radiographer observation! 09.25.

11:34 pm Uncategorized

so yesterday I did my 4 hours of medical observation at the hospital! I was obeserving the radiologic techs which is what I wanted to do. It was pretty awesome. I was in fluoroscopy forever cuz nothing else was really going on. Some lady got her tubes tied, and I couldn’t go in there since I was a guy. An elderly woman had dysphasia and I got to watch them do tests on her. The gave people barium of mixed with different consistencies and on the x-ray screen you could see the liquid traveling down the esophagus and into the stomach. Then they had them roll around to coat the stomach and you could watch it travel through the small intestines and stuff. It was really cool. Then I saw some lady that had gastric bypass surgery and they wanted to see if her stomach was ok. She was screaming of pain the whole time I felt bad…anywho they gave her the barium and on the screen you could see that it was all staying in stomach and wasn’t moving into the intestines so something was wrong. Then a saw a baby get a “cookie” which is like a test to examine whats wrong with the esophagus or something? I dont remember lol but the baby was gagging and throwing up a lot so thats why they brought him in. They made the baby drink different consistencies of things and watched on the screen as it traveled down and for some of the liquid would leak into the trachea. and then I saw a bunch of other stuff too since I was in there the forever, basically the same things. Then I went down to like the regular x-ray room for second where they do stuff for like hands and chests and stuff. Then I went down to the ER. There was a little blood because people just got surgery and stuff but it wasn’t major. The hospital I went to was trauma II which means they don’t deal with the major gory accidents, so that was good. Overall my whole experience was really helpful. It changed my outlook about the job as well. It was definately a lot more work than I expected. I didn’t realize you had to do the things they did. I know that you have to have a high tolerance level for this job. For example, this elderly woman could not move onto the table. So the tech was trying to tell her to lie down and she couldn’t hear anyone that well at all. She was not cooperating or following directions when trying to take the actual x-rays. They had to spend like 30 mins trying to x-ray her foot because she kept moving. I would have lost my cool because of frustration, but you have to stay nice and calm and all that stuff! Thats the one thing that I can see myself struggling with is the elderly patients. The students I talked to were really cool and funny. They were telling me about how the doctors are all douches. Which i could see. This tall skinny indian doctor walked around with a cocky attitude. With his lips like purposely puffed out as if he was going to kiss someone and talked in a very monotone voice when talking to others like he was too good. it was pretty lame. I probably couldn’t deal with that either. I’d get pissed at doctors and probably punch them since almost all think they are superior than you. hmm I dunno. I liked seeing everything, but I now know that it is not as easy as I thought it would be.Hopefully I can still do it!

Sandra Yvette

why do people have to be so smart and overachievers?! 09.20.

10:33 pm Uncategorized

ughhhhhh so I want to apply to some universities in my state. Specifically Northwestern and University of Chicago. Has anyone been to the college confidential forums? Well I was looking at the subforums for these schools and these people have amazinggggg profiles. Like 30 on the ACT, a millions extra curriculars, a million volunteer hours, top 5% of the class, 3.99, etc. and people are just like “ehh thats not good enough to get in” and i’m like WTF, if THAT isn’t good enough to get in, what is?! I was thinking about applying but I do not even compare to these people that want to get in. I would say i’m average, and I would prefer not to share my details because they aren’t spectular lol. sheesh. This sucks. I dont know where I want to go to college now. I’m thinking I will just go to community college and transfer to some average school. As much as I would love to attend a top school, I probably have a 1% chance of getting accepted. what to doo, i’m too stressed. This weekend is going by too fast too. I slept all day and I have lots of homework to do. I’m trying to write some essays for the colleges I was going to apply to..but im too lazy

Jenn Sandra Tiffany Sahil

parade 09.19.

4:26 pm Uncategorized

so i just got home from the homecoming parade and yet again i feel stupid. why? I threw candy at someone’s car! haha whoops. Everybody throws candy from their floats, and everybody in the community is usually lined up around the loop. so as we were getting to the school and finishing it was starting to get dead. The tennis team was right behind us and someone told me to throw candy at them. and I was like oook! so I threw a tootsie roll, but of course with my horrible eye hand cordination, I threw it at the windshield of the car that was driving them. and the teacher that was driving it looked pissed. I felt so stupiddddd omgggg. I was like =o IM SORRY!! and then I tried not to look back again because I felt really dumb =( I hope I didnt like break the windshield or scratch the carr…gosh my life sucks with my stupidity. I just want to curl up in a little ball right now. lol

Jenn