Shakira’s BZRP music session on repeat on this car. Las mujeres ya no lloran, las mujeres factoran 💪

Have read three entire Percy Jackson books to my 8yo, and I will scream if Rick Riordan makes one of his characters purse their lips YET AGAIN. It’s like their faces can’t move in any other way…

I never had geographic tongue until my second pregnancy. Resolved with delivery. And now I have it again with some random URI?? WEIRD.

This week I learned how miraculous antibiotics are for an actual true bacterial sinusitis - from personal experience 😂. Hooray for Augmentin!

Happy 39th bday to me! Finishing off the day watching our Thorns #BAONPDX

Pretty good bday present for me last night 😎🌹⚽️

HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer is no joke either. 35 radiation treatments? Weekly chemo? A surgery where I cut both the inside of your throat and the outside of your neck? Or you can get the vaccine. I know which one I choose.

And HPV now causes more throat cancer in the US than cervical cancer. HPV-related throat cancers continue to rise in incidence, impacting men and women (mostly men) as young as 30 and up into their 90s. Totally preventable with the HPV vaccine!

I used to worry a bit about my clinical future, as smoking rates decreased and HPV vaccination increased. Unfortunately, I think there’s still going to be plenty of work for the next 30 years…

*Laughs in full-time head and neck surgeon and mom of three boys*

I work in a much smaller hospital than any I did my training at. It’s amazing how the entire place can feel the ripple effect of a single incident, both in good ways and bad.

I remember I didn’t have any awareness of world or natnl events. Not bc my parents coddled me but bc I was a child. 9/11 was 1 wk before I left for college. For 4 yrs, I learned about how life is more complex than our childhood naivety can comprehend. Why would we move backwards?

Gah! Stitcher is going away?!?! What should I use to listen to my podcasts? Spotify??

Anyone have a patient ask about that WaPo article yet?

Love how half of my notifications now are just mentions in spam posts. This app is useless now.

In preop before a big case, I tell my patient that it will be over before they know it, and they’ll be waking up in recovery. I then tell their person that they have the hard part: the waiting.