lab

job shadowed brandon today. it was cool to get into a real medical lab. by the end he'd hand me a tube of blood and let me go the right machine and put it in to start the test. that was cool. and he let me do some WBC diffs for the slides that the machine flagged. i got to look for hypochromatic and microcytic cells, and anisocytosis. My manual WBC diff was identical to the machine's diff. That was fun.
He had a couple urine analysis tests to go through. A lot of CBCs and H/H and diffs. Mostly he just explained each machine to me and how they call things in that particular lab. And then about the interviewing process. He just got accepted to a PA program in virgina for this summer. Why does school always take away my friends? Tess is moving to west virgina this summer to start med school, too.

I'll probably go back there again before he leaves. Hopefully after I finish my hematology class I'll know more. Most of what he talked about I won't learn until next year, so it's a bummer he won't be around after i take hemostasis and clinical chemistry.
He asked me a few things and then laughed when i couldn't remember. He kept saying "come on, biochem was just last semester!".
i forget things... but they're still in my head somewhere. as soon as i see it again, or can put it to some practical use, then i remember and it all comes back. i won't forget the stuff that he asked me today. now that i've gone over it again and saw it in practice- i won't forget.






have i mentioned lately that i want to run?