Upper Respiratory Infection!

We get TWO three day weekends this semester (all within the first month) and I was sick all through the second one. Farley has taken good care of me: getting my medication, helping me carrying things since I'm having trouble breathing, checking up on me, looked in my ears and he even made me chicken noodle soup--from the can! I think the combination of one sick medical student, two medical students and basic medical equipment could be deadly. We decided (okay I decided) to listen to my lungs and obviously Farley had to listen too. We noticed that I had wheezing in the LOWER lungs, but maybe we just missed the wheezing in the upper lungs. We also had to look down my throat, then down his throat to see if we had irritation. Yup, we are at that dangerous stage of just knowing enough to get ourselves in trouble. Good thing I saw the doctor today, who confirmed our suspected diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection and put me on the medication that Farley and I, the arm chair doctors that we are, thought would be appropriate. Jokingly, I like to refer to us as F.M.D.s= Future Medical Doctors and observing REAL doctors is just part of our training. In all seriousness, I really liked the doctor who I saw today and she took impeccable care of me. I hope that I am just as caring and smart as many of the doctors that I have been luckily enough to spend time around.

I guess it is a blessing that I'm not behind since we had the extra day, but I wish I could have been more useful this weekend. I wanted to use this extra time to get ahead as our first set of exams will be here before we know it. To my delight, despite my impaired breathing, I got a 90% on a renal physiology quiz. For those of you who don't know, the kidneys are the vain of many a medical student's existence: vital, complicated, and down right irritating! I was so proud that I did well on that quiz that I would yell it from the roof tops, IF I didn't have to study histology, anatomy, neuroscience, and biochemistry. Speaking of studying, I should get back to it...