3 weeks left

I can't believe that the didactic year has almost reached its conclusion. I'm not sure I am ready for clinicals but I'd much rather take a different sort of beating now.

We had a clinical medicine test last week that covered hematology, some oncology and ENT. The test was only 33 questions, like always. Somehow I managed to only miss two questions, which was a nice surprise. Usually if I feel good about a test I don't do as well as when I am nervous and study till 11 and get up at 5 to study more and feel like I don't know a thing going into the test. I have cemented Bs in most of my classes which is kind of nice. There's less pressure to sweat an A or freak out over getting a C or worse. I have to study Pharm till the cows come home because it is so much of what a PA does and there are plenty of chance to harm the patient if you don't know what you are doing.

My son's bedroom is 8 feet from my "office" and he is battling my wife over going to bed. He didn't take a nap or eat anything for dinner so he is an emotional rollercoaster now. No studying till he is sound asleep - I am guessing another hour from now. I probably have to go in and take care of some emergency he'll fabricate to keep from going to sleep. He is so much work but I wouldn't want it any other way. He offered to get his buddies together and catch the guy who stole my chaco flip flops at the gym. How can someone who pays big money to go to a really nice gym steal someone's shoes there? It pisses me off that someone has stolen from me again and that they took my really nice, every day attire chaco flip flops. We're talking $50 (I didn't pay that much) here damn it! Sometimes I really hate people.

I Tweaked my back months ago playing hockey and it just won't get better. It really hates it when I have sit for hours on end, daya after day in a chair that amanesty international wouldn't let a political prisoner use for one day. At least in three weeks that damn chair won't be able to torment me any longer. I am popping cyclobenzaprine and ibuprofen like they were tic tacs and to no avail. I can handle injuries to most parts of my body fine. But when the back is dinged it really screws up EVERYTHING. I like playing hockey so there is little chance of getting better untill the season is over. Besides I probably won't have time to play once clinicals start and I am driving/living all over the state. Gotta get my Herriet Lane handbook for my first rotation - Pediatrics. Should be interesting. I hope my preceptors like to teach and provide guidance. Time for more muscle relaxers and a heating pad. And back to studying pharm.