Days off during residency are bittersweet at best. It's nice being able to sleep through till morning, awaking to the sun rather than the leftovers of the passing night. On my days off it usually takes me an additional 3 hours to get out of bed. Not because I'm fatigued to the point where 8 hours of sleep isn't enough, but more because upon awaking I remember that the only thing that awaits me is more neurosurgery reading or paper writing. We're always instructed that our days off should be the time we catch up on our anatomy, write papers for journal publication, and continue our research projects. Exercise is a good idea, not for overall general health, but more so we can develop the stamina to get us through the long operative cases.
Yesterday I woke up at 10AM, all rested from the night before, ready to take on the new day. I got up, turned on my computer, saw the list of things to do for the day, turned off my computer, threw myself back into bed and went back to sleep. I woke at 1PM. OK fine, that's enough. I was still in a post-post call daze/depression, as I personally take on a rather dampened affect when I'm fatigued, so the rest of the day wasn't too productive.
I awake today (9AM mind you, not at the time of this post) reinvigorated, ready to take on the cruel peer reviewer comments of this paper I'm revising. Seven different sets of comments, each asking different things and expecting different degrees of crazy. What happened to the good old Sundays when we could lounge and read the comics after a nice family meal? There's no rest for the weary... careers in radiology are looking pretty good right now...
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