End of Week 3

The rest of last week went well. I got to go on rounds in the NICU, which was a very different kind of experience. The babies are really teeny and many are amazingly young--one of the babies was 0.55 kg and was born at 25 weeks. It's a little heartbreaking to see them with all the tubes and everything attached to them. I also got to talk to patients for the first time last week-- I did two quick followups and I did part of a diabetes education. I had to correct myself a couple of times and say "blood sugar" instead of "glucose." After a year of discussing glucose, it's a little tough to remember to use the more colloquial term. We also had a couple of TPN cases at the end of last week. My dietitian has this really helpful cheat sheet to figure out the TPN formulation and the max glucose rate. I definitely copied that one into my pocket guide...