The best word to describe my surgery rotation is "consuming" - I'm at school for long hours, I'm responsible for my patient care (which has been quite intensive because of the type of cases) including calling owners twice daily, I have to be in at the same time each morning even if it's a weekend or a holiday, I have to work some late nights after a full day of rotation and I'm eyeball-deep in paperwork. I've had to miss out on social gatherings with friends, have barely done any NAVLE prep and my apartment looks post-apocalyptic. I'm hoping I have something clean to wear somewhere. When I do have a few hours off, I just want to sleep. Needless to say, I'm super jealous of the lower years who get to sleep in and have Labor Day off and go on pub crawls. And then I remember that I'm only three months away from getting to go home for good and it's just enough of a spark to keep me getting out of bed in the mornings.

On the upside, my rotation mates have been awesome and the clinicians and techs that I work with are so helpful and supportive. I got a notification that I won some award(s) and made the dean's list, which is really nice but I have to wait until the awards presentation night in early October to find out what I won. My NAVLE prep is going a bit better than it had been and I've made a tiny bit of headway on my match prep, too. I'll just keep looking for the positives while I slog through surgery and start salivating at the prospect of sleeping in when I'm on diagnostics next!