So that's me and the reason why there's been a paucity of posts here lately. Hopefully I'll be back to more regular posting a week from now when night float is nothing more than a fading memory. Or maybe I'll be too busy basking in the sun to be writing blog posts - it's 20 degrees (70 F) here people! Usually we don't get weather like this until May. While I hate to think of the environmental implications of this gorgeous weather, I'm going to enjoy every minute of it.
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On an unrelated note, I've been absolutely shocked and appalled recently by the efforts of many American politicians to suppress women's hard-fought rights to access birth control and safe abortion services. Physician Activist in Training has written a great post on the subject on her blog Diagnosing Chaos, and I urge you all to read her post and consider participating in the upcoming national protests. It's too important an issue to the safety and freedom of women to ignore.
5 comments:
Really feeling for you re: night float. I haven't had the *ahem* privilege of having to do those yet but I've had to do a few all-nighters back in my B. Sc. days so I have a vague idea of the crappyness of it. And super sucks that you have migraines on top of that :( . Maybe the awesome weather can take away some of the suckyness of these two weeks?
And also regarding the birth control issue in the states - I simply can't believe we're even having this debate. It's 2012! WTF politicians? It's simply unthinkable to me that people who are against abortions are trying to get rid of birth control. Um, cause and effect here people?
Being more liberal I hate this debate as well. I understand politicians games and saying whatever they can to get votes.
Then sometimes I think of other parts of the world where being a woman gets you deprived of an education, treated less than a second class citizen and even killed.
Living in the Middle East, I am amazed that the US has managed to outdo us in the bizarro department with this stuff. I am looking on in horrified fascination.
And I am glad I am not a woman in, say... Arizona, right now.
Oh geez, I am 100% behind you on this birth control issue!!
and I can tell you, working 10 days in a row sucks. I think if I had to do 10 nights in a row, I'd be bawling my eyes out. You're a real trooper!
Med Student 101 - I understand that there are people who are opposed to birth control - but what I can't understand is why they are opposed to other people making decisions about birth control for themselves according to their own moral/ethical beliefs. How would these same politicians like it if they were in the religious minority and they had someone of another religion stepping in and telling them what they could or could not do with their own lives?
NP Odyssey - There's no question that women in North America have it better than women in many other parts of the world, but I think it's important to remember that it's all part of the same mentality/belief that women are inferior to men and therefore are not deserving of the same rights/freedom of choice.
Knot - I really wish that the States could pick another area to excel in!
Missmcccracken - Fortunately I get weekends off, so it isn't 10 days continuous. But it's still exhausting!
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