September Ends

Whoa, this month has come and gone by so fast!! I was so busy with school! Everyweek there's a test or exam coming up to study for. Next month will be diferent. We've been craming the last two months to study for our clinicals.... which starts in two weeks!!! We got Respiratory Fundamentals done in two months!!! Ahh!!! I can't believe they did that to us. Well, we kinda did alot this past summer too. There's so much to learn and so little time!!!! I'm so scared of clinicals!!! Am I ready for it?!!?!? Am I?!?!?! Ahhh!!!! So, we're doing clinicals but also..... we have to continue our other courses too. Like Pharmacology and Cardiopulmonary Physiology and Critical Care Concepts. Wish me luck!! Be back next month to update. By the way, I got a stethescope!!! It's so cool! I feel like a doctor!! LOL. And YES! I will use it on patients!!! And do therapy too!! Coolness huh?!?! I'm so excited. Can't believe that it's happening.

Classic Ones

There's a reason why I'm not into Pharmacy as many of my friends are. Cause Damn!! It's so much information! I'm only taking a general pharmacology course and I'm trying to catch up on the drugs already. I know it's basically memorization to pass it, but to truly understand it, uh.... you might as well become a medical doctor. I only have to know some of the drugs that's related to my field of work and I'm already complaining, but to know all of it.... How can you manage?!?! For those who are going into Pharmacy School, Good Luck! It's a pretty good field if you're interested in it. It's probably so much more interesting to yal than it is to me so don't give up! There's alot of biology/chemistry concepts and yes, marketing and law too!! It's more like a business field career than a medical career to me. Keeping up with all the new names and different new derivatives of a new drug. Also, having to deal with the FDA finding major side effects with the new drug. Ugh!!
Man, I'd feel guilty of giving out those drugs in the first place. It's too complicated for me. I know people learn from their mistakes and they'll try to fix it. But it shouldn't happen in the first place. I know you see those commercials on TV about drugs and lawsuits. Rosiglitazone (Avandia) is one.
So, here's a good tip: You rather be safe than sorry. So if you ever need drugs, stick to the classic ones. All the new ones are just out there to make money! Once in a very long time, they'll discover a good drug, but never the miracle drug. I know penicillin is a good old classic, it was known as the miracle drug once upon a time. But now, it's just an antibacterial. There's so much viruses in the world right now that there's not a good drug to fight against it all. The world is just gonna eat us all up!!! Ahhh!!! just kidding.. we're adaptable.
Anyways, it's not like the pharmacists write the perscriptions!! They just fill it, The doctors make the orders... So it won't be entirely the pharmacist's responsibilty. So take it easy. Just a little encouragement to future Pharmacists!! and Pharamaceutical reps too!! Don't give up... I feel for yal! Who knows, yal might find a cure for AIDS or cancer. =)
As for me, I hope I don't fail out of school right now. I wanna start buying a house and invest some money for my retirement. And then go to peace-corps with my hunny. LOL! i'll just keep dreaming (and studying...) hhahaha.. we'll see.

Til next time my dears, Van.
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My August

Hmmmm.. how can I do this?! how can I write about something that I shouldn't write about but dying to write it so I can remember the sweetest moments of my life?! Oh, Nevermind. These are the moments I'm going to be greedy with and never to share with the world. Besides, it's best if I only share with the person I really care about anyways. And it may be something no one wants to read about... but me. Man, I feel like screaming on the top of my lungs to world about it and describe every little detail of the things that happened!!! So that I can never forget these moments. The time when I was young and discovering new things about myself that I couldn't ever imagined. I'm hopelessly in love with the boy I've always dreamt about in all my dreams. All the fantasies I always wanted are slowly and sweetly coming true. Though I am kinda impatient... but it is true, the best things comes to those who wait. And I'm not as scared and nervous as I thought I would be but there's always a first to everything. He makes me insanely crazy but so blissfully happy. I don't know, I'm really out of my mind. All these feelings and sensation going through my body and I'm not even having sex or anything. I almost wanted to die in his arms. Okay I think that's enough.

7/25/2007

11:58 PM 7/24/2007
I'm getting bored with school. It's so not interesting anymore. What's up with all this renal and Gi stuff?! Bagby and shepherd aren't good at leacturing abouttheese stuff, Since I'm so used to Dr. Mcdonough and Pellett explaining things in great detail... that when it gets to their stuff... It's complicated. I wonder how will i ever do good on the test this friday. I have three days by the way and i also the final on monday. And then anatomy on wednesday. Fuck! I' can't believe I didn't call Hoa back. Liem needed me to pick him up from metaire. By the way, how did he got over there in the first place? Who knows, I feel bad, But he's home now. I didn't knwo i got three missed calls until late. I think i should turn back the sound of my phone after class. I hardly use my phone, unless i call thao-vi, home, or liem. Anyways. I shouldn't have put it on silence. No one called me anyway.
Goodnight, I'm sleeping early.12:03 AM 7/25/2007

Summer School

Just started my first semester at a new school. I gotta say it's hard but it's all good because I never studied so hard in my life; and I never learned so much in my life. I feel this school is challenging in a way that it's also encouraging me to go even further no matter how stressful it may be. I can't believe of how much my brain can retain in less than a month. I gotta say, dissecting cadavers really opened my eyes and mind to things I thought I never will have a chance of being exposed to. I mean, I can see the plaques in people arteries. Put my finger through the vavles in a human heart. Cracking and sawing bones. Well, just the sternum and ribs to get to the heart and lungs. Saw what's inside our belly. Rip up some guts and peeled off muscles with my hands! (gloves on of course) I learned how muscles work and I realized why it hurts so much when I do crunches, there's so many muscles running in different directions on your stomach! I learned all the branches of the lungs and removed the lung tissue from the branches, even the one with emphysema, it literally smells like cigarettes!! I saw a real ovary too with those finger like structures attaching to it called fimbriae. Just like you would see it in anatomy books. I can't believe I have those structures in my own body. And all the fat in your stomach!! Man, there's alot of fat!! And all the veins and arteries in your digestive system. It's like a whole new world. It's so interesting! Some had pacemakers in their heart. Some had bypass surgery, some more than once. It's amazing how each cadaver died of different reasons. I had a chance to look at different hearts. Some are the size of your fist! and some that suffered from congested heart failure are humongous! What's amazing is that most of the cadavers have clogged arteries in the heart. Especially the artery that supply blood to the heart itself. I actually can squeeze the fat like it's a hard elongated rock stuck inside the little tube! I know I have my share of atherosclerosis too. So, down that chicken from popeye's! Just kidding. I mean, you gotta try to be healthy! I've been going to the gym again! Well, now that I don't have to be in that lab anymore I have time for running and do crunches. I don't miss those days in the lab, it smelled awful. Breathing formaldehyde and looking at dead people for a long time isn't my cup of tea. But it's worth it though. I learned so much! The time I've spent in there is wisely spent. Heck, I even sacrificed a few weekends to be in there studying. I can't believe I dissected human hearts, brains, lungs, abdominal and pelvic cavities. Learned some arteries, veins, and nerves. Looked at half heads and whole brains and skulls. It's amazing how our body is organized! And NO, I did NOT faint or barfed, although I did have moments of gagging. Surprisingly, according the teacher, all of the medical students did good this semester. None of us fainted and did well sucking it up and just do our job. I know, I'm kinda weird because I'm not scared of dead people and putting my hands in them. I can do it because I really want to learn and study it! Maybe watching those medical shows on the health discovery channel helped me adapt to it more easily.I'm still continuing my studies until the first week of August, that's when this semester ends. I'm taking pharmacology next semester. Heard it was hard too. But I can't wait. And clinical too of course. Can't wait to go see patients. Update more later. Have a nice summer everyone! =)