MOD A

This MOD we are studying eyes, ears nose and throat. and there is a frick ton of homework! This last month, we had three of our fellow students and friends graduate! we are so proud of them but were very sad to watch them go!!! on there last day of class our instructor did a silly dance that is famous for his cardiovascular mod. it is called the cardiac dance! and here it is! i promised him i wouldnt post it on you tube.. but the family is the only one that reads this blog anyway. so enjoy!

your number one!

naughty naughty!

...i see you!

here are some of my buddies trying to freeze gum off my girls ass cheeks!

NEW MODULAR!

So we started a new mod this week. I am not exactly happy studying the subjects we have to cover this month. We are studying medical law, ethics and phsycology as well as the history of computers and technology and how it has effected medicine. A little update on my heart condition... I am officially in hypotension. My blood pressure as of today was 84/44 which for those of you don't know is VERY bad. My proffessor told me that i needed to have my BP checked every 15 minutes and closely monitor my vital signs. if my systolic (the first number in a bp reading) and my diastolic (the bottom number in a bp reading) got any closer together i would be sent to the hospital. On break i walked a few laps around the college and pounded alot of water, which seemed to help me alot. I have been referred to a cardiologist and will be  looking forward to a slue of tests to officially diagnose my hypotensive state. I have worked very hard the last few days to get ahead on my studies for this mod so i can focus on relaxing and getting back to a healthier place. Tyler, Laylee and I are all going up into the mountains this weekend for a memorial wknd camping trip with grandpa olsen. Hopefully it will help us all relax and get some fresh air. If any of you have heard about the tragedy that happened in fountain last monday.. then this school update will be interesting. A man, shot and killed his two year old son and shot his wife 5 times and put her in critical condition. He then proceeded to baracade himself in their home and shot himself. The college had been awaiting an opportunity to make a feild trip to the el paso county morgue, and this last week.. we were finally granted that opportunity. When the class got to the morgue, we were informed that the man we were watching the otopsy on was the same man from the murder suicide that had occured that last monday evening. we were all very lucky to be able to witness an otopsy, but it was a little difficult for some of us. I don't think we anticipated it being that intense. And for those of you who are interested.. my total grade for last month was 94.4%! straight A student since the day i started college! that's all the news i have for now...

here are some videos i took today of us medical gals drawing up each others blood! this first one is of me drawing up some blood on frenesha 

this second video is of frenesha drawing up on me. she did a real good job. i didn't hardly feel a thing!

This week in MOD F

this week has been very intense for us here in the ten to two class. in lab this week, we have covered and signed off certifications for administering pediatric vitals, injections and child restraint as well as assisting in a gynecological office visit. in our lecture class we have had massive amounts of homework this week. normally in a MOD, we only have a chapter due a week. But because there is so much to be covered before this moth is over, we have four chapters due this week alone.. and they are all massive. so i have really buckled down and busted ass on my homework to get it done early. we are going to start doing blood draws and injections again at the beginning of next week. I will keep as many updates as i possibly can posted here.

test results.

test results are in for the first exam given this MOD. there were two portions to the test. the first test was a theory test on the reproductive system which i scored a 92% on! the second test was a spelling exam on medical terminology regarding the reproductive system and i scored a 96%! i was very pleased with my test scores considering how busy i have been and how hard it has been for me to find time to study. i seem to be absorbing the information really well. i hope that i continue to do well. i haven't had less than a 4.0 since i started college.. so hopefully i can maintain that grade all the way through school. thanks for keeping up every one!! more updates are coming very soon!!

okay every one! heres the pictures of our heart dissections we did today! it was sooooo COOL!!! we all had so much fun slicing and dicing these buffalo hearts! two straight hours of butchering organs and none of us wanted to leave the class! we have some cool videos we took too... but for whatever reason they are not wanting to load... so i will have to try for another day. here are the pictures taken through out lab...

This is the full buffalo heart before we had started.

Me, going to town on my half of the heart.

YAY me and my half of the heart!

This is sweet.. i feel like i'm straight out of a slasher film!

one of my fellow students that burried his hand inside of the heart.

Merrissa, being a nerd

This is the lungs! the heart and the trachea. so cool to see all of the innerds still together.

Part of the atria (the top part of the heart)

The heart... still inside of it's pericardial sac

1/2 of the atria

This is our classroom mascot... George, is all sterile and ready to dissect hearts.

This is one of the bronchial tubes. if u can see the tiny tubes in it, it branches out into other little tubes and vessels.

The trachea!!! this was so awesome!!! you can see the cartilage rings in it that protect it from collapsing. 

* sigh * some of my classmates need serious mental help...

You don't see that every day.

Okay guys, i took the CPR test today! we will find out how we did on Monday and get our certification cards that we are to carry on us at all times. we had so much fun goofing around. it was a blast to hang out with my awesome classmates and have a fun day where we just let loose. here are some pictures of our four straight hours of CPR training..

One of my class mates being a goof!

For some one who isn't even alive... he's getting an awful lot of love from the girls in class! lol

Oh George... you are so very sexy! gimmee a kissy!

Here's my new boy friend George. he breathes on command, doesn't talk back, and let's me smooch on him whenever i want!!!

This was the first fake arm we ever stuck! it was very life like and really helped us to transition into real people.

Here are all my blood draw supplies.. a tourniquet, the blood collecting tube, the vacutainer and the needle itself!

This is my girl Merrissa.. she is the bomb digity! she getting ready to stick that arm!

Here are some of the videos we have taken in class of us sticking each other! i love my school! we are the bomb!