I'm not a clotter

Today I had the day off because my preceptor had some board review thing he had to go to...so instead I slept in, then wandered into my own doctor's office to get some good news:
I do not have prothrombin gene deficiency G20210A.
You see, this is good news because both my mom, sister and maternal uncle have this genetic mutation that makes them susceptible to clots, and therefore more predisposed to deep vein thromboses (and as a result, pulmonary embolisms). My mom has already had a PE...which is how we found out this happy little mutation runs in our family. But, enough about that, because today I learned that I'm safe. Phew.
Moving on....

As a shout out to Curtis, I'm going to give yesterday's patients a "theme"...and it is:
"Grossest pelvic exams ever."
As you can imagine, that is all the detail I'm going to go into.

My preceptor was really helpful yesterday while we were at the family practice at Kaiser. He was totally not letting me get away with anything and was pushing me to be faster, but in a nice, "this is to help you" kind of way. It is helpful to have a bit of a fire under my ass because I felt like I had kind of stalled in my learning over the last few months. I mean, I know I'm still learning a ton, but I guess I'm getting frustrated about how much I still DON'T know! I don't feel like I am almost halfway though my rotations...but I am, and that scares the bejesus out of me.

Perhaps I need to be spending a little bit of time at home studying (I fell off that wagon during rotation 2).

Jen