Not officially yet but I am now. I've just returned to my Hometown of Trujillo - Perú, after finishing the 365th day of my Medical Internship 2009... I only need to present my thesis to a jury on January 2010 to get my Peruvian Medical College Nº

A beautiful experience, lots of scars, mainly mentally. Good and bad memories, patient cases and so on. I guess I've grown up a bit, my face has changed a bit too as people have told me.

Well, I guess I'll enjoy these 3 months and go to the gym again, loose weight, get some muscle, practice and studying for the SERUMs (a job where you're sent to distant backwater areas to work as a Doctor for a year).

I'd like to wish you all a happy new year 2010 cheers

I'm on the final month of the Medicine Internship, now doing Ginecology and Obstetrics. It's quite difficult due to the high ammount of female patients we attend daily, as well as some real emergencies to face at the Emergency Shift.

Yesterday for example I only had 1 hour sleep, for we had some harsh emergencies such us bleeding previous placentae, complicated ectopyc pregnancy, inmature ovular membrane ruptures (24 weeks) etc.

So yeah I'm about to turn 23 years old within the next our... bday is meant to be Dec 6th, same day with my Granny's bday. Yesterday I was given a bday present at my Emergency Shift: My first caeserean... It feels quite exciting to cut the belly and see every tissue layer open and then put them back on their place once you've extracted the fetus.

Right now I'm at my house, on a visit, since I've been granted a day-off for my bday (this sunday). Might take chance of it to upload some stuff.

As for other things in my life... well love is going somewhat better, still hard to get her do things as I'd like... health is fine, except for the fact that I'm lacking vitamines and my stress is causing me some wounds on my lip sidelines, similar to a glasgow smile (liek the Joker )

Soooooo September at last.. Final month on my 3rd rotation: Internal Medicine, before I start with the 4th and last one: Gyencology and Obstetrics... So hard to wait.

Here I am, listening ES Posthumus, taking a short break from cleaning patient's wounds on the IM ward (mostly ulcers). Bit tired as my parther and I deal with +20-30 patients per day, everyday; nevertheless I felt like writing this journal to let people know that I'm alive I survived the AH1N1 infection, mostly cuz it wasn't the real disease (PCR went negative), so I'm still exposed with all the cases that arrive (last 3 were a severe asmatic girl, a pregnant woman and now a cardiopathic patient).

Love doesn't go well.. many troubling things to mention... she's a bit difficult, but it is ultimately a secondary directive as it is for her.

Anyway art continues, slowly but it does keep going. I'm advancing with some colored versions for some artworks I've posted, as well as drawing new artworks or completing old ones.

Good thing its saturday, tonight I'm gathering with some friends to watch a film... Ice Age 3 on DVD... I hope they'll come.

Lol after being exposed to 2-5 confirmed cases (hospital personel included) and several suposed cases seems I've become one myself.

4 days I've been with throat sore, er mucus, otalgia and some other upper airway symptoms. It's been 2 days with 38.8-39ºC Fever (not so sure what's that like on Farenheit degrees).

Still I keep working... exposed to all other non viral threats on the Service of Internal Medicine at this hospital I'm working at I hope this won't go worse.

So now I'm doing my 3rd unit at my Medicine Internship... which is Internal Medicine. A 14 years old patient was admited to my service 2 days ago who's on isolation due to a probable case of AH1N1. I've had contact with this patient like 3 times (since I have to check on him daily) with the proper protection still.

The only thing that worries me is that I've been with sneezing for 4days and today I started coughing.

I hope I didn't catch anything here... not just this so called AH1N1 virus but some other serious diseases that are around on this service like Nosocomial Pneumonia or Milliar Tuberculosis

Well... as always I'm too busy to continue so I'd better be going for now.