sick soon? 10.05.

7:06 pm Uncategorized

AHHH oomgsh I think im starting to get sick! I can feel it already. I’ve been cold this whole week because of the weather shift. It went from being hot to super cold and I wasn’t used to it. Plus we were out of water at my house for like 3 days and I didn’t drink any. So that probably wasn’t good since I couldnt flush all the bad stuff out of my body. and I’ve been running in this cold weather has been hurting my throat. I also haven’t been taking my vitamin C stuff, so that makes me very vunerable to germs right now! I just got out of the shower and I was seriously taking a boiling hot shower because I couldn’t feel anything. Im going to try to load up on some vitamin C and be extra hygenic now hopefully to stop a sickness from coming on! I’m going to make some tea and hopefully that will make me feel better…This is a bad time for me to get sick! aHh

Rene Yvette

whats neww 10.03.

7:22 pm Uncategorized

I dont really have anything exciting to share lol but I guess im a LITTLE less stressed out right now. I’m just glad its the weekend! Me and my friend kirsten went to take pictures downtown today for photography. It was fun. The assignment was to take pictures of architecture. I didn’t know what exactly classifies architecture, so I took pictures of a bunch of stuff that probably isn’t! lol oh well. Oh and she kirsten got stopped by a policeman because they thought she was a terrorist or something? haha i dunno I wasnt there with her cuz I was taking pictures on the other side of the building. But he said that that was were the terrorist hangout was and she looked suspicious. haha

So everyone has been getting acceptance letters to their colleges already and I feel left out cuz I haven’t applied anywhere yet! Why? Because 1) I’m probably going to a local community college and transfering 2) not many colleges have a major in radiology. so Its not really my fault. I really do just want to apply somewhere randomly and see if I get accepted because that would make me feel better! haha

I’m having second thoughts about that btw. Not sure if I really want to do it after my observation. Not that I dont want to, but I don’t think I would physically be able to. Like lift the patients off their beds and transfer them to their table and all that stuff. So that makes everything more confusing. I’m not sure if I want to do it 100%. Although I did tell people I was 99% sure I wanted to do it before my observation, and before I didn’t really know what they did. hmm

Tomorrow we have a meet in Jacksonville, IL. Its a flighted meet and I’m the second runner. That means I will run against all the other teams second runners. Hopefully I will do good! Last year, we got a perfect score but since we lost all our good seniors last year, that probably won’t happen. My shin has been hurting lately which is not good. I get shin splints every year so its pretty much unavoidable. I dont know what Im going to do cuz I can’t take time off. All our bigs meets are coming and conference. AhhH that worries me. I need to get better.

I have to tape my spanish dialogue on sunday! ahh its going to be horrible. My partner is  EXTREMELY quiet. She never ever ever talks to anyone. I think i’ve heard her speak like 10 words in her whole life. So our dialogue is SUPPOSED to be funny, but I think she will kill it. Shes very monotone when she talks and doesn’t show emotion so i’m not sure how that will work out. Plus I have no clue who is going to tape us since we both need to be in it. That could be a problem. This weekend will go buy fast, I know it already. Tomorrow i’m going to be gone all day. Literally. I wont be home till about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Then I have saturday night which I will most likely sleep since I will be pooped. Sunday is our dialogue which I will be working on all day. Then I have to do my tonsss of homework. boo

Yvette

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