Oct 29, 2012

vaccinations! get some


http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/VPD_US_statistics_2010.pdf
http://www.behance.net/leon_farrant/frame/2878481

We're learning about vaccines in microbiology. It really weirds me out that we have a chickenpox (varicella) vaccine now, because I didn't get one when I was a kid (it was created in 1995, by which time I had already had it). Also amusing: chickenpox affected over four million kids a year? That's crazy. 

Oct 18, 2012

Dammit! You're supposed to suck!


The sad part is that I actually am really excited to learn the differences between aneurysms and dissections.

Manic depressive right here.

I think....

I'm also really excited about clinical neuroscience.
Dammit medical school! You're supposed to suck!

Oct 17, 2012

3 Hours

Sitting in class and I'm glad I came. The administrator who schedules our exams is also a professor who is currently talking about diuretics. This is surprising. I'm glad I came, kind of like that "The Wanted" song. Nephrons still scare me--proximal, distal, loop of henle--but mnemonics are being thrown my way, like the little stars you pick up in Super Mario Galaxy and use to defeat little alien beasties. Or you save up and trade in for extra lives when you have enough. Or the jewels you picked up in Spyro... spironolactone... use it to clear ascites secondary to liver cirrhosis. God. Liver's are so cool.

What I'm trying to say is I only got three hours of sleep. My mind is wandering. I want my attendance to benefit my learning even though I'd be better served sleeping right now. But I know I wouldn't be able to sleep. I'm an insomniac. I don't know what to do. But with juggling diabetes and insomnia, my body is falling apart from the inside.