Dr. Engholdt

Dr. Engholdt

Inner Strength Will Get You Thru Anything

"If there's something you know you can do....but your mind keeps throwing up road blocks...just drive right through them!"

My Life As An ER Intern...

This is the story of my life as an Emergency & Critical Care Intern at the Animal Emergency Center. I wanted to start this page as a way for my family and friends to keep in touch with me. I have discovered that for the next year of my life, I will be a slave to this internship...you won't see me and possibly won't hear from me. I apologize already...and that is why I want to give something back to each and every one of you for standing by my side through what may be the toughest year of my life. I don't want to lose any of you...I want you to know what I am going through...I want you to experience it with me...so I have decided to place it all here within these pages. Please let me know what you are all up to...this will help to keep me sane...and it will give me a reason to smile on those days when I find myself locked inside the clinic bathroom cyring!! (yes it does happen...in fact the clinic bathroom is fast becoming my place of calm in the middle of what I like to refer to as Hurricane AEC)

I think about you all and I wonder what you are up to...I wish I could talk to each of you every day...especially on those days when I just need to hear a friendly voice. I want you all to know that without your support I will not make it through this year...so stick with me through the rough times because I think I see some clear skies ahead.

Friday, July 20, 2007

My Days Off

Well, this is the last of my days off...didn't do a whole lot...was hoping to have headed out of town but that didn't work out so much...not a surprise. Haven't gotten called in....that's lucky. Been studying, I'm getting too smart...can't stand myself....yeah right I wish. Back to work tomorrow, not looking forward to it, but at least it is the noon-midnight shift so I won't be there as late. Then I start some ICU shifts which I am looking forward to...a little time off the floor every now and then is nice.
There has been an Itatlian festival going on in Milwaukee this weekend...which has been cool because they set off fireworks each night so I got to see my fireworks finally,....since I was stuck inside the clinic on the 4th of July and missed the whole celebration. I miss Lake Florence in Stewie...bringing a blanket and bug spray...camping out on the shore and watching the fireworks fall over the lake...its weird the little things that end up being some of your best memories.... but I digress...
Oh yeah...got paid for the first time too...although it isn't a lot, it is at least some income that I have not had for the past 4 years.
What else, I bought a new car. Traded in Lila the Tracker for a new 2007 Nissan Sentra...I missed the Tracker and felt bad trading it in (like it was a pet) but got over it very quickly...I love the new car. So no more cotton ball blowing around in the wind...
Kitties are adjusting. Webster looks great, he is eating and filling out again. Apache of course is eating...I don't think she has ever stopped. They both wait for me to get home in the morning and then we all crawl into bed and fall asleep...me in the middle and a cat on each arm...Missing Cosmo like crazy, but at least Kevin keeps me up to date with email photos of him...I also get pictures of the fish too!!! Funny boy!
Ok, well I am going to get back to studying...learning about shock, DIC, SIRS, and heart failure...why? Because those are the stat traiges that come in that I am scared to death of because I don't quite feel comfortable treating yet....I am getting there....Each day I see something new...which is great...I will definitely learn a lot this year...
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it is what you think you are not"
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The Story of the Five Balls

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you are keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered...either way, it will never be the same and may be lost forever. Be careful when life starts to get rough...juggle carefully. And, once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls...you will have the beginnings of balance in your life.