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I haven't posted in here in a few months... okay... maybe like half a year, but I've been so busy with school! A lot has hapenned since the last time I posted.
Let's see... I finished my 2nd trimester and I am halfway done with my 3rd. 2nd trimester was kinda brutal. There's just so much to do with the class schedule for that tri, especially spinal anatomy. The first day, the prof turned back to like page 230 and said we wouldn't be going over any of the stuff because we should know it already. The final was over almost 400 pages of notes, and it's not really the kind of info that is easily memorized... all the info on vertebrae from the muscles that attach and to what feature on the vertebrae and ligaments and clinical info and other features... all the types of spondylolisthesises, spondlylolysises, curves, myology, cranial nerves with their pathways and galnglia or neurons, all of the blood supply (veins/arteries) along the spine, etc, etc, etc plus the cadaver and bone labs... but I learned A LOT in that class, and I am so glad it's over.... if I had to hear "Goodmorning Doctors" just one more time. I am done with cadaver labs too, I had my last 2 in 2nd tri... so no more smelling like dead people... yay. I also pledged Sigma Phi Chi that tri... so I had to dress up in clinical attire for most of the tri... but I was glad when it was over and I was a member. What else... hmm... just studying... haha... trying to have fun when I could... going to some seminars... one of the ones I went to last tri was an all day one called Destination Success, there were also a lot of vendors there... it was pretty interesting.
Oh! I have a boyfriend now too. We met back in first trimester in gross I cadaver lab, what can I say, dead bodies, phenol, lab coats, latex gloves, safety glasses, and love is in the air. Haha. We starting talking a lot and started hanging out on weekends with other friends too. Eventually, kinda near the beginning of 2nd tri he asked me out on a date as he was leaving after we watched a movie at my place, and I said I would. Too bad, about an hour later I had really bad abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant and he ended up coming back here and taking me to the ER because we thought it might be appendicitis. After about 9 hrs in the ER, tests, morphine, IVs, enema, CT scan, etc... it turned out to be an ovarian cyst that had ruptured. (2nd tri was also the tri of crazy medical hapennings, but I won't go all into detail in here). The funniest part of the day in the ER was after I came back from my CT scan, I walked in and Paul was asleep in my hospital bed. Finally our date came up that next Friday. He took me to Biaggi's Italian Restaurant. After that we had some coldstone for dessert, but I was so stuffed from dinner that I could hardly finish mine. Then he had a little "surprise" at the end. We drove downtown to walk down the skywalk. Well, we got out of the car and it looked like he knew where he was going, but he didn't! Hahaha. We seriously walked around for almost an hour up and down stairs, through hotels and parking garages... haha. I was like, "Do you do this to all of your dates? Take them out to dinner and then make them work out up and down the stairs?" Hahaha. It was hilarious to me, but he was worried about it and getting all nervous. We finally found it and walked through it... it was all lit up and such... and then as we were walking, he asked me if I would be interested in being in a relationship with him, and I of course said I would, which gave him a lot of relief after going crazy searching for the skywalk... haha. After that we came back to my apartment and watched a movie, but the ending wouldn't work! Haha. It was still a fun date. Some of our close friends were waiting all of the end of 1st tri and start of 2nd tri for it to happen, and it finally did... haha, and now we've been together for almost 6 months! Crazy how time flies. Over summer break I went up to MI to meet his family and go tubing and celebrate the "5th of July." It was fun... probably rhe most exciting thing I did over my 3 week summer break. He had already met my family earlier at my cousin's wedding... all of my mom's side. They all loved him too, to quote my uncle Dale, "Look at Paul, everyone loves Paul."
So, 3rd tri is halfway over... I only have 25 credit hours this trimester because I tested out of microbiology. That test was brutal... it was 13 essay questions, from species types, clinical tests, diseases, antibiotics, disinfectants, etc... I had 8 pages of computer paper written front and back, it took everyone that tried the test out at least 3 hours... and my right forearm was sore for 2 days after since it was constant writing... it was really like you stopped writing, only when reading the question. I talked Paul into trying to test out too, so he did and we studied days before it.... turned out both him and I were 2 of the 4 people that tested out! It's so nice, I have an extra 5 hours every week... we still go now and then to get a note packet that she hands out, but we never have to worry about micro exams, quizzes, labs, or practicals! One of my classes this tri is neuroanatomy II (AKA PNS (peripheral nervous system)... you basically have to know every nerve in the human body, all it's branches, ganglia, neurons, what it communicates with, what it supplies in the body, what clinical conditions apply to it, etc, etc... it's probably one of the hardest classes at Palmer, and the points work so that if you mess up one test, you basically fail the class... it's out of 100 points total, 25 pt test, 25 pt test, 50 pt final, sometimes what makes it hard is how he asks the questions, one Q off last test was, thes neurons synapse with these neurons... do you know how many neurons are in the freakin' body?? A TON!! So yeah, I got a B on the first exam, so not bad. I started making notecards for the 2nd exam and I am up to 600 so far.
I started seeing my pns prof as a chiropractor as well last weekend... he's been teaching at PCC for almost 50 years and I have been having excruciating jaw pain for a while that came back last week completely out of control, I even resorted to taking a vicodin for it and it didn't work at all. Sometimes it got so bad that I just wanted to die. So I saw him, because I figured if anyone could fix it, it would be my pns prof. He actually wasn't quite sure what it was, but it could be a form of trigeminal neuralgia (aka tic douloureux), and he noticed my occiput was sticking out a lot, so that could have caused the pain. Ever since my occiput was adjusted, it's been good so far, which has been 2 days, so I will probably have to keep up with adjustments from him for a while. I had so much else out when I was there, since I hadn't been adjusted since summer break... cervicals, thoracics, lumbars, even ribs... I kinda knew my ribs were out be I was feeling stuck by my right scapula and my lumbars had been sore since tubing... but right now I feel like a million bucks, and I even helped Paul move yesterday.
Oh, this tri I decided to take an upper extremity adjusting class outside of school. It's really interesting! So far I can adjust the scapula, clavicle, humerus, ulna, and radius. If you're wondering what good that does... it is for if the bone is subluxated... when a bone feels "stuck" or "out of joint"... or after a bone has been broken, many problems persist after the broken bone is set (take breaking a pencil for instance... when you break it, don't both of the ends have to move? this is why probs occur, bc the bone is set that way and casted to heal, without fixing the bone in its joints) and adjusting the extremities can relive it... there's also a ton of shoulder and elbow probs it help, etc. It will allow me to do so much more for my patients then just adjusting the spine. I'll be learning the wrist soon too... can help carpal tunnel... carpal tunnel surgery actually doesn't work, bc in short what they do is cut out the scar tissue and when you cut out scar tissue, even more scar tissue eventually forms which equals a worsening condition. Best $350 I've spent all tri. Next tri I am going to continue and learn all the lower extemities. The chiropractor that teaches it really teaches practical things that will help outside of school too. I'm going to take his TMJ seminar eventually too, so then I can learn how to diagnose temporomandibular joint disorders and adjust the mandible to relieve them. Adjusting the jaw is really a delicate thing because the highest amount of proprioceptive fibers in the body are in the TMJ, so I'll probably go to the seminar more then once to really get good at it and understand it. Other than that, I have also been continuing to be involved with EOX. I joined motion palpation club and the sports injury club as well.
Other than that, pets are doin well... Tequila's new phrase is, "Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa!" My brother started high school this school year. My parents are doing good, but they are getting a divorce, so they are doing everything that goes along with that. My mom is taking some college classes at Moraine to get a better job and just had her last day of watching kids last week.
Let's see... I finished my 2nd trimester and I am halfway done with my 3rd. 2nd trimester was kinda brutal. There's just so much to do with the class schedule for that tri, especially spinal anatomy. The first day, the prof turned back to like page 230 and said we wouldn't be going over any of the stuff because we should know it already. The final was over almost 400 pages of notes, and it's not really the kind of info that is easily memorized... all the info on vertebrae from the muscles that attach and to what feature on the vertebrae and ligaments and clinical info and other features... all the types of spondylolisthesises, spondlylolysises, curves, myology, cranial nerves with their pathways and galnglia or neurons, all of the blood supply (veins/arteries) along the spine, etc, etc, etc plus the cadaver and bone labs... but I learned A LOT in that class, and I am so glad it's over.... if I had to hear "Goodmorning Doctors" just one more time. I am done with cadaver labs too, I had my last 2 in 2nd tri... so no more smelling like dead people... yay. I also pledged Sigma Phi Chi that tri... so I had to dress up in clinical attire for most of the tri... but I was glad when it was over and I was a member. What else... hmm... just studying... haha... trying to have fun when I could... going to some seminars... one of the ones I went to last tri was an all day one called Destination Success, there were also a lot of vendors there... it was pretty interesting.
Oh! I have a boyfriend now too. We met back in first trimester in gross I cadaver lab, what can I say, dead bodies, phenol, lab coats, latex gloves, safety glasses, and love is in the air. Haha. We starting talking a lot and started hanging out on weekends with other friends too. Eventually, kinda near the beginning of 2nd tri he asked me out on a date as he was leaving after we watched a movie at my place, and I said I would. Too bad, about an hour later I had really bad abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant and he ended up coming back here and taking me to the ER because we thought it might be appendicitis. After about 9 hrs in the ER, tests, morphine, IVs, enema, CT scan, etc... it turned out to be an ovarian cyst that had ruptured. (2nd tri was also the tri of crazy medical hapennings, but I won't go all into detail in here). The funniest part of the day in the ER was after I came back from my CT scan, I walked in and Paul was asleep in my hospital bed. Finally our date came up that next Friday. He took me to Biaggi's Italian Restaurant. After that we had some coldstone for dessert, but I was so stuffed from dinner that I could hardly finish mine. Then he had a little "surprise" at the end. We drove downtown to walk down the skywalk. Well, we got out of the car and it looked like he knew where he was going, but he didn't! Hahaha. We seriously walked around for almost an hour up and down stairs, through hotels and parking garages... haha. I was like, "Do you do this to all of your dates? Take them out to dinner and then make them work out up and down the stairs?" Hahaha. It was hilarious to me, but he was worried about it and getting all nervous. We finally found it and walked through it... it was all lit up and such... and then as we were walking, he asked me if I would be interested in being in a relationship with him, and I of course said I would, which gave him a lot of relief after going crazy searching for the skywalk... haha. After that we came back to my apartment and watched a movie, but the ending wouldn't work! Haha. It was still a fun date. Some of our close friends were waiting all of the end of 1st tri and start of 2nd tri for it to happen, and it finally did... haha, and now we've been together for almost 6 months! Crazy how time flies. Over summer break I went up to MI to meet his family and go tubing and celebrate the "5th of July." It was fun... probably rhe most exciting thing I did over my 3 week summer break. He had already met my family earlier at my cousin's wedding... all of my mom's side. They all loved him too, to quote my uncle Dale, "Look at Paul, everyone loves Paul."
So, 3rd tri is halfway over... I only have 25 credit hours this trimester because I tested out of microbiology. That test was brutal... it was 13 essay questions, from species types, clinical tests, diseases, antibiotics, disinfectants, etc... I had 8 pages of computer paper written front and back, it took everyone that tried the test out at least 3 hours... and my right forearm was sore for 2 days after since it was constant writing... it was really like you stopped writing, only when reading the question. I talked Paul into trying to test out too, so he did and we studied days before it.... turned out both him and I were 2 of the 4 people that tested out! It's so nice, I have an extra 5 hours every week... we still go now and then to get a note packet that she hands out, but we never have to worry about micro exams, quizzes, labs, or practicals! One of my classes this tri is neuroanatomy II (AKA PNS (peripheral nervous system)... you basically have to know every nerve in the human body, all it's branches, ganglia, neurons, what it communicates with, what it supplies in the body, what clinical conditions apply to it, etc, etc... it's probably one of the hardest classes at Palmer, and the points work so that if you mess up one test, you basically fail the class... it's out of 100 points total, 25 pt test, 25 pt test, 50 pt final, sometimes what makes it hard is how he asks the questions, one Q off last test was, thes neurons synapse with these neurons... do you know how many neurons are in the freakin' body?? A TON!! So yeah, I got a B on the first exam, so not bad. I started making notecards for the 2nd exam and I am up to 600 so far.
I started seeing my pns prof as a chiropractor as well last weekend... he's been teaching at PCC for almost 50 years and I have been having excruciating jaw pain for a while that came back last week completely out of control, I even resorted to taking a vicodin for it and it didn't work at all. Sometimes it got so bad that I just wanted to die. So I saw him, because I figured if anyone could fix it, it would be my pns prof. He actually wasn't quite sure what it was, but it could be a form of trigeminal neuralgia (aka tic douloureux), and he noticed my occiput was sticking out a lot, so that could have caused the pain. Ever since my occiput was adjusted, it's been good so far, which has been 2 days, so I will probably have to keep up with adjustments from him for a while. I had so much else out when I was there, since I hadn't been adjusted since summer break... cervicals, thoracics, lumbars, even ribs... I kinda knew my ribs were out be I was feeling stuck by my right scapula and my lumbars had been sore since tubing... but right now I feel like a million bucks, and I even helped Paul move yesterday.
Oh, this tri I decided to take an upper extremity adjusting class outside of school. It's really interesting! So far I can adjust the scapula, clavicle, humerus, ulna, and radius. If you're wondering what good that does... it is for if the bone is subluxated... when a bone feels "stuck" or "out of joint"... or after a bone has been broken, many problems persist after the broken bone is set (take breaking a pencil for instance... when you break it, don't both of the ends have to move? this is why probs occur, bc the bone is set that way and casted to heal, without fixing the bone in its joints) and adjusting the extremities can relive it... there's also a ton of shoulder and elbow probs it help, etc. It will allow me to do so much more for my patients then just adjusting the spine. I'll be learning the wrist soon too... can help carpal tunnel... carpal tunnel surgery actually doesn't work, bc in short what they do is cut out the scar tissue and when you cut out scar tissue, even more scar tissue eventually forms which equals a worsening condition. Best $350 I've spent all tri. Next tri I am going to continue and learn all the lower extemities. The chiropractor that teaches it really teaches practical things that will help outside of school too. I'm going to take his TMJ seminar eventually too, so then I can learn how to diagnose temporomandibular joint disorders and adjust the mandible to relieve them. Adjusting the jaw is really a delicate thing because the highest amount of proprioceptive fibers in the body are in the TMJ, so I'll probably go to the seminar more then once to really get good at it and understand it. Other than that, I have also been continuing to be involved with EOX. I joined motion palpation club and the sports injury club as well.
Other than that, pets are doin well... Tequila's new phrase is, "Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa!" My brother started high school this school year. My parents are doing good, but they are getting a divorce, so they are doing everything that goes along with that. My mom is taking some college classes at Moraine to get a better job and just had her last day of watching kids last week.