school.

Another school day cancelled due to "winter weather!"

I received a text message around 6am letting me know that the school would open at 10. Then I received an email from Dr Sanderson a little while later that we would not be having A Seg lab as we'd only be there for 30minutes. Next I was suppposed to have contact lens lab, but it was canceled for the week as the Monday lab groups didn't have lab due to MLK Day. About 9:00 I received another text saying that due to the icy conditions, we would not be having class at all today. Hurray! This makes our 3rd 3-day weekend in a row. I'm a little proud of myself because I've already listened to an old lecture and have plans to do more homework.  The previous days were not productive at all. :)

Anyway- I'm thankful for having much more "Eye" classes. I received my brand spankin' new (and very expensive) Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope-- Look out retinas!

And here are (most) of my new books for the semester. Kanski's Clinical Ophthalmology has ribbons in it, like the bible does. Intense, right? The binder on the top has at least 20 rigid gas permeable contact lenses with a -3.00 D power and varying base curves and radii-- our "RGP CLs Fitting Kit." The thing in the box on top is called a scleral depressor. It is a little crochet hook-looking-thing that gets placed in the lid fold (when the eyes are closed) and reaches back behind the globe and puts pressure on the globe which raises the retina. Allegedly, if there is a tear in the retina, it will look like fish lips while doing BIO if you indent the sclera underneath. My problem is, I can't hold the depressor and the lens and do BIO.

It requires far too much coordination.

The  classes I am taking this semester:

1. Anterior Segment Disease with lab (Diseases of the Eye from the Lens forward)

2. Posterior Segment Disease I with lab (Diseases of the back of the eye, mainly retina and it's supporting structures)

3. Contact Lenses I with lab (Optics, fitting, troubleshooting CLs)

4. Vision Therapy with lab (in the name)

5. Theory and Methods IV with lab (the "we gotta make sure you at least know this stuff before we let you see pts! course)

6. Ocular Pharmacology (Drugs for the eye)

7. and CLINIC duties: central testing, school screenings, and clinical observation 1 day a week.

After the first week, on Friday, the girls went to Memphis Pizza Cafe for Pizza and Beer. It is in the Cooper Young district, which reminds me a lot of the Hay/Old Market in Lincoln/Omaha. Lovely Pizza! Lovely Girls!

Me, Allison, Jenny