What a Week!

This week has been absolutely insane. After putting in 19 hours of board review this past weekend, I had to cram in many lectures of rheumatology and orthopaedics for my test that is going to be tomorrow morning. I have never been so unprepared in my life for an exam. We had 22 lectures and 10 case studies for the exam and I have only been through the lectures and none of the case studies. And I won't get through them in the morning either. I still have to wake up at 5:00 am to read through 7 more lectures before the test at 8:00 am. This is going to be an insane test. I hope I pass!

In all fairness though, I would have been prepared as normal if I hadn't been so distracted these last couple of days. Normally I don't post anything about my hip issues, but I went to see an orthopaedic surgeon here in town for a second opinion and, it turns out, that in the best of circumstances, I have to have yet another hip scope (having the same thing that I had done last time to fix residual impingement and labral tearing). Worst case scenario, there are two other options that are more major surgeries which could complicate my future clinical rotation schedule enormously :( But, I have to wait until I go get my arthrogram done on Monday and then see the doc the following Monday to discuss what needs to be done next. All in all, this was NOT what I wanted to hear! This has been quite distracting to deal with whilst studying for a gigundous test.

Well, I think that I have vented enough on here, and am going to catch some shut-eye before I get up and cram the last few lectures into my brain. Talk about the fun of medical school! Especially when 'life-stuff' happens.

I don't think that my hip go the memo that I am in medical school and it can't act up now!

Slacking on the Blog Front

Sorry, I have been slacking and not posting on here for the last little while. In my defense, things have been crazy. I have now started studying for boards every single day. In fact, I spend all morning doing boards review. It is kinda frustrating because I am feeling like I have no retention and find myself thinking: 'I did know this at one point, I remember what it looks like but I can't remember what it says.' I am hoping that once I get a little deeper things start to come together. I find that I am having a hard time balancing board studying with my classroom work. We are doing our psychiatry block right now and, I am getting the feeling that this is not very high yield on boards, so I am having a hard time getting motivated. It doesn't help that two of the docs talking are so boring they could be insomniac drugs! I am going to tackle a butt load of psychiatric drugs today. Meaning, I am going to learn them until I am blue in the face. Sounds fun. I do get to do a surgery/OB clinic over the noon hour today. So I am excited about that. And I am gonna stop at 9pm tonight and watch a movie. So I have some things to look forward to today. Promise I will post again soon!

Case

After 8 hours of board review on minimal sleep, I figured I would post a case that was given to us by one of the lecturing doctors. It made me smile: A 2 year old girl following a fall acutely made a brief shrill cry, became apneic, developed generalized cyanosis and loss of consciousness and generalized clonic jerks, opisthotonius, and bradycardia. EEG is normal. A similar incident happened when the infant was upset over a toy being taken away last week. Diagnosis: TEMPER TANTRUM that is quite a tantrum!