The best thing about being on the Gyn-Onc team is realizing how benign the regular Gyn service is in comparison (pun intended). My days literally went from an average 16-hour work day, to a comfy 11. The second best thing about Gyn-Onc is chocolates – boxes and boxes of chocolates. It seems that cancer patients really like to give chocolates to the house staff. That means Godiva truffles and Russell Stover assortments, all free for the taking. I wasn’t too worried about the calories, though, since we rarely had time for lunch or dinner. In other news, wedding plans are still in the works. I’ll hopefully have time soon to put up a wedding website with further details. In the meantime, I’ve finally posted photos from our Spain trip in our travel page for your viewing pleasure.

After 6 weeks of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, my first rotation back has finally come to an end. My last week was spent on the neonatal floor, where I saw my first delivery in the OR, and got to change a diaper for the very first time. And believe me, it is no cakewalk. On Wednesday, I took my first shelf exam. For those of you not in the know, it’s a standardized test with old Board-exam questions to evaluate our performance in the subject. It’s actually been more than 4 years since I last took a test of any kind, and it didn’t help that this was probably the hardest I’ve taken since P Chem in college. Anyway, I’m now in the midst of a mid-week session before my Ob-Gyn rotation begins. Despite being called “mittleschmertz”, it’s actually quite lax, and should give me a chance to catch up on errands and wedding plans.