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.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Oh sweet Vacation...

It has been so nice to be away from the clinic...honestly I have not thought much about it at all...it will be a sad day when I do have to go back. It has been so nice to get out of town...see different places...finally hang out with family. We went to Stewartville last weekend...it was nice...my brother Nick was back so it was good to see him even though I think he and I don't really talk all that much...he has always liked and gotten along with Jen better...that's ok...he's still my bro and it was good to see him. We had an early Thanksgiving since I will be saving the pets of Milwaukee on the actual date of Thanksgiving...oh well, what can I do...at least I partially have christmas and new year's eve off...I am on call (God they always find some way don't they!!!)...but hopefully it will be a slow enough time that I won't get called in...please people do something fun on the holiday and do not bring your pets to the hospital!!!...and don't let them eat wrapping paper and bows and candies either...that means potential surgery and Ang gets called in!! Heading to Chicago this weekend for the American College of Veterinary Surgeons Conference...yuck...but hey...I go where I am sent...and Chicago...could be fun eh?? Sitting with Cosmo now watchin' Grey's Anatomy...like that show...little bit too dramatic, but hey...that's entertainment. Sooo...residency applications are now open...gulp...going to apply all over... I know you all would like me to stick around here...but I don't know what it is but I just want to see different places you know...try different cities...far away seems so exotic...lonely I know....but we are young...time to live in different places before settling down ya know... so my places... east coast, west coast, southern coast, and minnesota, maybe Ohio only because I was so ;impressed with the degree of intelligence at that institution when I did my externship there...and I loved Columbus. I thought about Michigan but if it is on my list it will be at the bottom...can't possibly see myself as a Lions fan!!! Although the Red Wings are great!!! The Tigers...yuck!! And Iowa...well there is pretty much nothing else there...remeber driving through there with mom on the way back from....where were we coming back from mom"???...anyway...we were looking for food and practically starved ourselves because Iowa had nothing in it!!! God, where were we coming back from?? hmmm. Ok, well going to get going...I will write more about how the conference is...try to take some pics too...Smiles
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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.