The best coffee

It all started as a joke, really. All of it.

Rosie downloaded Tinder a few weeks ago to see what all the fuss was about. She got chatting with a really nice guy, and of course, she received quite a number of, erm, questionable greetings and/or one-liners. And a date for Saturday.

I was intrigued. I was curious. And more importantly, I was procrastinating.

So I downloaded Tinder too.

More meds and a lot of doctors

As somebody who desperately hopes to be a physician one day, I am pretty bad at being a patient.

I don't get things checked out unless it's been bothering me for a long time (see: my shoulder), and I don't take my medication as directed (I forget to!). I am a noncompliant patient; shame on me.

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Now that a full 24 hours has passed between now and when the medical school acceptances rolled out, I have a bit less anxiety about knowing who got in and who didn't. I mean, sure, I am insanely jealous that hey did and I didn't even get a single interview, but at the same time I'm happy for them. For most of them anyway--the ones who have worked hard and deserved it.

Now that I've had time to reflect a little why I feel this way. I think I've mostly pinpointed it to feeling inferior to my peers. We all started out the exact same. Suddenly they are med students, while I am still kicking around in undergrad. I feel like a small child next to these legends, because let's face it, the people who are in medical school are pretty much demigods in the eyes of BHSc students.

More Ms: Math & Meds

Today's May 13th, aka the date a large handful of Health Scis were waiting for. Med schools released their admissions offers this morning, and I've been avoiding Facebook because I'm in no state to read all the status updates. It just rubs it in how I mucked up my app and MCAT this year. I really want to know where the 4th years are going, but the 3rd years...not so much.

I dropped by the doctor's today to get my shoulder checked up. She said it was probably just muscle strain, and she started me on anti-inflammatories. The MSU insurance package (which I couldn't opt out of because student athlete policy or something) covered 90% of the cost (!), leaving me to pay $1.52. That's...pretty neat! Especially considering I have no idea what our family's insurance policy is/how it works.

While I was waiting for my appointment, I hung around MUSC, just doing physics for the MCAT and I've come to realize just how far I've slipped since the course last year, and how bad at math I am: apparently 60/60=10. Yeah. That bad.

SHINGLES?! (◕︵◕)

Mei suggested that I might have shingles.

I don't want shingles.

I want to be a happy and healthy human being

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But it's been a couple hours and the burning/itching is still there. Definitely going to pay the Wellness Centre a visit tomorrow. If it's not shingles maybe at least they can give me some sort of analgesic gel or something to soothe it.

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Shoulder things :(

I've mentioned my shoulder in a previous post - I've written about how I probably pulled or pinched a muscle or nerve. The radiating pain has more or less receded, my my shoulder blade will still flare up with pain sometimes. And today, it started itching. I want to say it's a rash, because it's painful and itchy at the same time like one, and when I scratch it there's this strange disconnect - almost like the skin is numb or very thick and leathery. Either way, not all the sensation's there, but there's a dull ache there too. I first became aware of the weird feeling of not feeling myself scratch my injured shoulder when I first realized I injured myself. But this rash-like symptom only came to notice this evening, which is really concerning. I've also discovered a very continuous and straight bump going from my right shoulder to the bottom of my neck, almost completely horizontally across. And then there's a smaller one of those things closer to the outside of my arm.

I looked up the symptoms and either I have a dislocated shoulder (honestly though, on bad days it feels dislocated but slightly less painful), contact dermatitis, allergies, or (the worst), scabies. I really hope it's not scabies or anything related to an infestation of bug/fungi. Because that would be gross.

I've been putting off getting it checked out at the clinic for a while now, but if the rash-thing persists I'll have to go in.

I've never had medical problems before, someone please make it stop :(

It's Friday, which means lab meeting at 9:00am! I set several alarms to make sure I woke early enough to grab breakfast and make it to the bus on time. I did, thankfully, and arrived early enough to be the 3rd person in the room. It was either that or fifteen minutes late, which has happened more often than I care to admit. My presentation was short, just presenting results from Tuesday because we messed up on Monday and Thursday.

I ran the same experiments again today, and now the results actually resemble something conclusive. After the end of a long week, I just wanted to go home and sleep, and that's what I did.

Of course, Friday also means Hannibal.

You can imagine how that went.

The Big Ms

The past week can pretty much be summarized in 8 Ms:  Moving, Mom, Mmm-mm, Marvel, Moleskines, Musical, MCAT, and Mistakes. Most of it happened on Tuesday and Wednesday; I got so caught up in my lab and MCAT work I never got a chance to sit down and write about it -- not that I usually sit down and write about my day in the first place.

So I guess the first big thing is I've decided now is as good a time as any to begin blogging properly (instead of hanging around on Tumblr all the time). It's summer (or so they say; I wouldn't know because I'm still so busy), I've moved to a new house, and I've finally started running experiments in the lab. It's pretty much the freshest start I can hope for right now, and I'm definitely not complaining.