The thing about life that I've learned is that you're going to get hurt.

You're going to have emotional nights and cry yourself to sleep for hours.

You're going to suffer some kind of loss.

But you will also have those moments where you heal.

Those moments are the best.

You feel like you smile for the first time again.

You feel like you're alive again.

Life just kind of restarts.

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I love it when I discover an amazing song through a TV show

This is from CSI NY's season 7 finale. It's a song by Ross Copperman called Holding On and Letting Go. I think the lyrics are amazing and perfectly describes how I am feeling lately:

Sometimes we're holding angels,
And we never even know
Don't know if we'll make it,
Or we know, we just can't let it show

It's everything you wanted, it's everything you don't
It's one door swinging open and one door swinging closed
Some prayers find an answer, some prayers never know
We're holding on and letting go

Versatility of medicine

For this week's respiratory medicine lecture, we looked at the effects of diving and climbing mountains (or living in high altitudes) on the human body - mainly on the lungs. For our guided learning session, we watched a series of videos chronicling emergency doctors working at Mount Everest Base Camps called Everest ER which I thought was pretty damn cool. You should totes check it out if you get the chance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktxzw1JLYO0&feature=player_detailpage

How versatile is medicine?!

Dear Sixteen-Year Old Me,

May is Melanoma Awareness Month: Please watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jgUcxMezM

LOL, of course only my respiratory physiologist professor would have such an EPIC excuse

This is what transpired in our respiratory medicine lecture today:

Dan (raises hand in class): "Sorry this might seem anal but did you mean 26-27 weeks and not 27-28 weeks?"

Respiratory physiologist professor: "Yes that's what I meant. Sorry I didn't get enough sleep last night, I was busy

sucking fluids out of my turtle- it had a pneumothorax...yes, I lead such an interesting life"

Boy did that make my day.

We keep running after people who least care about us, why don't we just stop, turn around and see the ones running behind us?

This is such a powerful notion that's very true.