This day was a looooooooooooooong day. Health Assessment class started an hour earlier, which was... painful.... It's hard to get into a rhythm and then have something break that rhythm. Today was special considerations for assessing a hospitalized patient, and then we switched gears to the Denver II lecture. We have to do a Denver II assessment on a child under the age of 4 to see their developmental age.
Then, Patho was an interesting day. We took a quiz on endocrine and circulation disorders & cardiac failure. It wasn't terrible. Endocrine is a really hard "system" to study, because there are so many hormones involved, and you have to know what happens when there's an EXCESS or a DEFICIENCY in circulation of each hormone. For the most part, if you can learn what happens with just the excess, the exact opposite happens with a deficiency. But still.... it's complicated... I did poorly with endocrine when I took A&P. I am happy to report, though, that I think I'm doing much better with it at this point!
Then, we lectured on issues with conduction and structure of the heart. Love, love, love the heart. Have I mentioned that? So interesting how something small that is wrong, like a small hole between the atria, can throw off the entire body!
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