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Just a quick note of hi before I head home for the weekend. I have (had) three whole days off, due to the 24th of July holiday. Sweeeeet! I've never loved my pioneer ancestors more.

Day off has been nice. Helped Chris move, cleaned my bathroom. Yep, nice and boring.

Have to run....


Pssst.... I passed my boards! :)

Finished!

Jun. 25th, 2004 05:46 pm
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For better or worse, the test is done. It was hard, really hard with lots of stuff that I hadn't even considered studying. And I was extremely tired, since I slept poorly last night, worrying that I didn't know enough. I have no idea how I did. Some I felt good about--others, I couldn't even eliminate one choice. Chris thinks he failed. I just hope I didn't. :)

Off to North Carolina in four hours, and I haven't packed!

absence

Jun. 20th, 2004 12:50 pm
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Just a note to let you know I won't be around for the next week. Right now, with only five days left, there's absolutely no way that I'll be passing the test, much less doing well enough to get me into a good residency. So my studying is being bumped to about 15 hours a day and I'll be a frantic hermit. I'm about three steps away from a glorified breakdown as it is...

I hate this. So much. I'm starting to have nightmares--my kind, where I don't hear my alarm clock and sleep in and miss the test. where I forget to leave my cell phone outside and they tell me I can't take the test, and where I have names of drugs running over and over in my head.

I've neglected all of you horribly lately, I hope you can all be patient and forgive me. {{{{HUGS}}}}} to all. You are all so amazing that just knowing that you guys are cheering me on gives me happiness.

Okay, back to the books. I can use all the good luck, wishes, karma, prayers that you are willing to send my way. :)
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Two weeks of studying all day, every day. I've read the entire review book, gone back and filled in missing information. Rememorized the Kreb cycle, found out that patients with sickle cell disease are more prone to infections with Salmonella in their bones, tried to learn the side effects of a whole bunch of drugs. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And it's not doing any good.

I've been taking practice tests for the past two days. And getting around 60%--which was about what I was doing before I started the studying schedule. Today's: 50%. Fifty percent! I'm doing worse than before!

Example question:

An obese patient is brought into the emergency room in shock and in need of intravenous fluids. No superficial veins can be seen or palpated. The emergency room physician decides to make an incision to locate the great saphenous vein for the insertion of a cannula ("saphenous cutdown"). In which of the following locations should the incision be made?

A. Anterior to the lateral malleolus

B. Anterior to the medial malleolus

C. On the dorsum of the foot, lateral to the extensor hallucis longus tendon

D. Posterior to the lateral malleolus

E. Posterior to the medial malleolus


Answer is B. Missing it is not the bad part (I thought it was D). The bad part is I didn't even know where the medial malleolus was! I thought it was the knee. No, It's the bony part of the ankle. And though I know it's foreign to anyone who hasn't taken anatomy--it really is a basic concept in anatomy, one that I should have known.

Yeah, this is good.



10 days... I am so screwed.

Oh really?

Jun. 9th, 2004 11:30 pm
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I am soooooooooo sick of studying. I hate it all. I don't care if I fail. I really don't. It's not worth it.

How it's been: Wake up before 8 and let Chris in. Read. Read some more. Start to fall asleep. Wake self up. Eat. Read. Throw book across room in frustration and boredom. Take test. Do awful. Fall asleep. Wake up, feel guilty. Read more. Last night, I was up until 1 studying. Not tonight. Tonight, I slacked off. I shall pay tomorrow.

I've been distracting myself by writing GG drabbles. Yep, I can't get away from the fandom. Today I got the loveliest review on LNB that is making me want to get it out and just finish it. The only thing that's holding me back is I know how much work it would be. I'm the slowest writer in the entire world, and this next chapter is going to be massive.... *sigh*

Speaking of drabbles and my incessant love for them, I formed a community. [livejournal.com profile] gg100 Right now, it's just a place to showcase my writings, until there's more members. But hey, I'm cocky enough to think that that's really all people want to read anyway! ;)


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