when your love lets you go you only want love more, even when loves not even what you're looking for
The excitements of the last day-ish:
-The first time (of many, many, I'm sure) that a superior doctortype made me feel very, very small, and stupid. I'm sorry I didn't know what the arachnoid granulations did! Now I do! Apparently that first two lectures of "self study" (read, I'm pretty sure our lecturer was probably still on vacation or something) didn't really do it for me! Who'd have thought. Acutally, I think that was actually mentioned in a presented lecture. Whatever. I didn't know in lab, and I dared to ask an apparently stupid question. I am sure I'll see that disapproving look many a times in the coming...decade. I'm surprised I hadn't seen such a look last semester. Maybe they were cutting us some slack for the poor scared first semester M1s. We already thought we were stupid enough, or something.
-While doing one of those med student outreach programs at a local high school yesterday afternoon, we had a girl literally faint upon seeing the cancerous lung tissue sample. The teacher joked, "good thing she did this in a room full of medical students." We were all thinking, "yeah, but we're first years, and it's really not going to be very helpful." But didn't say that.
-At 12 Noon today I had to climb over yet another stationary train to get home for lunch.
-Got an envelope from Taiwan today. Yay for chopsticks and stickers and DVDs of pictures!!
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Also, a thought:
Pain is functional. It is there to warn you that something is wrong. It is there to protect you from further injury, if you're smart enough to recognize and respect it. Its telling you that something is broken, something has gone wrong, or maybe just that something is not right.
It is also associated with healing. Healing hurts: redness, swelling, the heat, they're all part of a normal, healthy inflammatory response that means that your body is taking care of the problem (assuming it doesn't get too out of control). Its letting us know that we have been assulted, and we're fighting back.
So of course, I'm also alluding to emotional pain paralleling the physical pain that we experience. Maybe it, too, is there for a reason. Letting us know that something is broken, or that we're healing, if you just give it time. The question is, if the reaction gets out of control, where are the emotional antibiotics?
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Finally, is anyone really buying that Bush's "new" strategy is new?
-The first time (of many, many, I'm sure) that a superior doctortype made me feel very, very small, and stupid. I'm sorry I didn't know what the arachnoid granulations did! Now I do! Apparently that first two lectures of "self study" (read, I'm pretty sure our lecturer was probably still on vacation or something) didn't really do it for me! Who'd have thought. Acutally, I think that was actually mentioned in a presented lecture. Whatever. I didn't know in lab, and I dared to ask an apparently stupid question. I am sure I'll see that disapproving look many a times in the coming...decade. I'm surprised I hadn't seen such a look last semester. Maybe they were cutting us some slack for the poor scared first semester M1s. We already thought we were stupid enough, or something.
-While doing one of those med student outreach programs at a local high school yesterday afternoon, we had a girl literally faint upon seeing the cancerous lung tissue sample. The teacher joked, "good thing she did this in a room full of medical students." We were all thinking, "yeah, but we're first years, and it's really not going to be very helpful." But didn't say that.
-At 12 Noon today I had to climb over yet another stationary train to get home for lunch.
-Got an envelope from Taiwan today. Yay for chopsticks and stickers and DVDs of pictures!!
***
Also, a thought:
Pain is functional. It is there to warn you that something is wrong. It is there to protect you from further injury, if you're smart enough to recognize and respect it. Its telling you that something is broken, something has gone wrong, or maybe just that something is not right.
It is also associated with healing. Healing hurts: redness, swelling, the heat, they're all part of a normal, healthy inflammatory response that means that your body is taking care of the problem (assuming it doesn't get too out of control). Its letting us know that we have been assulted, and we're fighting back.
So of course, I'm also alluding to emotional pain paralleling the physical pain that we experience. Maybe it, too, is there for a reason. Letting us know that something is broken, or that we're healing, if you just give it time. The question is, if the reaction gets out of control, where are the emotional antibiotics?
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Finally, is anyone really buying that Bush's "new" strategy is new?