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| Well here's the update for you all... finally. My apologies, particularly to sunberries for not having updated sooner... no real good excuse other than putting off until tomorrow what I can do today and all of a sudden finding that it's 8 months later. Story of my life.
- Work has been a lot busier than I thought it would ever be this year... but I think I'm finally making the transition from good worker bee resident to functioning surgeon. I find out everyday that there's so much more to learn about taking care of patients and about operating and how little I know. But I'm realizing more than ever that this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And besides, operating is freakin' fun.
- Being back in Chicago is great. I only wish I had more time to build/rebuild friendships and enjoy the city. Yet another common theme that seems to run throughout my life.
- Not much measurable growth as a Christian recently, but I experience the undying faithfulness of God to me each day without fail.
- Probably the most important event in my life in the last 8 months:
Her name is S. and she's the best. Some of you have been able to meet her and I hope the rest of you get to soon.
And there's more to the story which some of you know, and some of you don't, but I've never left the Xanga nation with a cliffhanger before (not a cliffhwanger mind you, though he is also very worth checking out, especially for all you single ladies out there - but i digress)...
So more info to come soon... and I promise it'll take me less than 8 months this time.
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| hey guys. sorry i haven't updated in a little bit but i'm realizing that 15 hour workdays take a little getting used to after working essentially 9-5 for the last year... for all of you people i owe emails to, sorry i haven't written. i'm workin' on it!
anyways... i have some old school FOB entertainment for you. this article prompted me to go looking for some pictures of cars some of you might remember from your younger days:
 
can you name this car? gotta love the classic Hyundai Pony and Pony2 (현대
포니
). these tiny cars used to be ubiquitous on the streets of Seoul, especially in the taxi form in nice green or orange colors. i used to especially love the elaborate, lighted, pagoda-shaped "Taxi" signs on the tops of these cars. i think many of you can attest to the cramped space inside. regardless, it's a timeless chick magnet.
and how about this one:
gotta love a car with the model name "Bongo." Essentially, this kind of truck has become a class of autos in Korea, regardless of the maker - the 봉고차. they also used to be ubiquitous on any Korean street back in the day when i lived there and i suspect that it's still true.
if you know what the heck i'm talking about, you are either a FOB or old, neither of which any of you will likely admit to...
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| so i'm now at home after finishing my first day in the hospital in over two years. for your viewing enjoyment, here was my schedule today in way more detail than any of you probably want to know:
0400 Tony wakes up and stumbles to bathroom
0402 Tony tries to read a little Bible before work; 2 Corinthians 5 - good passage but
doesn't process so well
0410 Back to bathroom
0430 Dressed in spanking new white coat and necktie, Tony walks to the hospital
0436 Tony finds out that his hospital ID no longer works on the doors and has to walk
around until he finds an open one
0440 After dropping off his stuff, Tony goes to ICU and begins to gather information
on what happened overnight to his new patients; curses technology advances as
he tries to figure out how to write orders and progress notes in the computer
0515 Tony begins rounding in the ICU with his new team on the Surgical Oncology
service
0715 Rounds are finished and Tony gets breakfast with his team and tries to avoid
drinking coffee
0735 Tony heads to call room to change into scrubs; picks up CT Scans of patients
he's helping operate on today on the way
0750 Tony preops first case - Asian lady with nasopharyngeal cancer metastatic to the
liver
0820 Tony realizes that he still remembers how to place a Foley catheter and how to
scrub for surgery
0830 Tony assists in laparoscopic liver resection of metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer
1030 Tony gets to use Argon beam laser that really shoots a blue beam of light and
can burn things!
1100 Towards end of case, Tony realizes that he is not as fast at sewing skin incisions
back together as he used to be
1130 Tony preops next case - 34 year old lady with colon cancer
1200 After anesthesia delay, Tony assists in laparoscopic-assisted right hemicolectomy
1230 Tony realizes that he can still tie knots
1530 He also realizes that suturing skin incisions is getting easier; heads to afternoon
rounds with team
1730 Checks on patient getting scope with possible bowel perforation; wears lead to
protect his future children due to the x-rays being taken
1830 Finishes rounds and most work with patients for the day; checks Korea-Switz
World Cup score and shakes his head in disgust
1930 Finishes updating list and heads home; realizes that he's darn tired, and freakin'
hungry!
haha... how many of you guys actually made it to the end of this? i'm hoping that all of my days aren't this long... it may not sound so interesting to all of you, but i really enjoyed my day today. i'm so blessed to have a job that i really like. of course this may be the beginnig of me having no life again...
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Peter Y. DOB 1/8 
Park Ji-Sung DOB 2/25 
Tony Y. DOB 2/25 
