On top of learning a new job (and moving a house unexpectedly), I also get the joy on studying for double hematology oncology boards. Oncology is rapidly changing which makes it challenging, although hematology is considered the harder of the two since there’s a lot of obscure diseases and isn’t as reflective as what we see in clinical practice.

We had a in person review session for a week hosted by Fred Hutch, but most of my studying has been after work, on nights, and weekends non stop.

B and his mom have been holding down the fort while I’ve been studying. I’ve been cramming every chemotherapy side effect, genetic mutation, molecular testing, CAR-T targets, cytogenetic risk stratification, cancer histology, and CD marker known to human kind. I swear they want heme-oncology doctors to also be geneticists, pathologists, oncology surgeons, and radiation oncologists from all the details they ask.

Here’s a simple popsicle recipe – one of the last recipes I made before buckling down for studying.

Raspberry Coconut Popsicle

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Ingredients

1 cup full-fat coconut milk
1 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1 cup frozen raspberries

Instructions

In a blender, combine coconut milk, milk, and honey. Blend on high for 15 seconds to combine. Remove 2/3 of this smoothie and pour into your popsicle molds and freeze for 15-30min.
In the remaining 1/3 smoothie, add the frozen raspberries to make the red color. Pour the remaining smoothie into the mold, add the popsicle sticks, and freeze again.