I received a request to take a picture of my leg in the splint so I took this picture today. Hopefully on Friday I will get a more permanent cast.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Broken fibula
Well last Thursday while going out to my car with some friends to go get custard, I tripped in the darkness on some stray boards that were sitting at the bottom of the stairs and rolled my ankle so bad that my ankle ligaments pulled on the end of my fibula, fracturing it. So now I am hobbling around school on crutches with a huge splint on my foot. I'm visiting the orthopedist on Friday and hopefully he will cast it. My anatomy professor took it upon himself to explain the intricacies of my fracture including which ligaments were involved and he told me that I would probably have a cast on for about six weeks. I hope that I get a walking cast because I have only been on crutches for two days and I hate it. It is so exhausting.
Well, I know that you don't read this blog to hear me complain. I really shouldn't complain because that won't do any good.
Besides the fracture, everything else is fine for me. We had our first quiz on Monday in genetics and I did really well.
Our cadaver dissection is going well. Today we used an electric saw to cut off a long section of vertebrae to expose and study the nerve column which is hidden inside. The bone dust from the saw sort of smelled like burnt hair when I breathed it in. Maybe I shouldn't breath it in.
Last Thursday we had our first medical interviewing class and I was randomly selected to be one of the first people to interview the standardized patient. It reminded me a lot of the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer has the job of acting out different ailments for medical students. My standardized patient didn't have gonorrhea though, just back pain. My interview with the patient went okay. It was weird because less than twenty four hours later the roles were reversed and I had the role of the patient being questioned. Even more ironic is the fact that on Thursday afternoon I saw a fellow classmate who was hobbling around on a walking cast and I thought to myself that I was really glad that I didn't have his problems. I guess that I jinxed myself because that night I broke my fibula.
It's late so I'll sign off. Thanks for the comments I appreciate them. Send me more, I need the encouragement.
Wow, the medical student interviewing Kramer is Jin from Lost! Sorry for my nerdiness.
Well, I know that you don't read this blog to hear me complain. I really shouldn't complain because that won't do any good.
Besides the fracture, everything else is fine for me. We had our first quiz on Monday in genetics and I did really well.
Our cadaver dissection is going well. Today we used an electric saw to cut off a long section of vertebrae to expose and study the nerve column which is hidden inside. The bone dust from the saw sort of smelled like burnt hair when I breathed it in. Maybe I shouldn't breath it in.
Last Thursday we had our first medical interviewing class and I was randomly selected to be one of the first people to interview the standardized patient. It reminded me a lot of the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer has the job of acting out different ailments for medical students. My standardized patient didn't have gonorrhea though, just back pain. My interview with the patient went okay. It was weird because less than twenty four hours later the roles were reversed and I had the role of the patient being questioned. Even more ironic is the fact that on Thursday afternoon I saw a fellow classmate who was hobbling around on a walking cast and I thought to myself that I was really glad that I didn't have his problems. I guess that I jinxed myself because that night I broke my fibula.
It's late so I'll sign off. Thanks for the comments I appreciate them. Send me more, I need the encouragement.
Wow, the medical student interviewing Kramer is Jin from Lost! Sorry for my nerdiness.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
First and Second Day
Wow, my first actual blog that I will actually update! I'm starting this blog so that friends and family can keep track of what I am up to while in medical school. Hopefully I can update it at least every one or two days, but I can't promise anything because of my busy schedule.
Well, the first two days of med school were predictably busy. A lot of lecture with tons of information that we are expected to learn. Luckily, the first topic that we will be studying for the first two to three weeks is genetics which I have somewhat of a background having taken a number of genetics classes in undergrad. However, topics that we would take weeks to talk about in undergrad are covered in one hour. I have quickly learned to review the day's lectures in the afternoon after class and also to read the materials which will be covered in the next day's lecture. I know that might sound nerdy to some people who might be reading this blog and I would have thought the same thing, but when you are investing over $50,000 a year into medical school, then you want to do it right and get the best education possible.
I'm loving Milwaukee. I'm meeting a lot of great people in my singles ward and I have some great roommates. One of my roommates is a second year medical student at MCW and the other is a first year resident. So I have the luxury of having some great advice-givers in the house.
We start anatomy lab tomorrow so will begin to dissect our cadavers. I'm really excited about the dissection and learning about all the muscles in the body. It looks like my lab group should be a great group of people that I will be able to get along well with.
Well, it's getting late and I have to get up early because I have a lecture at 8:30 tomorrow morning. I'll post a pic from our class white coat ceremony that we had on Friday. It was basically a symbolic ceremony where we received our white coats which we will wear while training in the hospitals our third and fourth years. We actually had the coats placed on us by other doctors so it was slightly awkward. I don't feel comfortable yet with the coat on because I know that it makes me look like I know more than I actually do about medicine. Feel free to make fun of my picture.
Well, the first two days of med school were predictably busy. A lot of lecture with tons of information that we are expected to learn. Luckily, the first topic that we will be studying for the first two to three weeks is genetics which I have somewhat of a background having taken a number of genetics classes in undergrad. However, topics that we would take weeks to talk about in undergrad are covered in one hour. I have quickly learned to review the day's lectures in the afternoon after class and also to read the materials which will be covered in the next day's lecture. I know that might sound nerdy to some people who might be reading this blog and I would have thought the same thing, but when you are investing over $50,000 a year into medical school, then you want to do it right and get the best education possible.
I'm loving Milwaukee. I'm meeting a lot of great people in my singles ward and I have some great roommates. One of my roommates is a second year medical student at MCW and the other is a first year resident. So I have the luxury of having some great advice-givers in the house.
We start anatomy lab tomorrow so will begin to dissect our cadavers. I'm really excited about the dissection and learning about all the muscles in the body. It looks like my lab group should be a great group of people that I will be able to get along well with.
Well, it's getting late and I have to get up early because I have a lecture at 8:30 tomorrow morning. I'll post a pic from our class white coat ceremony that we had on Friday. It was basically a symbolic ceremony where we received our white coats which we will wear while training in the hospitals our third and fourth years. We actually had the coats placed on us by other doctors so it was slightly awkward. I don't feel comfortable yet with the coat on because I know that it makes me look like I know more than I actually do about medicine. Feel free to make fun of my picture.
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