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My name is Daren. I currently attend LECOM in Bradenton, FL. This is currently my 4th year of med school. I created this blog to post my thoughts about medical school. And because I rock. Boom. So please, come make yourself at home and enjoy my musings. If you are easily offended by things (ie sarcasm, being politically incorrect, etc) then I suggest you evacuate the immediate vicinity :)

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Something different?

Ok so I was thinking I'd try something new. If you know me relatively well, you probably realize that my brain can never shut off. I can't ever just "do nothing" because I get bored and my mind wanders and keeps on running. It has been known to irritate me sometimes because it actually makes me tired from thinking so much. For example, after final exams last year I wanted to just lay around the house and pool and rest my mind for half a day. Lo and behold, I got bored and had to go do something. After my board exam in May, I wanted to let my brain just chill but of course, I couldn't do something mindless and let my brain rest because it just kept on going even though it felt pooped.

So in light of that, I want to just let my brain babble for a bit. For the next few minutes, I will let my brain run wild, no control of my thoughts, just let it go and in the meantime, I'll be typing out the various things that come to mind. I think in both words and pictures and obviously I can't type out a picture so I'll just describe what the picture represents as it shows up. And of course, I won't be able to keep up with every little thing my cerebrum spews out, but I'll hit at least the main points. Separate ideas are separated by commas. Periods represent a whole new line of thought. Ok let the mayhem ensue.

white computer, shiny, orb, beer cantillon, green shirts stripey, hohos can I get a cookie I can haz cheezburger kitty fatass garfield kitchen mop, mahogany and thrones. Reverse slide the cat, potabananato hahaha couch potato potation is the process of becoming a potato. Why is my phone blinking? Rainbow remote. Ice penguins is the emperor of black metal. I can't spell sometimes. Black shoes. That stupid youtube video about shoes and some gay dude is half singing/talking on it. So stupid. Pink. I miss playing guitar shit I need to change the strings on 3 guitars, need to fix my drums. Oh I got a text message that's why it blinked. Nice pen, really shiny. Trim. Ugh my eyes kind of hurt I hope I don't have glaucoma. Founders sticker, would love KBS right now, mmmm cantill- DRIE FONTEINEN dammit I wish the store would hurry up sending my beer over to my house. Drie fonteinen is awesome, can't wait for Lente, so expensive stupid ebay. Penguins are awesome. I need to figure out rotations stuff in a couple months, hope the anesthesiologist can take me, I hope it's fun and chill because I really don't wanna be uber stressed before having more uber stress at sisters hospital, oh cool I can hang out with Kyle more often should I keep a guitar there? And beer, we need to talk over some beer. Maybe a beer tasting. Ooooo music in a decreasing arpeggio, I think it's in major because it's HAPPY like a penguin!. 

So that was just a small taste of my uncontrolled thought process in the matter of about 2 minutes. Hope you enjoyed that :)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Saving lives? Who knew???

So. It has been quite some time since I've last posted here. I feel like I should get an alert that tells me to post after a prolonged period of time. Anyway, here I am during my internal medicine rotation. I have some spare time since I'm doing an overnight shift again and it's pretty quiet around here... except for my music playing haha. I believe the last time I posted was the beginning of 2nd semester of 2nd year. I'll fill y'all in on what went on.

Basically, I studied my ass off and took the first board exam. Joy.

It was pretty uneventful I suppose. I've grown to really like the pathology book, although it's doubtful that I'll become a pathologist. And just when I started liking that book, I don't have to use it any more. Funny how stuff like that happens.

Rotations started last week. As I mentioned before, I'm currently doing IM. It's pretty interesting, although a bit slow here in Batavia, NY. It is as expected though, since I am in the middle of nowhere. I imagine the IM dept of hospitals like NYU or even Strong are much busier. It's hard to believe I can actually put my knowledge to good use. Last Friday there was a Drake concert at Darien Lake (I think I suddenly lost an IQ point for even mentioning the name "Drake.") and there were so many drunk and belligerent people in the ER that I could hardly believe it. The ER was completely full. It was rather fun taking so many H&P's. The one event that stuck in my mind is an elderly lady (who was NOT at the Drake concert) who went into asystole. Obviously, the code was called and the ER doc put me on chest compressions to replace someone who wasn't doing a good job. Miraculously, her heart beat returned after a few moments, albeit a bit messy. But she lived. And I'm not gonna lie, it felt pretty damn good to help save a life. Surreal.

I'll leave y'all with that. Oh, and we had a beer tasting recently that was pretty epic. w00t.