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My ophthalmology rotation is now over [with the exception that I'm still on-call for ophtho emergencies on Sunday].  It was a lot of fun and WAY better than sitting around in class all day long.  The days were definitely long but rewarding and I learned A LOT.  Even though it was only 2 weeks long, it was a dense 2 weeks of ONLY EYES… dog eyes, cat eyes, OWL eyes! And, I had a great group and the technicians were amazing.  One of my patients had a bilateral parotid duct transposition surgery for severe KCS (keratoconjunctivitis sicca = dry eyes) because she wasn’t making any of her own tears so she kept getting ulcers and couldn’t even open her eyes, they were so painful… so in surgery, we redirected one of her major salivary ducts on both sides of her mouth up to her eyes and now her saliva is being used to lubricate her eyes.  It was a success and the very next morning she was staring at me in her cage with watery eyes, wide open and blinking at me!  I admit it, I’m going to miss ophtho.  Not what I was expecting to happen at all!

Doobie’s holter results came back and he had 4 VPCs — which is good!  I can’t help but be SLIGHTLY bummed because his previous holters have all come back with 0, but 4 is definitely not bad when you come from the world of Dobermans + Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM).  So, we’re going to follow the hypothyroid diagnosis and re-check in a few months since he’s now on thyroid meds.  I’ll take hypothyroidism over DCM any day.

Tonight, I’m going to Bayou Country Superfest to see Tim McGraw!!!!!!!  We have seats on the field in the center so I’m excited.  The last concert I ever went to was in high school to see Live and I was all the way up in the nosebleed section!  I wanted to go tomorrow too to see Kenny Chesney but since I’m on-call, if I go, I’ll probably get called in!

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