Well, i'm in it now. It's 9:15 and I'm taking a 10 minute break from studying to blog. I'm taking Physiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Research, Anatomy with dissection, and Microbiology for now. It's fast and it's furious, but I'm loving it! Every day I'm reminded of the gravity of what I'm doing. I'll hear words like, "When you're prescribing these for your patients, you have to remember x,y, and z....." and I'll think to myself, Holy shit, I'm going to have patients, this is real, this matters, and holy shit, I'm going to have patients!
Lucy's transition to Kindergarten is going rather smoothly so far. I mean, it's hard for her and transitions are hard for everyone, for all of us, but it's a great place and I'm glad she's there. They have "sight word cans" where they put all the words they can recognize by sight. Her first sight word, aside from Lucy, is squid. Her Uncle Clayton will like that ;)
She stays all day, generally 8 - 5, which is a long day for me and for her, but it's necessary for now. I take all my time outside of class to study so that when I'm with her, I can really be with her. Then back to the books after she goes to bed.
I'm having a hard time keeping up, I can't yet go into depth in my studies, the volume of material is just so incredible. However, I'm doing my best, I'm studying hard, and I'm keeping my head above water. I'm kind of a big-picture learner, so hopefully the gaps will fill in over time. I just really have no idea what to expect as far as exams and whatnot... I'm starting a study group this weekend, I think that will be helpful.
Tomorrow in Anatomy lab - the first cut. Yikes! We do all sorts of exploration of the thorax and abdomen, we get to pull out some guts and look for an appendix... I'm excited, but very nervous.
Just one last story before I head back to the books:
The other night we were having supper and Lucy took a swig of water that went down the wrong pipe. I asked her, "are you OK? Did it go down the wrong pipe?"
And she replied, "Yeah mama, it didn't go down my esophagus."
I love her.
So of course I answered, "Oh, did it go down your trachea?"
"Yeah. I'm OK."
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3 comments:
Hello!
We were just thinking of you the other day. Glad to see that school has started for both of you and that you're enjoying it!
Miss you guys!
Oh that Lucy...she's so delightful.
I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying school, even though it's huge. I miss you and am jealous of Yale for getting you from 8-5:00.
Yay for squid!
It sounds like you're kicking exactly as much ass as you need to be kicking at this point.
Awesome. :-)
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