Subaqua Sternal Rubs

Well, it's official. (At least sort of.) After checking my answers against the key, I passed today's Microbio final. This means I am not decelling or failing 4th Term. That also means this is now my last term on Grenada, and I will be moving on to St. Vincent's in January. Woo hoo!

45 days in Grenada plus 18 weeks in St. Vincent's and then back in the States

Well, it's officially a heat wave… Record temperatures of 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius for those of you in countries that have seen the utility of the metric system…)

No these are not outside temperatures, they are IN MY ROOM!

Another 2-second power outage tonight knocked the A/C chiller off-line again. Hopefully the A/C guys will reset it again tomorrow. Then I can look forward to temps in the low 80's at least.

Still supposed to be weeks until the replacement parts (all $10,000 of them) come in, and until we get actual air-conditioning back.

Well, it's off to try and attempt to sleep. One more day of studying before the Microbio final…

In other good news, I got my plane ticket home in the mail today… (After sitting in the mailroom for a week, without them telling me it was here.) There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Pathology and Advanced Clinical Skills (Physical Diagnosis) Lab exams are now over. The first one went relatively well, and the second one, well let's just hope they give us a break since they scheduled the exam for the 13 credit class and the exam for the no-credit class on the same day.

Hell week continues with the Microbiology final on Friday and the Advanced Clinical Skills exam next Monday… If I survive, I'll see you on the flip side.

Signs you've been studying the GI tract too long:

(Paraphrased) Question from the Pathology review book:

52) A 45-year old chronic alcoholic presents to the ED after an episode of hematemesis (vomiting up blood) that has continued for 3 hours. What would the likely findings be in the liver?

I chose "massive hepatic necrosis." My thought process: Necrosis (a type of cell death) leads to hemorrhage (bleeding) which then would lead to throwing up blood.

Right… Because in my over-tired brain, somehow the liver was connected directly to the lumen of the esophagus… Great, now I am making up anatomy…

(For those of you curious, the correct answer is rupture of esophageal varicies as a result of portal hypertension as a result of alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis. And I knew that, too! )

Definitely time to go to bed. Looking forward to Hell-Week, Part II