Lessons

#1. Before you even rejoice in the thought of a long break from studies (due to class suspensions / holidays), THINK TWICE! There's gonna be a lot of making-up to do afterwards. Especially with our situation, midterms are up next week and we've missed a lot of classes in our Thursday-Friday sched (since most of the class suspensions fell on these days). So, unfortunately, this week, AnaLab time was used for Health Ethics. 'Twas such a shame, I love anatomy class. Apart from that, we won't experience going to school at 9 AM this week (our Th-F classes normally start at this time)... instead, we're going to have to make that time 8AM to make-up for our missed quizzes and lessons in Ethics. To think Wednesday's our RLE day, that must be...bleck.

NOTE: thankfully, though, today, we had a film showing for our Ethics class. We watched John Q and I found the story rather nice, and I especially liked the part where they did the heart transplant of the boy. =)

#2. ALWAYS, ALWAYS BRING YOUR BP APP. You never know when someone's going to ask you to take their BP.

What happened, yesterday during our RLE day was that we had our midterm exams then were given a 15min. break. I decided to go up to the 4th floor. All of a sudden, I was "ambushed" by my classmate. Turns out, some prof was asking her to take his BP and now, she goes and asks me to do it. I was calm about it, sure. After all, I like doing vital signs and I'm already so comfortable with it as I'm always the one taking my mom's BP. And sometimes, some relatives even ask me to take their BP as well. So, at that moment, I was thinking, 'yun lang pala eh... and I was wondering why my friend was like "natataranta" ... But after some time, I don't know what happened, I little by little got intimidated... maybe it was because here I was, in the faculty room of the Nursing department, about to take some prof's BP... or maybe it was because I didn't have my trustworthy BP app with me at that time and I was scared of using another one, which I may not have been accustomed to (I told my friend earlier that I didn't have my BP app with me and she said.. "meron ata siya eh."). Sure, I had my stet (in case the CIs wanted us to do assessment that day) but I left it in the Nursing Skills lab. I didn't want to go down and get it as I might disturb others who may still be taking the exam.

Conclusion (???):

So, does that actually mean that I literally have to bring my bp app (and probably other paraphernalia) everywhere? Even during my outside-school "travels" (a.k.a mga lakwatsa)? haha.

Before I forget:

Regarding my previous post (Quadriplegic Confusion), it's confirmed by another CI of ours. That situation is not possible. The term used for an amputee is different from that of a paralyzed man.