bugs galore
I'm at school, and we have an hour after our last lecture, not because we're supposed to have an hour but because Brons didn't want to lecture embryology to a group of students completely distracted by their upcoming microbiology exam.
I have studied all I am likely to study for this test. I feel pretty good about it. He threw out lots of bones in the review lecture yesterday, which I caught via skype. High technology pays off! I stayed in bed all day....and today I feel a lot better. Still nowhere near 100%, though.
I don't know what was wrong with me, but I had a fever, headache and joint aches. No respiratory or digestive symptoms to speak of. I felt poorly over the weekend and bad on Monday, and on Tuesday when I finally managed to rouse from my stupor to look over the microbiology some more, I started wondering if maybe I had meningitis. It's a common syndrome among medical students---to self-diagnose with all the gnarly problems that we're learning about in school.
Then today in palpation class I palpated my own lower right abdominal quadrant and found it very sensitive. Appendicitis? Inflamed iliocecal valve? I don't know. I can't tell you how many times I've said to Suzanne in the last couple of weeks, "Something is wrong with me, I don't feel good." But I don't know what it is. I just know something is wrong.
Maybe I should go to the doctor.
But I am resistant, even though I am working to become one. I don't want to spend 3 hours in the 1st Ave clinic, waiting for the students and professors to discuss my case. It makes me ill to think about.
My energy returned last night, and I walked to school today because I feel like riding my bike is too easy. I just barely get warmed up and then I'm there. I need longer workouts and on school days it seems like the best way to get them is getting where I'm going. Perhaps if I ramp up my body a bit more it will kick whatever is bugging it. I'll keep trying.
I have studied all I am likely to study for this test. I feel pretty good about it. He threw out lots of bones in the review lecture yesterday, which I caught via skype. High technology pays off! I stayed in bed all day....and today I feel a lot better. Still nowhere near 100%, though.
I don't know what was wrong with me, but I had a fever, headache and joint aches. No respiratory or digestive symptoms to speak of. I felt poorly over the weekend and bad on Monday, and on Tuesday when I finally managed to rouse from my stupor to look over the microbiology some more, I started wondering if maybe I had meningitis. It's a common syndrome among medical students---to self-diagnose with all the gnarly problems that we're learning about in school.
Then today in palpation class I palpated my own lower right abdominal quadrant and found it very sensitive. Appendicitis? Inflamed iliocecal valve? I don't know. I can't tell you how many times I've said to Suzanne in the last couple of weeks, "Something is wrong with me, I don't feel good." But I don't know what it is. I just know something is wrong.
Maybe I should go to the doctor.
But I am resistant, even though I am working to become one. I don't want to spend 3 hours in the 1st Ave clinic, waiting for the students and professors to discuss my case. It makes me ill to think about.
My energy returned last night, and I walked to school today because I feel like riding my bike is too easy. I just barely get warmed up and then I'm there. I need longer workouts and on school days it seems like the best way to get them is getting where I'm going. Perhaps if I ramp up my body a bit more it will kick whatever is bugging it. I'll keep trying.