Its week 3 here at Logan and the exams are starting already. I took a Physio one on Wednesday and next week I have Micro, Embryo, and Patho to look forward to (I like all my classes ending with O's). Work is now in full force too. I forget what I write from time to time, so forgive me if I repeat myself. I work two jobs - one is for a chiropractor in Illinois and the other is as a Prosector here in the Anatomy Lab.
For the chiropractor I do all new patient exams. He doesn't adjust on the first visit, so I do the first visit instead. I take the patient's history, do 2 computerized scans (one of muscles and one of temperature) to examine the current state of the nervous system and I also take X-rays and develop them. Last week was my first official appointments. The first was ugly, but I got through it. I was stumbling all over my words and I screwed up the x-rays pretty badly. It is really hard to talk in Layman's terms without sounding like you are talking down to them. the second appointment went 100% better. I had practiced the x-rays a bit in between, so that was good. I really like meeting new people, so this is a great profession for that!
As a prosector I do a dissection before the actual lab so people see how it should be done. It's pretty cool, except it takes a long time. When I was actually in Anatomy we just were sort of brutal and sloppy and we didn't care if we broke a few blood vessels here or cut a nerve of two there, but now since my work is on display I have to do a good job. On saturday I spent 6 hours in the lab working and yesterday I was here for 4 1/2 (until 11pm!) Cadaver labs get creepy at night when you are the one who has to shut off the light! I must say, I did excellent work though. Who knew a person could hide THAT much fat behind their eyeball??!! Amazing!!
I also drove around the county yesterday and delivered cookies to my teens. They are in finals week and since our retreat last month there are a few that have stopped coming so I wanted to check on them. I know this sounds dumb, but I really felt as though God was calling me to do this. And actually I think I enjoyed it more than they did! I also got to see where they live and meet a few family members, so it was really great. We are shooting for a 100+ turnout for Tuesday's PB&J (Praise, Bible and Jam). Last tuesday we had 75 and that was mostly just 8th graders because all the high schoolers were studying for finals!
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I am so glad to hear you are enjoying everything you do. That's wonderful!
Uh, yeah, I would not want to be anywhere near cadavers at 11:00 at night when I'm by myself....I guess it's a good thing you're working on them and I'm not!!
So I'm really glad you enjoy what you are doing, because I can't even imagine doing something like that! So does this mean you are getting paid now? Or are these jobs something you have to do for school? The first one sounds better than the second to me :)
And I think that is awesome you drove around delivering cookies to the teens!
Fat behind eyeballs? Yuck! Abby, I really am thankful that God gave us different gifts.
Thanks for the birthday card Abby, I loved it!
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