Nov. 11, 2011

It was such a lovely day to sleep in.  After this week, I really need to catch up on sleep.  It has been a very stressful, very sleep-deprived kind of week, so sleeping in on this great holiday was fantastic.  Even though I woke up not feeling very well.  Stress cold, methinks.

Luckily for me, my partner also woke up feeling ill, so I had more time to work on our presentation and our paper and brochure, which looks amazing now, by the way.  Since my partner had some issues with finding information about TB in prison populations in the US (lots of info for Russia; our presentation is on Communicable Disease in Correctional Facilities), we switched gears to HIV/AIDS for me and Hepatitis C for my partner.  So, I began right away, and it took me the better part of the day to gather information, read the articles, and put it all together into slides.  Then, I decided I would try to work on my part of the emphysema info paper, and ended up writing all of it, excepting the part about epidemiology (mostly because I wasn't really sure what to include on that) and the conclusion.  Hey--I had to leave something for my partner to do!  And, I finished up the night with putting all that info into a brochure, as if I was going to give it to a patient.  It looks awesome, if I do say so myself.  

So, not much to report for the day besides doing homework and relaxing a bit.  

Gratitude for today is fairly obvious, but I am thankful for veterans.  I am grateful for their service to our country, so we can have the freedoms we do have.  I am grateful these men and women have the courage to stand up for America.