And some years later...

Lots happened, actually i forgot i even had a blog. Ive determined that technology has made us pretty impersonal. We grow apart from our friends, then depend on facebook to catch up. For example, a best friend of mine in college is starting grad school in the fall for Speech Therapy. I am really excited for her. Therapy is the best! Sadly, i found this out through facebook. When is the last time i actually talked to her? i'd say that was my wedding in 2009. I miss friends that i have made in college. Unfortunately, i no longer know them, and they no longer know me. We all grow up and change, i just wish i knew them now. In the last few years i have grown up a lot. Life does that to you i suppose. Grad school was the most difficult time in my life. I am so glad that is over. I enjoyed reading my old posts however, i remember being seriously bored in class. Whats funny is.. half of that stuff isnt important at all and ive been a PT for over 2 years now. Well, if you are an old friend of mine, i would love to catch up.

happy thanksgiving everyone!

so, im in pittsburgh now on my last clinical affil... ive realized i do not like pittsburgh... nope... however the scenery reminds me of vermonty.. and i loove that. i miss vermont very much. This christmas ive gotten into this quilting phase, so like, 3 of my presents are quilted items... saves on money i guess, and everyone likes homemade presents.. right?? haha... welll, i got around 70 something days until i graduate and im certainly counting them down, im tired of being owned by arcadia.. wedding is soon too, everyone should go.. its gonna be a super cool time up in rutvegas. anyway, i gotta get back to sewing..

Exam

So... my 3rd to last exam is on monday, and im tired of studying already.. i got two days left to study for this beast... wound care and a whole ton of randomness... whoop whoop... 38 days until the end of classes :) Pray for me if you get the chance

my brain is much

booo

shark

Babyyyyy shark do do.. do do do do
baby shark do do... do do do do....


last day of clincal.. im sad cause i really enjoyed it there, but im kinda excited to be on to the next phase of PT school.... 5.5 months to go....

hi

hi, i havent posted in nearly a year.. so... how you guys doin? :)

i got two months of class left and 4 written exams until i graduate!! WHOOOOOO

why hello there

So, i havent updated in a week or so... yeah.. sorry bout that

Tim came to philly for thanksgiving and we made our own meal.. it was very very good, nothing was burned, and we had a really nice time. we went to gettysburg, hung out with his sister jody... we had a lot of fun!!

this week ive been fighting off a fever which has been goin around the class... guess it was my turn..

now im sitting in a healthcare lecture... that weve already had last semester.. this sucks, and i am beyond bored... this is a picture that we drew of the lecturer... he really gets into healthcare, one of the times when he gets super excited about healthcare, we think hes gonna just rip of his shirt and yell heathcare... yeah, that'd be funny...

Preggers

So, let me tell you how much i dont wanna be pregnant.. im in a pregnancy lecture right now, and OUCH!!! episiotomys, Diastisis Recti, urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence... babys freakin wreck all havoc to your female parts... adhesions, scarring, dysfunction... oouuuuuccchhhhh...... i love being in pain for an 1.5 due to lecture...

im going to work out at LA fitness at 11... i have a break till 1, so im using my time wisely.. i gotta get rid of my belly fat, which i believe is permanently stuck to me, and i am attempting in vain, because HA, its goin nowhere...

this afternoon i have a lab, where we have to stick electrodes up our whoo-ha, and measure our strength of pelvic floor muscles... i say, i refuse! i will leave if i have to, im not doin that! oh well, guys have to stick probes up their butt... this sucks... i hate the pelvic floor.. whole lot of pain this is...

and to wrap up this incredibly fun day, i will study at starbucks from 5-8.. sweet deal... 9-10 i will watch house, then i will sleep... and get up tomorrow and do it all over again... oh boy!

Berger

Today is short, its a good thing from the torture that they put us though this weekend. 1.5 hours of ethics in PT, 2 hours of intro aquatic therapy, then we are DONE!!! im gonna do laundry and study this afternoon, since i did no school work this weekend... my life is so exciting, sometimes i wonder why i even blog...

Still Here

Im still in pharmacology, and im still bored.. another day, another headache.. here are some of the pictures that were made during our lecture from hell... I did the south park characters, examples of what we look like, or want to look like in this class... Kristen did the annoying transitional doctorate students that wont shut up and prolong our lectures... jerks



My Friend Andrea


My Friend Amanda


My Friend Elizabeth


Me


My Friend Kristin


My Friend Missy


My Friend Pam



My Friend Weena

KILL ME

IM SO BORED, I MAY DIE... im in a pharmacology.. this lecture lasts from 8:30am - 5pm.. yes.. ONE LECTURE.. oh.. and thats not all my friends... it continues tomorrow, which is SATURDAY from 8:30am - 5pm. sweet dude... go doctorate program.. bah... so boring, so boring, so boring...

thats all.. im just bored.. ive done everyting online possible... whooo

Sorry

So, i havent updated in like.. months.. i am sorry about that!

I just finished up a two months rotation in Acute Inpatient Physical Therapy. I absolutely loved it. I really am going to look into acute inpatient when i graduate. In a year from now i will only have clinical left before i graduate.. i wish that i could just fly though time.

Since im back in school, im back to learning fun things in class.. like this unit which is on urinary incontinence, pelvic floor, pregnancy, kegals, butt massage, oohhh, we are all up in everyones business.. yes, its true, PT students have no personal space. in fact yesterday Elizabeth and Andrea palpated my pubic symphysis... you dont know what it is? look it up? we also got to feel the piriformis muscle and massage it.. also.. look it up.. butt massage... its a great welcome back present.

This weekend my parents are coming to visit. hopefully i will remember to update more than i have been now that clinic is over and my schedule is returning to normal. i wish that i didnt have class and i could just work. its 100% better. Tomorrow is a 2 day pharmacology lecture.. yes, thats right friday and saturday. im convinced that my professors hate me...

i will end with a fun picture that my friend dan drew today in class...

ugh

So, i am seriously unable to sleep. its 2am and im wide awake... why? i dunno.... this blows... im exhausted all the time, but then when i wanna sleep.. i cant. bah. i just took some tylenol pm, so hopefully ill be sleeping soon.

i started clinical on tuesday. it was really interesting working with patients and starting to learn how to actually be a PT. its funny how what they teach you in the classroom is really not how you perform in the clinic. i need to work on confidence for sure. its hard to do that when you really dont know what your doing. i need to be able to fake confidence i guess. im not so good at that. my favorite wards are ICU, CPU, and the psych ward. those are my favorite patients. i think i am still looking forward to working in outpatient though. inpatient is nice, i get to wear scrubs and all you have to do is get the patient up and walking, but i really dont have a huge passion for what im doing. i want to really be into what im learning. maybe if i worked more with the wards i like and less with telemetry and general inpatient, i might enjoy it more. humm...

ohio was amazing. i had so much fun, and i was terribly sad to leave. it gets harder and harder to leave each and every time im there. i wish there was some way to make ohio closer to pa, because sometimes it nearly kills me being so far away. however, things are going well, and have continued to go well despite the distance, and in fact in some way the distance has made my relationship stronger. wierd how that happends. with God in control all things are possible. and he is the only reason why anything works. we obviously went to niagara falls, then up to ottowa to move his sister christy back down to ohio. it was fun. but oh boy, do i loooove driving (yeah.. umm... not really) but at least i wasnt driving much, and i wasnt driving alone.

still awake... maybe ill read some... now its close to 2:30.. this blows

picatures

Nova Scotia and Niagara Falls with Tim

Ohio

So, i havent updated in awhile, but thats cause ive been busy. I went up to Nova Scotia for around 4 days, drove around maine and saw some places i used to go often when i was a kid, then i drove back to vt. Had a dentist apt and a drug test, spent the night and then drove to Ohio. I broke the trip up into 2 days, so it wasnt too inntense, but it still sucked hardcore!

Now i am at my destination: OHIO!! YAY to see my absolutely wonderful boyfriend, Timothy Price. Still kinda wierd to say that after 6 months, but you know, whatever. We are gonna travel up to Niagra Falls tomorrow since ive never been there, and then we are going to his sisters apartment in Ottowa (i think its ottowa) and help her move back to ohio. I will be leaving from here to go to philly i think on August 31.

Ill post pictures of the whole shibang when i get back to philly and i have a proper connection. Nova Scotia was beautiful :) Ive spent a lot of time in canada this summer... i like it!

ha ha ha

so, ive found the perfect spot to move after grad school... its outside of lancaster PA, in a nice safe rural area, oh yeah, and the town is called... intercourse....

HAHAHA... yes, there is a town called INTERCOURSE in pa.... hahahhaha

its right next to bird in hand.. its there, look it up!!!

Born Free

SO, back i am in vermont. weeeee.... in two days i have read harry potter and the socerers stone, and i have finished Queen of the Dammed. Basically i have gone crazy with the reading. I got two books from the pasters wife that i will be starting soon, hopefully to finish just as soon so i can go buy harry potter #2. oh yeah, and im gonna paint this really pretty picture of a boat.

i love summer for these reasons.

I ended up not going to Maine to the wedding, maybe ill go up later in the week, maybe not. havent quite made up my mind, guess thats why im so random

i really dont have much to say, cause well, i havent been up to much. but i am really really antsy, so i think im gonna stop with the emails now, its driving me batty...

pic from ohio...

sleepy

Wanna know what happens when you sleep all day? you dont sleep at night....

so yesterday i got back from ohio... it was a sad day, so let me start from the beginning...

almost two weeks ago, cadaver lab finally ended. on the 3rd of july. i stayed in philly for 2 days resting up and such, then i drove home to vt, and stayed there for a couple days. Last wednesday i left for PA again, spent the night in scranton with breezy then drove to Ohio on thursday to spend time with the guy i call my boyfriend :) tim... met his parents and hung out there until tuesday when i left to come back to philly.

so, i wont be online to update much this summer, since im gonna be all around. ill drive home sometime around saturday, then go to maine for a wedding, then back to vt for a week, then to nova scotia, back to philly, back to ohio, back to philly, maybe VT, back to philly for school. im gonna end up killing my car! talk about road trip!

I'll post pictures later of the last couple of weeks, just didnt want you guys to think i dropped off the planet. i will try to update as much as i can, but in vt, the internet kinda sucks, so i dont go online much.

oh yeah, today, i decided to buy only healthy food to eat.. YAY.. and i bought a sucker fish to clean my tank... yay for sucker fishes!!!

no one likes you when your 23

wanna hear a funny story?

This proves that i am downright rediculously accident prone
So anyway, on friday i had had a long day with cadavers... i was tired, and really, i wanted to take a nap, but since i like to exercise about 4 times a week at LA fitness, i decided that i really needed to go. Well, during the afternoons (before 4pm) the gym decides that its a good idea to play slow music that makes me want to sleep. So, as im walking on the treadmill, there is relaxing music, and a cow milking competition on ESPN... yes.. COW MILKING!!! Anyway, my friend Elizabeth who was next to me, put on her headphones for obvious reasons, so i decided that it would be ok to shut my eyes for a second, while still walking... well wouldnt you know i fell asleep or something cause the next thing i knew, i had flown off the back of the treadmill and heard a nice POP noise....

i sprained my ankle pretty extensively. could barely walk on it... and now 3 days later its still swollen, purple, green, and blue... yup.. blue... didnt know skin could change so many different colors... it even hurts way up into mid calf... im pretty angry at the deep peronial nerve.... and the fibulocalcaneal ligament... stupid ankle.. and stupid me...





on a side note, its 1am.. i have an exam at 8:30am and i am wired as all get out... its terrible... grr.. i wanna sleep

Name that Body Part

So, this week has been fun. I had a good birthday, took two exams and then went to elizabeths for the weekend. we went to a theme park, a cancer walk, and just generally hung out with her family. It was fun.

We are now into dissecting the heart and lungs of our cadavers.... name this body part:



basically: cystic fibrosis is bad....

and here are better pictures of this weekend at the theme park: