Neuromusclar disease = not my friend. Well, the exam anyways. Good grief. I'm not sure if it's because I'm a bit sleep deprived or I didn't study as hard as I usually do or some unknown reason... but Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis all started running together.... And none of the questions throughout the test "helped" to determine any answers for any other questions. I think what's hard is how similar some of the presentations are and then the abbreviations, at least for MS and MG, are similar enough to help throw people off.
It seems like the whole class didn't do as well as we wanted to--and the professor could tell that we had two Pharmacology quizzes the day before. I'm not sure when grades are going to be posted, but I'm almost afraid to see what it looks like...
It was another early day. The professor had to leave earlier than her already-scheduled early day to get to some more medical tests, so we did the evaluations for our clinical instructors and then were able to leave. I came home and rested up in anticipation for the surgical experience I would be having the next day.
And, of course, I start having cold/flu symptoms. I'm not sure what the cause is, but whenever I get sick, my pupils dilate. Noticeably. My brother gets chatty, and I look like I'm on drugs; mom always could tell when we were sick. I took some DayQuil to get me through the rest of the day. Because I didn't know what procedure I would be seeing until my instructor contacted me, I opted to work some on the long-term care paperwork, and got through most of the medication information stuff. That stuff is hard to get through, because there is so much pertinent information for all the drugs.
At around 1900, I decided it was getting late enough to hear from the instructor. So I called her to find out what I would be seeing tomorrow so I could do adequate preparation for it. No answer. She called back around 2000, and said she didn't receive the call from the coordinator, so she didn't know what we were doing. Then, she called back at 2100 or so to say she checked her e-mail, and found out there was a laparoscopic cholecystectomy and a lap-band placement, and that I would have my choice.
My initial thought was to take the lap band, since that might be more interesting and it would be something nobody else in our clinical group had seen. But, I remembered my friend (who was also going to surgery in with me) said something about kind of not wanting to see a lap-chole because everybody else had seen one. So, I opted to take that so she could have something different and perhaps more interesting. That being said, I finished up the medication sheet for the long-term care paperwork, took some NyQuil, and went to sleep. Early morning tomorrow!!
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