November 27, 2007

• Sometimes I feel really lucky.

  I know that these days, its rare to really love your job, but the past two days in the clinic have been great.  Exhausting, but great.  I am finally seeing all the details of path, pharm, and medicine all come together and it's wonderful.  Not the "whoopee!" type of wonderful, but the full of wonder wonderful.

  I know I'm a nerd.  I really enjoy learning, but never thought of why I like it.  I think it's that feeling of the lights starting to turn on; the feeling of excitement when things come together that I enjoy.  It's feeling like a kid again and being in awe of everything you see around you.  It's the ability to derive pleasure from something really simple - something others take for granted.

  I can only imagine what it's like for babies to see something for the first time.  I think learning takes me back there, but this time I can appreciate how amazing things are...and I feel really lucky.

  My 'ah-ha' moment of the day: A bitch in metaestrus came in with pyometra.  During the surgery we saw that she had cystic ovaries...afterwards, I opened up her uterus to find that the endometrium was cystic and hyperplastic.  The awesome part is that I remembered the disease and the pathogenesis.  =)  Yay me!

  Tomorrow, I am going in to the office, then to Rx, then to the clinic, and then off to band practice.  We've got a plane to earn!! =P

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