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Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 11/5/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: chocolate. icecream. food.
Expertise: if you know, let me know...
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  wunkam
Member Since:
7/3/2003
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| i've decided i am not meant to drive. period. i keep getting affirmations of this every time i'm in the car. i'm not sure where i'm going wrong though. within the past year, i'd say i've definitely lowered my speed and signal before i change lanes 98% of the time. i also slow down before all my turns (unless i realize i need to turn at the last minute) and also go pokey slow on exit ramps that are curved.
it's so frustrating. i feel that i'm pretty responsible in other aspects of life and that i'm generally about average in most things. my inability to drive safely makes me feel very inadequate. it'd be nicer if i sucked at something that wasn't so costly, like paperclipping or googling. what is wrong with me?!
when i graduated, my dad got me a 2004 civic in april. that car no longer exists. i spun out on ice this past feb. now i drive a 2006 civic. let me just say that i've hit many curbs already so that the bottom of my car is quite ugly. a few days ago, i took an online defensive driving course to lower my car insurance, which more than doubled from my accident in feb. yesterday, i turned right too soon and my front right tire went into a deep gutter then my car went up the curb. the tire busted. i wish i was on the phone, i wish i was speeding, i wish i was changing the radio station or cd, i wish my mind was on something else....but none of these were true. i just suck at driving.
my friend put it best when she described me as the stereotypical chinese woman driver. that sucks.
have i mentioned that at the prime age of 24, i've totaled 3 cars and am currently driving my third car? | | |
| Merry Christmas! As soon as my last test was over, the whole Christmas
spirit bit took over. Up until then, it didn't even feel like the
holidays were around the corner. and i LOVE christmas songs and
decorations, etc. my mom had asked my dad to not get such a tall/big
tree this year so he did what's rational and bought a shorter tree.
actually it's really short, ridiculously short. it's about 5'8"...just
bout as tall as my dad and just tall enough for me to decorate. kinda
looking forward to see how funny our family picture with the tree will
look this year since kevin's bout 4" taller than the tree....
Today i got to scrub in on 2 procedures. i shadowed my OB/GYN and even
got to assist during the hysterectomy and in closing. super exciting
since i know a little more now than i did 3 summers ago. the D & C
just made me uncomfortable with the patients legs in stirrups and
watching him dilate her with probes that are of different diameters.
ouch. but it was neat to see the scope go in and to see the pictures he
took. then there was the book sigining in the afternoon. apparently Dr.
Yosowitz wrote his first book, a children's book, and all the proceeds
go to charity. it's a great book: Tales from the Pumpkin Patch: Punky's
Adventure. Too bad i don't think the OB/GYN lifestyle/hours is made for
me otherwise it'd be awesome...
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| hope everyone had a great thanksgiving! we had a pretty chill one at
home with just immediate family and lots of favorite dishes. the
drive home wasn't as bad as i thought it'd be despite all the cars on
the road- i even managed to go speed limit for most of the trip b/c of
all the people on the road, so no speeding tickets for me! what was
most unbearable was 2 hrs into the drive, my butt started to hurt from
just sitting. wasn't til another 2hrs later that i got to move around.
but all is well now 
my friends and i recently found out that i am a maniac after a night of
drinking. after studying for an exam, taking a 3hr exam, cleaning up my
apt, and cooking dinner, i met up with the girls to join our classmates
in Deep Ellum. after some birthday shots and drinks, i get in around
2:30 and proceed to finish baking a cheesecake, watch the Two Towers
extra stuff, and clean my bathroom. then i couldn't sleep and woke up
at 9am just in time to go watch the championship football game that
ryan's youngest nephew was playing in. can i just say i love watching
those games b/c it's everything in miniature!
apparently my older bro is moving to albuquerque, new mexico. it hasn't
hit me yet that he will no longer be in houston. where will i go now to
escape the parent's house? where will i go to catch up on all my tv
shows b/c i don't have tivo??? i'm not even sure what the heck is in
albuquerque. but ken says kevin and i can go visit and that
there's some good skiing places within a few hrs drive, so at least
it's another place for us to visit.
kev and i are watching the UT game. it's funny how everyone is UT's
so-called rival: OU, Texas Tech, aTm, Arkansas....who is "the" rival???
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| a sentence i had to read over about 20 times, not to mention all the hyphens...what is the darn book trying to say?!
Robbin's on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: "Instead, it appears that the production of tissue-damaging antibodies is driven by self-antigens and results from an antigen-specific helper T-cell dependent B-cell response with many characteristics of responses to foreign antigens."
on a happier note, God has allowed my parents, Ken, and grandparents to remain safe and with electricity. My mom reported that there was no gas near my home and was worried about the possibility of having to get my grandparents if anything were to happen to them. my grandparents were troopers, apparently, since the refused to leave the high rise apt complex. luckily, their floor had electricity so they were letting ppl on higher floors come down to cook and stuff. 
what made me really sad was last wk when a bus right outside of Dallas caught on fire. it was transporting a group of elderly evacuating Houston. they reported 20 died and that the fire may have been caused by O2 tanks. on monday, we had lectures on autopsies, and the guy mentioned they were doing 8 simultaneously autopsies all day on sat, and that the man he was working on happened to have a somewhat intact wallet. 
all in all, i guess the damage could have been worst so i'm thankful that it wasn't. hopefully there won't be anymore inclement weather conditions anytime soon, with all the katrina and rita refugees around here.... | | |
| ok, so it's been awhile. school's started up full force by now. got two of the 11 (12?) blocks under my belt. i think this yr's gonna be HARD like no other. at the same time, it's gonna be neat cause we're starting to get trained on clinical exams and stuff. i did phlebotomy my 2nd wk of school so i'm trained now in drawing blood. oh, and i supposedly know how to exam the eye with my opthalmoscope. ha!
last mon, a few friends and i went to the convention center here in dallas to help out with the refugees from new orleans. we just did triage, which basically means we do a patient history and take their vital signs. it was on a test wk so we were all a bit high strung but it was good to be reminded of why i'm in school. they've since shut down the convention center and moved all the people that are left over to reunion arena, but us med students arent allowed over there to help out....yet...
oh, and our tiffy finally turned 21!!! (after having a bout of viral meningitis that is...) | | |
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