Labor of love

First day on Ob/Gyn inpatient, but no deliveries. It'll happen sometime this week, for sure. Probably the coolest thing I saw was a "version," where they medically relaxed the uterus and then flipped a breech baby around, by sheer brute force, I'm telling you. No one thought it was really going to work. We were all in the OR all ready to rock the C-section, but that mom is probably laboring away at the moment. It surprised us all.

I was inspired that a woman who lost custody of three children because of substance abuse was now having a fourth child after seven years sober. People really do turn their lives around.

I was moved, once again, by my classmate Chris's life story. He's on service with me this week, and the attending asked us both what we did before medical school. (Apparently, we both look our thirty-something ages.) Chris dropped out of high school at 16 to work and help support his family in Turlock. Yeeeeears later, after working mainly as an electrician, he went back to community college, on to UCSC, and now to UCSF. I can almost guarantee he is the only high school dropout currently on doctor track. He's even considering psych!

Gotta be up early, so it's closing in on bedtime for me here at 8:55. Woowee wild times!