"My thoughts exploding in thousands of pieces"

Went to my sports doctor yesterday.  He said I don't need to completely stop exercise while I let the IT band inflammation calm down.  He said spinning is fine, though.  So that's good.  And he said I'm already doing everything right.  He noticed the bruises i have on my legs from rolling on the foam roller so much.  He said "yeah, maybe you should lay off of that for awhile".  Haha.  But yeah, about the exercise he just said no running for a while- at least until I get the custom orthotics- and he said "you're smart enough to know what movements use what muscles.  and you know when something doesn't feel right.  So with trial and error see what you can handle and rest when you need to, and keep up with the ice and motrin".  So as long as it isn't in pain and what I"m doing isn't aggravating it, I'm good to go.  My hip has felt okay the last couple of days.  I went spinning Thursday night and it felt fine.  And he thinks the orthotics will help my hip a lot, too.
That was comforting.

I went to Jayme's today and we studied molecular pathology from 11:30am-830pm.  We took about an hour long break to eat dinner and watch an episode of House, but even as we did that we worked on our thalassemia presentation.

Our current facebook statuses:

"G72/30, BDNF, MAOA, COMT, PIPK2A, 5HTT, CD14, IL10, CCL5, IL13, MYOC, OPTN, CYTP1B1, WDR36, RHO, RDS, ROM1, RP1, PRPF31 ,PDE6A, PDE6B,  RPE65, RPGR, RP2, CFTR, ATP7B, His1069Gln, Hip1, HP, Hippi, PKD1, PKD2, PKHD1, DMD, gp130, LIF, FMR1, APP, bAP, PS1, PS2, SEC, SECR, FALS, SOD1, CNTF, POAG, PACG, RP, BD, SHOX1, NOD2/CARD15, NFKB ,IBD3, DLG5, SLC22A4, SLC22A5, PDE4D, ALOX5AP, FLAP, MMP3, IL6, PC, PS, CBS, MTHFR, MS, PLP, A222V, E429A, D919G (Find the error!) "

Those are some (sadly, not even close to all (FB has a word limit for statuses)) of the genes, diseases and protein acryomns that we have to learn for Monday's test.  And it's not enough to know what they stand for, we have to know the pathogenesis of each disease, it's inheretance pattern, symptoms, risk factors, etc, for them all- and of course which gene/ mutated protein goes to which disease.  Hence we spent 8 hours on this today. (and the error is "CYTP1B1".  It should be "CYP1B1"- one of the four possible genes that can be mutated causing glaucoma (The POAG (primary open angle glaucoma) type)). 

So that exam is Monday morning.  I have the medical law and ethics exam Monday night (3.5 hour long essay exam. yikes).  Jayme is coming over all day Tuesday because we have molecular diagnostics exam on Wednesday morning (which is going to be ridiculously difficult and we didn't even have time to look at that today) and their our presentation is Wednesday night.
But I'm not stressed out.  Don't worry.

(Title: Lyrics to "Come Close" by Saosin)