No good very bad day

Yesterday I was participating in an 8 hour mountain bike race. I was aiming to do 11 laps (improving on my 10 laps from last race last September). After lap 1 my back started to hurt. By lap 6 it was so excruciating that I had to get off my bike twice during the lap to stretch. I had to stop. I felt really bad about stopping. In biking a lot of people talk about suffering through pain and keeping pushing through as being the ultimate in a good racer and touch rider. I can push through lots of types of pain, but these back spasms were just crippling. I have another race next weekend and need to be back at my best and shake this off. I've had two disappointing races in a row over the last two weeks. How do you refocus from failure?

Happy birthday to my wonderful beautiful husband!

Doctors are truly the worst patients. I got to work today and was feeling a bit dizzy... checked my BP in curiosity and it was 74/56. oops! Guess I'm a bit dry!

I had to take two days off this week because of having gastro. Hopefully I'll be able to go back tomorrow. Sometimes I wish I had an office job where me leaving for a few days isn't as difficult. I feel guilty leaving them in the lurch, but I couldn't get off the toilet long enough to even drive to work today.

Just in Time

Just when I never thought I'd have a really good belly laugh again, one of my first year medical students tried to take someone's oral temperature with an ear thermometer... I couldn't help but guffaw.

Residents beware, your first year in practice is exhausting. I barely feel like I have time to catch my breath and I have a half day off per week.