clowns!

Forgot to mention yesterday the clowns we saw at the entrace to the children's pavillion -- they were wonderful! They walked past us new interns/students; one said, "How are ya? How ya doin'? How are ya? How ya doin'?" The other said, "Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor." to the six of us. We were all really laughing. It was like a Three Stooges bit. Don't know if they crack the kids up, but they sure cracked us up!

Also thought it was interesting that we had no prayers yesterday -- none as we began the program, and none when we had lunch together with the whole staff. A few of us students remarked upon it privately when we were together again -- I suppose one of us could have/should have offered to lead a prayer....although, with a diverse staff there, we newbies might have been hard pressed to pray in a generic manner....

We did have prayer today at the conclusion of morning meeting. The chaplain supposed to lead the meeting (and the concluding devotions) was on call during the meeting, so our supervisor suggested a silent prayer, and then she prayed for us as a group. That felt appropriate.

I have been assigned to the NICU (neurological ICU), step-down unit, and orthopedics -- so that will be interesting. We got our on-call schedules -- it'll be an interesting and exhausting summer.

Have been thinking about the Lutheran woman who lost her baby at 21 weeks (disclosed at morning meeting as "fetal demise"). One tough story after another....easy for me to offer up prayers for so many of those I've come across in the past two days!