So it's been a VERY long time since I last posted. It's been very crazy getting everything ready for grad school, etc. My latest adventure has been overcoming my fear of needles. I should clarify, it is not the needle itself that scares me, it is the fact that something is going to puncture my skin; I am fine once the needle is in...I'm weird I know. So for clinic we need to show proof that I am immune to chicken pox, hepatitis b, and that I am TB among updating Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis which is whooping cough) shots. It turns out that I am a lot stronger than I give myself credit for and that needles aren't the death objects that I remember from my childhood. I went in for my step two of my TB test today and didn't have heart palpitations or panic attacks. The one thing that I am still apprehensive about is the possibility of an epidural (HUGE needle) when I decide to have kids...baby steps, baby steps lol. In any case, I am extremely proud of myself for overcoming my fear, maybe I can start to work on other irrational fears... anyone want to go sky diving?
On the grad school front, nothing else is really new. I registered and am expecting to take about 14 credits this semester including clinical assignments. I may be a bit of an geek (okay, okay... a majorly big one), but I am excited to pick up my books from the bookstore and start studying. I think grad school studying, staying up late to write papers, and reading very small text is going to actually be tolerable because I will be studying something I am interested in versus studying statistics and how to find the mean, median, and mode of some random group of numbers then plotting those numbers and figuring out standard deviations. Math and I are not friends.
Anyway, ending on a positive note... I am really loving the weather today, its nice and breezy and not overwhelmingly oppressive, hopefully it stays this nice for the GSNWGL's 100th Anniversary Expo at Lambeau Field this Saturday!
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