update

Sorry for the lack of updates. I spent Thanksgiving in Philly with a bunch of very great friends. We cooked a Thanksgiving dinner that was more delicious than any thanksgiving dinners I've had before, and I've had...15... OK not as experienced as other diners, but it was good. I made mac and cheese and we had rosemary bacon wrapped turkey, green beans, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and pumpkin and apple pies. It was so delicious. Then I caught up with an old friend on friday and my thanksgiving friends went to NYC Saturday and Sunday. I spent way too much money and flirted way more than is considered appropriate I guess. But it was really fun! Driving in NYC is a different experience. It's a city where turn signals are optional and you change lanes whenever there's a space and you do it with gusto or people will honk you to death. It was GREAT!

So we finished gross anatomy end of October. We ended it with a disection of the head starting with decapitation and then cutting it in half, front to back, a cut on the midsagittal plane. Gruesome to some, another day in gross lab to us. I haven't been back in gross lab, but I hear our cadavers are still there. We're supposed to give them a nice send off at the end of the year. After gross, we had neuroscience for a month and now we're on physiology for another month.

The other day we had a lumbar puncture demo and I got to do an LP on a simulator dummy. It was really fun. I use to not care about doing procedures or giving shots, but the skill required for LP made it really fun. I'll be going into the simulation lab tomorrow to try to save a patient with heart problems from dying. We'll be working with a full sized dummy. It's the first time the simulation center will be used, it's brand new, just completed last month!

Anyways, I'll hopefully be coming home later in the month, I haven't bought plane tickets yet. Still hoping they'll fall in price! I'm shorting plane tickets HA!