Two Down One More To Go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well the end of the second semester is here. I don't know about all of you, but I am ready for the break. Now I will finally have some time to clean my house to get ready for the holiday.

I finally finished my 3rd comp Friday, I was able to do orbits. I was getting worried that I would not get another comp because we were not getting very many different exams except the usual lumbar and ortho due to the printer being down. The Doc's have been sending all of their patients to the hospital to get their exams since they can print films, so our exams have been very limited. My facility finally got the new printer on Friday so next semester we should be back to normal.

Hopefully next semester I will be able to do an MRA or an MRCP, my clinical site gets their fair share of these along with breast exams. I find all of these exams very interesting but challenging. I do feel like I have learned allot this semester and the techs have taught me allot of tricks on how to position patients different ways so they can be more comfortable, especially when we are doing shoulders on bigger patients. The individual exams and why and how we plan the scans are making alot more sense to me. I am feeling alot more comfortable being in the driver seat now, hopefully I won't lose my confidence over break.

Well I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and I will talk to you again next year.

Winding Down!!!!!!!!

Well I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Ours was pretty exciting, alot of people, alot of dogs, and alot of craziness. But I wouldn't want it any other way. We had a really nice holiday.

This past week in clinicals was pretty uneventful. We did alot of spines, shoulders, knees, and brains. I was hoping to see some exams that I haven't got to do yet. I did get to do a knee of a young kid about 19 years old, he had injured it during a wrestling match. The MR showed an avulsion fracture of the tibia and I had never seen a fracture in MR before. Everything we have done has been tendons or soft tissue and nerve problems, this was my first bone fracture. I thought that this exam was pretty interesting. It still amazes me how pretty MR images are and how much detail you can see. Well other then that not much else to talk about.

I did find out I am going to continue the last semester of clinicals at this facility. I was trying to go to Clarian Arnett but was never able to get confirmation so the Director here said just to finish it out at this site. It will probably be for the best with Winter coming on since this clinical site is all of 5 minutes from my house. Well I will post more next week, hopefully I will have more to talk about regarding clinicals.