Rough.

I'm ready for this week to be over. I'm just exhausted. 

This week has been full of running all over, going to meetings, leaving one meeting to go to another, finishing up case studies for the current week, starting readings and case studies for the next week, preparing for my literature review presentation on Monday, getting evaluations done...yatta yatta. 

I know I'm sure I say this every week, but I am really enjoying the rotation I'm in currently. It's a mixture of inpatient counseling for newly diagnosed diabetics, outpatient counseling for liver transplants, and also inpatient eating disorders. There's always something to do or a patient to check on, but it's never overwhelming. Every patient is seen and task gets completed by the end of the day, but there's no need to rush.


As for my oral case study subject that I'm keeping a close eye on, I'm just trying to get him to eat anything! Today I took him a tray of multiple supplements, hoping that at least one of them will spark some interest so he doesn't have to go home on a tube feeding. I took him Carnation Instant Breakfast, Mighty Shake, Boost Kids Essential 1.5, whole milk, 2% milk, soy milk, and vanilla pudding. There's got to be something in there that he likes! He's the complete opposite of many of the kids in the hospital, or even adults for that matter. We need him to eat! ANYTHING! I'm encouraging his mom to add butter and oil to foods for additional calories, to purchase high fat, high protein foods to get some meat on his little bones. But overall, this little boy is the cutest little kid ever and is so animated. Did I forget to mention I'm incredibly excited to be back in pediatrics?


But tomorrow should be a lot slower paced. Fortunately/unfortunately, my little buddy is hopefully going home tomorrow, but I'll miss him. Hopefully he just continues to eat so he continues to gain weight. I'm very excited that it's almost the weekend. I feel like this week has taken a chunk of my life out of me. Next week is going to be equally crazy. I'll be in pediatric cardiology, in which I have to be there at 6:30am! It's going to be a long week full of an incredible amount of TPN practice. Which may be challenging, but I'm going to have to learn the trick of the trade. So, bring it on! 


So. Tired.