Board Time

Wow. It's been forever since updating my blog. Things have been so crazy over the past couple months with the end of the school year, preparing for boards, and of course, dealing with my foot surgery. Needless to say, the past couple months have been a huge flurry! First, there was Easter. It was fun to watch Braylei go on her first easter egg hunts (she ended up going on 3!) One of them was at my school, and another was out at the Surprise Stadium (there were tons of eggs, literally!) Tayscen was very content just being able to be outside so much over the Easter weekend! It was tough, though, as I still had a test that Monday morning! But it was worth it, and I had a blast!

Oh, I guess my little basketball injury was more serious than I thought. I ended up with 4 fractures (1st and 2nd cuneiform, 3rd and 4th metatarsals, along with the lisfranc ligaments)! I had surgery, getting a screw through my cuneiforms. I was casted for 6 weeks, then I was in a boot for a couple weeks before starting physical therapy. I got pretty good on my crutches, and provided a good workout going across campus. The hard part was not being able to do the little things, like going up the stairs with kids in tow, not being able to sneak up on people, and stuff like that. This injury has truly affected our whole family. This has been a huge burden on Meghan, as she has had to pick up even more of the already endless slack that I create. But she has taken it in stride, and hasn't even complained. She just makes fun of me! I've been able to adapt, though, as I still attended the American Academy of Osteopathy convocation held in Dallas back in March, and I attended the Association of Military Osteopathic Physcians and Surgeons national conference in New Jersey at the beginning of May! I also volunteered to help with the medical tent at Ironman Arizona! I volunteered last year too, and had a great time. I didn't get to do a ton of hands on stuff because of my foot, but I ran a pretty smooth medical info tent! I also volunteered for a program called TOPS, where we gave hundreds of high school sports physicals in Phoenix, which is always great clinical exam practice!

Finals were rough as usual, but I got through it, and it was a good feeling to be pretty much done with my classroom education forever! The next two years are all clinical rotations. The only thing left standing in the way is my step 1 board exam, which I take on June 12. I've been studying pretty hard for it, but it's such a ridiculously hard test that I'll never be prepared enough for it! I just want to do the best I can. Once that's over, I will feel a huge burden lifted off of me! I look forward to starting my rotations, even if it will be very hard and strenuous. At least I'll be interacting with people rather than staring at books all day!

been doing well in PT and I have regained a lot of my strength. The removal didn't go as smooth as planned. I was scheduled to have it removed right in the clinic, but apparently, I had some bone growth over the screw and they doctor. Yesterday, I finally had my screw removed from my foot. I've couldn't visualize it, and had no imaging in the office, so they ad to sew me up and take me to a surgery center, where the had more equipment for my doctor to see where the screw was under the bone and scrape away enough to unscrew it from my foot. I'd have to say that it was much more painful than I expected, partially due to the complications that occurred. But it should be on the mend now.

So now that the craziness is mostly behind me, I should be updating more often! That's what I always say though!