10/10 on my Rat Anatomy Quiz...
...Except she took very vague "The duodenum is *point in general direction and touch a portion of the gut* that." as me knowing where it was. I had no flipping idea, since it wasn't on our chart or study list.
She also moved on before I could move stuff around to point to the aorta. But on the upside, I DO know what and where that is.
Ahhh, community colleges...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
Pronunciation
Pah-tay-to? Pah-tah-to?
Tah-mah-to? To-may-to?
Kelt-ic? Sel-tic?
I can live with pah-tah-to and tah-mah-to, but unless you're talking about the basketball team, please, it's Kelt-tic.
Tah-mah-to? To-may-to?
Kelt-ic? Sel-tic?
I can live with pah-tah-to and tah-mah-to, but unless you're talking about the basketball team, please, it's Kelt-tic.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Weekly Recap
Well, it's been exactly one week since I went to bed excited/terrified/exhausted awaiting the start of a new school year.
Some things I have learned:
1. I have the capacity to be a class clown.
2. I rather like it.
3. Telling your classmates to lean on a door that opens into a room instead of out of it is not a brilliant idea.
4. Dissecting rats is fun, even if I'm certain living guts don't feel like that.
5. A textbook that quotes Tolkien is awesome. A textbook that quote Tolkien twice, and manages to incorporate Celtic lore while doing so is actually worth reading
6. My figment believes that the EMS in the States is simply an improved version of her riding back to Helm's Deep with half-dead riders semi-field-treated and slung over her horse.
Some things I have learned:
1. I have the capacity to be a class clown.
2. I rather like it.
3. Telling your classmates to lean on a door that opens into a room instead of out of it is not a brilliant idea.
4. Dissecting rats is fun, even if I'm certain living guts don't feel like that.
5. A textbook that quotes Tolkien is awesome. A textbook that quote Tolkien twice, and manages to incorporate Celtic lore while doing so is actually worth reading
6. My figment believes that the EMS in the States is simply an improved version of her riding back to Helm's Deep with half-dead riders semi-field-treated and slung over her horse.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
*scratches head*
1) An Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) approaches you and states that he is interested in becoming an EMT. Specifically, he asks what he will be able to do as an EMT that he cannot presently do as an EMR. You should respond by saying he will not: A) obtain vital signs. B) administer some medications.
C) perform emergency childbirth.
D) use an automated external defibrillator.
If my book has anything to say about it (which, incidently it does) an EMT will do ALL of these things. An EMR can't administer medications (maybe Epi pens?). So am I just reading this wrong and the prof is asking what on the list can the EMR not do now that he will be able to do as an EMT?
C) perform emergency childbirth.
D) use an automated external defibrillator.
If my book has anything to say about it (which, incidently it does) an EMT will do ALL of these things. An EMR can't administer medications (maybe Epi pens?). So am I just reading this wrong and the prof is asking what on the list can the EMR not do now that he will be able to do as an EMT?
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Ah class...
There is nothing like jumping into things head first. I'm only taking three classes this sem; I say only but I've managed to find myself with 16 credits (12 credits is considered a full load). I am however, looking forward to getting started.
I get to start the day off with Anatomy & Physiology 1 (Wednesday labs!) on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. I've been reading ahead because there are so many new terms. We'll see if it pays off. Second class is Psychology of Death and Dying. Sounds properly gloomy, but my textbook did quote Lord of the Rings (book, not movie!) and I was dutifully impressed. Any textbook that quotes LoTR gets a star in my book. I've only that twice a week, for which I'm glad. I enjoy psych in general, but not as a class. I get annoyed by them, more often than not.
Monda thru Wednesday I have my EMT Basic Cert course. I'm really excited about it, and slightly terrified. I think the textbook weighs more than I do, but it is fascinating. It's a evening course though, so I don't get out of class until almost 10 PM. As a night owl, I don't particularly mind, except for the fact that I start my class day at 11 AM.
After you factor in 1/2 hour driving both ways it's...a long day. But it should be fun.
We are supposed to set up clinical hours for the EMT course this week, either at the local hospital, or with one of the ambul.ance lines. We're supposed do assessments and stuff I guess, more hands on in a real setting vs mannikins and classmates I guess. We also get to play victim for the bigger paramedic classes. I'm of a double mind about that.
I think in general it would be fun and interesting. I think a 'victim' can learn a lot about giving care by how they're treated and yet....I saw some of them this summer and I am really -not- keen on being strapped to a backboard and hauled around campus. I have this ...we'll call it a thing...about being tied up. It usually doesn't end well. But, I should look at is as a chance to over come!
12 hours and counting :)
I get to start the day off with Anatomy & Physiology 1 (Wednesday labs!) on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. I've been reading ahead because there are so many new terms. We'll see if it pays off. Second class is Psychology of Death and Dying. Sounds properly gloomy, but my textbook did quote Lord of the Rings (book, not movie!) and I was dutifully impressed. Any textbook that quotes LoTR gets a star in my book. I've only that twice a week, for which I'm glad. I enjoy psych in general, but not as a class. I get annoyed by them, more often than not.
Monda thru Wednesday I have my EMT Basic Cert course. I'm really excited about it, and slightly terrified. I think the textbook weighs more than I do, but it is fascinating. It's a evening course though, so I don't get out of class until almost 10 PM. As a night owl, I don't particularly mind, except for the fact that I start my class day at 11 AM.
After you factor in 1/2 hour driving both ways it's...a long day. But it should be fun.
We are supposed to set up clinical hours for the EMT course this week, either at the local hospital, or with one of the ambul.ance lines. We're supposed do assessments and stuff I guess, more hands on in a real setting vs mannikins and classmates I guess. We also get to play victim for the bigger paramedic classes. I'm of a double mind about that.
I think in general it would be fun and interesting. I think a 'victim' can learn a lot about giving care by how they're treated and yet....I saw some of them this summer and I am really -not- keen on being strapped to a backboard and hauled around campus. I have this ...we'll call it a thing...about being tied up. It usually doesn't end well. But, I should look at is as a chance to over come!
12 hours and counting :)
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Textbooks!
I GOT MY TEXTBOOKS TODAY!!!!
Pre-hospital Emergency Care and Workbook (holy huge!!!!)
Seeley's Anatomy and Physiology (OK, I already had a copy, thanks to my bestest best atheist, but it was still on my list)
and
Last Dance (Psychology of Death and Dying)
plus the assorted class, lecture and lab note books
I'm so excited.
*dives into Pre-Hospital Care*
Pre-hospital Emergency Care and Workbook (holy huge!!!!)
Seeley's Anatomy and Physiology (OK, I already had a copy, thanks to my bestest best atheist, but it was still on my list)
and
Last Dance (Psychology of Death and Dying)
plus the assorted class, lecture and lab note books
I'm so excited.
*dives into Pre-Hospital Care*
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
My mood today
is nicely summed up by this picture I stole from a friends Facebook...
Despite it, I'm damn cheerful. Maybe it's because, as the frog says...well, nevermind. I'm just damned cheerful.
Despite it, I'm damn cheerful. Maybe it's because, as the frog says...well, nevermind. I'm just damned cheerful.
Friday, August 12, 2011
I love my mother
I really do. I mean, I really really really love my mother.
But sometimes she just makes me tired.
But sometimes she just makes me tired.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Simple squamous epithelium
puts me in mind of a cheesy monster in a kids story...
*narrator voice-over* Long ago and far away, the simple squamous Epithelium ate three tiny children for breakfast...A simple being, he was rather squamous, and just a little squashed, but he had many functions, the least of them being eating children who refused to study their anatomy...
*narrator voice-over* Long ago and far away, the simple squamous Epithelium ate three tiny children for breakfast...A simple being, he was rather squamous, and just a little squashed, but he had many functions, the least of them being eating children who refused to study their anatomy...
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