Due to a horrible dose of allergies/hay fever yesterday and now with a throbbing earache that incurs sharp pains when I choose to lay down. This sucks. 

This weekend was a whirlwind of crazies. Friday night I went out to my first party lol, but it was fun of course, a short stay of about 2 and a half hours playing beer pong, meeting new friends, and people watching. I’m glad I didn’t drink much (I only had a beer), considering I knew that I had to arise from my comfy bed at 6am the following morning for my CCE orientation.

7am to 6pm orientation. Now that’s crazies. Despite it being physically and mentally draining, I felt like it consisted of incredibly useful information regarding how to interact with patients and skills such as how to feed, ambulate, take vitals, bathe, transfer them from bed to gurney and from bed to wheelchair, and proper safety measures with regards to keeping myself safe when working in the hospital. Of course, before I learned all of this, I was slightly nervous. There have been multiple times at UCSD Thornton’s ED that I absolutely was lost in what I should and should not do. Honestly, PPH is smart to invest effort to training their volunteers because most of us wholeheartedly want to contribute our time and efforts to helping—so props to them making the most of our willingness! 

Sunday was unfortunate as an allergy attack struck. I have to mention that it was a ridiculous case of it, and I eventually persuaded myself to take benedryl to knock myself out. The attack was so bad that I woke up multiple times during the night cringing from the earache I developed and currently it’s still ringing in my right ear. I hope it goes away soon.

Everything is picking up for me here at school. We’re forming new programs in my autism organization and want to plan a week of events during April as it is autism awareness month. We’re going to try to turn this tree in front of our library BLUE by hanging blue lights on it all week. :D now that’ll be cool. Interaxon has school visits coming up so we’re also busy prepping for those, as well as finalizing relations with the Brain Observatory where I used to work. Should be exciting! The rest of the quarter will be a flush of preparing to volunteer as a CCE in Escondido, cracking down on studying for the MCATS, keeping up with school, and just having fun. This year, as senior year is meant to, is fanning out as better than I expected—busy, and yet not too crazy such that I’m still able to have a social life :)