Dr. and Dr. Johnny V

This weekend I had the privileged of being a groomsman in two of my best friends wedding. The wedding took place at Nolte Farms in Seguin, Texas. I had to take my second board exam on Friday and was going to try and book it down there to at least make the rehearsal dinner. To my surprise I finished the exam really early and was able to make it down for both the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner. The Dinner took place at the gristmill which is always a favorite. The night really got going once the t(r)oast began. Many of them were towards JV with an occasional shot at KV all in all a fun night with great memories. The next morning AG and I drove back down to Seguin from Austin to have lunch with JV and some others. Craig’s Sauté and Grill was a hit especially since we all know how much JV loves to sauté most of his meals. Then the delimina hit what am I going to do from 2pm until 5pm when pictures start? AG and I ended up driving down about every road in the town passing the car show at the square checking out the movie theater, the amusement park with the worlds largest silo climb.

It was now time for the big show. After a few pictures we headed over to the Biblical Garden and watch the crowds file in. The sun was beginning to set and the bell started to ring it was show time. The KV's and JV' mothers were escorted in followed by a small sermonette that JV and KV wrote. We finally made our way up to the front and then it was time for KV's grand entrance. This was by far the most moving experience I have ever had at a wedding. She was gorgeous, I looked over at the bridesmaids I didn’t see a dry eye and Johnny V was barely holding it in, and chills were running through my spine. The ceremony was so beautiful because even though they were the center of attention you could tell they were reflecting all of the glory to God, and his presence was definitely felt. The wedding proceeded with some laughs along the way and it was time for the party.

In honor of them I have decided to make a list of some of my favorite memories with them.

KV
-Diet Vanilla Dr. Pepper
-Rosa's
-Mus musculus
-Driving through Westlake looking for Andy Roddick's House
-Dominican Joe's and Mozart’s
-Singing and acting out songs in the Car
-Bringing you flowers at the airport

JV
-FEAST
-BYX Summit
-Long talks after cell group about Krista
-Steaks for O-Chem
-The talk about fathers

JV and KV
-Krista's Surprise Party
-Ya'll giving up Valentines night to be with me as I checked my Match
-Copeland when JV wanted to take KV dancing

I am sure more will come to mind and I will edit this as they do. I love both of y’all very much and couldn't be happier.

USMLE Meltdown

I took my USMLE Step 1 yesterday which is the licensing exam for medical students. The exam started at 8am and so I woke up at 6 to eat breakfast and get to the testing site early. I printed off the confirmation email and was out the door with my lunch pale at 6:45. I arrived at the site at 7:10 and looked over a few things in the car and headed into the building at 7:30. I waited in the line for about 5 minutes. I finally arrived at the desk and handed the young lady my id. She asked for my testing permit and I handed her the confirmation email. She then informed me this was not the testing permit and without the testing permit I would not be able to take the test. She told me if I could make it home and back by 8:30 they would let me take the test. I left in a frantic and found the nearest FedEx Kinko’s on my GPS and raced there. I ran in got on the computer and found the email with the testing permit. This email had a link in it to sign in on the USMLE website. Well I didn’t have my username and password. I tried to the "forgot username" page but this was no success so I called the USMLE people in the middle of listening to some menus I find my ID number on another email. I copy and paste this in to the box and start trying every password I know. None of these are working. I then realized when I copied and pasted the ID number I copied the space at the end. I then deleted the space tried a password and it worked! I printed shut down the computer ran out of the FedEx Kinko’s and drove as fast as I could back to the testing site. I got there at 8:05 and didn’t get into take the test until 8:30. Luckily another guy in my class was there and had not started the test either so that was relaxing. While waiting in the lobby I went and asked the young lady if I had been rude and yelled at her and she informed me that I had not so I was thankful I didn’t lose my temper with her.

I finally entered the testing site logged on to the test and the first question popped up. I knew the answer! It was Hairy Cell Leukemia and I was on my way. I remember a few questions in between as well, but my last question was a dreaded multimedia question of a heart sound. Luckily I knew that answer which was Coarctaion of the Aorta and I was done. I finished at about 2:00 and was relieved to be on my way home. Now I just have to take the COMLEX on Friday and then it is SUMMER.

Graduations, Boards and Rotations OH MY!

I know it has been a while since my last post, but honestly my life has been pretty boring. I take my licensing exams next week and have only one last week to study. So I have pretty much been just studying about 12 hours a day which means not a whole lot to blog about. Something I have been able to do though.

I went to my sister’s graduation for Texas A&M. I went to UT so I of course had to make fun of many of the Aggie traditions. Overall this was pretty fun, very rushed because I was really worried about studying the whole time but the break ended up being a great thing. I was able to see my grandparents from out of state that doesn't happen very often. I saw slumdog millionaire for the first time the other night. I thought it was pretty good. I didn’t really have any clue what it was about but definitely had heard a lot about it so I think the hype some what ruined it for me. I also went and saw up with the roommates JO and CB the other night. It was entertaining my lack of dog love also made this movie not as entertaining. I think I will have to stick to Cars as one of my favorite Pixar movies.

I have mentioned previously that I did some research in undergrad. So I decided to pursue a rotation during my fourth year in research, this ended up causing lots of problems as far as scheduling my third year rotations. My classmates all received their schedules about 5 weeks ago meanwhile I have been anxiously awaiting mine. Well today is the day I finally received it and it is as follows.

July 6 - Aug28 Internal Medicine
Aug 31 - Oct 23 Surgery
Oct 26 - Dec 18 Family Medicine
Jan 4 - Feb 12 OBGYN
Feb 15 - Mar 26 Pediatrics
Mar 29 - Apr 23 OMM
Apr 26 - May 21 Psychiatry
May 24 - June 18 Academic Medicine (Study Month)

I am pretty pleased with my schedule. Right now Internal Medicine is at the top of my list as far as specialties I would like to pursue, so having it first will help me make a decision for sure. I also am glad I will get a great foundation for the rest of my rotations. The other perk to having Medicine and Surgery up front is the back end of my schedule will be kind of light.

In other news after boards I will be heading down to Seguin, Texas for a wedding and then heading out to Vegas for a week so more to come on how those turn out.