Pediatrics	50%
Urology	42.9%
Family Medicine	7.1%

The polls so far... pediatrics is winning, now all I need to do is build up my immune system :) I am slowly getting there and catching every virus along the way too.

I think I will leave the poll up for another week or so just to give everyone a crack at it.

Lumbar Punctures:

So today I was involved in yet another attempt to perform a lumbar puncture. These procedures scared the heck out of me when we did them on adults let alone on these squirmy little babies. We had a super strong baby today who was not going to let us go for a free ride. We tried her in two different positions. I had the first go and it resulted in what one would call a bloody tap which got clogged up with clot. Then my senior resident had a go and out came the clear untainted CSF fluid.

I am really going to get over my wariness of performing procedures on wee babies if I am going to do this. I think it is mainly due to my lack of comfort with most of the procedures on such a small playing ground. I got to practice most of these procedures a number of times on a variety of rotations on adult hence I had time to become comfortable. I had never tried half of these on children before.

Fear of Dying with your pants down:

So last week at some point I remember running to the bathroom dying to pee. I had been on call and the post call rounds seemed to be taking forever and my extra extra large tea was really kicking in. So I between patients I ran to the closest staff bathroom on the floor. The moment that I should be feeling extreme relief, I am assaulted by an entirely different feeling. Shortness of breath, gasping, coughing, light headedness, and tightness of the chest… no I was not having a heart attack. The bathroom had just been cleaned, read as doused in bleach, and I am allergic to bleach. For a brief moment I was so scared I would pass out or go into some form of shock only to be discovered with my pants down hours later. That thought got my ass in gear and I got the heck out of there… not before washing my hands…in case public health sis is reading.