March

I guess since it seems that I only update once a month I will title this post March. Last month I was in Anahuac doing a family practice rotation. I really enjoyed it because I worked in the clinic Monday-Friday but also was on call for the ER Monday and Wednesday night. I got to do a whole lot and had lots of experiences in that month. My next rotation is my last family practice rotation in LaPorte, which is very close to home!
Lance is currently snowboarding in Colorado! He is working very hard on a project in Denver and took a day off to enjoy being in Colorado. He will be home on Wednesday, then Saturday he is flying out to Las Cruces to visit his grandmother. I am unsure of my schedule yet so I haven't gotten plane tickets or anything. Maybe I will be able to go.

I can't believe I have only 4 more months of rotations. I am scared at how soon Lance and I will have to figure out where we are moving to and pack up to move to a new location. Uncertainty always mkes me nervous. Last time I was this nervous was when I was waiting for interviews for PA school and Lance bought me Maggie! She has been such a comfort. We both love her a little too much!

I guess that is all for now. Hopefully we will make it to the Houston Rodeo this year! I loved going last year.

Bad Blogger

Sorry I haven't updated in a while! I have been in Tyler doing a rotation in internal medicine. I loved it! Igot to do quite a bit of procedures and felt I did really well on the rotation. I don't feel SO clueles all the time! haha!

Last night Lance and I had a date night and went to Chabucas. It is a brazilian place. It was so good. They had a man playing the piano and amazing food and drinks. It was a much needed time spent together. Today we just plan to get groceries, start doing taxes, and run some errands. Our only plans for the super bowl are just to hang out at home.

I have a product rave to do. I wanted to whiten my teeth, but I feel that the crest white strips and andy other strips are a pain. You have to keep them on for 30 minutes, and then I always have to brush my teeth afterwards. I found this product at Sephora. You just put it on your teeth twice a day. You don't have to brush your teeth afterwards and it freshens you breath too! The packaging says to wait to appy 1 hour after brushin your teeth and don't apply 30 minutes before or after eating. So I just kept this little pen in my purse and whitened my teeth whenever I remembered, or whenever I wanted fresher breath. So here it is:

BriteSmile To Go Accelerator pen

back to the grind

I am about to head out to leave to Longview. I will be there about a month. My rotation is in Tyler so I will be driving there everyday. It is actually less distance and time than any of my Houston rotations! Lance is keeping Maggie this first week and then visiting me in Longview for the weekend. The next week he is heading to New Jersey for some meetings. I think this rotation will go by faster than my other one and I really think I will enjoy it. I spoke to the PA on the phone the other day and it just seems like this will be a great rotation.
Sorry I haven't even updated about Christmas or anything. I was having too much fun enjoing myself on vacation. We had a wonderful Christmas spent with family in Longview. The weekend before Christmas we were in El Paso spending time with Lance's grandma. We did not do anything for New Years and if you know me you know that I did not make it until midnight!
Oh, and I am loving my Wii fit. I get on it everyday and I enjoy the Biggest Loser game. IT really helps out because it is SO cold outside right now!
adios for now!

Winter Park, Colorado

So, I have obviously finished my pediatrics rotation! yay! I am officially on Christmas break. The day of my final I flew to Colorado to meet Lance for the weekend. He was having some meetings in Denver. We went to Winter Park Colorado and really enjoyed skiing and the snow! The first day we took a skiing class and we quickly got promoted, so we got to go further up the mountain with the instructer. The next day we skiied on our own and had a ton of fun! Here, just look at the pictures!!!

Lance waiting for the bus

And I played in the snow

My favorite picture! Looks so wintery!

In Winter Park Village. All the lights were so pretty!

Me on the ski lift

Us on the ski lift!

Speed racer!

Look how high up we were

About to go down a steep hill!

Sunday it snowed

Me in the snow

This is us eating the first night we arrived in Winter Park.

We had a blast! It was a much needed vacation together after we had been living apart due to my rotations for 6 weeks! It was only from Thursday to Sunday, but we made the most of it and had a blast skiing together. I will always laugh when I think of Lance going to fast that he skiied into the woods and fell in the soft snow. I enjoy making memories with Lance and maybe someday we will make memories in Winter Park with our kids.

-Amy

pedi

So, I am officially in Longview for my pediatrics rotation. By the end of the week I was sick. I am surprised I lasted that long with all the kids that cough all over me. It has been fun and many people recognize me, which is kinda weird. Oh by the way, the pediatrician I am working with was Lance's pediatrician since he was a baby. Pretty weird, huh?

Saturday morning I made the long drive back to Houston to hang out with Lance. It was nice, but would have been much better if I wasn't sick. I was there a whole whopping 20 hours before having to return to Longview. Lance will be coming to Longview this weekend. We are going to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday.

Nothing else really going on in our lives. I'll leave you with a picture that is on my computer that I left here at home after getting married.Maggie is ready for Christmas!!!!!

End of OB/GYN

So I haven't updated in a while. The weekend before last we went to Marble Falls for a friend's wedding. It was beautiful out there! Lance and I went to Fredricksburg for the day and enjoyed the town. We also went to the famous Luckenbach, TX. It was so neat. It is seriously a small loop with a post office and a dance hall. That is it. Oh, and you buy beer at the post office! It is so neat. I will try and upload some pictures. The wedding was beautiful on the lake there, and we wish Aimee and Trey many wonderful years together.
On a totally different note, I delivered 2 babies last night!!! It was an awesome experience and I am so glad I was able to do that. They were delivered both within the first hour I was there, and then I studied the rest of the night waiting on more babies, but no more came. Lance knew I was going to have a hard time with the night shift, so I woke up to leave and he had a dozen roses, cinamon rolls, and a coke waiting for me. I actually was pretty awake all night. Maybe it was the adrenaline rush!

bath tub=water

Now that it is more than halfway through the week, I thought I should write something. I decided to stay home from the game this weekend to work on my research paper. Hopefully I will get most or all of it done and not have to worry about it for the rest of this rotation.

Maggie has been funny lately. She would go over to the bath tub and start crying. Lance figured out that she wanted her water bowl filled, even though her water bowl isn't anywhere near the tub. Then yesterday she sat by the tub and cried so I checked her water bowl and sure enough she was out of water. She normally sits by her water bowl when she wants more water. oh well, I guess she is smart because she knows water comes out of the tub faucet.

I am on my lunch break right now. I have felt lots of babies in utero today. It is fun for the most part and exciting for the patient when I find the fetal heart rate and they get to listen to their baby. 98% of patients here speak spanish so I have been picking up more and more phrases.

Until next update,
Amy