day "off"

It must have been something I ate or some contaminated water. Just after I was starting to get over a week of cold/flu symptoms,  I was up sick most of Wednesday night vomiting, etc. I felt a little bit better in the morning, so I went in to the hospital at 6:30am to do teaching rounds. I almost lost it again on rounds a few times when the odor of dirty wounds or other bodily fluids arose...but I didn't.

After rounds, I decided that rather than spending a miserable day in clinic several hundred feet from the nearest toilet, I should probably just take rest of the day off to recover. This was kind of a big deal. I don't think I have ever taken a day off work for being sick.  In fact,  I felt pretty guilty all day for not working. That's what surgical residency does to you, I guess. Or, more likely, the type of people who decide to endure surgical residency are the same type of people who feel guilty for taking legitimate sick day.  I know I'm not the only one.

In other news...I removed an even bigger ovarian cyst this week. So gratifying...in less than an hour she went from looking 42 weeks pregnant to having a flat belly and a scar.

for scale, the scalpel is approximately 6 inches long