Something Sweet to counteract all my bitterness.

So last week I went to cardiovascular surgery twice. I stopped off there about two weeks ago to make a semi formal internship for myself there over the next few months. For the past three years I have been going to work with the anesthesia services both in the normal O.R. and the Cardiovascular surgery O.R. as time permitted but I haven't really been able to do more than just intubate because I'm not around the same people all the time to get to the point where they know me well enough to do more stuff. Anyway, I spoke to the people in charge and told them I wanted to make a more concerted effort to gain experience in anesthesia and they were very receptive. I went there two days last week and in my two days there I did three central lines (Internal Jugular and Subclavian), an arterial cannulization (radial), and two intubations. It was very educational those two days. I spent about seven hours there the first day and time really felt like it flew by. There were a lot of interesting surgeries going on and I was nervous enough about doing all the procedures that when I wasn't doing them I was anxious about doing them a second time. It was a really great day and the people I worked with there who I hadn't worked with before were all really great, really friendly, really helpful. It was definitely my best time at this school yet and the only sad thing about it is that I realized how out of practice I was with doing actual skills. Too much time spent reading books paralyzes you when it comes to actually doing something with your hands.
Attached is a picture I took from the window of the cardio surgery. I find it kind of funny that across the street is a fried chicken kiosk which sells all sorts of artery clogging food. The other picture is of me standing in front of the bulletin board for english speaking students in cardiology.