1. When you’re sick in bed, do you prefer to be left alone or to be taken care of?
Taken care of. There's something about getting your hair stroked by a worried hand that medicine just cannot provide.
2. How difficult or cooperative are you as a patient?
I'm a pretty good patient, but I have lots of questions. Yeah, I know. One of those.
3. It’s just a really bad cold so all you can do is ride it out. What are your strategies?
a) Go to sleep
b) Wake up to pee or eat
c) Go back to sleep
d) repeat
4. How ill do you have to feel in order to shut it down for the day?
Not very ill at all. Any excuse to crawl in bed is never overlooked ;p
5. Waves of nausea are washing over you and through you. Do you fight them off, or do you just throw up to get it over with?
I would definitely head for the toilet. Throwing up brings relief, and you don't have to worry about being nauseated after it's over and done.
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Fall is upon us. The cool weather snuck upon me overnight, catching me rather unprepared with all my autumn clothing still packed away not-so-neatly in their boxes. Maybe it's the change of the seasons, but I somehow feel like I need a change in my life as well. The way it's going now, I know that when I look back in five years I won't be able to say that I did anything. The same routine of studying, bumming around, and taking care of the banalities in life is not how I envision myself spending what's left of my youth. A change is needed; I just don't know how to get started.
My dad came into town a couple of days ago. I think my whole family is home right now, which is a rare occurrence. I miss my family, even if going home would be stressful.
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1. What is the field nearest your home like?
The field nearest my house is at the intersection between Stockbridge and a small street whose name escapes me at the moment. It's not too big, about the size of an elementary school soccer field. The fences guarding my neighbors' backyards also form one border of the rectangular clearing, while statuesque trees line the levy surrounding the other two sides -- inviting giants offering rich, lush shade or menacing wooden sentries bearing gnarled arms, depending on the season. Commonwealth is really quite beautiful like that.
2. How did you get into the professional field you’re in? If you’re not working, what field are you most likely to find yourself in some day?
Now that I am actually in medical school, I can honestly say that my application essay was pure and utter bull. To be quite blunt, I don't find biology exciting, lifelong learning sounds positively dreadful, and I'm not shameless enough to fabricate some falsely altruistic reason for my being here. It is fear of being helpless when someone I care about encounters a medical emergency, the fear of not being able to support the ones I love, the fear of fearing that brought me here. I didn't feel like living the rest of my life in terror, and Medicine is what will help me bury those fears. Well, Medicine, and $150,000 in student loans.
3. What’s the most interesting sight within your current field of vision?
I picked up this neat little bookmark from Singapore last year. It's shiny, delicately crafted, and has a convenient hole in the center so I can use it in binders as well as books.
4. Where were you the last time you fielded questions from several people in turn?
I was here at UTSW, trying to hide the fact that I had to repeat first year from complete strangers.
5. How are you feeling right now?
Stressed because this post took way too long, and I have been informed that we have 145 drugs to learn this block.
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