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I helped out our local doctor today (and I will be tomorrow, as well) with his rounds in the clinic. Today was mostly a learning day... Making sure I can read blood pressures right, taking an accurate history, that type deal.

You should probably know this doctor is a jokester and he enjoys having fun in the clinic, so he sent me in to practice examining a 76 year old female patient (of whose name I'm legally bound not to reveal), check her BP, and take a quick history. He already knew that information but needed me to do it to see if I was competent.

BP was normal, I did a thorough history, but when I went popped in my stethoscope (did I mention I got one of those?) to check her heart and breathing, I was shocked. On the left side of her chest, I couldn't find her heart. Embarrassing, really, when you consider it makes a pretty unmistakable sound.

I tell her I need to consult the doctor a minute and go out. I explain my findings, and he looks at me really seriously and says something like, "That could be serious." and runs into the room to check her himself. I follow.

He pulls out a stethoscope and listens for a moment, looks up, and shakes his head as if to say, "Nope, not there." He then checked the right side... And bid me to do the same.

Back goes the stethoscope... [I]Bu-bump. Bu-bump.[/I] I'm seriously WTFing right about then and he says two words in Latin--situs inversus--and told me to Bing it (doesn't sound as catchy as "Google it", but hooray, Microsoft!).

Anyway, she has a condition that literally means "reversed site". What this means is all of her internal organs are exactly opposite of what side they should be on. It's caused by a birth defect when the embryo is about 7 days old.

He knew that's what I'd do the whole time--freak.

I also took a look at a drunk patient with rectal bleeding and another man who passed out every time he had a coughing fit. This, my friends, is my life's calling. It's been the best day I could have... Even better than having sex.

Ooh, did you guys see what I did there? I put something above man's natural craving for a mate. Hombre is gonna kill me.

cornyjohn

So, my weekend at the lake sucked, for the most part.

I front flipped off the kneeboard (kind of like a surfboard but you ride on your knees behind a boat) and smashed my mouth and nose. I probably needed a few stitches but it wasn't anything a little tape and superglue couldn't fix. My mouth is swollen and it's hard to talk or eat, so I pulled out the Dreamcast I had stored in the closet there.

It hasn't worked for months, and I had no idea why. I had this hunch that the laser wasn't reading correctly because if I pulled it all the way back, the disc would read correctly every time. So I cracked the case and unplugged the ribbon cord, pulled the laser into its standard position, and put the cord back in, resetting it.

It works better than ever now.

cornyjohn

With school almost over, I need something useful to do with my time. I've been looking into maybe some summer pre-med courses, but I'd have to enroll in a college and that's out of the question at the moment.

Would it be entirely impossible to find a free course that I could use to teach myself and get a heads-up before moving on to college after next year? Even a course syllabus I could use to research related topics on my own would be helpful.

cornyjohn

I've done this in the past, but I think it's time I had a little time away from Wiispace.

This week I've actually been pretty pissed off at several members and I think it's shown in that culmination with Koops in the Capitalism vs. Socialism thread.

If I said anything offensive, I was probably just being ignorant and biased from all the frustration I've been experiencing here lately.

The way I see it, if it can't be fun, it shouldn't be at all.

Just a heads up on where I'll be. See you all in a few days.

cornyjohn

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I've officially begun taking part of FailBlog. I took this of the lunch menu at school. Apparently we were eating some sort of meaty pasta in a cheese and tomato sauce called Ravilo. :p

And I should have some more senseless slaughtering pictures up from the mock crash tomorrow.

Have a nice day, and don't bash the Wii too much.
-CJ

cornyjohn