Summer is almost over...

I cannot believe how fast the summer has flown by. Local elementary and high schools started back last week. The temperature outside tells me that it is still summer but everything else tells me summer is over. Not only have schools started back but retailers have finished with their back-to-school drive and are now focusing on Halloween!!!! Don't get me wrong I am looking forward to the copious amounts of candy; I am just a little surprised that it is that time of year already. I feel like it is still winter and I am commuting back and forth from the VA hospital in SLC to Ogden. I swear it is still May and I just graduated. I feel like it has only been a few weeks since I took my WREB exam, and only a week ago I got my license.

As we all know time does fly and I really need to remember to embrace each moment, each trial, each joy, each mistake, each triumph.

On a lighter note, I went to see Merry Wives of Winsor at the Shakespearean Festival. It was so great! I went with Liz and Alethea Lewis. Yup that's right, sisters to the famous Sara Lewis-Melling. It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the play, the company, and the atmosphere. I really do enjoy a good Shakespeare play. I am such a fan!! I am so lucky to live here so I can partake of the great culture. Thankfully there is a little summer left afterall!

♫Homeless. Homeless♫

It's true. As of Sunday I am homeless. I have rented a storage unit for all of my crap and a po box for my mail. I am going to be spending the night with my friends Joe and Sara. They are so amazing! They are opening their home to me for probably 2-5 weeks. What generosity (all it cost me was 3 Valium and a bit of Nitrous)!! Seriously, in a few weeks I hope to be moving in to a house with my friend Angie. I hope it is soon. I really hate relying on the kindness of others. It is very hard for me. I am just too independent. I would live out of my truck if I had a shower....I guess I could always go to SUU and shower in the locker room. I am not too upset about being homeless, I am really ticked that I am going to miss the season premier of Prison Break-how messed up is that? Well, September promises to be an exciting month so stay tuned.

What the Hell.....

I am so bothered by the new Nickelodeon movie Barnyard. I love animation. I am impressed by most animated productions. I cannot make myself go and see Barnyard. I cannot get past the fact that the cow is male which makes him a bull and he has udders! What the hell??? Since when does a bull have udders? I guess they are a bovine representation of man-boobs. Still I cannot get past it. I find it irritating that the animators chose to make the film this way. I have also noticed with irritation that Burger King has a new commercial for their chicken fries. There is a rooster standing there and two hens come up with male voices and ask the chicken-aka rooster-what he is doing. The point of the commercial is that the chickens want to become chicken fries. It is annoying to me that the hens have male voices. I guess I am old fashioned. I guess gender does not matter anymore. I guess my little world has such a concept as gender--go figure!

The essence of pulchritude...

One of my favorite patients told me that I was the essence of pulchritude and since I am not Kami Hanson I did not know what it meant. He would not tell me what it meant and so I looked it up. I was very flattered that he would say such a nice thing about me. It really made my day to be sweet talked like that.

Well yesterday I had a patient who had some leukoplakic patches on his buccal mucosa (I haven't used those big words for so long I just had to ha ha). i tried to wipe them off and they would not. I showed the spots to the patient and asked how long they had been there. He had no idea he had white spots on his cheeks. He instantly freaked out on me. He was all sorts of afraid he had cancer. I could not calm him down. I told him it was most likely a fungal infection but he would not listen to me. I felt so bad that he freaked out like that. The dr reassured him that it was a fungal infection and to keep a watch on it to see if it got worse. Man....

One of my other patients had malignant hypothermia. It was great to talk to him. He was 28 years old and he really needed his wisdom teeth taken out. He said that he was going to go to an oral surgeon to get them out. I did not blame the dentist for sending him there. I was a little freaked out cleaning his teeth. He was so nice. He said his whole family-on his fathers side-has it. He said his little bro almost died from it. It was great to meet and treat someone with a condition I had learned so much about but thought I would not meet anyone who had it.

Cedar Mountain has had quite a bit of rain that last few days. I drove up to Cedar Breaks yesterday and UDOT was cleaning the roads from yet another mud slide. I love the mountain! It is so beautiful. It is breaking my heart to see the dead tree areas getting larger each year-dang bark beetle. One day lightening is going to strike and the whole mountain is going to explode in a puff of flames! That is all that is new in my life...kinda boring huh? Oh well, I am just so content that I do not know what to do:-)