Re-Kentuckifying Ourselves

(Swimming hole and river near Bee Rock campground - between London and Corbin, KY)

We've only been home for about 2 weeks, but our time here has been quite active. Adam jumped right into orientation the day after he returned, and from orientation he started his first rotation for the year - SURGERY! He basically picked the hardest rotation first, guess he had to get his adrenaline going. Two weeks of orthopedic trauma, two weeks of cardio thoracic, and four weeks of general trauma - wow! It's been a jolt to my system because it's making this whole "doctor thing" a little more real. Getting to the hospital at 5am, wearing scrubs, never a set time for his return home....not sure how I feel about it all. It is exciting though, because he actually gets to see patients, scrub in on surgeries, round with physicians, all the fun stuff rather than pounding his head with a book for 10 hours of the day.

I've been able to ease back into life a little more. Teaching yoga, hiking, throwing Ashley's bridal shower with Kandace, babysitting, research, independent study in microbiology, seeing family and friends - reconnecting and making new connections. Nice.

(self-portrait with Anna, Mariam, and Max post hike/swim)

My semester starts on August 26th. I'm taking psychiatric nursing, public health nursing, leadership/management in nursing, my research internship, and the independent study in microbiology. Should be a full, yet interesting semester.

(Ashley's bridal shower at Wines on Vine)

(Cupcakes from Babycakes - yum!)

(with Kandace and Ashley!)

Earlier in the week I had a little health drama. On Tuesday afternoon I simultaneously noticed a bull's eye appearing bite behind my knee, and started experiencing flu-like symptoms (sore throat, malaise, headache, warm). I looked up spider bites on the web, didn't find much, then remembered that lyme disease is associated with a bull's eye rash and flu-like symptoms. Then I got concerned. I went to university health to be told that my bulls eye bite had a different appearance than the typical bulls eye rash associated with lyme (true) and that lyme disease was very rare in Kentucky (not true, especially for woodsy folk like me). I was just told to watch the bite and myself to make sure that nothing got worse. Luckily I haven't felt worse. I'm thinking maybe it's just a spider bite and a cold/allergies. Excellent...but, I'm gonna keep a close eye on the bite.