Hi from A2

just wanted to say hi. doing well. tired but the fellowship has been phenomenal. learning a ton and still excited about it. after a bad call night where a kid's aortic aneurysm dissected and we coded her for 70 minutes, my attending offered to take my pager from me as he could tell I was sick to my stomach. (of course I declined) I was really surprised and it just reminded me of the supportive confines of CHO.

BTW, the residents here are good but comparatively, I think we worked harder and are better pediatricians coming out of residency for it.

Tisha finally moved out here at the end of august. Our place is nicely furnished now. Have an extra room for anyone adventurous enough to visit.

Any new gossip or news from the Bay Area?

keep in touch,
Jay

Vegas, anyone?

Is anyone going to the AAP Conference in Vegas?

Hi all, just giving you an update from the South Bay. David and I are settled in down here as big, bad 2nd year fellows at Stanford. We are enjoying our new townhome, thanks to everyone who was able to make it out for our housewarming! Oh, and in case you missed out on our wedding photos, here are a few...

Kaela at 5 months

How is everyone? I've been back to work since the beginning of May, and it is a welcomed change of pace to my week. Kaela keeps me busy on my days off. I can't believe she is already 5 months old - time flies, especially when you can see someone change so much in such a short amount of time. Just wanted to let you know that she published her own blog - so advanced for 5 months. It is kaelamorris.blogspot.com. It is the easiest way to share Kaela's photos/videos/thoughts with anyone who is interested. Enjoy!

First "real" day as a fellow and 2nd call night

Okay, so last Tuesday was my first "real" day as a fellow. (Wed, Thur, Mon
was more orientation stuff)

- couldn't fall asleep til 2am due to panic/anxiety
- Echo conference at 8am. The echo attending starts with one of the 1st years (me of course), but I held my own and actually answered correctly most of the questions directed for me for the ENTIRE hour. (except some random one about Bernoulli's principle)
- Met the 4th year EP fellow and seemed like he was impressed about my basic EP knowledge. (I had read the first 8 chapters of Fogoros EP book)
- oncall (my second call so far) at 7pm got called from Cardiac ICU attending about some 9 mo girl in fulminant heart failure (possibly myocarditis) on max Epi, max Dop, max Vasopressin, starting IVIg. Lactate of 20. Patient was in Toledo OH, so I had to ride a helicopter, cross state lines, to their PICU and pick up the kid. (And I just finished flight orientation the day before!!!) Had to stablize her in Toledo with some CaCl and NaHCO3. Got her back around 10pm. Transport went as smoothly as it could, (thank god for transport rotations at CHO). She was placed on ECMO about an hour after I got her back to the PCTU. (The PCTU was expecting to crash her onto ECMO on arrival)
- By 3AM, felt like a million bucks after that transport and days events.
- Got 2 hours of sleep, then back for a full day of 2 EP cases today
- gained access x1 (R fem) on my first attempt
- followed up on the transport patient in PCTU and bedside RN told me that I did a great job with the tranpsort. She said the PCTU crew talked about all clapping when I arrived (being my first transport, and one of the less stable kids we normally transport), but the family had arrived at same time so wisely refrained.

Although tired after a long 36 hours, I'm really happy to be at such a great program and learning from some of the best cardiologists.

so far so good

Pic of my lonely desk...



- the move into Ann Arbor went without any problems.
- love the location of my condo
- finally done with orientation (2 hour helicopter safety was pretty scary! bird strikes, doors sometimes opening, TAIL ROTOR and BLADES that can eviscerate you)
- my first call on Thursday was slightly busy, but I got to have a 3 day weekend!
- realizing I have SOOOO much to freaking learn.

It has been one year!

Wow, tomorrow marks the 1-year anniversary of finishing residency. Time flies! I miss residency more than I anticipated; and Sarah MacMahon and I still often talk about yummy CHO cafeteria food, especially its breakfast. (miss those french toasts!)

Well, I guess I don't miss carrying a pager. Kaiser gave me a pager, which is now sitting somewhere in my drawer, sadly forgotten. No one pages me. =)

Yes, I agree with Jay - let's keep the blog alive! Keep posting! Even if it's meaningless rambling like this one.

Reminded me of Ted

OAK to DTW

Hope this blog does not go unused. Pleases keep posting stuff regardless if you think it trivial or mundane, or just plain silly. Some might find it entertaining.

Tonight is my last day in the Bay Area. Fly to Detroit Metro tomorrow morning. Start orientation on July 1st. On-call July 2nd. Holy crap! Hopefully I'll be able to keep everyone updated on things out in Ann Arbor.

Best wishes to all the new parents and if anyone visits Michigan, you are always welcome to stay at my place. We got a lot of space and it's right in downtown Ann Arbor.

peace,
Jay

Dangit this is awesome

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/28/BU8E17A0ON.DTL

Our little girl

Just wanted to let you all know that Kaela Morris was born on February 12, 2009. She was 6 lbs, 14 oz. We should have known from the labor experience when she kept everyone on their toes that she would have a mind of her own from the start. She is truly an amazing little being, and we are definitely enjoying her.

Another annoucement

Nika's engaged too!

A little update

We're engaged!

Tee Hee

How to solve any problem

Happy new year and inauguration day everyone. Medicine should be this easy.

First post in 2009!

Happy New Year!