Strawberry Cervix

Trich - see the ovid shaped protozoa in the center of the slide? That's the bugger trich.... what we see under the microscope.

I saw one last Friday at clinical. It was so obviously infected, and it's owner, a teenage girl, had been suffering with it for weeks. It was one of my first experiences in this new skill set that I'm developing where I just KNEW something major was up with her. I followed my instinct, and the advice and assurance of my preceptor, and treated her for a whole gamut of STIs even without the return of test results.

Results came back yesterday. Trich and chlamydia indeed. She took her medication, and is feeling much better... it's nice to know that sometimes, I have a small semblance of confidence and actually know what I'm looking at.

Then, to remind me that I'm really still quite clueless, my professor asked me yesterday during a skill-set check off: "Is English your second language?" My mushy brain forgot the word laryngiscope and instead said "The tube that we intubate with." Yikes - at least I could have said "With which we intubate!" I passed, thank goodness.

I am ready for finals to be finally done and move on to the next big adventure in Zambia, where things more exciting than a strawberry cervix will certainly occur.