i painted that picture
oddly, i hate writing. why start a blog then? 1/3 of the reason i started this blog is my family. the other third is for the stress relief, and the last third is to share some of the joys.
i am in my third year of medical school, which is my own personal hell only because the hardest part of medical school is explaining it to my family. whenever they ask me about it, i’m usually just finishing the day and the last thing i want to do is talk about medical school. otherwise, the third year is the best year.
i live at home with my 21 year old brother (henceforth “chewkie’), and our two [three] dogs: delilah (my baby) and casey [and bailey]. that alone has afforded me many experiences thus far. delilah, being my dog, is my absolute love. nothing says it better than the youtube video called marimo. she has been around since i graduated high school.
there are many people i will write about. some of the most important will be the people i do rotations with. i will never use patient names, specifics, or identifiers. their privacy is most important (and legally, i have to maintain it).
i am stubborn to a tee, a trait i happily inherited from my mother - the same woman who drove me nuts as a teenager…i am becoming. another fact that you don’t believe will ever happen? my sister and i are best friends. she is beautiful and talented and a person having as an older sister to look up to.
i love to rationalize my actions - not because i don’t think i am wrong, but because i have this need for people to know that when i messed up, it wasn’t because i’m a bad person but because of that reason i give. it doesn’t make the action right, but it’s my way of saying, i’m not a monster. (technically, rationalizing means that i do an action, and then make up a better reason for having done it…i don’t do that.)
