Ultimate Coffee Date: September 2017

Hi everyone! What’s been going in your life? Pull up a chair and come catch up on life with me for the Ultimate Coffee Date!

Ultimate Coffee Date: September 2017

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…self-care is important. Being able to take time for yourself (and to recognize when you need it) is also a biggie. Long story short, I almost passed out yesterday morning for no apparent reason while I was seeing patients. This has only happened 3 other times in my life, all with likely probable causes. This one was likely just vasovagal, but I can’t think of any stressors that triggered it.

On the plus side, I feel back to my normal self again. It was definitely a weird experience though, and I’m glad I spoke up and told my attending–it would’ve sucked to pass out in front of the next patient I was going to see. …and I don’t have time for this right now becauseee…

It’s crunchtime for studying! I have just a tiny bit over a week left until my exam on 9/11. (Please send good thoughts!)

I recently came to the realization that Muffin has been in my life ever since I took my first set of licensing exams–we’ve sure been through a lot together! I’m glad she still enjoys my company and puts up with my existence, hehehe.

We’ve even worked out a pretty nice system where (because she insists on laying in front of me while I study) she agrees to be my table while I’m taking notes!

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If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…we had our annual retreat last weekend, which is basically the one day out of the entire year that our entire program is free for most of the day to hang out and do something together. Last year, we ended up going bowling because the weather wasn’t cooperating with our initial beach plans.

We went out for lunch and then ran off to a Treetop Adventure obstacle course with ziplining to change things up! I’ve only done something like this once in my life back when I was in medical school–I went with my friend and some of her friends who’d been in town to visit, but they all ditched the course as it got more and more difficult and I was left to finish it alone. :[ Even my friend took the escape hatch.

It was a lot of fun! Definitely helped that this time around, I didn’t get ditched! ;P

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…barring any catastrophes, I’m going to be headed to Expo East this year! Is anyone else going? I’m super excited to finally hopefully meet Erica! We’ve almost crossed paths a couple times but the whole clashing schedules thing has made it so it’s never actually happened. This takes place 4 days after my exam, so it’ll be a much-welcomed break!

And…guess who finally has business cards?! (I have them for my workplace, but I figured having some for my blog wouldn’t hurt!)

I designed these on Canva! :] i’m rather happy with how they turned out–at least they don’t have typos like my work ones! (hah…)

If we were having tea today, I’d tell you that…Rutgers is back in session this week(? it sure sounds like it, anyway), which I’d been dreading due to the lack of parking there now will be, as well as the crowds and noise levels on weekends. (sigh) Butttt this also means that I can go back to infiltrating the clubs and the college gyms will be open again, so there’s a silver lining to everything! :P

See past ultimate coffee dates here!

(Link-up with Coco @ Got 2 Run 4 Me & Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner!)

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