Week 2

Wow, I can barely believe it, but Week two has already come and gone! And I must admit, it went much smoother than week one. Ryan came back into town Sunday, so I was very happy to get to spend some time with him. Monday was fantastic because we didn't have school for Labor Day. Yay, a day off school! AKA...another day to study. Tuesday was a little stressful because I had my medical terminology test. Everyone has to pass this test with at least an 80 or else you can be kicked out of the program. No pressure, right? Well, I got a 96, so I get to stay, yippee! I also got the rest of my financial aid, so I was just about ecstatic! Wednesday was mental overload as usual. I'm starting to accept the fact that Wednesdays, for one reason or another, are just pretty much brutal. Good thing Pappasitos is apparently aware of this and continues to have half-price fajitas ready for me and Ryan. Thursday was good, but a little stressing at the same time. I had a check-point that I had to pass regarding my physical exam procedures. It's quite a bit to remember, but I passed. Yay! I'd gone through it like a billion times at home (using Goosey and Mav as my test subjects) and run through it mentally, but I still got a little nervous knowing I was being graded this time. The bad news is that next week's check-point is all the stuff from this week, plus an entire new section. So it's twice as much to remember. That will be fun... Thursday, we also had a meeting about one of the clinics that the students have the opportunity to volunteer at. Yup, you read that right; I can go see patients now! Of course, I'll have a senior student that I get to shadow at first, and I'll always be under supervision-someone has to sign off on just about everything I do. But the main reason for my going to school to be a PA (patient care and interaction)...now I can go do it! I'm thrilled beyond words and can't wait to get started. I'll probably do my orientation and get started next week. They said this experience will also really help us with our classes because it puts all that text-book and lecture stuff into practice and it will start to make more sense. It also helps prepare us for clinical rotations next year. Plus, we get exposed to some of the top specialists in their fields, so we have the opportunity to learn SO much in addition to our classes. So that was all Thursday-definitely a GOOD day! Friday was the usual: class, study, lunch with Lindsay and Rachel, anatomy lab. Fridays are good days :) I've also started a tradition that I refuse to study on Fridays once I get home from school. First, anatomy lab is A LOT of information that I really need to let soak in. Second, it's the one time all week that I allow myself a little TV guilty pleasure. I'm dead serious when I say that I don't watch TV any other time during the week except maybe 30 minutes of news right before I go to sleep, so this is my little reward for making it through another week. I also keep candy in my desk drawer as a bribe to stay in one place and study, but that's another discussion! A few random things this week...my computer was at one point on a steady downward spiral into crap-ville and my phone decided that I couldn't use the earpiece, but instead that I needed to do everything on speaker phone. Both of these incidents were highly annoying and would have been expensive to fix, so I was quite displeased. After a stern talking-to, both the laptop and phone have decided to behave in order to evade my threats of demolition. I win!...for now at least.