Little hole, where are you?

Little hole, where are you?

I found a very small and hard to find retinal hole in a patient today. I wanted to consult with someone so I asked another resident to come take a look. After 10 mins of bright lights and poking at the patient, she couldn't find it. At which point, she pulled in the attending doctor. After another 10 mins of bright lights and poking at the patient, he couldn't find it. Then we had to pull out a spell type of lens that is more invasion because we have to push it against the eye (so it touches the eye), in hopes that this will help see the hole. Still couldn't find it, so I had to jump in again and pull up the view with the special lens...at which point, I just held the view there and moved over so the doctor could look into the oculars and see what I was seeing. Then, he finally saw the hole.

I'm very surprised that I actually saw something like this. I'm not very good at retinal evaluations, but apparently, I'm better than I thought...  *BIG smiles*

Poor eye: 

I have a friend that has been getting recurrent episodes of a unilateral red eye...sometimes it's the lids and sometimes it's the eye itself, but I feel so bad for her. I feel her pain since I've been getting multiple episodes of tooth aches myself, I can see how recurrent, chronic symptoms are such a bother! I think she has episcleritis, which at this point, I'm wondering why she has it...very suspicious...

Pray, pray: 

I hope and "pray" for good results from the radiation, you know who you are :)

My thoughts are with you *hugs*

Candy:

I don't know what's been going on with me lately but I've had this HUGE candy craze! I've been downing candy constantly! Normally I am a huge chocolate fanatic, but lately, I've been craving gummy candies, like gummy bears, gummy worms, mike and ikes, life saver gummies, swedish fish...and of course, all of its respective sour friends like sour gummy worms, sour life save gummies, sour patch kids! YUM! My mouth is drooling just thinking about them! If I'm not going to walk away with a million cavities, I'm for sure going to get diabetes after this......

Acme Bread:

There is this place I found in San Diego that reminds me of Acme bread. Oh gosh, how I miss Acme bread! If it's anything I miss about the bay area, aside from FRIENDS, of course, it's the food!! Just being in that bakery this weekend, surrounded by all the artisan bread, overwhelmed me with nostalgic memories of Acme bread in Berkeley. I can remember all the times I biked there in hopes of buying some currant bread, only to find it's all sold out. All the times I walked there and then realized I was too tired to walk back, so I'd sit there and eat as much bread as I possibly could before I started to walk back home. Or the times when Byron would drive me to Acme bread and we would get some pan epi, then go to Trader Joes and get some cheese and meat, then go home and make some really good sandwiches!

All these happy memories of being in the bay area came gushing back. Hard to believe that among all that incessant complaining about the weather and how unhappy I was there, I actually did find happiness there. That when I think back to Berkeley now, I'm starting to associate it with happy memories that I'm actually fond of. I guess this is what happens when people become nostalgic, the past is raised onto a pedestal and you just want to return back to the past. You forget all the bad memories that followed with it. It's easy to forget.

I'm even starting to miss the rain...OMG, who am I? Why am I saying such things? I need to snap back into reality!