akawakalakaboom--sorry no idea for a title right now..try to read the 1st word real fast out loud..doesnt it feel great to say that?hehe..

yo there
hawayu guys?did i miss much?somehow the days just whizzed by before i had a chance to notice..i feel like the Russian weather forgetting that it was spring, snowing withouit noticing that on the calendar it's already nearly april!what am i saying?dunno..but the Russian weather doesnt follow human calendars..snow today..a heat wave the next..or maybe in the afternoons..and the nights are still quite cold..how would i know that?read on..
i just finished my surgery cycle..now it's 2 weeks of medical informatics in russian..it's something about collecting, analyzing and maybe later knowing information,like the epidemiology of diseases, birth rates,fetal mortality rates and so on..
good news-it's in the main building, starts at 9am,finishes a bit earlier than 12..yeay!
not so good news- nothing about diseases here..just researching..or maybe there is but i dont know yet..and it's going to be included in our gosekzamen (state exams) on our 6th course/year..looks simple n irrelevent to some of us..but at least we should watch out..the 1st home task wasnt helping..a seemingly impossible-looking task of reading a whole booklet in russian( about 30! pages of Russian) in one night..the outlook seems bleak for me..it seems as if the world had faded..i was suffocating,and suddenly a single ray of light shone on my face..and i was looking up and asking "why?..why?"

hehe..yeah right..other than that, i'm still doing my practicals..have i said before that we have 3 subjects with practicals?- surgery,therapy and obstetrics..
for therapy we need at least 15 patients' cases..for surgery we need about 12 signs(less if you could do 12 hours on sundays etc) from the doctor on duty..and for obstetrics..well..i havent done it yet..but about 6-8 times,can be done during our cycle(which is last)..all of it is formally from 3-9..but usually we get there at 5 because of classes,and there's nothing much to do anyway..it's quite nice,we get tod do real life case studies..we get to see the patients with their signs and symptoms...the most informative part for me was when we followed the doctor on rounds...the palpable gall bladder on this patient,the high blood pressure on that one,the systolic cardiac murmurs on another..etc etc all signs of the diseases sometimes missed when we checked them..i've been there 4 times..and every time-though exhausting and really late- i think i got at least something from it..now i dont really feel like practicals is all about injecting drugs..i did those the 2nd time i went..though it did feel good-a feeling of accomplishment,maybe- when i did each injection...maybe later i'll have a chance of doing it more often..or maybe i could help in the bandaging room..but there might be little chance of that as the dressings are usually done in the morning or afternoon(on the timtable),and last time i checked,it was mostly done by the surgeons themselves,or maybe half of it..
but the most important part of our practicals are actually the patients..we need to know how to write their cases,analyse their data,(ok,sometimes we just copy them,but we learn all the same right?)..i and my friends,n our lecturer agreed that the best way to do it was to see the patient and their data..to see the signs n symptoms for ourselves(sorry if this sounds like Im repeating myself here).one lecturer even suggested us to see the same patients a few times..to see the course of the disease n treatment(for surgery)..
i've done 5 sessions today,i'll need 12..but maybe i wont make it*
since the surgical practicals exam is on the 5th of april- just around the corner..so expect me to be very busy after this..hehe..insyaAllah

*PS:(i dont think they mind...i've done only nearly half but i felt like i've done a lot..and other students have done less before this..but still..i hope i'll do 12 since i like it anyway)....

blogthings

practicals,classes,studying,training,sleeping,cooking,meetings,boredom,ps2
not much time for anything else rite now...well maybe a few blogthings..my previous entries didnt seem to make it to the site..maybe later i'll republish them...here r some blogthings...just for fun

Your Ideal Relationship is Friends Only

Honestly, you're not really ready for a relationship right now. And you prefer to keep things platonic, for now. That's not to say that one of your friends could be dating material. You're just taking a break for now.

What's Your Ideal Relationship?

You Are Mountain Dew

Ultra hyper and full of energy, you're on a permanent sugar high. Some people complain about your taste, but the do appreciate your power. Your best soda match: Coke Stay away from: Root Beer

What Kind of Soda Are You?

strong winds

 

Tommy here would rather stay at home..smart one













The calendar shows march - supposedly this means that winter's over,the flowers blooming, the sun shining, kids frolicking on the green grass etc etc...but not so in Russia..here in volgograd,winter gave a last cough on us today..the winds were howling..really..ok it was strong anyway...and most of the road was frozen and slippery...if u get lucky u'll get a taste of skating in the wind..but u might get your knee hurt,or a painful butt falling down..for me,dumb that i was..it was fun fun fun!..i felt a sense of adventure, a kind of high every time the wind came my way..feeling every step so as not to fall..sometimes it's painful but i kept my face in the wind anyway..or tried to make the wind push me down,or tried to walk/run against the wind,i even walked instead of taking the bus from chekistov to ramstor,and later to my apartment..thats about 2-3 bus stops..i think it's either that i'm bored with my scheduled life,or that little kid in me really wanted to get out,hehe..


still, being sick made the after-effects worse,and as usual later i got really hungry which was okay as i ate a lot too(nearly finished everything i bought)..
today my friends went skating..but i had some things to do..so i didnt go..still i felt like going..maybe i'll try some other time
i wanted to take pics,but my activities seem to make it look as if the camera would be a burden..oh what the heck,maybe i will take my cam after this..

sick

I'm a bit sick..but the slight temperature increase,quickly followed by sweating shows that my body's fighting to get well soon,and worse symptoms like coughs and sore throat are at a minimum or absent..so it's ok


cant..seem..to..get..away..from..these..germs!!


Still, I got irritated easier...the headaches,runny nose and the occasionally loud "Ahhh..Chooo!!" gets on my and maybe other peoples' nerves too..











---I dont feel like myself right now

I think I got this cold from standing half an hour in the cold in line to buy my bus pass..then a gain it might have been that time when i had just opened my 'shapka'(snowcap) and some dirty water fro the rooftops fell on my head,or when once i came back home in the afternoon,thought it was warm enough and wore lighter clothes, and later the temperature dropped again...or maybe it was the numerous times I walked in the cold this past week, either saving a few roubles or it being the only way to get to my destinations--- such mistakes when i had tried so hard not to get sick this year with my vitamins,warm clothing,food etc...