Excitement

Quick news updates.... This week has been exciting (in bad ways but mostly good...)

• I've been on OB nights and am still struggling with juggling all the annoying ED consults with running the labor board, being there for the deliveries and doing C-sections, and making sure triage doesn't explode. This week we had 2 code c-sections (exhilarating to do!), one of which was caused by my prolapsed cord on rupturing someone's membranes for a decel... not something I want to do again, but it was a good experience to know how to manage the situation (me holding the head off the cord while riding the gurney back to the OR). I made the "wall of infamy" for "most recent prolapsed cord." We also had a ton of preterm deliveries-- 28 weeker, 32, 33, and 34 weekers.... which we all visited in the NICU on Thursday night to see how they were doing.


• Elijah makes his debut today! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited for my great friends Wendi and John as they welcome Elijah, their miracle baby #2 (after 5 years of infertility with failed IUI and IVFs, they adopted Isaac last year in May and then spontaneously conceived!), into the world. I can't wait to see Joia's announcement.


• My friends Laura and Tony are having a GIRL!!!!! I can't believe how many of my friends are pregnant (or, in Wendi's case, soon to be not).


• Cruise! Our vacation starts in 3 weeks, and Shomir and I just booked our 5-night cruise leaving Miami to Grand Cayman and Ocho Rios, Jamaica. On the 25th of Feb, we are flying to southern Fla, and, after cruising, plan to visit John, Wendi, and the babies before coming back here.

• Back in the music scene.... Last weekend, Shomir and I went to a performance at the UC Davis Flute Festival at Davis's Mondavi Center. We missed the Baroque concert the previous night, but we both really enjoyed (despite not really liking modern music) the works, written and performed by NY flutist Robert Dick. He had (and had patented) this "wammy" mouthpiece that let you make glissando noises like on a guitar!
• Weekend off. I have this weekend off (until I go back to work Sunday night)! It is amazing! There will be a superbowl party at Phi's tomorrow, but don't know what else I'm going to do with my time (besides watching Wendi's blog for THE announcement!) :)