Done with Didactic and on to Clincals

Ok, so we finished class finally a couple of thursdays ago. I did really well on my test and I was glad to be done and looking forward to review week. Funny thing, my wife went into labor Sunday night, (on fathers day) and had the baby 2 weeks early. Which ended up being a blessing in disguise. I missed 4 hours of review on monday and an hour on tuesday and got the rest of class done. It was an amazing week. I loved being able to learn new things. Unfortunately, the sleep deprivation has shown its ugly face and I am desperately trying to catch up for clinicals next week. I thought it couldn't have happened at a better time. I also took the SEE exam, which I hope went well. Won't find out for 4 weeks, but we'll see how it goes then. Hopefully, I will have a better story next week after clinicals!

Week #4

Wow, I swear I just blinked and another week went by. This past week seemed to go really well. I believe it was the first week I only had allergies and wasn't sick all week. The test this week went extremely well. It seems that my study time is inversley related to the amount praying which is directly related to my test scores. I am definetly a fan of praying before a test now. Lectures went well and I was also able to spend some time with the family. Megan will be the first one to tell you that the whole spending time with the family thing doesn't occur all that often. Anyway, next week we have lecture mon/tue, test thur and then my summer semester is officially over. Then comes the more exciting stuff, full time clinicals (residency/internship). Well I let you know how things went next week!

Week # 3

Holy cow, this summer semester thing is flying by so fast. We took our first test last Tuesday, and besides some stupid mistakes it went really well. We also had some great guest speakers come. They spoke about owning their own anesthesia service. The one anesthetist made it sound like it was super stressful. The other anesthetist contracted with small rural hospitals. She just charged them a set dollar amount per hour and the hospital had to come up with the medications etc... She made it sound like it was the best thing ever and she wrote off her car, computer and almost everything else. It gave some good perspective towards owning your own business, which won't be for a while. Well this next week starts out with another test. Hope all goes well and then there is only one week left, review week, and then full time clinicals! Crazy!!!