OSU-COM class of 2008

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I'm no botanist though
 
What what Cowboys. I just thought that I would see how the ole OSU gang is doing / help out the thread. Getting about ready for the semester to start. Any fear or pensiveness about the impending move to Tulsa? I know that I am sure gonna miss home (a little). Feel free to drop by the OU thread.


Your friends to the S x SW

P.S. OSUdoc you ever go eat at Love and War in Texas. Man that place rocks. They have all these monkeys in there in this hidden battle field where they reenact Gettysburg with real muskets and cannons it is frickin awesome.
 
wordup said:
What what Cowboys. I just thought that I would see how the ole OSU gang is doing / help out the thread. Getting about ready for the semester to start. Any fear or pensiveness about the impending move to Tulsa? I know that I am sure gonna miss home (a little). Feel free to drop by the OU thread.


Your friends to the S x SW

P.S. OSUdoc you ever go eat at Love and War in Texas. Man that place rocks. They have all these monkeys in there in this hidden battle field where they reenact Gettysburg with real muskets and cannons it is frickin awesome.
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It's actually not far from where I live, and I always wondered what it was----but monkeys? what's that all about?
 
Yeah man monkeys and lots of them. Last time I was there they were trying to get them to do the Battle of the Bulge but there was something about the monkeys not being able to operate the tanks or something, they kept shooting into the crowd. Oh well maybe it is best for mankind not to teach monkeys to operate Panzer's you never know what the monkeys might do....
 
they should teach monkeys how to do simple tasks like suturing and chest tubes

then we could slowly replace the P.A. population
 
Wow homunculus you may be an unfrozen caveman but you club straight from the hip. I can only assume the fumes from the oil rigs have warped your mind.
 
HI Everyone!

Since I'm technologically challenged and never have joined a internet forum before, I hope I've done this right.

I'm Kathleen "Kat" Murray. I think I'm going to be one of senior citizens of our class (age of 40). My degrees themselves show my age '85 B.A. in psychology, '91 M.Div, '2002 M.B.A. ... My family calls me an academic junkie. I'm single and am now living in Tulsa (Brookside). I love adventure and hope to go into family practice. I guess the only other thing I should add is that I am an Episcopal priest. I look forward to getting to know you all.
 
Hi, Kat. You may be at the upper end, but there are a few that are a little older in my class & the one ahead of you. You're in good company 😉 You'd probably like reading this website of an older OSU-COM graduate.


Feel free to email or private message (PM) me if you have any questions about the school. You can do either of these by clicking on my username on the left. 🙂
 
Hey, everyone. This is my first post, and I just want to say "HI" to the rest of the class of 2008. My wife and I live at Westport on the River, so if anyone needs a place to crash after an all night study session, or just a place to get a free sandwich during a study break, feel free to stop by. Also, if there are any other Army HPSP student online here, drop me a line if you have any questions. I've been a green-suiter since 1999, hence my screen name. Have a good day!
 
Hey, ArmyDoc. This must be the day for new OSU-COMers to get on SDN 🙂 Same offer goes to you and anyone else here...feel free to get ahold of me if you have any OSU-COM questions.
 
wordup said:
Wow homunculus you may be an unfrozen caveman but you club straight from the hip. I can only assume the fumes from the oil rigs have warped your mind.
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you have no idea . . .

and armydoc-- nice to see you on SDN. you'll hafta come over to the military medicine forum and visit occasionally. OSU is very HPSP friendly, and any document you need signed/faxed/created (especially in the case of getting reimbursed for "required" stuff) they will do for you without much problem. also, as of right now the HPSP stipend isn't considered in as income when determining your borrowing limits, so borrow away 🙂 there are also a few "play the ends against the middle" kinda things you can do to get some well deserved time off here and there during your clinical rotations, but we'll cross that brisge when you get to it 😎

good luck, and most of all have fun 😀

-- your friendly neighborhood caveman
 
Welcome new members.......thanks for signing up..... 😀
 
Well, i have finally decided to post... i havent really checked this site out since filling out my interview feedback.
At anyrate my name is nick carroll, and I will also be living at westport. Fun fun. Im excited about fall, but im not ready for the summer to be over by any means.
Well, im not really too exciting. I look forward to meeting everyone.
 
A quick warning about Westport, yes, I too am a resident, BEWARE THE BROWN RECLUSE!, ohh, and congrats, on geting in to OSU-COM
 
Is "Westport" the apartment complex across the railroad tracks from the school?
 
Hernandez said:
A quick warning about Westport, yes, I too am a resident, BEWARE THE BROWN RECLUSE!, ohh, and congrats, on geting in to OSU-COM
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That's ok. Ive had a brown recluse with a nickle sized abdomen crawl across my neck. I screamed like a girl.
 
DrMom said:
Ah, don't worry! Apparently they all have moved into DireWolf's apartment 😉
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it's possible, they come in waves, you can always tell when they perform pest control on the apartments east of you, that's when they flood in, i came back after a break, and found 27 dead on my floors, and in my pans, so my plan is to "learn their language and breed with their women and in time our differences will be resolved"........ but untill then they ruined a perfectly good Progresso Chicken and herbs soup, they owe me a $1.38......
 
Hello all! First, let me introduce myself. I'm Suzanne, a 25 year-old single gal from Colorado who's doing Navy HPSP (any advice, Armydoc1999? other than switching to Army 😛 ), will be living at Westport, and has EXTREME arachnophobia!.. so, second, therefore, is my new state of distress over the recent brown recluse postings: ("27 dead on my floors"... "nickel sized abdomen"... 😱 ) - what does a brown recluse look like?!? (please help me out more than just "a brown spider") Guess it doesn't matter much, I'll be terrified either way, but just in case I manage to conquer my fear, don't want to let my guard down only to be bit and incapacitated by one I had befriended.

Anyway, I'm very excited to meet everyone! (woohoo!) Your postings have been helpful and hilarious. Yes, I dare say, these next four years are going to ROCK!
 
GoldenSnail said:
Hello all! First, let me introduce myself. I'm Suzanne, a 25 year-old single gal from Colorado who's doing Navy HPSP (any advice, Armydoc1999? other than switching to Army 😛 ), will be living at Westport, and has EXTREME arachnophobia!.. so, second, therefore, is my new state of distress over the recent brown recluse postings: ("27 dead on my floors"... "nickel sized abdomen"... 😱 ) - what does a brown recluse look like?!? (please help me out more than just "a brown spider") Guess it doesn't matter much, I'll be terrified either way, but just in case I manage to conquer my fear, don't want to let my guard down only to be bit and incapacitated by one I had befriended.

Anyway, I'm very excited to meet everyone! (woohoo!) Your postings have been helpful and hilarious. Yes, I dare say, these next four years are going to ROCK!
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Congrats on being accepted to our wonderful little school you'll enjoy it but I don't know about it rocking, but I have fun, your initial euphoria will wear off after your first Histo exam,

while the brown recluse have a bad reputation they are not aggressive at all, they just have a nasty bite when you get too close by accident, I wouldn't worry about it, and if you wish go to the Westport office and ask for pest control to be performed before the normal rotation, http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/enpp/ento/venomousspiders.htm
half way down will be pics, and don't worry the pics make them look huge, I?ve never seen one larger than a nickel, legs and all,
 
Oops! Meant to say "Thanks Hernandez!" Great site. (I'll buy you a can of Progresso Chicken and herbs soup when I get there.)
 
If bitten, remain calm, and immediately seek medical attention (contact your physician, hospital and/or poison control center). Apply an ice pack directly to the bite area to relieve swelling and pain. Collect the spider (even a mangled specimen has diagnostic value), if possible, for positive identification by a spider expert. A plastic bag, small jar, or pill vial is useful and no preservative is necessary, but rubbing alcohol helps to preserve the spider.

An effective commercial antivenin is not available. The surgical removal of tissue was once standard procedure, but now this is thought to slow down wound healing. Some physicians administer high doses of cortisone-type hormones to combat hemolysis and other systemic complications. Treatment with oral dapsone (an antibiotic used mainly for leprosy) has been suggested to reduce the degree of tissue damage. However, an effective therapy has not yet been found in controlled studies.
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(Now you know why I live at 71st & Lewis and not at Westport)
 
GoldenSnail,

Navy, huh? We'll have to arrange a football party for the Army-Navy game this year. Might as well get in the swing of the service traditions early, right? I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about military service, military lifestyle, etc. Just ask whatever you like. Also, feel free to stop by and talk to me in person. My wife and I love to have guests. In fact, if anybody from OSU-COM wants to know where we live, shoot me an email off of the mailing list, and I'll tell you where to find me.
As for the brown recluse discussion, the are also known as fiddlebacks because of the pattern on the dorsal side of their thoraxes. It resembles the body of a violin, or of a greek lyre. They can get as large as a quarter in circumference around the perimeter of thier legs on average, but some are larger. They are also very spindly in apperance. Their bodys are generally very slender and small, as are their legs slender and long.
If you even SUSPECT you have been bitten by one, it is better to play it safe than sorry. We had several soldiers in my platoon at Fort Benning get bitten in their sleep and ignore the bite for several days. It cost some of them their careers in the Army because the bite did permanent damage when it ate through their radial nerves. Hard to be a trooper when you can't squeeze a trigger, right? They were medically discharged. On the upside, brown recluses are called RECLUSES for a reason. The are VERY shy and will do everything they can to avoid people. It is when you go roaming through their habitats that you need to worry. That means, mind where you put your hands when you are cleaning the nooks and crannys you generally don't get into on a regular basis. If you respect them, they will respect you.
 
If you want to know about an officer's life aboard a ship for those non command corps types give me a holler... I was a shipboard navy chaplain for 2 years and a navy hospital chaplain for 1....you will have some interesting times once you go out into the fleet as a Doc!
 
Good lord hernandez, you are lucky. I must be living on a vat of mutagen, cause that thing was getting close to the size of a half dollar (legs and all)!!
At any rate, if you all have never seen a brown recluse bite, i highly recommend doing a google image search. You will find it very educational, i assure you.
I have also read some very inventive cures involving shocking the site with a taser, and also rubbing the site down with vinegar and baking soda. I have no idea if either would work, but if i got bit, id go to the hospital.
 
ArmyDoc1999 and Katz - Thanks so much for offering to answer all my questions about military life! I'll definitely be taking you both up on it. (unfortunately probably not till I get there b/c I leave for OIS in 36 hours... ahhh!!!) Oh - and ArmyDoc1999, regarding Army/Navy football - game on!

And to the guys - thanks for all the information about brown recluses - now that I know they're large spindly creatures who may bite in my sleep, leaving wounds which can eat through my nerves and are primarily untreatable except by taser, I feel much better 😛 It's all good, I'm always up for adventure! (Anything else about Tulsa they don't mention on interview day?)
 
I have just finished getting settled in from my move to Tulsa. I have a hard wood end table with a black marble center that I cannot use. It is nice piece of furniture sitting in my garage waiting for someone to give it a home. Let me know if any of you readers out there would like it.
 
Katz said:
I have just finished getting settled in from my move to Tulsa. I have a hard wood end table with a black marble center that I cannot use. It is nice piece of furniture sitting in my garage waiting for someone to give it a home. Let me know if any of you readers out there would like it.
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My wife would love it. How can we get it from you?
 
!dr_nick! said:
That's ok. Ive had a brown recluse with a nickle sized abdomen crawl across my neck. I screamed like a girl.
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Not only does he scream like a girl, he also has no butt hair. Just thought you kids would like to know. 😉
 
Oh I shared a bedroom with the boy for a year. You have no idea :laugh:
 
who the heck is gizmoduck? 😕
 
Nick how could you pretend we never happened like that. Does our love mean nothing to you now?
 
Hey everyone, my name is Brent Dressler. Im a new MS-1 at OSU. I was accepted way back at thanksgiving, but was just late getting on here. I recognized a bunch of people at the last admitted student day from my interview day (Nov. 21). I was the guy in the OSU tie at the interview.

I was born and raised in Tulsa/Broken Arrow. I now live in Westport. No one should question living in Westport at all. I love it. I have lived all over Tulsa, and Broken Arrow. You will have the same problems anywhere else that you would have at Westport. The only difference at Westport is that the management actually cares and takes care of problems quickly.

Cant wait till August.

Brent
 
Hey Brent---I think I was at your interview also.

Welcome to SDN!
 
BDress1227 said:
The only difference at Westport is that the management actually cares and takes care of problems quickly.
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:wow: you're talking about the westport next to the school, right? 😕

i hope for the new students' sake this is true. (where's the "fingers crossed" smilie when you need it? 🙂)
 
yeah, he apparently doesn't care about the flesh-eating spiders....
 
Hello~~
This is Julia Kim-MS1. I'm still in Korea so I'm not sure what i need to do--(i missed admitted student day and stuff)--I just found out today about this forum 😛
Anyways, a little about myself: I'm 23, from Tulsa, and a graduate of OU. ^_^
Am excited/nervous/intimidated that we only have one month left!! aigo!
hehe
please clue me in and tell me if i am missing anything!! thanks!!
 
Hi Brent and Julia Kim! Welcome aboard. Brent, I think I interviewed the same day you did.
 
ArmyDoc1999 said:
My wife would love it. How can we get it from you?
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Did you get the message I sent with my phone #?
 
Hey guys, i never had a lick of biochem as an undergrad. Should i bother studying for it at all before i come to osu in the fall? Im enjoying my summer thus far and would prefer not to. I've also been considering brushing up on anatomy.
 
DONE! You dont have to tell me twice. 😀
 
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