To get to Orlando from where we live via car requires twenty hours of highway. Plunk down on I-95 and, traversing the eastern coast of US, you'll manage to reach Florida. Now that I'm back (just last night after getting stuck in Tapan, NY), I'd like to clarify one thing: the Florida visit was not a vacation trip. It was a hellish week of waiting, ( Read more... )

lethal_choking, the thing I had to do in my previous post was the licensure exam for nurses. I took it this morning---yesterday, rather. I was quite calm and level-headed before and during the test. Afterwards, I wanted to throw up. (Well, I still want to.) That's NCLEX... It's just too nervous a way to test. (Maybe I'll explain the mechanism of the exam some ( Read more... )

Or so says Mat Cauthon.

And he's not real.

Not 3rd dimension real, anyway.

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*sigh*

Tomorrow, I go forth and do battle. May good fortune be with me.

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from lethal_choking and shioan:


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Yesterday, I told my sister that the anal sphincter relaxes after a person dies ( Read more... )

So I was studying a while ago. I slept badly last night---er, morning----because I'm apparently allergic to the world. Arg. *scratches left eyebrow* Anyway, I was answering practice test questions (set #4) when I came upon a particular item. And as I often did during lectures in nursing classes the past two years, I turned over my scratch paper and ( Read more... )

Ah... gets ( Read more... )

Shame on me for letting my stress-reduction techniques fly out the window. (Not that I had much from the start.) I can't study efficienty if I get interrupted every so often by brief brushes with raw terror ( Read more... )

So I was studying a while ago. I'm in the Maternity and Female Reproductive Nursing part of the reviewer, so infertility was being tackled.

Under causes of infertility of male partner was... social habits (use of nicotine, alcohol, other drugs, clothes that keep scrotal sac too close to warmth of body) changing these habits may reverse low/absent ( Read more... )

In the studying thing, I've finished reading the Adult Nursing part of the reviewer. T__T I'm about to start Pediatrics. Uwah! I hope I get lots done later today. Maybe I'll actually fulfill my half-assed promise to go the library. (My brother was bugging me yesterday because he wanted to hitch a ride ( Read more... )

Whoops. Need to photo-finish this post. Oras na ng utol ko.

Hmmm....

July 8th - NCLEX. @__@ Finally authorized by the state to take the licensure exam! I'll be a licensed alchemist nurse soon. @__ ( Read more... )