It's a beautiful day! Don't let it get away!

Today was a particularly good day for me. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, but it was a just a good day. I made it to class on time, without running to campus. It was cold but the sun was out and shining all day. Classes today were great. I learned a lot and actually was very attentive, which is kind of out of the norm. One of the things that I love most about the human body is the heart and blood. Today in pediatrics we talked about blood disorders. I think the reason that I like the topic so much is because I understand it so well. Kidneys with electrolyte balances, and endocrine with all the crazy hormones, and repro with all the random cycles I just don't grasp real well. The heart and blood I get, I live for this stuff! In mother/baby today I learned a lot also, mostly because we talked about blood again...sort of, more about the lack there of (postpartum hemorrhage). I won't go into the details because I'm pretty sure you don't want to know, but today was just a fascinating day! In ethics, which is usually SOOO boring, we had a very interesting, stimulating conversation. We had watched the movie "Miss Ever's Boys" about the Tuskegee study that took place from 1932-1972. It's rather graphic, so I won't describe it but you can read about it here. Overall it was an intellectually stimulating day. After class I met up with a friend and we talked for an hour and half, which made it that much better.

Some completely random things I learned today:
-A kangaroo's breast milk is pink.
-Postpartum hemorrhage is the number one maternal killer worldwide.
-It really hard to swallow with your head in any other position than looking straight ahead.
-Most of the fortification in cereal comes off when you pour the milk on because the vitamins are sprayed onto the cereal at the factory.
-IV drug use is the number cause for heart valve replacement surgery.
-I miss mint cookies and cream ice cream. The ice cream place in the WILK hasn't had it for a long time =(