Piano for Lianne!!!

Well we saved  and ebayed and saved some more and guess what? We got a great piano at a great price. As I sit here Lianne is playing me a song, and I like it. A guy could get use to this kind of thing. Now if only it had a headphone jack for when I want to watch TV ;) But seriously we really like it. We are in the process of re-upholstering the bench and it will be tuned soon so if you want to have a piano jam session and are passing through Lexington drop by! 

The Haircut

Most of you know that Mike has been into cutting his own hair lately. Most of you also know that I am not a huge fan of this endeavor. I have been very firm about not getting involved in this whole business, but Mike persuaded me to help him trim the back the other night. I was doing well until he asked  me to trim behind the ears ... then I sort of forgot where I was at ... whoops. I have now re-committed to never cutting Mike's hair ever again. 

On Call

So I'm on call tonight, which is not as fun as it sounds. I get to wear a bunch of pagers clipped to my waistband, and I get to sleep in an impossibly cold call room (if I get any sleep, that is). On the bright side, I have approximately $275 in call money - which means I could buy everyone in the cafeteria dinner tonight. Maybe I will. But occasionally I will see some cool things, like tonight when we had to resuscitate a baby born with gastroschisis (that means she was born with her intestines outside her body - no, really, it does). I was going to find a picture of gastroschisis and post it, then thought better of it (you can thank me later, Jenna). Those of you who are curious will just have to find the picture yourselves (I'd suggest google images, they've got some good ones - and yep, that's what it looked like. Cool.)

-Lianne

Spelunking!

We recently expanded upon our Kentucky adventures by visiting Mammoth Cave National Park - the longest cave system in the world! Yep, it's in Kentucky. We went on the "New Entrance" tour - we highly recommend. I (Lianne) found the first few minutes of the cave exploration a bit too exciting ... we were squeezing through tights spaces when I heard the people in front of us start squealing and screaming about spiders. I almost didn't make it, but then we discovered that the "spiders" were actually these mutant cave crickets (which were not a whole lot better, but I'll take it). But thankfully, there were no more creepy crawlies after that first little bit. We got to climb lots of stairs and see lots of limestone and even some cool stalagmites and stalactites. We especially enjoyed the "Frozen Niagra" formation - very beautiful! This is just one of the many wonders you will be treated to when you come visit us in the state of Unbridled Spirit (that's Kentucky's state motto).

Champagne Tap!

I was on call yesterday and got my first-ever champagne tap! For those of you not wholly versed in medical lore, a champagne tap is when you have no red cells in the first tube of cerebrospinal fluid you collect when doing a lumbar puncture - in other words, a perfectly executed spinal tap. And, my attending makes a point of buying a bottle of wine for whoever gets a champagne tap - yay! It was definitely the highlight of the month so far (and definitely prettier than my last tap, which had ~ 20,000 reds cells in the first tube - ouch). Just another day in the life of a peds resident, I guess - never boring!