When everything changes

I've had a quite bittersweet experience. A traffic accident. So why bitterSWEET?

Well, bitter is obvious. I might have to terminate my studies, but I really hope to get back to school soon, and that I'm able to save all my effort the last year. My spine is broken. Luckily "only" a compression fracture of L1 and L2, and I'm all ready able to walk a bit around. I need to walk a lot. I got "contusio cerebri" (does it gives extra points to my latin credit/exam if I actually got the exact favourite diagnosis of our latin teacher?). And then I got som bruises and a wound, and possibly a damage to my left ear.

So why sweet? Lifte has altered it's meaning. And all my friends and classmates have shown me the best of them. I got a new perspective.

Life can be fragile. So easy to wipe away. My first steps after the accident was magic. It was kind of painful, but still fantastic. And then they all started to show up. Classmates. Norwegian students. Friends. People I've met but not necessary spoken that much with before. There has been people from allmost every continent, every study year and of different believes.

You have brought me flowers, chocolates, breadrolls, juice, water, magazines, dinner, greetings.. everything! But the most important; you have all brought me strength and best wishes. And I know you all care. And that have left a deep impression on me. I really love you all, guys!

And I have learned that to lay down on a plastic bed, total naked, and then being washed by a czech nurse who doesn't speak a word english actually is close to heaven. It's just a question about circumstances...

Thanks Silje Cam.

Essays, credittests and reports.

It had to come. We are now proceeding the end of the academic year, and things are getting tougher. This is the two months who will decide if I'm good enough to be enrolled to the second year. I have to work harder. Read more. Read even more than that! I have plans to reread everything I've read in the subjects we are gonna have exams in this spring. If I got time!

For histology I have to finish the embryology. Luckily I passed the embryology I credit test (most of my class actually failed it..), and there is one more. Then I just have to pass my minitests and the last slide-test; because I don't have to take the credit test then. And I can decide myself when to take the exam (with a few limitations).

For anatomy I have to hand in my essay in special dissection on monday. It's nearly finished. I just have to make some adjustments and make a simple scheme which have to follow the essay. My essay is about the obturator nerve, by the way. Then I have to make my minitests (again) and the CNS-credit. The exam is HUGE, and the material I have to read is some thousand pages.

Latin is an another story (you did read my Latin-post earlier?). I probably failed the credit last week (I focused on the embryotest instead..) But give me a couple of weeks, and I'll be able to decline corpus alienum in all 5 cases in both singular and plural.. And all the terminology and rules for comparative adjectives... If I can make the credit, I can make the exam.

Then I have to do a couple of credits; biology (I have to have my lab-booklet controlled and accepted, and pass a test which will be held in the end of this month) I also had to hand in a lab-report last week.

The other credit is czech language, I feel I somehow got control on it; I have to take the reading part, the medical vocabulary credit and MAYBE the grammar credit. Time will show!

And then, suddently, we are in the exam period. The period of reading, overdose of coffee, nervous breakedowns and failed trials on the exams. And if lucky; passing an exam from time to other..

The only thing I actually is finished with, is the first aid. Hurray!!

Crisis!!!!!!!

It all happend so suddently. The rumour was spread like a wild fire. Doctors and technicians gathered in the aula. The discussion was loudly and we all got this creepy feeling of an upcoming crisis. One doctor yelded on one of the technicians. How was she supposed to run her departement on our medical faculty when a crucial technical advice broke down in the early morning? I could hear her frustration. Her assistant, a younger doctor, or maybe a student, supported her. This was not appropriate!

The technicians had to put a note on the advanced machinery for a while; out of order. The doctors was not happy about this solution, but the technicians needed some time to fix it.

The machine was fixed before lunch-time, by czech effectivity and administration. Hopefully, the doctors, assistents and not at least the students managed to do their work this disasterous morning, in spite of the lack of a very important component. The coffe-machine is now working again....

Rock photo.

I had to try to make some rock photos when I had the chance yesterday. Occation; norwegian ANSA seminar for medical students in Czech Republic. The band doesn't have any name... they're 6 norwegian medical students from Prague who actually got time to rehearse... Enjoy! And of course I had to include a photo of Lado and Velaug in tha move!

Credits and brains.

It helps to have a brain when doing your credits. Yesterday I did my first aid credit. I had to answer 5 multiple choice questions and resuscitate a ambudoll connected to a computer. The test result was: 100% of theoretical knowledge, and the "patient" wouldt probably survive until the ambulance arrived:

-amount of air given during rescue breathing was correct, also the rate

-no air forced into the stomach

-compression and decompression of the heart was perfect

-time spend between compressions and rescue breathing was minimal.

the only "mistake" in my practical test was that my compression ratio actually was a bit high (130/min).

Todays subject in anatomy was the brain, or more accurate; the brain stem. It's a fantastic organ, so complex, so fragile, so... advanced. I actually failed my first anatomy minitest today, due to all the things happening the last weeks. So I have to go back home and start revicing.

Left alone

I'm finally installed in my new flat. Ayan has left the building.. I'm gonna miss her!

Today was a typically tuesday. Up at six, starting the first czech lesson at seven. I'm gonna have biology practical later on today, but I forgot my lab-shoes.. blue, plastic shoe overlets, anyone? Wondering what we are going to kill today. May be some more paramecium?

I'm ready to read a bit more now. And I got the best reason to study well this spring to.. I have to finish my finals before the end of june.. Someone is going for a rock concert with backstage pass this summer!! It took me about a week to actually believe in it.

So, my plans are: Read. Revice. Do my tests. Pass EVERTHING.

Yes, that's true! Went to Prague this weekend. Met a couple of "friends of moral & music". I think we had the greatest time, drinking overpriced beer, tried to argue with an angry portier, walking the small streets of old town, discussing shoes, music, art and architecture... I hope to see them back in Czech republic soon. I will return the favour and go to Stockholm, Sweden, this summer! ;)