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Cranial nerves and hard ons, oh my...

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"Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, to touch a female vagina, gives Victor a hardon." Patrick J. Lynch, medical illustrator See, I said it. Vagina, hard on, and I'll just go ahead and add penis to this sentence. However, It worked for it's purpose. Remembering the 12 Cranial nerves. I – Olfactory II – Optic III – Oculomotor IV – Trochlear V (1,2,3) – Trigeminal VI – Abducens VII – Facial VIII – Vestibulocochlear IX – Glossopharyngeal X – Vagus XI – Accessory XII – Hypoglossal  - ( Via Wikipedia ) (Yes, I'm using Wikipedia as a source. No this isn't a scholarly or even very intelligent post, it's okay.) Sooo, I was suppose to memorize the 12 cranial nerves and their function (sensory, motor, or both) for a test this semester. I didn't, the test didn't go well. this is the point of test (or is how I use them at least). They are to show you what you need to learn! Within hours of that class ending, the tale of Victors sexual adv...

Medic school discussions: VARK and JUNG

Vark Learning tool Visual: 4 Aural: 12 Read/Write: 4 Kinesthetic: 14 The VARK very accurately describes my personal learning style. I have always learned best by doing. I have to actually manipulate and try things to do them to the best of my abilities. I also enjoy and do well with lecturing. I enjoy listening and talking to people. I am indifferent to visual aid and power points, I see them more as a reminder of what a good lecturer should be talking about. I also dislike just reading text. I understand it’s importance and do it willingly, but it’s a slow process for me and I often get distracted multiple times a page. With lecturing I am going to use my visual, aural, and more than likely reading/writing. Luckily my Aural skills are better and that makes me a good student for listening to lecture. Hands on learning happens to be my forte. I do very well working with people and practicing skills, I learn by doing very quickly and have a much higher retention ra...

Medic School Discussions: What Does Professional Mean to you?

** Please comment and let me know your thoughts, if I'm wrong I want to learn why and how to be better** What Does Professional Mean to you? professionalism: Possessing the required abilities, knowledge, and self-discipline to effectively perform a specialized action or work. As a paramedic I have to be able to quickly and accurately assess and treat a Patient. Not only do I need the knowledge and physical ability to do the work, but I need to have the self-discipline to do it appropriately, effectively, and compassionately. Because our work is so publicly available it is essential that we show ourselves in a confident, competent manner. If my patient doesn't think I’m competent because I lacked the self-discipline to tuck my shirt in and fix my hair at O’dark thirty they won’t be as receptive to my assessment or treatments. As someone who doesn't have a lot of volunteer experience I have mixed thoughts of “professional” volunteers. On the first day of orientation at ...

Hours of boredom; Minutes of terror.

"Shut up! you don't really work! you played borderlands for eight hours!" He spat.  I had complained I was never home.  I wanted him to get off his ass and stop playing games and help me clean up after I had worked 48 hours in three days. I had to bite my tongue.  He wouldn't get it.  He was right in a sense.  I had  spent a whole 8 hours playing borderlands.  Once.  The last 24 hours hadn't been like that.  Had not been like that at all.  The area I cover is fairly quiet most days, most days being a key component in that statement.  My favorite saying at work, to the point I would call it a mantra is "No rest for the wicked".  Assuming I'm a wicked person, it's about as true as they come. Like some dispatcher somewhere was watching me, as soon as I kicked my boots off the tones dropped for another call.  I was running on fumes by the time I got home. I wanted to tell him to go pound sand. I had  worked for the la...

married for a full week!

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So this post is mostly going to be pictures from our Honeymoon/Vacation, We went up to Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor for the week. We stayed on the "quiet side" in Southwest Harbor. It was nice to have a solid week away after we've been working so much and planning the wedding. I'm sure I'll post wedding pictures when we get them.  The Cottage we stayed at all week. The car guardian was happy to go to Acadia too! Please don't try to watch the whole park loop now. It's 30 minutes long! but our random commentary is always nice to listen to! Rated PG-13 for language! So we had a great week! We're home now and working on getting our Apartment in living order, Writing thank you cards for the multitude of gifts we got from everyone, and continuing to "get married." Only 79 years and 51 weeks to go!

"The Hatchery" Teaser.

Alright, So I have been told that the video I did for the teaser was to fast/ to "wordy" so here is the actual text of the background of "The Hatchery" Over ten-thousand years ago a battle was fought that would change this planet forever. The Insect race known only as "The Swarm" tried to infest earth... and nearly succeeded... The only thing that stopped them was the fabled Atlantians. When conventional methods of war failed against The Swarm they had no choice but to purge the earth with fire... The Atlantians took no more then a dozen humans with them to Atlantis. As soon as Atlantis was safely on the bottom of the ocean, Hell was unleashed on earth.  After the purging of the swarm the earth was left charred... dead. Even with all the knowledge and technology of the Atlantians it took almost a thousand years to nurse the earth back to health. By then mankind had grown into the tens of thousands. The Atlantians spread man across...

2012: new year revolution

     Forgive me interweb, for I have sinned against you. In my last two post I have talked about how working out is the best thing ever. I've been a hypocrite... I lift weights 2-3 times a week but I haven't been working out. I stepped on the scale today and found myself weighting in at 210 pounds! I'm about 6'2" so I can hold 210 pounds in fairly well... till I sit down.      For 2012 I don't have a resolution. This year I'm having a revolution. 2012 is going to be a extremely big year for me and it's going to change my world completely. Here's a list of everything I have planned for this year. I am turning 18 and getting a tattoo ;) I will be starting my EMT-I course, it looks like it will be in the fall now. I hope to get my first full time job in EMS! I am getting married to my amazing fiancee!!!(most important) I start college full time in the fall, a journey that won't end for another decade. I move out and have to be fully self r...