This dad business is a good gig

I love foreign films!

So I watched a few films this week that were so good I thought I would post about them. The first is the city of lost children. It is a really creative sci-fi fantasy film from France. The second was another French filn called Inside. Probably one of the creepiest and most disturbing films I have seen in a loooooong time. Definitely not for the faint of heart. Lastly, I watched [Rec] an indie from Spain. It is a unique take on the zombie genre that mixes in a little bit of catholic corruption. Right up my alley! Below I added a clip of audience reactions from one of the first screenings of [Rec]. Pretty awesome. Lastly I watched Amelie again. I love this movie! I wish we could get some American filmakers that were doing cool stuff like this instead of Rocky, Rambo or Beverly Hills Cop remakes.

Graduation Pics

This week we had our 4th year convocation and they took our graduation pictures before we all spread out for fourth year. Speaking of spreading out, we will be in Utah for almost two months starting at the end of this month. We are excited to see everybody!

Another doozy

One thing that I love...

I love it when really good bands get back together after a long time and they don't suck...

So I took my last shelf exam of the year and it feels great to be done. I have 6 weeks of electives and then I will be a fourth year. YES! I am really excited because I have 3 weeks of ENT and then 3 weeks of ENT research. It should be fun. Today I got my needle driver out and practiced tying sutures on a banana. What fun...It was a nice Mother's day. I had the weekend off so me and Em spent Saturday morning running errands for mothers day. We got a bouquet of roses and the new Stephanie Meyer book. Tonight I made a fancy dinner and are watching the season finale of Survivor. Pretty decent. When you work 6 days a week you forget how fantastic it is to have Saturday and Sunday off.
On a wierder note I saw one of the craziest things of third year when I was on OB. We were working late at night and a lady came in with her boyfriend. They were both high as kites. I think they had been doing meth. They were from some town in western podunk missouri. Apparently they were driving in the middle of nowhere doing meth and she all of a sudden went into labor and delivered the baby. They tried to call an ambulance, but apparently there was no abulance service in that area. So what do they do? They drive to a Walgreens, buy scissors and cut the cord, buy some diapers for the kid, and a bucket...why a bucket you ask? to put the placenta in. So they show up to the L&D floor with a slimy baby wrapped in a huge diaper and a bucket with a placenta that is eight hours old and stinky. Oh yea, and they are buggin' out because they are on meth. Fortunately the kiddo was put up for adoption. Hopefully nurture wins out over nature. Yikes!!! Here is a picture of a placenta just to cement the story in your heads...

OB/GYN

So I am in my second week on the OB rotation. I have seen some really cool things and some really disturbing things. I got to deliver my first baby on Sunday morning. I also got to scrub into a C-section. That was wild. It was an emergency section. The baby's heart rate slowed down and we had to rush into the OR. Within five minutes we had taken a ten and a half pound monster baby out. It was crazy. The attending let me sew the mom back up by myself. It was pretty sweet. As for the not so fun stuff....let's just say I have smelled and seen some very unclean things. Yuck. Also, It is never fun to see a 8 1/2 months pregnant 14 year old girl with her 17 year old "baby daddy". Also I don't know if I could ever do this for a living. It just feels uncomfortable/unnatural to check a cervix. I will leave you with a few pictures that sum up this last week and a half...