One year already?

It appears it has been one whole year since I put up my first post on this blog. And this is my 96th post. Now 96 is conveniently a multiple of 12, which means on average I have been posting 8 times a month. Is that excessive? Or 1.8 posts per week. Or 0.26 posts per day. Which somehow sounds a lot less than 8 posts a month. Or does it sound like more?

Of course, in the end it doesn't have to do with how many posts you've put up, but how much time you've spent writing up those posts. Not to mention comments. I wonder how many times I've commented?

Well this is turning out to be one of my more pointless posts. Can't really think of anything to write...oh wait, yes I can!

*runs off to appear in another post*

ok, removing post that was here for a few hours, just in case people doing the exam this afternoon have somehow found this blog and happen to be blog surfing instead of studying just before their exams....lalala i hope i didn't just give the answers away to someone...

[Edit]

It's back now =)

Farrrrrrrr out!!!!!

OK, just came out from my OSCE (finally found out what that stands for: Objective Structured Clinical Examination.....although I don't know what is so objective about it, it definitely won't be the marking) and......*grrrrrrr!!! at myself*


So for once, I was TOTALLY CALM (I'm usually shaking when I go into these things) must have been divine intervention, wasn't nervous or anything, heart rate was normal, could talk properly, and the case wasn't too hard.....So hopefully I'll be all good for the oral marking criteria (at least it felt alright), but unfortunately in terms of clinical stuff I recommended all the wrong things.

Why do I keep getting cases on UTIs???? 46yo woman with recurrent UTIs, with script for a new antibiotic, 3 day course of Noroxin, as she had had a urine test which showed the strain of bacteria she had was resistant to the drug the doctor had previously prescribed. So all good as Noroxin is meant to be used for resistant strains. But completely didn't realise the course was meant to be increased to 10 days as her UTIs are recurrent. How stupid of me. Goodbye to Major Finding and Recommendation #1.

Also stuffed up Major Finding #1 as I suggested nitrofurantoin to be used for prophylaxis of her recurrent UTIs, not realising that nitrofurantoin interacts with Noroxin, and these two drugs should not be used together. Stupid stupid stupid.

Hopefully I at least pass with what I wrote for Major finding #2 (that she is at risk for developing diabetes and should get tested). You have to pass this stupid exam to pass the subject! even if you've passed everything else! If I fail this, it would be a total waste of my flukes in our earlier 20% case study assessment and 5% multi-guess quizzes! (I was so surprised when I got those back, I thought that maybe for once, I might even get a credit in this subject!)

(Not that there's anything wrong with passes, but would you trust a pharmacist who's never gotten above 65 in the subject called "Pharmacy Practice"? It's pretty much the only subject that really counts and has any relevance to being a pharmacist, and I suck at it. (OK, maybe the other subjects are kinda relevant as well...)

Waaahhh! The case was so easy and I stuffed it up! Not enough time. If there had been more time I would have checked things more thoroughly. Not that real-life pharmacists get enough time to do things.

Oh well. It's over now. Back to studying for normal sit-down exams.

Star Fade

(...the tragic love song/poem, inspired by Angi's post on star fades.) (I hope she doesn't mind me stealing her ideas!)


Once upon a balmy night
In the summer of our youth
We drank in the moonlight
While breezes caught our whispered truths

And in the silence of the moment
It could all have been a dream
And you said, "Run Away's been done before,
Won't you star fade out with me?"

Once upon a rainy night
Now wiser through the years
We sat while in the shaded light
Your cheeks glistened with tears

And in the silence of the moment
I could just recall that dream
Where you said, "Run Away's been done before,
Won't you star fade out with me?"

But oh, there were no stars that night
The rain fell from the skies
It washed away our memories
It drowned our empty sighs

Once upon a frosty night
When winter trees were bare
You lay in peace and said goodbye
To all that we had shared

And in the silence of the moment
There was nothing left to dream
And I said, "I've never been here before,
Please don't star fade out from me."


Awww......*sniff* That's so sad! (*Ahem* in both senses of the word....c'mon, it is really late, though, I am kinda still wide awake, despite needing to get up early tomorrow morning for a flight to Brisbane...yeah, sorry, couldn't work out whether to be tragic or funny, so went for both simultaneously with above disasterous consequences.)

Acknowledgements again to the original blog post =)

O Lord, the clouds are gathering

Words and music by Graham Kendrick


O Lord, the clouds are gathering, the fire of judgement burns,
How we have fallen!
O Lord, you stand appalled to see your laws of love so scorned,
And lives so broken.

Have mercy Lord,
Forgive us Lord,
Restore us Lord; revive your church again
Let justice flow,
Like rivers,
And righteousness like a neverfailing stream.

O Lord, over the nations now, where is the dove of peace?
Her wings are broken,
O Lord, while precious children starve, the tools of war increase,
Their bread is stolen.

Have mercy Lord,
Forgive us Lord,
Restore us Lord; revive your church again
Let justice flow,
Like rivers,
And righteousness like a neverfailing stream.

O Lord, dark powers are poised to flood our streets with hate and fear,
We must awaken!
O Lord, let love reclaim the lives that sin would sweep away,
And let Your kingdom come!

Have mercy Lord,
Forgive us Lord,
Restore us Lord; revive your church again
Let justice flow,
Like rivers,
And righteousness like a neverfailing stream.

Yet O Lord, your glorious cross shall tower triumphant in this land,
Evil confounding;
Through the fire, your suffering church displays the glories of her Christ,
Praises resounding.

Have mercy Lord,
Forgive us Lord,
Restore us Lord; revive your church again
Let justice flow,
Like rivers,
And righteousness like a neverfailing stream,
A neverfailing stream.


"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"
Amos 5:24