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Sequins. And scrubs.

January 7, 2012 by DoctorOnTheSide

* sequined top from Ross, $9 * green scrub pants from Hermann Hospital, free (or as the fashion bloggers would say, gifted) *

YO YO YO! The babies are all breathing. No one is projectile vomiting bile, pooping blood, or turning blue. Soooo… that clearly means I can write a blog post from the NICU computer?

DISCLAIMER: This is not a fashion blog. I REPEAT: This is not a fashion blog.

That said, let’s begin. I don’t ever write posts about fashion. HOWEVER, because one of the blogs I regularly follow, Pretty Shiny Sparkly (a-super-girly-blog-that-represents-everything-that-I-am-not-but-that-I-can’t-stop-reading-because-the-writer-went-to-my-med-school-and-her-fiance-hooked-me-on-it-by-mentioning-it-one-day-during-our-neurology-rotation), is hosting a new Bloggers Do It Better challege about SEQUINS, and I happened to wear something pretty sequiny on New Years Day. With my scrubs. To the NICU. BECAUSE IT WAS NEW YEARS! So I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to participate.

I think these challenges go something like this: Kristina, the author of PSS, posts a fashion challenge for her readers. Then, the readers come up with a sweet outfit, take pics, and post them on their respective blogs. They showcase each piece they’re wearing, talk about where they bought it, who the designer is, etc., etc., etc. Then Kristina compiles it all into one place so all the fashionistas can easily be—inspired—by one another. So, if I happen to finish putting this together before the deadline (my line of work is quite unpredictable, and my blogging at the hospital is SURE to be interrupted multiple times), I just might end up participating in her latest challenge. Will I fit in with these girls? Maybe… if I just follow fashion blog protocol. I think I’m supposed to show you the various pieces I’m wearing, and talk about their brand names…

* Sanitas clogs, $150 (aka: the most expensive pair of shoes I own. aren't they sexy?) * grandpa sweater from Sam's Club, $12 *

I’m also supposed to strike some America’s-Next-Top-Model-like poses for the camera, showing off my accessories and such. Again, it’s fashion blog protocol.

* orange Littmann stethoscope (my most popular accessory as of late) * gold bracelet my Tia Roxanna gave me when I was 7 years old for my first Holy Communion * engagement/wedding ring and Aggie Ring * fossil watch * Guess earrings my BFF Ita gave me 5 years ago *

I was kinda bummed about working through January 1st, but it turns out the NICU was THE PLACE TO BE at the hospital. I knew it was going to be a good day when the nurses started prepping the “champagne” (sparkling grape-juice) glasses… at 8 AM.

Then there was all the food!!!! All day long. We had bagels with cream cheese and salmon for breakfast at 9 AM. By 11 AM, we were toasting (“to babies!”) with our plastic champagne glasses. At 1 PM there was a variety of home-made finger foods and dips for lunch. At 3PM there was coffee and cake. And all day long, people kept sticking candy in my scrub pockets. And we wore tiaras and ridiculous beaded jewelry. IT. WAS. AWESOME.

My New Year’s resolution is to bond more with my patients, so I started on day #1. Also, isn’t this the cutest blood pressure cuff you’ve EVER seen?

And can you believe that sometimes the patients are so small we have to put it around their THIGH??! Craaaaazy. I hope everybody had a great holiday season. And if you spent your holidays at work, I hope you found a way to enjoy it anyway.

residency is so tough! i work so haaaaaaaard.........

Happy 2012!

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Posted in Medical, Uncategorized | Tagged BDIB, bloggers do it better, celebration, fashion, life-balance, medical residency, medicine, NICU, pediatrics, random | 35 Comments

35 Responses

on January 7, 2012 at 9:07 am | Reply Megan Silianoff (@GreetingsfromTX)

Just discovered your blog! Love it! And LOVE the sequins with the scrubs – Well done!
http://www.megansilianoff.blogspot.com
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Thanks! I’ll check yours out. Glad you liked it!
on January 7, 2012 at 10:13 am | Reply Carolina

That IS the cutest blood pressure cuff I’ve ever seen!!! LOL
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  I TOLD you!
on January 7, 2012 at 10:19 am | Reply Fashion By Alicia

Your post cracked me up! Loved your ANTM pose! Happy New Year!
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  I cracked MYSELF up while writing it… hahaha!!!
on January 7, 2012 at 11:22 am | Reply Megan

Ale, you are so cool.
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:05 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Coolness. It’s what I live for. And glamour.
on January 7, 2012 at 12:18 pm | Reply Andrea Garland

Chica!!! you’re a latina girl as me hahaha. You’re post was so funny, love how you mixed sequins and your hospital pants
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:06 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Sweetness! Where are you from??
  - on January 10, 2012 at 11:21 am Andrea Garland
    
    I’m from Perú
on January 7, 2012 at 2:55 pm | Reply Kristina

Oh my gosh this is the best post ever. LOVED IT! P.s. you’re officially a fashion blogger now, just warning you
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:07 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  OMG… a CELEBRITY! Glad you liked it. Cracked myself up while writing it. Aaaaand, I finally got your BDIB badge on my sidebar. It required the husband’s help. Kids these days with all their technology……..
on January 7, 2012 at 3:30 pm | Reply Tia Roxana

Wow! What an outfit!! Definitely my choice for this New Year!!! Where do I place my vote??! Haha!
Como siempre sigues amenizandonos con tu blog. No se si este es uno de mis preferidos. Que dirá tu papa como la pasaba el en sus tiempos?! Igualito!
Mil gracias por todo lo que nos compartes.
TQ, Tia Rx
- on January 7, 2012 at 4:08 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Tia, viste que traigo puesta la pulcera que me diste de primera comunion?!!!
  - on January 7, 2012 at 11:59 pm randomesticphotos
    
    Te apuesto a que no lo vio sino hubiera puesto “WOOOW traes la pulsera que te di!!!!!” jajajaj
  - on January 8, 2012 at 2:56 am DoctorOnTheSide
    
    Si verdad?? Fue lo que me imagine!
on January 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm | Reply Mae

You are adorable!! I found your blog through the PSS link-up and I love it.
I’m a lawyer with a fashion blog on the side and even though you don’t have a fashion blog, I always love to find other professionals who are blogging. Bravo to you for this post…so cute!
Happy New Year!
xx
- on January 7, 2012 at 6:18 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  So you’re a Lawyer on the Side?! Sweet! Thanks for reading… I’m so curious about your blog now too!
on January 8, 2012 at 2:24 am | Reply thu

Great pictures, you are so cute!

I had a lot of fun joining you ladies for my first BDIB challenge

Happy New Year!
- on January 8, 2012 at 2:56 am | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  It was fun! Thanks for reading!
on January 8, 2012 at 11:27 am | Reply kimberlyloc

this is probably the best BDIB post ever love your humor. rock it with the sequins + scrubs, girl! xoxo
- on January 8, 2012 at 2:46 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Haha thanks! I’m glad the BDIB fashionistas responded to its ridiculousness the way I was hoping Happy new year!
on January 8, 2012 at 4:18 pm | Reply Stephani

Are you not breaking HIPPA by posting the picture of that baby?

I LOVE the sequins with the scrubs! I wish I could pull that off!
- on January 8, 2012 at 4:47 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  I decided that I’m not breaking HIPPA because it is a picture of a baby of unknown gender, unknown ethnic background, unknown medical record number, unknown reason for being in the NICU, and half of the face is covered by his/her hand. Do you agree? Don’t make me nervous!
on January 9, 2012 at 9:10 am | Reply Ana B.

Ale!!!!! Cada vez mas popular, te felicito!!!! Que bueno que lo pasaste bien en año nuevo y tu atuendo…. MUYYYY original!!

Te mando un beso.

Ana B.
- on January 9, 2012 at 3:39 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Jajaja, si verdad?! Mucha gente ha comentado. Y si, la verdad es que si me diverti, a pesar de que me la pase en el hospital! Saludos!
on January 9, 2012 at 2:45 pm | Reply Rachael, Really. (@rachaelreally)

Yay! I loved it!
I’m a respiratory therapist (well, I was, until I quit to be my husband’s slave … that’s a weird little story right there, so never mind.) and wearing scrubs but still attempting to be “fashionable” was my plight.
I raise your Santaritas with a black shiny patent Dansko.

I mighta AWWWED out loud when I saw that little BP cuff, so stinkin cute.
- on January 9, 2012 at 3:50 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Hahahahah! You’re hilarious. I want to hear more about your husband enslaving you. And cheers to fugly hospital clogs!
on January 9, 2012 at 10:52 pm | Reply Mami

Jajajaja!!! Que risa, estas super loca Ale. Me encanto tu atuendo y sobre todo tu entusiasmo y energia con lo que lo portas. Que bueno que disfrutas cada momento.Te extraño!
- on January 10, 2012 at 2:13 am | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Jajajajaja…. Osea, viste a las otras chavas? Todas fashionable y mi post menso entre el de ellas… JAJAJAJAJJA! Estaba atacada de risa yo sola.
on January 13, 2012 at 12:56 am | Reply anne the SpyGirl

haha. you get this fashion blogger’s A+
I love that you brought some bling into the hospital.

And the clogs?
I wear Sanitas too. They are fashionable to ME! And the most comfortable clogs that I own.
hahahaha
- on January 23, 2012 at 8:46 pm | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  I hear ya!
on July 14, 2012 at 6:23 pm | Reply Arpita of Up, Down And Natural

Just stumbled across your blog!! Funnily enough because I “image googled” “Orange Littman Stethoscope”!! I was trying to decide between Orange and Ocean Blue, and I’m totally diggin’ the orange on you!! Funny blog!! Added to faves!
- on July 15, 2012 at 5:25 am | Reply DoctorOnTheSide
  
  Great! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Orange is OBVIOUSLY the right choice, so go for it! (it will get compliments day and night)