Tomorrow is thursday... wow !!

Time is starting to fly again, maybe its just because I have been so busy ...

I have to admit that things are going better, that is today at almost 3 o´clock I was driving to work in Kef for an extra shift and I reached for the glove box to pull out my Ray Ban driving glasses for the first time in months. It has just been dark, dark and nite for the past months. I can already feel my mood lift and the energy level boost.

My sunglasses were so cold when I smoothly slipped them on, poor guys have been out in the car when it was so freezing that my front doors locked frozen and I had to climb in through the back doors.... that was quite funny.

I have set my landlord an ultimatem, that is I set a maximum on the rent I am willing to pay or else I go. I actually have a place to go now so I dont care too much what his decision is. I just told him that my loan fund gives me a certain amount of money each month and that does not even cover the rent. A 33% increase is just unacceptable. This event was on monday and I have not heard a word yet, not too surprising since he takes for ever to do stuff.

wish I had some pics of me climibing in the back seat of the VW, but just that was just hard enough....


mar

Surgery Rotation

Yes, now I am moving on to the next biggest part of becomming a doctor, surgery. My clinical exam past friday went ok. Its always hard to get an accurate feel for an oral exam but for the most parts im satisfied.

Next up is 14 weeks of all kind of cutting people who are alive. I do have much experience slicing up dead people from all those sternious hours in the autopsy room of Pathology in debrecen. So now is my chance to advance my skills....

I do have quit the OR experince only being a 4th year but that is only to build..

Im gonna throw in some pics from last weekend, since this weekend was not too available for celebrations since I was working all weekend. I did see the chance to wet my whistle a bit on saturday nite but for some reason the camera didnt see too many flashes.. but here is some visuals


logason... n dolce kisses


G.Steins, gimme another


Hunch að taka smá kríu fyrir átökin


ljósan


mar

The visuals from friday nite

It was a nice little reunion and great fun...

finally spiced up the page with a little lide show

mar

Friday nite Party nite

I just got home from my shift at the hospital and am putting on my costume for the nite... I have some peeps im going to meet downtown.

I will be taking my camera with me in case I have trouble recalling tonites events in chronological order 2mro ;)

so keep posted for some party pics 2mro


party mar

Læknadagar / Doctor days

This week is the biggest Icelandic doctor confernce of the year and as a upcomming medical student we are invited to join. I was sitting there in the conference center of one of the finer hotels in Iceland when i drifted away and started to think where am I ???

the situation was just a litte funny, there I was sitting among about a hundred doctors at a confernce discussion about the political decions in health care. It was a little surreal, there I was ...

I guess this is what the future with holds. Im just moving closer and closer to my dream of becomming a doctor. As a little kid this was just a dream, like most kids dream of future professions.

It was clear cut when I was five that I was not going to be a fire man running into burning houses, not a police man running after bad guys but a doctor and here I am...

mar


a little cheesy but true

What has been going on...

I excuse my lazyness for the past few days, so here goes a summary of what has happened in chronological order:
Monday:
I start the hospital again in the Gastroenterology ward with my classmate Joel, Ingunn the hot assistant doctor and an interesting specialist who made everything more intersting.

Tuesday:
I go to the emergency room to admit a patient, in the chaos that is there I decide to take care of the blood test before moving him to the ward, NEEDLE PRICK !!!!
I felt like such a dumb ass fucker for poking myself with a used needle, in my defense it was a tricky situation but at the end of the day there I was with a bleeding index finger... So that whole process gets going, my blood was drawn, notification and so on... I was even a little defensive and pissed off when everyone was telling me what to do...

Wednesday:
I have personal clinic and present my case in front of the group, which went well except for the fact the specialist was not by my side as he should have. Got a good grade anyway...

Now to the shittiest part ever...
I receive an e-mail from my girlfriend stating that she is not comming to iceland to live with me, this is 4 days before she was supposed to arrive, most definety the shittiest thing anyone has ever done on my part.
That was the end of that... Im single again

I get home and start feeling really sick, seems I caught some kind of gastroenteritis and spent the whole evening and nite throwing up my duodenum, jejunum, ileum and possibly a part of my colon through out the nite, Horrible

Thursday
A day of recovery

Friday
Back to the hospital and then off to Kef for my weekend shifts at the hospital. Of course on the way there an enormus snow storm hits the road and I barely make the 42km journey. Just blinding snow and freezing cold all over the place.

Saturday
Working which is not bad, i like what i do at the hospital, except for the fact they dont have the decency to pay me sufficient amounts of mone for my hard work...

Today
Working and now finally home in time for some studying. I have a big practical exam in Internal Medicine on the 26th of this month.


So all in all a pretty shitty week, I cant imagine but the weeks ahead will be much better and I will just build myself a big snow house and move in there since my landlord decided to raise my rent kr.20,000 per month. Im getting the fuck out of here as soon as this test is over. I dont know where yet but all that will come clear soon, I feel confident that my luck is bound to change.


on to better days,
mar

Good to be back at the hospital

It was so nice to be back today, I guess im really in the right field of work. I spent 2 weeks off for the holidays and just couldnt wait to be back. I was even so excited that I took one of my extra shifts at the emergency room tonite...



just to top it off came home and met a couple of friends for beer after wards...

im gonna sleep like a baby tonite...

mar

This one made me laugh, so will fellow nerds

I just cant get out of bed before noon... and the really screwed up part is that after peeling myself off the sheets around 2 o´clock im still dead tired...

Getting back in gear

So the new year has taken off and im trying to get on my horse again. It seems that all I did overt the holiday break was: Eat, Work, Drink and Tsjill endlessly...

So now that its time to get back to reality im all mixed up, just want to sleep during the day and awake at nite. Doesnt seem to be that much different in daylight here in Icelands since its basically dark all the time. But on monday I have to start going to the hospital again and they work on the normal clock.

So I have been trying to turn this around but just cant get out of bed before noon, today was the best day so far. So I guess im making some improvement.

That takes me to the studying part, I had deviced some great plan of how I was going to study overt the break. Of course that plan failed miserably like most other holidays. I think its best just planning on taking a break cause then you are not dissapointed you didnt do something.

I have a practical exam in Internal Medicine in 3 weeks, so I really want to get on the ball for this. Its going to be an interesting and good exam. Since now I should be finishing my Medicine rotation so its time to put all the pieces together. Of course it does not mean I will know everything but the basics; the problem solving, examinations and history taking should be mastered.

Now there are big snowflakes falling outside my window, I guess the winter is finally here ...




mar

The Old Year

I have finally come to my senses and decided to throw in some pics from last year or last weekend. It just happend that the new year was on the weekend so it ended up being a 3 day out event for me.

I really felt that I got all the partying out of my system for a while. Just something strange that happens around the holidays when you are working a lot you get wound up and think the answer is out having a beer. Sometimes it is but most of the time its not...

so here is a bunch of pics from this past weekend


mar & logason


ljósa´s dance


mar & deiba


two alike "whats goin on ?"


bessi & mar


ljósa & logason


berglindos beauty


found a party hat...


mar & selur from .hu


lilja & logason


this is just a few from the collection but should do for now to show the feeling of the weekend, lots of late nites and fun.

happy new year to all that i have not met or talked to yet or for those who are just taking a peek at the pics.


new year
mar