Thrown to the Lions

So we've started our work as interns and, man, do we have our work cut out for us! Our first day was exhausting--I worked a 15 hour shift and Kev had some computer training and then went to work. We both came home totally beat. Little did we know our 2nd day was going to be worse.

My day started out early--was at the hospital by 4:45am. I got to scrub into my first C-section and assist which was nerve racking because I had no clue what to do (even though I watched this video on how to do them). I thought we were off to clinic after that and then realized that we had one more C-section to do---and I would be the primary surgeon. To make a long story short, I was EXTREMELY slow but managed to pull that baby out--I definitely need to work on my speed and learning all the different instruments I need to call for--yikes!

After that, I had to go to clinic in the afternoon where there were 240 patients to see between about 10 residents and a handful of NPs. A policeman had to go into the waiting room for crowd control at one point. We finished clinic up at 8:15pm--another 15 hour day. Luckily my very understanding, patient 4th year resident let me go home today since most of my patients went home.

Kev worked a 30 hour shift yesterday--yes, 30 hours in a row, no sleep=no fun. He just got home and promptly fell asleep. He says he got paged over 60 times throughout the night. I can only imagine how crazy that must have been. He thinks he'll get Sunday off which is great since I have Sunday off, too (I'm on call tomorrow).

Anyway, we've officially jumped into intern year---let's hope we make it out alive!!