Happy times

What a great day. I am still full of left over happy feelings after getting to spend time with my family and baby who is now one year old. I don't even care that I'm at the hospital and it's 0330 because I actually slept so much earlier that I'm not even tired now! Wow, that is a really small/depressing victory to be excited about. But look at this picture and don't smile... You can't.

Pretty hot shit right?

It has been amazing to watch him go from a tiny creature, who I thought was for sure going to spontaneously explode the second I took my eyes off him, to this cruising (not quite there yet with walking), jabbering (Vietnamese?), gourmet, hug giving, cartoon watching, professional book page flipper, ball rolling, bath tub pooping (typically when dad does the bathing), laughing, crying, pretend piano playing virtuoso, perfect little dude. It is hard to be mad or upset about much of anything when you're lucky enough to get a daily dose of this guy. I really should remind myself of this more often.

I also need to remind myself that I am in the last 1.5 months of being off neurosurgery during my intern year, (who's counting?). I imagine my return to the home team to be something like this...

So my wife showed me a blog that was a collection situations commonly encountered by OB/GYN residents with animated gifs to really emphasize the "feel" of the moment. These are hilarious.

http://whatshouldwecallobgynresidency.tumblr.com/

So here are some of my own common situations expressed through gif...

Watching a CT scan scroll by after placing a ventriculostomy catheter that went well...

Watching a CT scan scroll by after placing a ventriculostomy catheter that didn't go so well...

What I wish I could do when the nurse calls saying, "Hey the family would like to talk to the doctor and they are really upset!"

When the MICU tells me the neuro exam on a new consult...

What spine call feels like...

When the outside hospital transfer who needs emergent neurosurgical evaluation actually arrives...

OK enough.

Reflected on a good day? Check. Killed some time? Check.

I'm excited to go see the little booger soon. When he's happy, playing, and giving me hugs, I want to have 20 more of them. When he is staring me in the face screaming while trying to turn the gas to the stove on in between his signature, "I'm pooping," grunts, one seems like a really good number... I'm also excited to finally not be an intern anymore. Two years is more than enough. Then my knowledge of the force will grow and I will get my own light saber... I'm just typing to type now and need to stop.

Have a good gif related to residency or hospital madness in general? Please post. I love this crap.