Week 14-15

The final exam for the term is approaching...T-10 days.

Things are clicking in regards to head and neck content and I am thankful to be experiencing that. I just pray that everything comes together in the next week. I really am praying for everything to be ready within 7 days and have the remaining 3 days to brush up on the little details. I don't know if this is reasonable-but I really pray for this and would love any and all prayer.

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I met up with an upper term student today who is very smart and was willing to take some time to work through some anatomy concepts with me. I feel like I have been blessed by specific people who I have met and been able to study with throughout the term. Each one comes at just the right time. Sometimes I wish I had met them sooner and could have been working with them all along...
 I came with questions on a few specific nerves of the head and neck and autonomics. After 22 minutes of discussion-I felt like a lightbulb had finally gone off over my head-he said he saw it. I think it was the 1001st time I had been told the same information-but something clicked. Thank God.

I then returned to my studying with my classmate and was able to articulate how the extra ocular muscles/nerves would be affected by various lesions and what the clinical manifestations would be. I am usually the one who is being taught and having things explained to me-but this turn of events-me explaining something to her-felt really good for once. I finally grasped a concept well enough to explain it to someone and have them understand it and it showed my growth in understanding it too.

I then went on to reviewing my questions for head and neck and approached each question with a calmer state of mind. My time with the upper term student was really helpful-more so than he probably knows-because I left feeling calm, confident and reminded myself that "just thinking through" the information to arrive to the right answer is how I should approach each question. However-he also stressed the following idea: "knowing how to eliminate the incorrect answers." I feel like this is just as important as knowing how to identify the right answer.

I am praying that all the studying will pay off and that I can sit down during the test and know that I know I am prepared and have put in the effort to understand the information.

At the end of the day-I have a desire to do well and progress.
I want to be a doctor.
I want to learn.
...and for some reason- I wake up everyday and have the opportunity to choose how to spend my time. Being here has done a wonder on my mind, heart and general outlook of many things and I cannot help but think that it's all shaping who I am and who I am becoming.

-M.H-

I am keeping this verse in the forefront of my mind: "Jesus looked at them and said-"with man this is impossible-but with God-all things are possible."