Update

Update: I am currently doing my surgery rotation and the hours are rather horrible. Got home after 10 pm last night after doing what we thought was going to be a routine appendectomy. Come to find out when we got in the belly, the guy actually had a rare complication from a rare problem called a meckel's diverticulum. Had to do a small bowel resection but everything turned out okay. We are also on call today. Fortunately I don't have to be in until 11 but I probably won't be home until late into the night. My saving grace is that my preceptor is on vacation next week. Therefore I am going to complete a required 1 week rotation in hospice in the interim. Morbid, yes. Hours are great though. That will give me time to catch up on studying and write a research paper that is due in a couple of weeks. My next rotation which starts in less than 3 weeks is emergency medicine in Branson. I have really been looking forward to this one. It feels like I am going home to my comfort zone.

Another exciting thing going on in life right now is the fact that we will be moving out of Springfield in 8 1/2 weeks. Seems unbelievable yet overwhelmingly exciting as well. Before we move out we would like to do a few things as a family. We want to go visit St. Louis together and the last free zoo in the Country. Also, take Lydia to the Buffalo river since we are so close. I would like to visit Kansas City also because I hear it is kind of pretty. Unfortunately we are limited on funds and at the moment, time to complete these missions.

That is all for my current update and on a side note..Don't go visit a surgeon unless you want your gallbladder taken out. KSkinn out