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.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

I'm Betty Crocker!!

So I still have a lot of the apples left from home and I didn't want them to waste so I was tyring to think of things I could make with them that I will actually eat. I don't really eat pie or apple crisp...so I got out my cookbook and decided to make apple cinnamon muffins, from scratch -- the turned out quite good actually...I was pretty proud of myself. Yes as you can see...I lead a very exciting life outside of the clinic!!! Now I am just watching tv..the shoe scrubs...I never used to really watch the show but a friend from Vet school that I used to hang out with would watch it all the time and I sorta got hooked on the show. I heard on the news that it is supposed to snow on Thanksgiving...actually some accumulation possible...good - hopefully it will keep people away from the ER on Thanksgiving so that I get off early!!! Of course unless your pet is dying them come in for sure, but a torn toenail is probably not an emergency!!! Well, I am going to finish my glass of wine and head to bed because I am on call in a few hours. 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.