Tuesday, February 25, 2014

GI Studying Fun Times

The past week has been utterly un-eventful. I went to class and went to the library and studied for my GI final. Then come the weekend I did nothing but study all day long. Then Monday and studied, took a break to go to the airport to finish my Global Entry application process (TSA Precheck and special customs lanes for the next 5 years woot!), and then went to the library and studied even more! This morning I woke and and guess what! I studied! I have finished going through all the lectures now and just need to go over the notes I took during my first pass studying and then I'll hopefully take the test sometime before 5pm. I then get to study for the pathology test. Isn't life just so exciting?! Only 4 more weeks of M2 year before Step 1 study period. Terrifying.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Flu

This last week hasn't been the best, as I'm sure you gathered by reading the title of this post. I went to practice on Monday night and felt a little weaker than usual, which I just read off as being tired from having two tournaments on two consecutive weekends. Tuesday we didn't have pool time and by Wednesday night I felt terrible. I ended up spiking a fever up to 103.4ยบ which really sucked. Fevers always give me bizarre dreams and I just remember thinking about ski jumping literally all night which kept me half awake and really out of it most of the night. On Thursday I saw the doctor and she said that she thought I had the flu. Luckily I got a flu shot and its not too severe for me because of that. Just a really bad headache, fatigue, some sore throat, and a fever. It's getting better now which is good, but I had to miss my tournament at Purdue this weekend. At least the games are streamed live online so I get to watch my team play. They won both games today against Indiana and Ohio State! Go Blue!

If you hadn't noticed based on my bizarre fever thoughts, I am also majorly obsessed with the Olympics happening over in Sochi right now. The Olympics plus class is never a good combination. I just wish they happened at the end of January when I had a lot more free time. So needless to say between being sick and watching some Olympic coverage I am more behind than I would prefer to be going into this last week of the GI sequence. Hopefully this week gets everything back on track!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Way too busy!

Life has been insanely busy recently. Lots of class, freezing cold temperatures (actually WAY below freezing getting down to -30 with the windchill), water polo, etc. I took a big exam of physical exam and patient encounter skills on Friday and had my first water polo tournament of the season this weekend. We won all our games which was great, but I was so exhausted that I forgot I was meant to shadow this morning, ugh. Oh well. I have to finish my open book written exam and have one more low key chill day before starting up with the GI sequence. Only three sequences left of M2 year! I can't even believe it.