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.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Surgery

So I got called in for the first time on my on-call shift Saturday...at 5am for a surgery because a dog ate the carpet out of its kennel and now was obstructed. So, had to go in and do that surgery...pulled carpet from the stomach (gastrotomy) and then two sites in the intestines (enterotomy)...went well...I was a little disappointed about being woken up so early, but then the surgery was actually fun to do so I guess it ended up not to be so bad...and then I didn't get called in again which was nice. So I may indeed have a peeping Tom...we thought we saw someone on my porch the other night as we were going to bed...I hope we were just seeing things because I just do not want to have to deal with that...hopefully it was just shadows of the trees...guess I am going to have to leave my lights on when I am away from now on and the TV on. Stupid freaks in life....get a life!!! Finally out of the city of Milwaukee which is nice...not heading back until Tuesday or Wednesday. Then I just have a couple weeks and then I have my 13 days off of vacation the second week of October which will be a nice break...am definitely heading out of town then...going to Chicago for the conference and hopefully to hang for a little bit and then hopefully Minnesota for a while as well...really excited about that...! Fall is coming, it is nice...all the pumpkins out waiting to be carved...think I am going to start buying some just for the seeds....yummmm I love the roasted pumpkin seeds...those are the best....maybe I will do that here on my few days off... How 'bout those Packers...especially Favre...settin' records...the Vikes...well we won't talk about that right now...Had some beers and watched the games...it was fun... Ok, well it is getting late and I think we are going to head off to bed here...long day...we woke up early to leave Milwaukee...Brought the kitties too so they are all freaked out about being in a new place again!!! It is funny because they stick so close to me because we are all used to being so close in my little apartment...poor webster...slammed on the breaks on the drive and his carrier fell off the seat and he went head first into the floor boards....no wonder that cat hates to travel!!!...and it makes me feel so bad every time... this is the second time his carrier has fell....luckily for me he doesn't get hurt!! OK...Smiles.. ;o)
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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.