Check Off Another Exam

I wrote yet another exam this morning and I have an oral exam with a physician tomorrow afternoon and then another exam on Monday. But....I am done todays and I can check that one off. Yay! Only 5 more exams until March Break. I think that this deserves a countdown!!

The weather here is quite chilly. The ice keeps melting then freezing over and over. But I think that it is going to remain frozen considering that it is well below freezing right now. Currently I am nursing an extremely sore body. I managed to fall 3 times yesterday but one time really, really hard in the parking lot of our apartment complex. I whacked down on my hip so hard that I had a difficult time getting up. Now I am sore from my neck to my knee on my right side. I could go into detail, but I'd be complaining too much and would rather try to forget how sore I really am.

On a lighter note, the icicles from our eaves-troves (I don't really know how to spell that word!) are huge!!! Some are probably 10 feet long! The ones right outside my bedroom window aren't the longest ones, but the lights at night make them glow like fire. I took some pictures of them! :)

Anywho, I am heading off to bed to get more than 6 hours of sleep. Oh how I treasure sleep these days.

Med School Gala - 2010

We had our Med School Gala last night. It was absolutely beautiful. It was really nice to see everybody all dressed up and eat scrumptious desserts (chocolate fondu fountain included) at a lovely venue with great music, dancing, and friends...and...GREAT SHOES :)

Breathing...meh, who cares???

I have been studying breathing for days now....I think that it is overrated. Honestly, good air in - bad air out. That's all I think that doctors need to know. Don't you think?????

I have a respiratory physiology exam tomorrow and think that it is going to be extremely hard. Especially since the professor teaching is one of the worst ones I have had here in medical school. He just realized (this morning, the morning before the exam) that he forgot to post additional material that we are responsible for even though he didn't lecture on it. So, within 24 hours we have an additional 40 pages to know. That's what I call NOT COOL!

Well, back to studying!

xoxo

Catty Girls!

You would think that students in medical school would be mature individuals who exhibit the utmost level of professionalism and integrity considering that is what the medical profession demands of all individuals involved. This is not the case.

Since I have been here in medical school I cannot tell you how friendly and non-competitive it has been here. Regardless of hundreds of Type A personalities galavanting around the campus, I have yet to run into many people who are immature or mean. People seem very collaborative and friendly; exactly the type of environment in which I strive to learn.

Having said this, I am slightly disappointed in my roommmate. We were getting along very well and now....well....she refuses to talk to me. Without going into too many details, I basically had said that I was going to study with her and then found out that it would be much more productive and helpful to study with other people since they are more at my level of knowledge and plus, they are my friends, and I like to hang out with them. Well, I told my roommate this, and she decided that I was being irrational and giving her the shaft, and I was a terrible person. Needless to say she flew off the handle, screamed and cried at me (let me mention that I was extremely calm and mature about this while she was doing this)... and now she is no longer talking to me.

*sighs*

Honestly, I was nice about it and she was being immature, but on the other hand, it really does suck to have sombody 'hate' you and not talk to you when you share an apartment with them. Talk about tension. I am still polite to her and she basically ignores me. I have come to the conclusion that can't try to understand some people; especially bipolar girls with issues.

The end.

(of my vent)

Yes, I am still alive...

I am sorry that I haven't posted anything for a while yet, I have been so busy! I wrote four exams in seven days. Without going into too much detail, all I will really say is that it sucked. I am still totally sleep deprived and I still have to survive six more weeks before I get March Break. Oh the thought of going home gives me something to look forward to, which is great since the only thing I get to look forward to here is when the next test is. Oh the joys of medical school.

Today in our physical diagnosis lab I learned how to look into people's ears, mouths, and noses. Yeah, we stuck speculums up our partner's noses and forced a light with a pointed tip up to see if we could see the turbinates of the nose. I was alright at the nose one (mind you, my partner kept breathing through his nose and fogging up my view thru the scope I was looking through), but looking into the ear was difficult. I felt like I had two left hands!! You have to hold the otoscope with one hand, stabilize the fingers against the head so that you have more control, put the scope into the ear all with one hand and then use the other hand to pull the ear up and back so that you open the ear canal so that you can see something. To add onto the level of manual dexterity required we have to hold an insufflation bulb (a pump that gives a 'puff' of air into the ear to see the tympanic membrane move) with the same hand that is holding the otoscope and stabilizing the ear. Tough stuff for somebody with freakishly small hands! But with the help of the TA and the family doc in the lab, I (kind of) got the hang of it. Now I'll have to practice looking into people's ears, mouths, and noses to become a pro at these skills that so many doctors don't even think twice about doing.

All I can say is that my respect for doctors grow each day! hahaha

This is an otoscope:



This is what you see when you look inside the ear with the otoscope:

Supper = Homesick

I am about the weirdest person ever to let my supper make me homesick! I made meat balls in the crockpot for supper this evening (yes, an actual full meal, go ME!!!) and as I was eating it all I could think about is how we would have this at home. The thought of me sitting on my couch eating this lovely meal all by myself when, just a year ago, I would be sharing this same meal with my family, kind of made me sad. Don't get me wrong, it was a really good meal, but it made me think about just how much I miss my family. But honestly, you can't blame me for feeling this way when I have the most awesome parents, brothers, grandparents, and yes...animals EVER! I am truly blessed even if I am far away from them. :)

Love,
Me