Fall Retreat

I attended a retreat for school today. It really isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. Basically they had us come into school for the day so that they could tell us about our classes and clinicals. We got to hear in detail about all the books we have to buy, plus we had an opportunity to buy diagnostic equipment for our clinicals. So, I dropped $558.15 on equipment. The most expensive thing was the otoscope/opthalmascope set which cost $501. I do, however, have a form to fill out for a whopping $25 rebate. Hooray! If anyone needs their eyes or ears examined, let me know. Then I’ll feel like I’m actually making use of this outrageously expensive piece of equipment.

I still also have to buy a lab coat. I’m kind of excited about that because: (1) we get to have knee length coats (not stupid short ones like the medical students), and (2) we are supposed to have our name embroidered on it. I know this sounds kind of dumb, but if you aren’t in the medical field you probably wouldn’t understand.

In further good news, we found out that we won’t have to do pelvic exams on each other for health assessment class. We knew that we were going to have to do most of the exams on each other, but pelvic exams would just be totally weird. Apparently they pay “models” to come in and we do exams on them. How you get set up for that gig I have absolutely no idea.

In even further good news, I went to the bookstore after the retreat. They actually had used copies of 3 of my 11 books. This saved me anywhere from $38 to $53, depending on how you look at it. I will probably end up buying the rest of my books online at B&N or Amazon.

To round off the day, I went to “happy hour” at Cactus Cantina with people from work. Had some frozen swirl margaritas. It was pretty great. Below are a few pictures I took. We were sitting outside and they didn’t really turn out the greatest. The first two pictures are of the group. The third one is of Lindsay and her now somewhat showing belly (she’s 16 weeks pregnant). No margaritas for her!! The last one is of Molly in a classic Molly pose.