call me fickle, call me what you will...

[swtrthnwn]

But on Monday I am enrolling at Carroll Community College and dropping my classes at Anne Arundel Community College for Fall 2004. This is what I've figured, I'll do this on a point by point basis, as that's how I think

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[siren_of_psych]

Sounds great!

I didn't take med. term, but everyone who did is glad they did.

I do have a brand-new, factory-sealed med.term. textbook with study tapes that I won that I need to sell. It's an older edition, though, I think. I can give you the ISBN in case, by some miracle it's the one you end up needing. I figure if I made it halfway through school without needing med. term. and surviving, I'm probably okay. (I'm not saying I don't KNOW medical terminology: I do!)

[swtrthnwn]

Yeah, it's kind of an extraneous class for me too. Not that I think I don't need it, but I think I'm pretty good at med terms too. I'll see next week what book I need and let you know. Thanks!!

[siren_of_psych]

Yeah. I'm sure you'll have NO problem with it!

It's not required for our program (as I sort of alluded to, you can't be in the ADN program without picking up medical terminology) but you have to have a certain number of electives, so everyone takes medical term. as one of theirs. Well, I had so many credits from UWEC that I didn't need to take any electives here, so I wasn't going to take any more classes than I needed to!

What med. term. does do that you don't focus on in your other classes so much is the ROOTS of words so you can take an unfamiliar term and sort of crack the code to figure out what it means.

[swtrthnwn]

Yeah, the course description talks about teaching greek and latin roots. Some of which I already know, but hey, why not? I wouldn't be taking it if I didn't need four classes this semester. I have enough elective credits too. This class will be fun, I love languages too (have been learning Spanish for 8 years or so).

Maybe I'll post fun medical terms in my journal for the whole semester, just to annoy my non-medicine-interested friends.

[siren_of_psych]

There's a girl in my class who I can't stand. She just thinks she knows EVERYTHING, but she really doesn't. You know the type, I'm sure

[swtrthnwn]

What people overlook is that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to breastfeed, therefore the more likely you are to participate in your child's education, read to your child, etc. Breastfeeding moms also tend to go back to work later than bottle-feeding moms. This means their babies have less exposure to other children with acute infections in daycare settings, etc. Amen. That is so true. There are some instances where breastfeeding is very important. Case in point - a cousin of mine (however many times removed, I think she's my 5th cousin) has children with immune system/allergy problems. She's an NP, but she is kind of anti-traditional medicine, so she didnt' get treatment for children really. Well, her youngest is about two and the doctors (once she went to see them) have told her he's basically a "bubble baby" - he has a tiny tiny bit of an immune system. The only thing that kept that child alive for this long is his mother's breast milk and the antibodies she transferred to him. He is now on immunoglobulin, which

[siren_of_psych]

It's weird. I thought I'd have a hard time with the "being done having babies" thing, but when we were in our OB unit, the only time I'd get upset was seeing the photos in our texts of women nursing. When I'd see those photos, especially of mom's nursing babies in the side-lying position, I would get SO teary! There is something so amazing about that feeling, and the feeling of the let-down reflex is something I'll always miss, and feeling those little knees curled up into your tummy when they are still so small that they still curl up like they did inutero! Oh, to nurse a baby like that again just for a minute or two!! It's just the most beautiful thing in the entire world!