Blue Velvet & Tumor Lysis Syndrome

It's been a weird 48 hours.

I am still recovering from yesterday's mayhem. Monday started off well--I survived my meeting with Dr. Brenner, and managed to make it home at a reasonable hour. Even started watching the uber-bizarre David Lynch movie "Blue Velvet". About half-way through the movie, however, I was notified that my nephrologic expertise was needed, as a patient with leukemia and tumor lysis syndrome (a condition in which tumor cells are dying so rapidly that they release dangerous amounts of potassium and uric acid into the bloodstream, the latter of which can cause the kidneys to shut down). To make a long story short, I got about 2 and a half hours of sleep in a shitty bunk bed in one of the call rooms, and have spent most of the day trying to recover. In fact, I should just stop blogging now and get to bed!