Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Taking a Break
Finished Day 2 of this semester. It is Tuesday. It feels like Thursday. I was mentioning that "earlier this week" when I realized that it was only yesterday. . . So, so busy. Right now I am taking a break from studying. This is on top of the 45 min nap I took at 6:30. Then the 2 TV shows I watched from 8-10. I say "busy," maybe the truth is closer to "lazy," or "procrastinator." Oh the joy =)
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Middle of the night
It's 2:30 am. No, I did not do this on purpose with caffeine. It just happened that I woke up to the snoring that was occurring right next to me. Normally, I either 1) don't hear it, 2) wake up and go right back to sleep, 3) wake up and ask the offender to roll over and then go right back to sleep, or 4) wake up, ask the offender to roll over, and then stay up the rest of the freakin' night. To put righteous anger to good use, I studied for my first day of classes.
It has been a great summer. I worked full time for Target as an intern pharmacist. I learned more and more about what it is going to take to be the managing pharmacist at a Target pharmacy. I am excited for the opportunity and hope that a job offer will make its way to me as soon as possible. In the mean time, they extended my internship to continue during my next year of school. This is a pretty awesome development. Last year, I got around 10-14 hours a week working as a "tech." With the new intern hours, I will continue to get those hours plus new "intern" hours to put me closer to 20 hours a week. This is a great blessing for us financially.
So the new school year is here. I am now called a P3. Much like Ashley's newest baby. P3 means that I am in my 3rd pharmacy school year. It will be my last year of class room learning. After this, I will spend my P4 (I wonder if Ashley will have another, maybe by adoption?) doing 6 week rotations in different pharmacy settings. There are a variety of settings to pick from. I am hopeful to do a transplant rotation as well as a poison control rotation. I will be taking an elective this semester about diabetes in the ambulatory care setting. Whatever the heck "ambulatory care setting" means. I have heard the words thrown around for 2 years now and still don't know what they mean. Anyway, the class looked totally cool and interesting so I signed up for it. I get to pretend I am diabetic and have to live as a diabetic for about 6 weeks of the semester. This will include testing my blood sugars daily up to 2 times a day and keeping a diary of all my food and exercise. I will also, of course, be learning about all the medications involved. I already feel like I know a lot about diabetes and its medications because of last semester, so I am thrilled to now become an expert.
Paul (Dad) has a new kidney transplant doctor. He is very aggressive. He really feels that he can save this kidney and extend the time that it lasts. I like that. The last doctor seemed like the "wringing the hands" kind of guy. This new doctor changed several medications and explained all the reasons why the certain things we eat and drink can cause the kidney to create the crystals. So today we got a little sunshine-ish ray of hope that this kidney won't die any day soon, at least not while this new doctor has a say in it. With the crappiness of how Paul (Dad) has been feeling we have both been worried that things are very serious. All of the ailments he felt recently were explained. It's good to know that nothing really new is happening and we are simply dealing with the kidney issues.
Life is good. I love it! Sorry this isn't funny. I wish I was funny. I would be so much more interesting. Oh well. Have a good night.
It has been a great summer. I worked full time for Target as an intern pharmacist. I learned more and more about what it is going to take to be the managing pharmacist at a Target pharmacy. I am excited for the opportunity and hope that a job offer will make its way to me as soon as possible. In the mean time, they extended my internship to continue during my next year of school. This is a pretty awesome development. Last year, I got around 10-14 hours a week working as a "tech." With the new intern hours, I will continue to get those hours plus new "intern" hours to put me closer to 20 hours a week. This is a great blessing for us financially.
So the new school year is here. I am now called a P3. Much like Ashley's newest baby. P3 means that I am in my 3rd pharmacy school year. It will be my last year of class room learning. After this, I will spend my P4 (I wonder if Ashley will have another, maybe by adoption?) doing 6 week rotations in different pharmacy settings. There are a variety of settings to pick from. I am hopeful to do a transplant rotation as well as a poison control rotation. I will be taking an elective this semester about diabetes in the ambulatory care setting. Whatever the heck "ambulatory care setting" means. I have heard the words thrown around for 2 years now and still don't know what they mean. Anyway, the class looked totally cool and interesting so I signed up for it. I get to pretend I am diabetic and have to live as a diabetic for about 6 weeks of the semester. This will include testing my blood sugars daily up to 2 times a day and keeping a diary of all my food and exercise. I will also, of course, be learning about all the medications involved. I already feel like I know a lot about diabetes and its medications because of last semester, so I am thrilled to now become an expert.
Paul (Dad) has a new kidney transplant doctor. He is very aggressive. He really feels that he can save this kidney and extend the time that it lasts. I like that. The last doctor seemed like the "wringing the hands" kind of guy. This new doctor changed several medications and explained all the reasons why the certain things we eat and drink can cause the kidney to create the crystals. So today we got a little sunshine-ish ray of hope that this kidney won't die any day soon, at least not while this new doctor has a say in it. With the crappiness of how Paul (Dad) has been feeling we have both been worried that things are very serious. All of the ailments he felt recently were explained. It's good to know that nothing really new is happening and we are simply dealing with the kidney issues.
Life is good. I love it! Sorry this isn't funny. I wish I was funny. I would be so much more interesting. Oh well. Have a good night.
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