The day ended on a high note

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And started on a low. I wasn't allowed to eat or drink after midnight for my testing today. Which was at 12:30 so enjoy your 12 hours of no food or drink (okay I DID steal sips of water so there).

I warned the students: I slept 4 hours, I'm hangry and I'm caffeine deprived. Test me at your peril. They behaved. I had a withdrawal headache SO bad.

The testing went well as they pulled me back to the ultrasound room almost immediately. Techs aren't allowed to say if they see something. I wonder if they did because at one point when she was ultrasounding my gallbladder while I was on my side and she let me roll onto my back again an she said 'that hurt, didn't it?' Yes, like hell. I hadn't said anything and didn't think I had winced but maybe.

Then she says mind if the student does it? I look at the girl. She goes to my school but DM had her in A&P, not me. I always say yes because I remember being a medical student and the disappointment if someone said no. She needed to be quicker but she did well.

I got my coffee right there in the hospital before going home. It was too beautiful to go do laundry so I went hiking at Ash Cave so click that to read all about it and see all the fun pictures.

And found out my favorite restaurant/bar has opened a brew pub next door and today was the grand opening. I raced over. I had a smoked bacon maple brown ale. It didn't taste smoky, bacony or mapley but it WAS a smooth, non-bitter brown. But I had that after sucking down nearly 2 full beers at dinner (at @ 9% alcohol) so I had to sit and sober before getting behind the wheel.

So the day ended well.

ETA: 30 seconds after posting this thunder tore the sky and the heavens opened. The predicted storm has arrived.