Oink oink!

So I started jogging about a month ago.

It occured to me (or well, my friend made it occur to me), who wants a fat/out of shape Doc? Wouldn't it be kinda silly to have a patient come in, who is obese, has diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia etc. etc and there I am, the Fat-Doc telling this patient,"you need to get in shape. Have you tired changing your diet? How about exercising a couple times a week? Start off with simply walking three-four times a week, 20-30 minutes a day, that shouldn't be too hard right?" And the patient is going to sit there, looking at me, with a raised eyebrow, thinking "mmmhmmm, and has SHE tried her own advice?"

Putting that aside, I've been pigging out on Pizza and Burger King the last three days, and after eating I do the worst thing ever! I take a nap out of the exhaustion of "eating". Sad sad sad.

So that's it. Today I woke up from my nap feeling as piggish and disgusted as ever, put on my jogging pants, sweatshirt and shoes and went out for a brisk jog - or well, a half walk half jog. And here I sit sweating and panting away, proud of myself for getting back at the routine after three days of being a piggy. As of tomorrow no more eating bad foods and taking a nap. More jogging and more healthy food eating!

Wish me luck!

- signing off,
Sleepless in Chicago

I've started yet another blog

Random rants at 11:58 pm.

It's late in the night and I'm trying to get the Dale Dubin book (Rapid Interpretation of EKGs) read up. Tomorrow my Doc is going to pull out several EKGs and we're going to be "discussing" it. Discussing - meaning actually grilling me with questions. Ughhh...

I have about a week left for my IM rotations to come to an end. I enjoyed it, but I've pretty much decided that I can't see myself going into IM in the future.

ObGyn and Peds are my other two options, so I have to make sure I kick butt at it. ObGyn is just around the corner and I'm excited!

Saw a patient with Scabies today, and now I'm paranoid that I've scabies. Shyte! What's this new little bump I see on my skin???

Back to Sick Sinus Syndrome!

- signing off as,
Sleepless in Chicago