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A few ground rules. Everything you post must be RANDOM and more importantly, only peripherally related to the MCAT. See my example post below. I now await Beary's shirtless pic of Carl Edwards. C'mon Beary, A-man is dying to see it. 😀

This is Ana's example:

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My, factually, better examples 😀 :

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And one final thing. GO GATORS! GO AGGIES! My parents are A&M alum...

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RAD11 said:
Stay with us...lets slack together 😳
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😳 I've been slacking so much I'm actually excited about getting into work. Maybe will make me feel like myself again.

And I need to get there before one of my classmates steals the slides. 😡 (Seriously, he does this all the time. We have a microscope in the resident's room but he takes them somewhere else.)
 
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beary said:
😳 I've been slacking so much I'm actually excited about getting into work. Maybe will make me feel like myself again.

And I need to get there before one of my classmates steals the slides. 😡 (Seriously, he does this all the time. We have a microscope in the resident's room but he takes them somewhere else.)
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okay 🙁

I should get some work done too...yay!! .....NOT!!

Later guys!
 
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Is there anything you can do for a jammed/possibly broken tip of your pinky? It is feeling better but has a slight downward bend and is still swollen.

****Not asking medical advice**** just seeing if anyone else has ever had this happen and what they did.
 
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oxeye said:
Yay! So you are feeling okay enough to make it into work? 🙂
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Yeah! Now that I am here I feel like I'm going to die but it is really good for my mental state to be here, seriously. 👍

And, one of my favorite classmates just got engaged! :clap:

*goes off in search of slides that a co-HO stole*
 
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BrettBatchelor said:
Is there anything you can do for a jammed/possibly broken tip of your pinky? It is feeling better but has a slight downward bend and is still swollen.

****Not asking medical advice**** just seeing if anyone else has ever had this happen and what they did.
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pinky naturally is down pointing but if its more than normal ... you'd probably tell if its "broken". Its probably fractured in that case I suggest a finger isolator and /or tape to your ring finger. I fracture my finger when my pinky got slammed in between a stick and goal post playing field hockey. It was NOT fun. 🙁

Hope you feel better.
 
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mshheaddoc said:
pinky naturally is down pointing but if its more than normal ... you'd probably tell if its "broken". Its probably fractured in that case I suggest a finger isolator and /or tape to your ring finger. I fracture my finger when my pinky got slammed in between a stick and goal post playing field hockey. It was NOT fun. 🙁

Hope you feel better.
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I mean I was just trying to catch a football so I don't think it did that much damage. I'm just a big baby when it comes to injuries. I'm chalking it up as training in patient pain management.
 
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Woohoo - I've almost sold/given away all of my little baby stuff! 😀

It makes me a little sad but recently I've felt soooooo ready to never go through the baby stage again. They're cute and all, but hey - I can go into OB or Peds if I really need that baby fix. 😉
 
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BrettBatchelor said:
I mean I was just trying to catch a football so I don't think it did that much damage. I'm just a big baby when it comes to injuries. I'm chalking it up as training in patient pain management.
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If you think it could be a displaced fracture or dislocated, you should get it fixed (otherwise it will heal badly). If you truly just "jammed" it and it's swollen but not grossly deformed, it should heal on its own with some rest and ice. 👍

Or, you could just cut your finger off and send it to me.

I am very happy to be at work. 😍 I feel like a normal person. 😀
 
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beary said:
If you think it could be a displaced fracture or dislocated, you should get it fixed (otherwise it will heal badly). If you truly just "jammed" it and it's swollen but not grossly deformed, it should heal on its own with some rest and ice. 👍

Or, you could just cut your finger off and send it to me.

I am very happy to be at work. 😍 I feel like a normal person. 😀
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The knuckle is just swollen so I'll let it chill for the moment.
 
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beary said:
My brother and my folks did that too. Now they are re-buying all that stuff. 🙂

Oh, and Olivia is going to be a black kitty cat for Halloween. Finally decided. 😍
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LOL, I guess your brother and SIL weren't *really* done. 😉

I'm sooooo done. Just need to send hubby off to be neutered.
 
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beary said:
A "peer letter"? :laugh: :laugh:

What is that, a letter from a friend? Seriously?
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Hahahaha yeah there are at least 2 Florida schools that ask for peer letters of recommendation and then there's USF which asks for two character letters but those are supposed to be from people who have been your supervisor in a research or work or volunteering kind of thing or done stuff of that nature not necessarily friends although some people do use peer letters as character letters.
 
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BrettBatchelor said:
Is there anything you can do for a jammed/possibly broken tip of your pinky? It is feeling better but has a slight downward bend and is still swollen.

****Not asking medical advice**** just seeing if anyone else has ever had this happen and what they did.
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brett--you really need to go get an x-ray--if it's broken and you let it heal on it's own without setting it, then your finger is gonna be all messed up and ugly. i know my undergrad health service used to give x-rays for $20 even if you didn't have insurance.
 
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my god you guys i just had one of the most incredible experiences of my life. things were slow as we were waiting for our new intake so i sat down with one of the schizophrenic patients and talked to her for an hour. she was calm and non-violent, like talking to one of your friends. i went through all of it with her, when her hallucinations started, when her delusions started etc... it was AMAZING. i'll blog about it this weekend. i challenged her delusions by trying to show her how it was all just her mind playing tricks on her because the voices stopped after she started taking her medicines. she believes a chip was implanted or left inside of her during a c-section 4 years ago.

me: the voices stopped after you came here and started taking your medicine?
pt: yeah, i have peace right now. no more voices!
me: so you see, it must have been your mind playing tricks on you. if it was a chip how could medicine silence the voices? you see that tv over there? i could take all the medicine in the world and the tv would still stay on so it COULDNT have been a chip causing the voices, a chip is a machine and medicine doesnt turn off machines.

i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo felt like i was reaching into her mind and trying to pull her out of her schizophrenia, i was soooo waiting for that "Oh my god" moment when she realized medicine cant turn off machines and that it must be her mind playing tricks on her.

her response? "they must have lowered the volume" 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

broke my heart, i just wanted to hug her. i know you cant pull someone out of schizophrenia but damn it if i wasnt going to try to show her why it was all in her head during the only 6 weeks in my life i'll ever work this closely to psych pts. that was soooo sad and was the first time i got to do any real psychiatry on this unit instead of scut since it was slow. how many times will you ever have in your life to sit with a nice, safe, schizophrenic and challenge them like that? it was unbelievable.

sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
 
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Arsenic said:
my god you guys i just had one of the most incredible experiences of my life. things were slow as we were waiting for our new intake so i sat down with one of the schizophrenic patients and talked to her for an hour. she was calm and non-violent, like talking to one of your friends. i went through all of it with her, when her hallucinations started, when her delusions started etc... it was AMAZING. i'll blog about it this weekend. i challenged her delusions by trying to show her how it was all just her mind playing tricks on her because the voices stopped after she started taking her medicines. she believes a chip was implanted or left inside of her during a c-section 4 years ago.

me: the voices stopped after you came here and started taking your medicine?
pt: yeah, i have peace right now. no more voices!
me: so you see, it must have been your mind playing tricks on you. if it was a chip how could medicine silence the voices? you see that tv over there? i could take all the medicine in the world and the tv would still stay on so it COULDNT have been a chip causing the voices, a chip is a machine and medicine doesnt turn off machines.

i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo felt like i was reaching into her mind and trying to pull her out of her schizophrenia, i was soooo waiting for that "Oh my god" moment when she realized medicine cant turn off machines and that it must be her mind playing tricks on her.

her response? "they must have lowered the volume" 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

broke my heart, i just wanted to hug her. that was soooo sad and was the first time i got to do any real psychiatry on this unit instead of scut since it was slow. how many times will you ever have in your life to sit with a nice, safe, schizophrenic and challenge them like that? it was unbelievable.

sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
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that is so incredible and sad at the same time
 
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RAD11 said:
it's good to be home....ain't it? :clap:
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totally rad, now i can actually read and learn psych instead of just doing paperwork! 😍

honestly though, talking to a schizophrenic like that was something i thought i'd never do in my life, not in a million years. i was trying to give her a john nash moment like in the movie "a beautiful mind" where he realizes it must all be in his head because the little girl he saw never got old, "she never gets old. the little girl, all these years and she never gets old." call me naive or stupid or whatever but i needed to see for myself that schizophrenic pts just cant make the rational connections, EVEN WHEN ITS PRESENTED TO THEM. she just couldnt take that final leap. 🙁

i'm not kidding, this will be an experience i'll remember for the rest of my life
 
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