I am learning how things go wrong in the body.
It involves all the classes I have taken.
I am smitten with general pathology.
We aren't even learning crazy interesting things, but the processes involved just have me enthralled. To be fair we are learning about pus and necrosis and other gross things, but I love it.
I have also started working in my summary/timeline for VRSP. I was really nervous because I sent my very shortish very rough draft to Dr. VRSP-mentor and I didn't want her to think I was a moron. I spent like 2 hours learning about sepsis and systemic (whole body) infections and what we know in animals and what we know in humans and I can tell I have barely scratched the surface. Luckily when she emailed me back she said that I had done a great job and was a good writer.
And then I fainted.
Just kidding.
But I did squeal....
Not kidding, luckily I was in my room alone. Awkward.
And then she gave me some things to fix, but let's focus in the awesomeness of the words "you" and "good" in the same sentence referencing me.
It was a good ego booster because,...
I went to honors night and helped them seat donors and herd people towards the buffet etc....and as I listened to third and fourth years get awards for being awesome at things I had this little panic. I know I am going to be a competent vet. I'm getting the education and
I care enough, no worries. But what if I am never awesome at anything? I mean I would love to be a vet and have someone go "oh. Yea ask her that, she is really good at.....insert skill here." Just a little worry you have when you start panicking about clinics when you suddenly become a second year and realize you are a year away from third year and third year you start clinics.
Yikes.
Ah stop thinking about it!
Um what else is important in my life?
I am working in the ICU a lot and I really am getting more competent there and more comfortable. It feels good to have at least a baseline if comfort before clinics. The techs know me and I feel comfortable with them and I cannot even explain how much you want them on your side. Ir how awesome they are in general.
So IP5 is as great as people said it would be. We get done by like 1:30 or 2 most days and noon some days. No more anatomy lab taking up all of my week, weather is nice, I can go swimming, Harvey will be here in July. It really is great and the classes we have hopefully won't involve studying our lives away which leaves more pool time. I have an obsession with water and the pool and the sun.
So anyway, things are definitely looking good. I really hate that some if my classmates feel the need to brag about their grades in Facebook. Seriously it is so insensitive when there a people around us who are failing out or damn close.
But I do have a personal victory I need to share. Anatomy has never been a problem of mine, I get it pretty easily, I was never ever in danger of failing, when I studied - it stuck. But I always danced the B-C border in grades and always managed to slide slightly to the C side. All three blocks. Which I didn't mind because anatomy is hard and I felt pretty comfortable with it. But it still brought my GPA down.
But this block, I got the B! Totally nothing to brag about, but it was a nice little personal victory for me and so I felt it should get included in my little life recap. And we are all friends here and you aren't trying to compete with me. Hell you'd probably kick my butt in anatomy. But I'm OK with it because I finally achieved slightly above average!
Yay!
PS sorry for the typos, I don't have spell check on my tablet :-)
