first week in KY!

Well last week was my first week of women's health in eastern KY...It was probably one of my worst weeks throughout my entire clinical year so far. All I will say is that I was not a fan of my substitute preceptor and it just was not a very fruitful week at all.

Today was my first day with my actual preceptor and it was great! Mainly because I got to head into the OR for the first time and watch a c-section! It was awesome. The baby was ginormous but had a full head of hair! It was great. And my preceptor asked the students questions while performing a tubal ligation, which was just great. He used to teach, so the whole day he was asking me tons of questions. This is something I haven't really had with my other preceptors, so I'm really looking forward to all I'm going to learn.

Eastern KY really hasn't been as "out of this world" as I imagined. People are very friendly. They do have very strong accents, but otherwise they are completely normal! Haha. So far I really like the nurses and other people working at the clinic. Um...There is not much to do around here, which I guess means more time for studying. It snowed for the first time today! Which was kind of painful waking up to because I hate warming up my car and cleaning off the snow and driving when its wet and cold...But snow makes everything look pretty so that's nice! It does also make me really excited for Christmas! I've been listening to Christmas music for a couple weeks already. Now my goal is to find myself a really small pitiful Christmas tree to decorate.

Tomorrow I have to get up and make the 40 minute drive to work. Ill be starting with rounds at the hospital and then head over to the clinic. I don't know if my preceptor has any more surgeries this week, but I REALLY hope so! I think I'm going to enjoy my surgery rotations next year!

Um...That is really about all I have to say for now. So hopefully the next time I write I'll have a ton more interesting and cool things to share! Oh, and I forgot to mention that, although there aren't any other Asians in eastern KY that I've seen yet, there are several people that are originally from Ohio in my office alone! So I'm not completely alone! Yay!