Since then, Taylor came to visit and we went hiking with Piper up by Mt. Baldy. It was the first hiking adventure for Piper and for myself and I made the mistake of saying "Why do people find hiking hard? It's just a lot of walking." Oh, I quickly found out. All these rocks and turns and inclines! It was fun though, and the best part is how tired Piper was afterwards! I really want to go again now that it's really cold, because I want to see snow! I was talking to some people from school today and I'm thinking about going snowboarding/skiing in a few weeks -- after finals, of course.
I went home for Thanksgiving, and Piper went with me! She was really good on the flight, but she pooped in the Dallas airport. Oops. I took her to the dog relief area but she refused to go in there and I really can't blame her. It was three tiny strips of very fake grass and it smelled so bad in there. I wouldn't have wanted to go either! It was great to see everyone for Thanksgiving. I went to my step-grandparents on Thanksgiving day and Piper got into the cheesecake. Oops, again... It was only a little bit though, definitely fixable! That night, my mum and I drove to Wellington and I showed Bruno and Nick which was great! Nick and I won a class, which made me feel good considering how out of shape I was. Bruno was phenomenal but he was a little excited and I had the wrong bridle on for the hunters so he kind of took me around at his own pace. Piper went to the horse show too, and had a great time! The best part again: how tired she was at the end of the day.
Sunday we came back to my place and I had a bunch of people from DEM come over, which was nice. We always do a second Thanksgiving for friends so it was nice to see people I grew up with as well as people from undergrad. It was a good little reunion! I left Sunday night and got back to California around midnight PST.
We've had an exciting GI/repro block and exams start on Tuesday so I'm getting geared up for that. The GI portion of the VBS exam is Tuesday and the repro part is the following Monday... I kind of wish they were reversed, because I'm definitely more comfortable with the reproduction topics. C'est la vie! Clinical skills is going to be a bit harder for me than last block. Last block it was scrubbing, open gloving, heart ausculation, taking a pathology sample from a "bladder," making a blood smear... stuff I was very comfortable at it. This time we have reproductive palpation, suture patterns (simple continuous and simple interrupted), gowning and closed gloving (okay, not that hard but getting the gloves on is awkward!), and catheter taping. All definitely things that aren't exceedingly difficult, but they take more thought than last block.
I found out two people that I work with got interviews at WesternU, and actually interview next week! I'm really excited for them. I'm so in love with my school, and I didn't even know one of them applied here so I'm pretty ecstatic. I sent them both how I "studied" for my interview, and I'm hoping they do well!
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