My school has us finishing up our clinical electives in December, which leaves us a full 2 weeks off during the holiday season, a nice break after having had only 3 weeks off total in the last 16 months. It's a nice opportunity to de-stress before CaRMS interviews and the last set of coursework over the winter.
So, of course, it's time for me to get sick again. It's just a cold this time, thankfully, so it's not too bad, but once again, any off time has to come with some sort of illness. I'm not even upset anymore, more wondering how/why this keeps happening. My guess is either that I'm carrying around an infection pretty much constantly, but that my immune system is constantly suppressed by stress and fatigue while on clinical placements, or my immune system is just terrible all the time and I lose my protective layer of alcohol-based hand wash when out of a hospital setting.
The next break I get will come during the CaRMS interview tour in just a few weeks, as my relatively small number of interviews gets contrasted with my school's very generous amount of time off for these interviews. For a variety or reasons, I'm hoping my sick-during-vacation streak gets broken this time around...
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Sick Luck
So I'm sick. Again. On my week off. Again.
This seems to be happening regularly now, every time I get a break I start feeling awful soon afterwards. Not even sure how this one happened - at least before I was in the middle of a rotation where I was under a fair bit of stress and had regular exposure to people with communicable disease. I'm on break from Psychiatry right now, which has been a pretty relaxed experience so far, and the patients don't have so much as a sniffle. No idea where this is coming from - no one's sick at home either.
Guess I'm just that lucky...
This seems to be happening regularly now, every time I get a break I start feeling awful soon afterwards. Not even sure how this one happened - at least before I was in the middle of a rotation where I was under a fair bit of stress and had regular exposure to people with communicable disease. I'm on break from Psychiatry right now, which has been a pretty relaxed experience so far, and the patients don't have so much as a sniffle. No idea where this is coming from - no one's sick at home either.
Guess I'm just that lucky...
Monday, 9 November 2015
Sick
Caught a stomach bug a few days ago. Not fun at all. Watery stuff coming out of everywhere. Fortunately it doesn't last long and I'm already on the mend.
First time I've had a true stomach flu though, so it's been an interesting learning experience. Had almost a textbook progression of the disease, which has made it almost comically easy to remember the timeline of a stomach virus infection - I just have to remember when my symptoms started up and when they left, which isn't that hard when many of those symptoms are physically horrifying. Not that I'm advocating med students all go out and get every infectious disease they can, but it's a good reminder that nothing teaches like first-hand experience!
First time I've had a true stomach flu though, so it's been an interesting learning experience. Had almost a textbook progression of the disease, which has made it almost comically easy to remember the timeline of a stomach virus infection - I just have to remember when my symptoms started up and when they left, which isn't that hard when many of those symptoms are physically horrifying. Not that I'm advocating med students all go out and get every infectious disease they can, but it's a good reminder that nothing teaches like first-hand experience!
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