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· February 28, 2020

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I’m on call today 📟 but mentally I’m here 🏝

Just submitted my vacation requests for my PGY3 year and can’t wait to plan more time in the sand & sun ☀️

What are you up to this weekend? Let me live vicariously through you.

Lake day ⛵️

Rehabilitation Research Day 🤓🥼🥇🏆

Rehabilitation Research Day 🤓🥼🥇🏆

Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who made me who

Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who made me who I am.

She always pushed me to be the best I could be – one summer tutoring me to test out of 3 years of high school math bc I was behind after our move from LA to TX.

And she always supported me at my lows – a core memory being her sitting on my bed with me, crying about high school drama that seemed so important at the time. She knew the high school drama wouldn’t matter years later, but that how she supported me would.

I love you mom 🌸💕

You guys!!!!! I forgot to share some awesome news

You guys!!!!! I forgot to share some awesome news with yall! 😍

Joshua signed his first attending physician contract (back in January lol) and we will officially be living in the same city come end of June! We are beyond excited for our days of long distance to come to an end🥼🩺

Our family and friends have known for months, so I kind of forgot to share on here 😆🙈

Next on the agenda: finding a bigger place for us to live (my current apt is 650 sq ft 😂)

If you haven't heard my story on here yet, I reall

If you haven't heard my story on here yet, I really struggled through the first 2 years of medical school. I felt behind in classes, like I had a million things piling on top of my to do list… I was drowning in powerpoints while watching others float through our classes.

The game-changer for me was when I realized that the more mental energy I could conserve, the more I could focus on things that matter. Mental clutter was overstimulating and making it hard for me to focus.

@evernote helped me organize the millions of lectures, notes, calendar events, and to-do list items that littered my brain. Download Evernote (it’s free!) via the link in my bio.

Can you relate? How do you clear the mental clutter?

#EvernotePartner #EverBetterLife

Back to reality this week, working in our SCI (spi

Back to reality this week, working in our SCI (spinal cord injury) clinic 🥼

Things physiatrists manage in outpatient SCI clinic:

📌 Spasticity - the nerves from our spine control our muscles! An injury to the spinal cord can disrupt this communication between our spinal cord and our muscles, causing this type of muscle over-activity.

📌 Neurogenic bowel and bladder - the nerves from our spine control all of the organs in our body, including the bowels and bladder! An injury to the spinal cord can cause dysfunction of these organs causing symptoms such as constipation, retention or incontinence.

📌 Autonomic Dysreflexia - this is a potentially life-threatening syndrome, where very high blood pressure and other symptoms result from a painful stimulus below the patient’s level of injury.

📌 Pain - it’s important to address both neuropathic and nociceptive pain in our patients with SCI, as they may have pain directly related to their injury, or due to overuse from compensating for their injury.

And this is just a short list! Plus, in addition to our rehab-specific stuff, we are often managing comorbidities that make our patients medically complex, and we collaborate with other specialists to provide the best care possible for our patients.

Wearing @barcomade Grey’s Anatomy Morgan Lab Coat + Moto top and Carly jogger in Indigo. I wear a medium in all things Barco! 🔗 Link in my bio to shop!

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