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Country: United States
State: California
Gender: Female
Interests: singing, dancing, hiking, rock climbing, white water rafting, taekwondo, hankido, cardio kickboxing, yoga, pilates, water aerobics, jogging, painting, drawing, cooking, baking, pressing flowers, camping, trying new things, and eating. The problem is that I like too many things that I am always running around.
Expertise: Me love to sing. That's all I know.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Hospitality
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Member Since:
4/7/2003
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| Today has been a really busy day that led me through a rollercoaster. It began with me being afraid of getting another migraine like yesterday. Yesterday, I went through agony just sitting through class from 9-5 with a huge migraine. Today we started off in grand rounds with a bunch of PT's listening to a doctor talk about shoulder instability. It was funny because they all looked bored, partially because this is what they deal with every day anyways. Then continued on the day by following my mentor all over clinic and helping to treat patients. I have to say that we got do things that we practiced in school. We saw about 6 patients and there were some interesting ones today. Our last patient topped it all. She was non verbal and had a BMI of 36, with DM, HTN, and some other additional complications. She had also contracted MERSA and were in isolation precautions. We had to wear gowns to go see her and clorox wipe our stethoscopes after leaving her room. We practiced AAROM, and it was so hard because with every move we assisted her in you could tell by her facial expression just how much in pain she was. You could also tell that her skin was deteriorating and peeling at her feet. With 4 of us we were able to help her sit at her bed. The sad thing was this was when my Migraines decided to show up again. The room seem much warmer than all other areas in the hospital and something about the smell in the room led me to feel nauseated and the sensation of being on the verge of vomiting. After leaving and returning, by the third time I notified my mentor that I was going to stay outdoors for the remainder of the treatment. I also got a chance to help our therapist write her documentation and also co-sign for it too. =D I then returned home to be delightfully surprised by a package at the front desk. Through waiting for my package and going back to the front desk 3 times I realize that its so easy for my packages to become missing. I was handed 2 other peoples package before I finally got it. I returned to find that my BF lost his phone, then I panicked to think that I lost my phone. After he called home he found that someone found his phone and so he was off to retrieve his phone.
The evening continued off to practice for my practical tomorrow. I'm at 10am. Its sad to say, we have a practical tomorrow and I'm not stressed about it at all, but I dont really know all the tests by heart yet. I plan to study, but still feel that I dont really care. I know tomorrow I'll be stressed and kicking myself for not studying enough. I plan to after I get off of this.
I just had a interesting realization the other day in Geriatrics. One of the ways to determine balance and risks of falls is from previous falls in the past year. Sadly enough to say: I have a high risk of falls in the future. In this past year I have fallen 7 times. 3 after drinking too much after clubbing in Ca, 3 from learning how to rollerblade, and 1 from a slippery floor at the yogurt shop. My ankle has not felt so unstable as it does today. It doesnt help that I sit in class all day long and have no time to exercise. I know now that I have a positive anterior drawer test for my ankle because I have excessive anterior tibial translation. Well I better get to study so I can do well on my practical.
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| Wow its been a while since I've been here. Still at Columbia after a long hard year of trying again. I'm procrastinating right now from studying. This will be quick. I think i"m just gonna post up little notes or realizations I have during the day. So currently trying to promote some exercise every day. yesterday I was attempting to swim and ended up waiting for a while so I biked while waiting and then swam. I only lasted 5-10 minutes because my legs were tired from the biking. Today I ran for maybe 3 miles but truthfully I'm not sure. Recently my clothes are not fitting as well as I'd like them to be. Actually some of them just dont fit. Weight has always been something I've always struggled with.
so my ironic realization is that I wanted to go into physical therapy because I figure it was a profession where I would be on my feet all day long and it would keep me active and healthy. Especially since I was expected to keep my pts active and healthy so they could have longevity and be functional. Who would have thought that my time being in PT school would lead me to the opposite route. I'm currently in class from 8-5pm almost every day. There's barely any time to exercise, eat, sleep, cook and study. I feel I am in the worst shape I've ever been and that is due to lack of exercise, but also the most stressed I've ever been because its not easy here. All I can say to myself is that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I hope and pray that I'll survive at times and believe I was depressed to a point that I thought about suicide but never entertained it too long. But I chose to come here and it is possible as long as I keep up. so I guess I better be off b/c I need to study and stop procrastinating.
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So since the last time I've blogged there have been some changes. We have now lost 4 classmates in our program. Each week has been filled with some sort of exam that I am slowly doing better in. Hopefully I will be doing a lot lot better in the next set of exams. Somewhat this past week has seemed so surreal more than anything else. Having a practical exam for Kinesiology/Biomechanics, we were set up the day before with random partners to practice palpations of muscles and bony prominences, and knowing the functions and activities of daily living of certain muscles. I believe I did okay in this, but truthfully I dont know because I could have bad biomechanics myself. I guess I should be accustomed to this considering that it will be my future profession to do this on a regular basis. Along with this stress there has also been the stress of my classmate and her loss of her very young puppy that she had gotten while in the program. I feel that I have had to take the role of a parent caring for a child that has lost a pet or best friend. It's been stressful to support her, but I too grew attached to the young fella and felt her loss also. Also the weather has gotten much colder suddenly. I am somewhat prepared. I bought a whole set of long sleeve clothing for the upcoming cold weather. I'm excited to get to dress up in this weather. I think I will have to take some time out to search for some long thick pea coat or something for the cold weather. I have also spent time celebrating the birthday of my fellow classmate who has been hiding the actual date of his birthday. Every day has been spent at the library studying until 12 or 1am and going home, sleeping around 2 and waking at 7:30am. I find myself not inclined to sleep much. Last night was the first time I really went out to have fun and boy was it worth it. I went out to dinner to celebrate a friends birthday and then to Black Finn for open bar. It has been raining and while walking to the subway a few cars drove really close to a puddle and created a big wave of water towards me, luckily I saw in time and my whole back was wet. This was before going to Black Finn. At the bar I only had two drinks complements of my friend who paid $30 for open bar, and was feeling the effects of it, but truthfully I went cuz my friend wanted to attend. This was a fundraiser and some of the upper classmens were bartending. I ended up staying there till around 3:15am and had a blast just dancing with my classmates. Its been a while since I've been out that I feel like I dont know how to have fun. Weird huh? I miss having time to just sleep and lounge. Truthfully I'm gonna try to fit that time in. So for halloween I've already gotten my outfit and tonight I am having a friend over for dinner while watching 300 so I'm fitting relaxation time in. 
Oh yes!!! Finally we have kitchen lights since it wasnt working for the past month. Also happy to see that I have been starting to get mail. Well I better get to hitting the books so I can relax a lil tonight. ttfn. have a great day!!!
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So since the last time I've blogged there have been some changes. We have now lost 4 classmates in our program. Each week has been filled with some sort of exam that I am slowly doing better in. Hopefully I will be doing a lot lot better in the next set of exams. Somewhat this past week has seemed so surreal more than anything else. Having a practical exam for Kinesiology/Biomechanics, we were set up the day before with random partners to practice palpations of muscles and bony prominences, and knowing the functions and activities of daily living of certain muscles. I believe I did okay in this, but truthfully I dont know because I could have bad biomechanics myself. I guess I should be accustomed to this considering that it will be my future profession to do this on a regular basis. Along with this stress there has also been the stress of my classmate and her loss of her very young puppy that she had gotten while in the program. I feel that I have had to take the role of a parent caring for a child that has lost a pet or best friend. It's been stressful to support her, but I too grew attached to the young fella and felt her loss also. Also the weather has gotten much colder suddenly. I have also spent time celebrating the birthday of my fellow classmate who has been hiding the actual date of his birthday. Every day has been spent at the library studying until 12 or 1am and going home, sleeping around 2 and waking at 7:30am. I find myself not inclined to sleep much. Last night was the first time I really went out to have fun and boy was it worth it. I went out to dinner to celebrate a friends birthday and then to Black Finn for open bar. I only had two drinks and was feeling the effects, but truthfully went cuz my friend wanted to attend. I ended up staying there till around 3:15am and had a blast just dancing with my classmates. Its been a while since I've been out that I feel like I dont know how to have fun. Weird huh? I miss having time to just sleep and lounge. Truthfully I'm gonna try to fit that time in. so for halloween I've already gotten my outfit and tonight I am having a friend over for dinner while watching 300 so I'm fitting relaxation time in.
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| So to add on from all that's been going on. I also just found out that two of my classmates have dropped out of the program also. Its not easy truthfully. The program is pretty demanding in terms of what they expect, but I think its worth it. I just hope I'll make it through.
The weather here has oddly enough been hot and muggy lately. I guess global warming has had a big effect on the weather here. I have a pounding headache today, probably from the exam today and the need to study. So I think I should stop procrastinating and get to it. Have a nice day everyone!!!!
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