Friday was my last day of surgery. I have got to admit, I was a bit excited. It wasn't my favorite rotation and I am lucky enough to start the core rotation that I've been looking forward to the most: Pediatrics. We had our final exam in surgery on Wednesday and I submitted my last paper on Thursday evening. I started reading my pediatrics text book on Friday. I was so excited to finally be reading pediatrics! However, the first few chapters were a bit depressing. It was a lot of epidemiology and statistics. There was a lot of data about how babies, children and adolescents die, their illnesses, the rates of assault and rape, abuse and statistics about the foster care system. Nonetheless, I am still excited about pediatrics.
Saturday, we went to Brooklyn to have brunch with our friend Tam, and her boyfriend. It was nice to meet him and see some other people from school who we haven't seen since leaving the island. Then we went to Union Square and did a little shopping before heading home for a few hours. Later int he evening, we met with up with Farley's good friend Paul. Of course, we went to Farley's favorite restaurant in New York: The Heartland Brewery. We had a great time.
Sunday, we went out to Long Island to find the hospital that Farley will be doing his pediatric rotation. Unfortunately, we are not at the same hospital for this rotation and it is a bit of a commute for Farley. However, the area is super nice and I think he will have a really great rotation--probably even better than the hospital that I am going to do my rotation at. We were planning on going down to Rockefeller Center and seeing the tree as well as going to 5th Ave to look at the Christmas windows, but we were both coming down with colds and it was windy and nasty out so we decided to do our looking around Manhattan next weekend. I stopped and grabbed some Christmas decorations on the way home, but we still do not have a tree. I found one that I liked, but Farley thought it was too small. We could easily get a real tree, but I am allergic and they are a lot of clean up so we are trying to find something small (but big enough) and fake. As of right now, we have some evergreen garland with silver and red beads and lights over the gigantic entertainment center in our living room (I am not kidding you, this thing is the biggest thing in the apartment). We also have our Christmas stockings hung on the drawers of the gigantic entertainment center. Maybe I'll take some pictures of it and post them later
