3/19/2012

Sorry I'm a little late.  The internet was absolutely impossible last night and I didn't have much cell phone reception either.  Generally, I had a good but boring day.  I biked into class, learned about spinal anatomy and had my second problem based learning session.  We were too effective and didn't have enough time to go through all of her issues.  If you remember this is the case from two weeks ago where a woman fell and broke her hip.  Previously the instructor had been making us try to identify her problem.  Today we were in small groups facilitated by Louisa(pronounced Louiser if you remember your Australian language lessons).  We started along the same track as last time by Louisa re-directed us saying that anyone who wasn't immediately aware that this woman had a fractured head of femur probably needed to drop out.  Everyone was very relieved as it is boing to try to debate an issue everyone already agrees upon.  Instead we discussed the woman's life style and changes she could make to decrease risk of future falls and fractures.  After the problem based learning session we finished spinal anatomy.  If you're keeping track we had 5 lectures on the entire upper extremity, 4 on the lower, and 4 on the back.  That doesn't mean that it isn't important it just means that the lectures aren't much more than bullet points of topics that we are expected to learn on our own.  We had a nice lunch on the grass, it was  sunny and fantastic.  After lunch we had our theory lecture of the week and discussed hip pathologies.  I got called out as the most insane runner in the class but I couldn't convert miles to Km on the spot and sold myself short by about 15K.  I had a nice bike ride home, ate the stuffed pepper Katie had left me for dinner and went on a short jog.  I came back to do homework but the internet was down.  I wasn't in the mood to go to a cafe to finish my work so I decided to blow it off and do it in the morning at Uni where I have consistent internet assess.  Instead I finished Tread....love,love love!!