That is right. The itching has stopped, well it pretty much has stopped. A few scratches here and there that don't feel like "normal" scratches, but otherwise I'm good. What was the cause of said itching? We may never know. Who really cares as long as it has stopped for now.
So the funniest and well...not at all funny thing happened today. I'm in my OPP lab today (you know...the manipulation lab) and a girl goes running across the room calling another girl's name. I see a huge crowd of people gathering and I'm like what in the world is going on. After some asking around apparently this girl had a seizure. She also has no history of seizures, which is kind of a big deal. But anyway, I guess if you are going to have a seizure this would be the best place to do it. About 15-20 doctors, with a couple of neurologists sprinkled in there, all in the same room. So anyway, they disperse the crowd and the professor goes back to teaching. Okay, let me explain the OPP lab to you. It's basically a room full of examining tables. Yup. That's all it is. So this poor medical student is laying on one of these tables and one of the doctors is with her along with a friend and a guy who is an EMT. The professor goes back to talking. As you can guess, even though we are trying, we're not paying much attention. Then a door opens and in rolls a couple of medics with a stretcher. Can you guess what happens next? And if you said, the professor stops teaching so that the medics can do their job and get the girl out of there you would be WRONG! Nope, this professor continued teaching as the medics loaded the girl on the stretcher and covered her up with blankets and a heat preservation device and rolled her out. About two minutes after the medics left, the professor goes "okay now practice those techniques." Holy crap. You have got to be kidding me. Listen, if they wanted to protect her privacy and they thought by keeping going with the class was the best way, they were wrong. The best way would have been to clear us out of the room. Nobody learned anything afterwards anyway and we all stared at her (as much as we tried not to). They're all heart at my school, all heart.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Oh the embarrassment...
So I consider myself a rather level headed person. I mean, I am very emotional but for the most part I can hold those emotions in. People who know me might say otherwise. Today was the second time that I embarrassed myself in front of a specific professor. She is super nice so I'm not sure she really cares or remembers but I remember. The first time was when the initial decision was made to take Jon's grandfather off of life support and I was trying to arrange for me to have the day off I had to speak to her and I got tears in my eyes and my voice got shaky talking about it. Ah yes...the levelheaded Ashley.
Today, however, is embarrassing in I don't know how warranted it was. Last night I started itching and getting these off hivey-looking things. I have a tree hut allergy so I was like oh crap I ate something. After fully reviewing everything I had eaten there was nothing (I had some peanut butter, but peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume). The problem persisted until today and after telling my friend Laura about it, she said well why not ask Dr. Moscatello. After a little protest (remembering my first embarrassing encounter), I decided well why not. The cool thing about our Microbiology faculty is they will test you for some things. If you think you have strep throat, they'll do a throat culture on you. So I walked into lab and showed her my bumps, explained my symptoms. My bumps don't follow a typical hive pattern, which I knew and my rash is pretty much non-specific. She said to see if it's an allergic reaction, I should take an anti-histamine (Benadryl) and if the itching goes away, it's an allergy problem. Problem is....anti-histamines make you sleep and I couldn't afford to sleep the rest of the day. She also mentioned that it could just be dry patches of skin making me itchy or something to do with my clothes or other such things. (this is where the level headed me comes in). I wouldn't have started worrying about an allergy until I went through all of the other possibilities. Mostly I never think dry skin because in fact, my skin is often too moist, aka I can get oily. I also lived in one of the worst areas for dry skin for 4 years and never had a problem. I knew that I hadn't changed soaps, laundry detergents or any of those products. And yet the itching. But I did try lotion to see....hasn't helped. No anti-histamine because I'm afraid that even if I take it now before I got to bed it will still make me sleep too long and I'll miss my first class. So here I sit itching. It would be so nice if I could stop. But it hasn't. I had a little relief earlier in the day, but on and on it continues. So yes, I have embarrassed myself in front of a professor twice. I really do feel like an idiot for bringing my itching problem to her but oh well I guess I could have tried to show her some vaginal secretion and said...what do you think this is.
On a plus note, the semester ends in a week. On more negative I have to continue studying for the anatomy exams I have to retake. On a plus note, Jon's grandfather is doing much better. On a negative note, I'm still itching.
Today, however, is embarrassing in I don't know how warranted it was. Last night I started itching and getting these off hivey-looking things. I have a tree hut allergy so I was like oh crap I ate something. After fully reviewing everything I had eaten there was nothing (I had some peanut butter, but peanuts are not a nut, they are a legume). The problem persisted until today and after telling my friend Laura about it, she said well why not ask Dr. Moscatello. After a little protest (remembering my first embarrassing encounter), I decided well why not. The cool thing about our Microbiology faculty is they will test you for some things. If you think you have strep throat, they'll do a throat culture on you. So I walked into lab and showed her my bumps, explained my symptoms. My bumps don't follow a typical hive pattern, which I knew and my rash is pretty much non-specific. She said to see if it's an allergic reaction, I should take an anti-histamine (Benadryl) and if the itching goes away, it's an allergy problem. Problem is....anti-histamines make you sleep and I couldn't afford to sleep the rest of the day. She also mentioned that it could just be dry patches of skin making me itchy or something to do with my clothes or other such things. (this is where the level headed me comes in). I wouldn't have started worrying about an allergy until I went through all of the other possibilities. Mostly I never think dry skin because in fact, my skin is often too moist, aka I can get oily. I also lived in one of the worst areas for dry skin for 4 years and never had a problem. I knew that I hadn't changed soaps, laundry detergents or any of those products. And yet the itching. But I did try lotion to see....hasn't helped. No anti-histamine because I'm afraid that even if I take it now before I got to bed it will still make me sleep too long and I'll miss my first class. So here I sit itching. It would be so nice if I could stop. But it hasn't. I had a little relief earlier in the day, but on and on it continues. So yes, I have embarrassed myself in front of a professor twice. I really do feel like an idiot for bringing my itching problem to her but oh well I guess I could have tried to show her some vaginal secretion and said...what do you think this is.
On a plus note, the semester ends in a week. On more negative I have to continue studying for the anatomy exams I have to retake. On a plus note, Jon's grandfather is doing much better. On a negative note, I'm still itching.
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