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commotiocordis) wrote2007-03-30 02:22 am
commotiocordis) wrote2007-03-30 02:22 am
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So. Internet's been down since early Wednesday, no idea why. Just came back on late this evening. The most annoying bit was that the entire time, the DSL box thingie said it was okay.
Mock trial tomorrow. I find that I don't care at all. In fact, I'm rather pissed about it. I feel like it's cutting off the last days of my vacation. But get this. We've got to go two rounds, one Friday evening and one on Saturday. I figured the one on Saturday would be at a civilized hour. But no. After a week of sleeping poorly (my allergies have been hell these past two weeks, getting worse any time I try to lie down) and not going to bed until 3 or 4 and getting up around noon, I'm supposed to be downtown by 7:45 in the morning? Meaning I'd have to leave home prolly around 7:00 because it takes about half an hour and that time sounds to me like right around rush hour, no? WTF? I don't want to do this in the first place because I'm tired of the case (because it sucked to begin with) and I don't feel like we deserved to make it this far at all. We're only in because some other team dropped out and that cheapens it somehow. The season was supposed to be over in February, we've gone two trials past normal and now we're expected to do this horrible case for two more? It's also futile, not only because we're a totally new team to this (nobody from our school's ever made it to regionals, let alone state, I believe) but because everybody hates the case and is as tired of the whole thing as I am. Plus, I've got a new lawyer for when I'm being a witness and a new witness for when I'm being a lawyer, neither of whom I have practiced with more than once.
Well, shit. I had counted on time on Saturday morning/afternoon to memorize my questions and other lawyery stuff again. Because nobody's touched this in two weeks minimum because we didn't practice over break. In fact, we've only practiced once since regionals (again, because everybody's tired of it) and that was what, three weeks ago? I dunno. I don't like having to do it because stretching it out so long is all but killing it for me.
My face is being a whore. I don't know if perhaps it's from the general allergies that have been killing me lately (though nothing like that's ever happened before) but it's like the entire thing's sunburned. And it's most definitely not, as the only times I've left the house this week have been for a couple of quickish runs to the store. It feels all sensitive and weird. And my cheeks are so killer dry that right along the cheekbone they're bright red and actually all sunburny painful. And then I tried to put lotion stuff on the dry bits and the entire both sides of my face turned bright red and hot and painful and reaction-like. (Of course, this was right before minimed, so I imagine I looked quite entertaining with my hair pulled down in front of my face and bright red peeking out under it. Hurt like a bitch.) This wasn't lotion I'd ever used before, okay, so that's the problem. I tried to wipe off as much as I could in the car on the way to minimed, but no luck stopping/slowing the reaction. It was gone by the time I got home (but the red painful cheekbones weren't) and I tried some moisturizer stuff I had used before and had no problem with, and even as I stood there in front of the mirror my face started to turn red again. I was able to wipe that off quickly enough that it didn't last long, thankfully. But it's bothersome. I don't get why my face is being so sensitive and annoying. You'd think with the anti-histamine stuff I've been taking lately before bed that I would be less likely to have something like this happen, no? Odd.
Minimed was interesting. Bariatric surgery, which I didn't think was at all interesting but ended up being rather intriguing, especially when the doctor lady showed video of an actual lap-band surgery. Which was wicked. But confusing, as the camera was close to whatever was being worked on and it was hard to get a grasp of the big picture with it so close. (I kept being all "So that's the stomach. No, no, liver. That's the stomach? Over in that corner? Umm, okay. Not what they're working on? No? Ahh, they're cutting the hepatogastric ligament. But isn't that, err, helpful in the whole peritoneal membrane thing? No big problems with hernia after? Okay. Whatever you say." I think I needed more explanation than the lady was giving as she narrated along with the video and answered completely random questions at the same time.) The second guy had an interesting title for his lecture (The Hot Zone: Pediatric Infectious Disease), but from that I expected cool diseases that were life-threatening and, you know, cool, especially after hearing that he worked with the Center for Disease Control. Instead it was all about vaccines. He was very much of the opinion that everybody should get vaccines all the time. Which is interesting, because I've been hearing a lot of anti-vaccine stuff from my parents all of a sudden lately. But he wasn't nearly as good of a speaker as the first presenter was, unfortunately. I would have liked to see him with children, as he seemed rather timid the entire time, which I thought could simply be explained by his having to talk in front of people, but he was the same way when I came up after to ask a question.
But then my ride was 30 minutes late and I had to stand outside the building which was annoying and not altogether comfortable as it was downtown at almost 10pm and dark (though the sidewalk I was standing on was lit, thankfully).
Oh, and what the hell is up with the weather? It was 83 degrees-of-the-F-persuasion on Tuesday afternoon. 76 or so tonight at 7pm. It's March, for frak's sake, and we had to turn on the bloody air conditioning on Tuesday. Which is undoubtedly why my allergies have been working overtime lately. Not fun, I say. Not fun at all.
Mock trial tomorrow. I find that I don't care at all. In fact, I'm rather pissed about it. I feel like it's cutting off the last days of my vacation. But get this. We've got to go two rounds, one Friday evening and one on Saturday. I figured the one on Saturday would be at a civilized hour. But no. After a week of sleeping poorly (my allergies have been hell these past two weeks, getting worse any time I try to lie down) and not going to bed until 3 or 4 and getting up around noon, I'm supposed to be downtown by 7:45 in the morning? Meaning I'd have to leave home prolly around 7:00 because it takes about half an hour and that time sounds to me like right around rush hour, no? WTF? I don't want to do this in the first place because I'm tired of the case (because it sucked to begin with) and I don't feel like we deserved to make it this far at all. We're only in because some other team dropped out and that cheapens it somehow. The season was supposed to be over in February, we've gone two trials past normal and now we're expected to do this horrible case for two more? It's also futile, not only because we're a totally new team to this (nobody from our school's ever made it to regionals, let alone state, I believe) but because everybody hates the case and is as tired of the whole thing as I am. Plus, I've got a new lawyer for when I'm being a witness and a new witness for when I'm being a lawyer, neither of whom I have practiced with more than once.
Well, shit. I had counted on time on Saturday morning/afternoon to memorize my questions and other lawyery stuff again. Because nobody's touched this in two weeks minimum because we didn't practice over break. In fact, we've only practiced once since regionals (again, because everybody's tired of it) and that was what, three weeks ago? I dunno. I don't like having to do it because stretching it out so long is all but killing it for me.
My face is being a whore. I don't know if perhaps it's from the general allergies that have been killing me lately (though nothing like that's ever happened before) but it's like the entire thing's sunburned. And it's most definitely not, as the only times I've left the house this week have been for a couple of quickish runs to the store. It feels all sensitive and weird. And my cheeks are so killer dry that right along the cheekbone they're bright red and actually all sunburny painful. And then I tried to put lotion stuff on the dry bits and the entire both sides of my face turned bright red and hot and painful and reaction-like. (Of course, this was right before minimed, so I imagine I looked quite entertaining with my hair pulled down in front of my face and bright red peeking out under it. Hurt like a bitch.) This wasn't lotion I'd ever used before, okay, so that's the problem. I tried to wipe off as much as I could in the car on the way to minimed, but no luck stopping/slowing the reaction. It was gone by the time I got home (but the red painful cheekbones weren't) and I tried some moisturizer stuff I had used before and had no problem with, and even as I stood there in front of the mirror my face started to turn red again. I was able to wipe that off quickly enough that it didn't last long, thankfully. But it's bothersome. I don't get why my face is being so sensitive and annoying. You'd think with the anti-histamine stuff I've been taking lately before bed that I would be less likely to have something like this happen, no? Odd.
Minimed was interesting. Bariatric surgery, which I didn't think was at all interesting but ended up being rather intriguing, especially when the doctor lady showed video of an actual lap-band surgery. Which was wicked. But confusing, as the camera was close to whatever was being worked on and it was hard to get a grasp of the big picture with it so close. (I kept being all "So that's the stomach. No, no, liver. That's the stomach? Over in that corner? Umm, okay. Not what they're working on? No? Ahh, they're cutting the hepatogastric ligament. But isn't that, err, helpful in the whole peritoneal membrane thing? No big problems with hernia after? Okay. Whatever you say." I think I needed more explanation than the lady was giving as she narrated along with the video and answered completely random questions at the same time.) The second guy had an interesting title for his lecture (The Hot Zone: Pediatric Infectious Disease), but from that I expected cool diseases that were life-threatening and, you know, cool, especially after hearing that he worked with the Center for Disease Control. Instead it was all about vaccines. He was very much of the opinion that everybody should get vaccines all the time. Which is interesting, because I've been hearing a lot of anti-vaccine stuff from my parents all of a sudden lately. But he wasn't nearly as good of a speaker as the first presenter was, unfortunately. I would have liked to see him with children, as he seemed rather timid the entire time, which I thought could simply be explained by his having to talk in front of people, but he was the same way when I came up after to ask a question.
But then my ride was 30 minutes late and I had to stand outside the building which was annoying and not altogether comfortable as it was downtown at almost 10pm and dark (though the sidewalk I was standing on was lit, thankfully).
Oh, and what the hell is up with the weather? It was 83 degrees-of-the-F-persuasion on Tuesday afternoon. 76 or so tonight at 7pm. It's March, for frak's sake, and we had to turn on the bloody air conditioning on Tuesday. Which is undoubtedly why my allergies have been working overtime lately. Not fun, I say. Not fun at all.
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Having to wait that long outside on a dark street downtown would freak me out more than necessary. Even if the path was lit. *shudder*
Oooh, pediatrics/paediatrics. However you want to spell it. I have taken more of an interest in that lately.
Also, we got a letter in the mail yesterday from Doctors Without Borders asking for donations (mum already donates to some organisation dedicated to saving children in third world countires from abuse and poverty on a monthly basis, so she decided against donating to this one) and I've been wondering what that would be like as a career. I think travelling to these poor, underpriveleged countries and providing medical assistance would be nice, even with the whole stuck-out-in-desert-type-land-with-little-or-no-luxuries thing. /random
I still have no idea where I'm going in life. Ugh. Not sure if I've asked you before, but do you know exactly what you're going to be? Like a specialised doctor of some sort, maybe?
Is your face better now? That would have been annoying. I once had a really bad reaction to this pimple cream I tried out (I used to get them quite a lot when I was about 13/14, the bitches), which caused my face to turn bright red (save around my eyes and lips, which remained normal and looked fucking WEIRD) and itch like whoa. So I can sort of understand, particularly the part where nothing seemed to help.
*hugs*
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Oh yeah. I mean, pretty much the only people walking by were medstudent types, but there was a metrolink train thing stop only a block over and the hospitals (the closest being three blocks) were right there and hospitals aren't exactly known for their lack of desperate people.
I have taken more of an interest in that lately.
Me too. I like kids. And sick kids (as long as they're not screaming or puking on you) are cute sometimes.
I've been wondering what that would be like as a career. I think travelling to these poor, underpriveleged countries and providing medical assistance would be nice
I decided a while back that I wanted to go do that at some point. Evidently, some places let you do it when you're still in medical school (and I seem to think a couple when you're an undergrad, but I don't know), which would be wicked. Take off a year from college even and go over somewhere like that. I'd want to go to Russia or something, though, because I can't handle the hot.
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Yeah, me either really. I've always wanted to be a doctor, but lately I've been looking at other (still mostly medically related) things. It's mostly my insecurity that I can actually pull off something as big as medical school (and more soon, be able to pull off the grades in college that I need to be able to get into medical school) that's been kicking in of late, but it's good in that I'm opening up to other ways of doing things, not just high school -> college -> medical school. I could take a break somewhere, get my paramedic certification and do that for a while and it wouldn't kill me. Would help, actually, because I'd maybe have some money to pay for things like life and school.
I'm also trying to consider things like the hours you work and the types of vacations you get in with my job consideration now, because I've realized that I really like having the weekends and breaks and entire summer off. Which made me conclude that I should be a teacher. Which wouldn't be horrible, if I got something good and easy like teaching gifted classes (because they don't have to stick to any kind of state/nationally mandated curriculum and cover all these things by this date for these standardized tests, so easier). But I think I'd always be wondering what would have happened if I had become a doctor like I always wanted, if I could have actually done it.
Anyway, I haven't answered your question at all. Emergency medicine has been my specialty of choice for quite some time now (I used to want cardiothoracic/neurosurgery, to be able to do both, but I switched around age 9, methinks) because of the variety. And the puzzle thing. I thought it was hilarious when House started and we're finding out that he's obsessed with the puzzle of his cases, because that's exactly what drew me to emergency medicine. Because when somebody's wheeled through your door, unconscious and barely breathing, you've got no idea what's wrong but you've got to figure it out and fix it fast. Other specialties, it seems to me, are a lot of repetition. Take cardiac. Heart attack. Heart disease. Heart attack. Heart defect. Heart attack. They're all essentially diagnosed for you once you get them, and mostly all you've got to do is fiddle with their meds.
I think I'm going to like med school the best, though, because you get to cycle through everything. Because there's some stuff I'd really like to do, like OB (though the malpractice is horrible. 10 year old kid falls, breaks his leg, parents sue the person who delivered him. Not really, but it's nuts) and NICU and general Peds, etc. I'd have to find a hospital for my emergency medicine that doesn't have separated kid/adult bits, like the hospitals downtown here; it's the children's hospital and the adult one right next to each other. Because I want to be able to do both. But OB is the one that I don't know if I could give up. I'm really into that of late, so I don't know what I'm going to do there. Suffice it to say, I'm not nearly as set in what I'm going to do as I would have been were you to ask me a year ago.
Is your face better now?
No. *kicks it* The wholefacered is gone, but the red patches are not. And they're spreading. Ish. There's one on my ear now. And thus I am worried. But even worse is the hypersensitivity. Because this means that I can't even try to cover it up with anything at mock trial tonight. And I don't know how far the hypersensitivity goes, so I haven't tried putting anything anywhere else on my face either because I don't want my eyelids to swell up or something. I dunno. I've been putting aloe vera on it since last night because that's the only thing that I'm not reacting to, but the weight of it or something is still hurting my cheek. (The right one. Because the left isn't as bad.)
Oh, and, but no. I'm now reacting to the aloe. WTF? Okay, House? If you can figure this out and cure me in the next three hours, I'll
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Seems to you had an interesting time of it. And the weather is crazy here too. Hot/cool/hot/cool etc...bleh
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True. I haven't been as much because of work lately and stuff. Things have been hugely piling on and when I used to post randomly the entire night as I worked on homework/whatever, now the work is taking me the entire night without my little internet side-trips.
And the weather is crazy here too. Hot/cool/hot/cool
I'd imagine. Missouri has been nuts this year.