Week 1

I'm too exhausted to describe exactly how amazing being at the hospital this week was so you are just going to have to take my word for it and wait until I can build my strength back up this weekend so that I can write all about it. Actually, I'll do a quick little bit now as a preview...Neurosurgery is incredible. I've seen doctors actually save lives right in front of me and most of the day I spend in awe, wondering how could I ever possibly even come close to knowing a fraction of what they do. It really doesn't surprise me now that neurosurgeons have the whole God complex. I mean after a 4 hour spinal surgery to remove a tumor the size of the head of a pin from a patient's spinal cord just below their brain stem, the removal of an aggressive CSF producing tumor in the middle of a 3 month old child's brain or saving a 6 year old from a blood clot after a fall on their bicycle, I seriously have no doubt that they would think anything less of themselves.

But I'm still super excited about having my weekend too :). Tomorrow Lisa literally drops in on me for her 8 hour lay over on her way to Spain and we are going to see the 'sights' in Dublin. I'm going to bed early since I've been up at 5 or 6 am and not getting home till about 9 every night this week and could use the extra sleep. I really hope its nice tomorrow. Drinking out in the sun on the Trinity green just won't be the same if it isn't!