MATCH DAY!

Today is the day that I have looked forward to for 4 long years! It is honestly one of the most important days in my life this far other than the day I became a Christian and the day I married my beautiful wife. I am so happy to say I could have never imagined that it would turn out this amazing! I am so happy not only for myself but for my wife and all of our extended family that we will have the opportunity to continue training in North Carolina at my #1 choice Cabarrus Family Medicine. It is such an amazing program and I am 100% confident that I will learn all the skills I need to be the physician I want to be. I am so excited to work with a great group of residents and what I am sure will be a great intern class. Ryan (the guy holding the baby in my earlier post) was the only other person on the trip who had not yet matched and he got some great news today also. He got his number one choice which was internal medicine in Virginia Beach. He is the first VCOM student to ever match there. So that's definitely a big deal.

I apologize for not posting yesterday, I didn't feel well at all yesterday and fell asleep pretty quickly after getting home from clinic. I was nothing serious and a few Tylenol and some Benadryl definitely fixed the problem. None the less it was nice to get some rest. It has been awhile since I have been in a primary are clinic much less doing a great deal of peds like we are here so I am sure I picked up a little virus. We had a really awesome experience on Wednesday night and Ryan, Tenke and I got to go to a concert here in San Sal. We saw David Guetta who is a famous DJ along with a few thousand screaming El Salvadorians. It definitely is not music that I am in to but was an amazing experience and I am glad I got outside my comfort zone and went. Wish I had some pics to post but none of us took cameras or phones in case the worst happened. It was actually extremely safe with security and police everywhere and turned out to be a great time.

Today was a great day filled with anticipation and excitement about the match. This morning we ran several errands and went grocery shopping for the week. We were able to get fresh fruits and vegetables that were safe for us to eat which is honesty the thing I have missed most since arriving in El Salvador other than Christina. We had a short clinic this afternoon at the orphanage clinic in Santiago, which seems to be our base camp so to speak this far. After seeing a few patients we came back to the apartment and got cook a meal for ourselves which was amazing.

Tomorrow we are going to the beach wih Dr. Romero. She keeps telling us how beautiful the beaches are and that the best pupusa stand (a traditional El Salvadorian food) in the entire country is on the way! It should be an awesome day an I will be sure to take a few pics to post tomorrow!