Things are getting sticky!

Well we are a little over a month into school and we are just now beginning to feel the pressures of being here. Everyone I talk to is behind in something, including myself. If you spend a night catching up on one thing then you automatically put yourself behind in something else. Sometimes I wish I could slow time way down just to be able to catch up on everything, but then I'm also already very much looking forward to graduation so I want it to go by quickly. I am loving everything I'm learning, especially in my patient evaluation class. We are learning right now how to take histories and do physical exams, and it feels like I"m finally doing what I"m supposed to be doing...even though all of it is just for pretend right now. I will say that it is true what they say about you turning into a hyperchondriac when your studying medicine. We were learning all about skin cancers this week and now I am convinced that I have cancer and so does everyone I know...and we will all die quickly because we didn't catch it in time. Dods has been a great sport and has allowed me to examine all of his moles and wierd skin spots and I have made him do the same to me. He has also been a great support of my study times, making dinner, cleaning up, doing some of the grocery shopping, fetching me milkshakes and staying up until all hours of the night with me. I"m blessed to have someone helping me thru all of this. I'm loving every minute of it...but I"m tired:)