until the good life. seeing my family. being away from the stressors of school. being away from Memphis, though it was sunny and 75 today. Ha!
Deacon Eddie had the sermon this morning. "You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:48 He chuckled- "Yeah, right- how on earth am I going to be perfect?!? I am HUMAN, God!" then he says- "It is divine perfection that we strive for."
so instead of trying to be perfect and stressing over the upcoming tests of a million diseases (well 376ish slides worth), knowing full well I can't be perfect, I will try to make a better effort striving for divine perfection.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
St. Therese, ora pro nobis!
I GREET YOU, Saint Therese
Of the Child Jesus, Lily of purity,
Ornament and glory of Christianity!
I salute you, great saint,
Seraph of Divine Love.
I rejoice at the favors our Blessed Lord Jesus
Has liberally bestowed on you.
In humility and confidence
I entreat you to help me,
For I know that God has given you
Charity and pity as well as power.
Oh then, behold my distress,
My anxiety, my fears.
Oh, tell him now my wants.
One sigh from you will crown my success,
Will fill me with joy.
Remember your promise to do good on earth.
Obtain for me from God
The graces of our Divine Lord,
(especially …state your petition)
Amen.
http://www.mycatholictradition.com/prayer-to-saint-therese.html
Of the Child Jesus, Lily of purity,
Ornament and glory of Christianity!
I salute you, great saint,
Seraph of Divine Love.
I rejoice at the favors our Blessed Lord Jesus
Has liberally bestowed on you.
In humility and confidence
I entreat you to help me,
For I know that God has given you
Charity and pity as well as power.
Oh then, behold my distress,
My anxiety, my fears.
Oh, tell him now my wants.
One sigh from you will crown my success,
Will fill me with joy.
Remember your promise to do good on earth.
Obtain for me from God
The graces of our Divine Lord,
(especially …state your petition)
Amen.
http://www.mycatholictradition.com/prayer-to-saint-therese.html
congestion
-my planner would be getting pretty filled up, if I used it.
-my room is getting pretty messy (again).
-my car is still smashed.
-i braved 201 poplar (memphis city hall-ish) last week by myself the area for "criminal court" was packed... i was not unsafe, but didn't really feel comfortable. i told dad i wouldn't go back to get another police report.
-my head is stuffed up.
stress is (somewhat) settling in. i had a pretty productive evening on Monday. kaila and i went to Rhodes college to study in their library for a few hours--- the most productive I've been all semester for sure. we had 2 quizzes today. i fell asleep studying for one last night while re-listening to the "electrodiagnostics" lecture-- (exhilirating... not) and thus missed that question. darn.
we threw a surprise birthday party for Jessie saturday night. we invited about 20 friends- each of whom brought a bottle of wine and a food to be eaten with it-- a byob wine tasting. i baked some chocolate cupcakes and was told they tasted like Muddy's chocolate cupcakes. ("Muddy's" is a cupcakery) we had a great time. she was surprised-- to the point of tears and big hugs. our friend Jessica, who is FINALLY back in Memphis from her externs in NC and CO helped us sooo much by decorating and cutting up cheese. we could not have done it without her, that is for sure.
well. i think it's time for supper. kaila put a potroast in the crock pot. mmmm mmm mmmmm
-my room is getting pretty messy (again).
-my car is still smashed.
-i braved 201 poplar (memphis city hall-ish) last week by myself the area for "criminal court" was packed... i was not unsafe, but didn't really feel comfortable. i told dad i wouldn't go back to get another police report.
-my head is stuffed up.
stress is (somewhat) settling in. i had a pretty productive evening on Monday. kaila and i went to Rhodes college to study in their library for a few hours--- the most productive I've been all semester for sure. we had 2 quizzes today. i fell asleep studying for one last night while re-listening to the "electrodiagnostics" lecture-- (exhilirating... not) and thus missed that question. darn.
we threw a surprise birthday party for Jessie saturday night. we invited about 20 friends- each of whom brought a bottle of wine and a food to be eaten with it-- a byob wine tasting. i baked some chocolate cupcakes and was told they tasted like Muddy's chocolate cupcakes. ("Muddy's" is a cupcakery) we had a great time. she was surprised-- to the point of tears and big hugs. our friend Jessica, who is FINALLY back in Memphis from her externs in NC and CO helped us sooo much by decorating and cutting up cheese. we could not have done it without her, that is for sure.
well. i think it's time for supper. kaila put a potroast in the crock pot. mmmm mmm mmmmm
Friday, January 21, 2011
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!
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
Thursday, January 13, 2011
nationwide is not on my side.
last thursday, i was driving on my way to school. a crazy lady (ms. dingbat) was driving in the right lane and saw "traffic" ahead and decided to turn left from the right lane. but, i was in the left lane. i saw her, said "what the !," braked as hard as i could and braced myself for the impact. my passenger front end crunched her driver's side rear tire. neither of us had any injuries.
one of my classmates was just behind me and stopped to make sure i was okay. janelle driedger, bless your heart. she gave me a hug and told me that if i needed anything, she'd stay- but instead she went in and told my professors-- but then everyone else drove by on their way to school and saw as well.
when i finally got to school, smashed front end and cracked windshield and all, i double checked my binocular indirect ophthalmoscope (BIO) to make sure it was okay (the most expensive thing i own) which i had gotten on monday and went into lab. dr. sanderson, bless her, gave me a big hug, "Oh my goodness, I was worried!! they told me what happened! are you okay! did she have insurance?? don't even worry about being late- you won't have to dilate :)!"
i went and got an estimate, as that's what my insurance company- from wayne- said to do, so Brad the Body Shop Man told me about $3148... uh, excuse me?!? sheez louise! BUT Nationwide, her insurance, will have to do it's own estimate before we can get it fixed--- but won't get on it. They called Dad on a Friday night and called me monday to do a phone interview and is "waiting on the police report."
ms. dingbat never apologized. never took responsibility. never. just "oh, i saw traffic up ahead." she didn't ask me for my information. she didn't really want to give me hers. we called the police. she received a citation but then told her insurance that she was in the left lane making a left turn--- which would then make it my fault, i would think. but it wasn't. the 50 million doctor calls making sure i was okay after being the "victim" of an accident based on the accident reports filed to the memphis city police reassured me that i indeed was not at fault. i'm sorry, but if these doctor's have access to the police reports, shouldn't her car insurance?!? puh. lease.
i'm missing my right blinker and headlights (ish) and it's pretty smashed. i don't really want to drive it, but i hate being dependent on my roommates and such. i think it'd be okay? but don't want to chance it. this was so minor, it's more annoying than anything. my dear friend Lauren was in a much scarier situation with her car the next day. Praise God she and her passengers are okay.
more posts to follow soon--- MLK coming up! :)
one of my classmates was just behind me and stopped to make sure i was okay. janelle driedger, bless your heart. she gave me a hug and told me that if i needed anything, she'd stay- but instead she went in and told my professors-- but then everyone else drove by on their way to school and saw as well.
when i finally got to school, smashed front end and cracked windshield and all, i double checked my binocular indirect ophthalmoscope (BIO) to make sure it was okay (the most expensive thing i own) which i had gotten on monday and went into lab. dr. sanderson, bless her, gave me a big hug, "Oh my goodness, I was worried!! they told me what happened! are you okay! did she have insurance?? don't even worry about being late- you won't have to dilate :)!"
i went and got an estimate, as that's what my insurance company- from wayne- said to do, so Brad the Body Shop Man told me about $3148... uh, excuse me?!? sheez louise! BUT Nationwide, her insurance, will have to do it's own estimate before we can get it fixed--- but won't get on it. They called Dad on a Friday night and called me monday to do a phone interview and is "waiting on the police report."
ms. dingbat never apologized. never took responsibility. never. just "oh, i saw traffic up ahead." she didn't ask me for my information. she didn't really want to give me hers. we called the police. she received a citation but then told her insurance that she was in the left lane making a left turn--- which would then make it my fault, i would think. but it wasn't. the 50 million doctor calls making sure i was okay after being the "victim" of an accident based on the accident reports filed to the memphis city police reassured me that i indeed was not at fault. i'm sorry, but if these doctor's have access to the police reports, shouldn't her car insurance?!? puh. lease.
i'm missing my right blinker and headlights (ish) and it's pretty smashed. i don't really want to drive it, but i hate being dependent on my roommates and such. i think it'd be okay? but don't want to chance it. this was so minor, it's more annoying than anything. my dear friend Lauren was in a much scarier situation with her car the next day. Praise God she and her passengers are okay.
more posts to follow soon--- MLK coming up! :)
Monday, January 10, 2011
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