what day is it again???

Hey friends sorry it has taken me so long to update, but I have my first block exam this coming Friday and have been spending this past week and this weekend starting to prepare. is it just me or am I taking my first exam the week everybody else goes back to school?...anyways. As I continue to study I am learning and absorbing new material everyday. I feel like a sponge and if you were to excise my skull and look at the space where my cranium should be it would probably look like one too. however, my joy is being made complete the more and more time I spend here. This experience is not only teaching me alot about how to examine others, but also examine myself. I am excited because this week we will be working on taking vitals and blood pressure and other generic procedures when it comes to a clinical setting. As I learn more on how to be a doctor I realize that there has to be an immense amount of compassion for others regardless of who they. Also, I am slowly realizing, very slowly that it is possible to have a life outside of school and to do so is actually probably more helpful than spending all day in the books. Because who wants to talk to a doctor in the exam room who has his head in a book all day. While i barely have time to look up and look ahead I do see that I am still far away from my goal of becoming D.O., but at the same time it humbles me to work harder and pace myself for the endevours to come. So, before I get back to melting my brain with mechanism of 5' capping, glenohumral adduction, and clincal cases involving impingment of the ulnar nerve think on this from an all time great movie..."if you focus on the problem you can never see the solution...never focus on the problem." Always work to increase the quality of each others lives. We are all doctors in some small way. My love to all friends. Talk to you soon!