Yellow- Scott here- Actually I’m not sure where I’m at right now. Ryan and I are driving back to Nashville from Memphis. Lets see what mile marker we pass next… lets just take a moment of silence…. (waiting)… dang I was talking and I missed it… ok its 31… so what exit is MJ? 234? Ok… 200 more miles to go. Stuff has been really good this entire semester. My grades are up (relative to UTK)… the only thing that isn’t going as good as UT is my weight! I’ve still been running as much as I did my senior year at UT (about 20 miles a week) but I’ve put on about 10 lbs! I think one of the big factors in that has been that they love to feed us all the time, and I really just lack the ability to say “no” to free food. Walgreens, CVS, Kroger, Hospitals, ELI-Lilly and others have all fed us large meals… PLUS we have organizational meetings for pharmacy stuff and there is almost always as much pizza and coke you can eat/drink… but I am totally running as much as I used to- so I’m getting a hold of it. ACTUALLY at one point I gained 15 pounds, but I’ve gotten a hold of it and lost 5 of that so far. Give me a few more months and I think I’ll be back to normal. I think one of the biggest factors is that I’m in a new environment which studies show is the MAIN reason that you see the infamous freshman 15… I mean… I definitely gained 15 pounds when I got to UT, so it definitely happened to me once and I guess its just happening again… but I got control of it at UTK and I’ll get it here… I don’t feel out of shape at ALL but I can tell I’ve got a little extra baggage… and I don’t like it at all, but I know if I keep up with my exercise and watch what I eat that its going to work itself out. I ran 4.5 miles today before class actually, so I’m feeling pretty good. I’m learning a lot of stuff about drugs… and really- if you have any basic questions about some type of drug therapy that you or someone you know are on I actually might be able to give some basic answers- but the drugs we have talked about probably only compose only half of the currently available prescription drugs so there is more than a good chance that I WON’T know about your drug… we’ve learned all about Antihypertensives, diuretics, antianginals, drugs for post Congestive Heart Failure, a little about drugs for depression and Parkinson’s disease (but not too in-depth yet), drugs for Edema, some local anesthetics… and each of those different “classes” of drugs have several different kinds of drugs that are employed- for example antihypertensives would include Beta Blockers, ACE inhibitors (you’re probably heard those mentioned in drug commercials!), angiotensin 2 receptor blockers, aldosterone receptor blockers and each of those types of drugs would have different actual drug molecules that would be very similar in function… ok that’s enough of that…
Now I’m on the ride back to Memphis. I had a great weekend with my family and Mandy. This was one of the most relaxing and enjoyable weekends I’ve had this entire semester. One of my favorite moments was when we were all sitting around in the living room with the fire on. My dad was somewhere between taking a nap and watching the Titans game, my mom was reading the newspaper, Mandy was studying for a test, and I was just tweaking a few things on my website and burning some CDs. It was really cozy. I ordered some of the “ultra-star” Frisbees (the ones we play ultimate with) online, one orange and one dark blue… so I am excited about actually having a Frisbee and being able to throw without borrowing one from a friend. Have you listened to Todd’s radio show? No? well now you don’t have an excuse NOT to… it is every Sunday night from 7-midnight central and you can listen by going to www.fhu.edu/radio and doing the stream thing.
I got to looking at a yearbook and you can’t help but do some reflection when you look at one of those…. Teachers, friends I haven't seen since high school, and other random people all flashed through my memory… its funny the stuff you remember and the stuff you forget. I also ran into one of the 6th grade teachers from my elementary and he remembered me (he guessed my last name) even though I wasn’t in his class… that made me reflect a little too. Its just crazy how many stupid things I remember doing when I was young and I wonder why my parents didn’t just shake me and tell me that I was making a mistake… I think I would shake me and tell me not to make stupid decisions if I could go back… but I guess that’s just part of the learning experience- you really do have to mess up sometimes to learn how to do things right… and no, I’m not totally there yet, but I’ve come a long enough way to see that some of the things that I thought were very reasonable at the time were just flat out crazy… most of what I refer to would be covered under the umbrella of girls and my many mistakes in choosing what girl to like and for how long and for what reasons. I feel like I’ve come a thousand miles since I’ve been with Mandy… I guess hindsight is 20/20. In another 10 years I’ll look back on my days in pharmacy school and I’ll see plenty that I could have done better I’m sure, but the thing about that is I can’t see the future, and I won’t know all the best decisions until I by mistake make a few stupid ones. We’re here! Later
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