Sunday, April 28, 2002

Sunnudagsmorgunn og litli sjuklingurinn minn er farin heim med pobbunum sinum (hun a tvo). Frjals! eda thannig, nu verd eg ad fara heim og lesa fyrir morgundaginn. Gisli hringir i mig i dag, vid tolum alltaf saman i simann a sunnudogum. Verd ad vera komin heim fyrir hadegi. Er ad stelast til ad lesa skaldsogu med naminu, skamm, skamm. Bokin heitir "Corellis mandolin", man ekki nafn hofundar, thad er vist buid ad gera biomynd med Nicholas Cage i adalhlutverki, hef ekki sed hana. Bokin er god so far, bara buin ad lesa ca. 50 sidur.
Well, it's saturday night and I still have my little volenteer patient in the hospital. doh. She is very sweet though, a little wire haired fox terrier, I think I would like to have a dog like that sometime. Later when I have my own house and can start collecting animals again.

Had some fun yesterday, went out to dinner with a couple of girls from school. Sushi - again! This time I was wise and had shrimp tempura (deep fried shrimp & vegetables w. rice) as a main course, and just a few pieces of sushi. I like sushi though, wonder why Icelanders didn't come up with eating raw fish like that, guess it's not so hot with potatoes, no rice in Iceland until about 30 years ago... One of the girls also had (see how I said had, tonight my patient is the only one in surgery wards!) a dog in the hospital and so offered to take mine for a walk this morning so I could sleep late, I her up on her offer of course, so I only had to come in tonight to feed & walk. Today was spent reading and then I went downtown, had some spagetti and went for an afternoon movie at 4. Saw "Life or something like it" w. Angelinga Jolie, was ok, but not great. Still waiting to see a great movie. Saw a good movie with her and Antonio Banderas a couple of weeks ago on video when Kat was here visiting her parents. Don't remember the name, but it was very raunchy!! Naked Antonio, uha! Last weekend I saw "Mulholland Drive" on video, bad, bad movie. Don't waste your time seeing it, trust me.

So this is my life in a nutshell. Will discharge my patient tomorrow morning and then go home to read for my medicine rotation which starts monday.

Thursday, April 25, 2002

Hi guys, as you can see my blogspot is not filled with words of wisdom every day, very little time for life outside of school... Have seen a lot of cases since my last post, but will not bore you with nasty surgical details. This week has actually been kinda slow as I have not had patients admitted to the hospital to feed, walk etc. However I was clever enough to participate in someone elses surgeries yesterday, and then leave them to do all the work after surgery! he, he. Tomorrow I am taking over a patient from a classmate who has too many, why did I volenteer for this? As previously mentioned I have no life outside of school and came here to learn anyway, the others laughed at my enthousiasm, but I'll show them!!

Last weekend was kinda fun, picnic day here at school. This is like an open house for students parents and alumni to come visit the school. My cousin Maria came to visit me and I got to show her the school, there was even a parade in the morning and in the afternoon we saw "battle of the bands" which is an annual event where brass bands from several colleges compete in a marathon of music. It was a lot of fun, they take turns playing and in one song all the groups joined together and marched through the crowds while they played. They would even do all kinds of stunts with the instruments, like play lying down or standing on one foot. I the evening we went out to dinner, had sushi. I liked it, but have decided that sushi is not well suited for a whole meal, better as appetizer, was kinda bloated after eating all this cold rice... Then we saw a movie "murder by numbers" with Sandra Bullock, it was ok. We tryed to go dancing, but soon discovered that Davis is not very "happening" The only place to dance in town closed at 12:30. We were told that usually they stay open until 2 am, but we were not entirely convinced... More to follow later.

p.s. Sorry Stina og Herdis og Erna, cannot figure out this link business and am too busy to try very hard, will discover some other day the wonderful world of html..

Thursday, April 18, 2002

Back in school. This monday I saw a dog who's owner is a Hollywood stuntwoman. My patients today are a 11 month old golden retriever puppy with elbow dysplasia in both elbows. Poor thing. We did an arthroscopy today, that's where you make two small holes in the joint capsule and stick a mini camera in there and remove the offending fragment of bone through another hole with foreceps, like microsurgery. It was very cool to see, the dog only has a couple of sutures insted of cutting open his forearm. He is waking up now, and will probably be able to go for a walk this afternoon. My other patient is a giant 70 kg mastiff (and she's a female, the males are even bigger!). She is a sweet and gentle dog in spite of her size, only not very well trained, so she drags me around when we go for a walk, or when she takes me for a walk! She is having the same procedure done as the other dog.

I cannot believe how cold it is here in California! My mom will be pleased to read that I use the wool scarf she made me take every day! I have heard rumors that the temperature goes to 25-30C during the day, but I don't go out during the day... I go to school between 7 and 8 in the morning, and then I go home around 8 at night. Just in time to eat a little, read my surgery book and then go to sleep... Have to go check on my dog now...

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

jibbi. Now I have my very own blogspot, I wonder if anyone will read this? I also wonder why I am writing this in english?! Probably for the best as my international fans will want to get a piece of my mind too. They will probably make a movie "inside Sif Traustadottir" ha,ha,ha... Today is the first day at school since I got here to UC Davis vet school that I have some time to myself. Opened a bank account and plan to go to the movies (by myself) this afternoon. Decided to play with the computer for a few minutes and got this great idea to see if I could figure this blog thing out, am very jealous at my friends who have great blogs.