White Coat and Clinic FLOW!!

I'm halfway there!

HEY GUYS!! So I said I was going to write a quick post on White Coat Exam and White Coat Ceremony! So here we go! On May 12, 2011, I received my White Coat. So what does that mean?

In a nut shell, you are required to take an Exam that is formally called the "Clinic Privileging Exam." So this exam is the end of your 2nd year, and simply you have to give a full eye exam while being watched by one of the doctors. Ok sounds like no biggie right...umm NO!

So up until that point, you have been practicing all of your different clinical skills and learning to not only do every test, but in a efficient manner and to record it properly. So it is essentially a culminating exam that is supposed to prove that you are ready to see real patients! Yup. So my White Coat Exam was on  April 21st... Needless to say, I passed and I got my white coat! Woohoo!

It's a big ceremony, my mom, dad, and aunt came to St. Louis to watch me get it! Woohoo! It was just a really great and exciting day. I felt like I finally successfully crossed over a huge hurdle. We have been looking forward to white coat, since first semester first year. It is all really surreal. I find it hard to believe that I am a 3rd year now.

This summer in clinic I have started seeing patients. It is extremely weird, because I just sometimes feel like I have NO IDEA of what is going on. Also it is weird to me that the doctors trust me enough to leave me to do all of the tests and just "report" back my findings to them. They do double check some stuff, but for the most part it is just me!! Aaah...so scary.

I have had some great patients so far. My 2 favorite have been a 9 year old boy and this lady that got into a motorcycle accident and now can't see out of her left eye. Very sad, but I am glad that I was able to help them see. Optometry has been a lot more than I have expected. Honestly a lot more complex, intricate, and REWARDING! I have definitely chosen an awesome field and I am so glad.

Here are some more pictures as promised:

Getting my White Coat!

"I be up in the gym, just working on my fitness"

What up!!! I got my White Coat Yall!

Mommy and Daddy

Until Next Time...

"Always be a poet, even in prose." C. Baudelaire

One of the many benefits of attending Emory University is the amazing people that I was able to meet and befriend. Not only are many of these people like minded in ideals and goals, but they are also amazingly talented.

So I've always had a thing for poetry... I think it was around middle school that I realized that I was just not going to be a poet. I liked the "idea" of writing poems, but I was just not good at it.
I usually ask all of my friends that consider themselves poets to write me a poem. Luckily my friend Carlos obliged. I am an avid lover of Robert Frost's, The Road Not Taken. I believe I have even featured a post on this poem (I DID...yay...Click here for the link to my August 2009 entry on the Road Not Taken) So when he decided to write a poem, that was loosely based on The Road Not Taken. I was excited to say the least!! It's below!

There is a fork out front of me
two frosted paths- one traveler's glory,
adventure surly lies just down one pick
the other holds some unknown story.

One shall do well enough I'm sure,
the other far worse I'll likely tell
but both assuredly plainly stood,
neither way seemed the better scaled.

The trees will not bother tell me
just which path is better lain.
The one looks swift, if grass be quick,
the other just as brisk and plain.

I will spend the day until assured
which is the better of this way.
Two roads diverge in a frosted wood,
And I- have not a decision made.
C. Harper

So I've been telling him that I was going to write a blog entry on the poem he wrote for the longest and honestly. I remembered because he emailed another poem out this morning. I enjoyed this one as well, it is concerning Travel. For those of you who don't know..I LOVE to travel. I love the airport, I love exploring unfamiliar places and learning about cultures... (hence my Anthropology major). So once again, Harper seemed to "hit the nail on the head" (that's a weird expression..lol.)

One autumn a man preached about destiny
and the church listened, nodded, said amen
and I was with them till the train came.

Trains, they are boxes large and heavy
whistling loudly shaking at our temple.
The preacher pauses till she passes through,
I know she means no harm but see
the tracks were lain,
she has no choice but follow.

One autumn a man preached destiny
and my mind took to a train.
C. Harper

I hope you enjoyed those poems as much as I did. Until Next Time...

Blog Rededication

Ok so...it's official. I really need to rededicate myself to "Reason to Believe." It is summertime so I have immensely more downtime. I am working many hours a week, but it is much different from the constant studying that I am subjected to in order to do well n a class. I am currently at work.

So I'm not going to set a specific number of times that I will write a week, but when thoughts come to mind, I will work diligently to blog about it. There is so much going on, but then again nothing at all. I am excited for what this summer of blogging holds. If you guys are with me say ay-yi-yi! Lol. And yes I was a girl scout... Until Next Time...

Hello There!

Hello There!!

I am alive and well!! I honestly didn't realize it has been since April 14th since I last wrote. ::shame on me::

Things have been on the up and up. I have so much to share. So much so I will put it in bullet form and maybe I can write some retroactive posts.

• Finished my 2nd semester, of my 2nd year!! (woohoo)
• -Had my White Coat Ceremony (I was so excited yall)... 
• i'll share some pics!
• Finally settled into St. Louis and i've accepted this is indeed where I will be living for the next year and some..
• Currently I'm working 2 jobs
• One is the dispensary of my school's clinic... Helping people pick out glasses, fixing glasses, etc
• The second one is with a Minority Pre-Optometry summer program for high school students
• I went to MIAMI for Memorial Day!!
• It was fun, but a little too crazy.
• I've been tweeting a lot!
• One of my friend's wrote me this awesome poem. I told him I would share, so I will do that soon.
• My coffee addiction is growing and growing...smh.

That's just some things that come to mind since April. Nothing too exciting. I am at work currently. I figured I'll finish this up and just know I haven't forgotten!! Until Next Time...