The Patient

Things have been a little crazy lately, especially last week. I noticed last weekend that my cat was acting a littl funny and seemed to be a little protective of his back end. When I looked at it Sunday night I noticed an area that looked as if he has licked the hair off. It looked a little sore but not too bad. When I got home Monday night I looked again and this time I saw puss everywhere. Great, off to the vet we go. He had what looked like a huge abscess on the left side of his butt under his tail.  It was pretty bad.  The vet decided to put him under to clean up the wound and really see what was going on.  She called when she was done and explained what she did and said that it was possible his anal gland ruptured. So I brought him home the next morning doped up with a nice new shiny clinic collar on his head. :o)  It was kinda funny to watch him walk around with it on for the first time.  I felt bad for laughing, but I was glad he was home and he was ok.  He is doing much better and is just about healed up.  The stitches come out this weekend along with the cone of shame.  he he he.  I'm sure he'll be so happy when that day comes.  

Bubbs waiting for the vet.

 Cone baby

MCAT Practice

Well I took the practice test last saturday and ... I scored higher than what I was scoring last year! Yay! I took practice test 10, which is supposed to be the hardest one according to the majority. I like the practice tests because you can review all the questions and mark why you got a question wrong. For example, I missed a few of the physics questions dealing with frequency because I forgot the simple equation and haven't reviewed it yet, so I marked that question as "not familiar with material" or something like that. It then totals up all the reasons for getting a question wrong so you have an idea of where your weaknesses are. I had quite a few material stuff, again mainly with physics (surprise, surprise) and some questions were just bad test taking. I like knowing where I stand and what I'm doing wrong. I also like knowing I am scoring better. :o). I have two moew tests
expiring next month, so I will be taking another test next sat and the sat after that. Let's hope this upward trend continues! I have more to talk about, but my computers down at the moment and posting from my phone is cool, but a pain to type on. :o)

More MCAT talk and a new practice test.

So I've been doing a lot of practice problems using The Berkeley Review (TBR) books for everything except bio, for which I use ExamKrackers. I find myself doing really well on most of the passages, but there are always one or two that I do bad on.  It seems like no matter what I do I can't break the 60-75% range.  It's rather frustrating, but  I was looking over some forums and found one that kinda made me feel a little better. I have heard that TBR passages are harder compared to the real thing, which is good I suppose, but I am still hoping that even if I can't get over the 60-75% TBR hump, I can at least get a 28-30 like BerkReview Teach says is typical.  I am taking my first full-length practice test next weekend, so I guess I'll see what sort of progress I've made since last year. And yes, it is early to take a full-length, but it expires the 23rd and I don't want to pay for it again.   

I also purchased the new full-length exam #11.  I haven't done any research on it to see what the difficulty is like.  I hear most people think that #10 is the hardest and #3, the free one, is the easiest.  If any of you have heard anything about it, let me know!

This past month flew by!

Sorry about not posting sooner, but  I can't believe how fast February went!  I remember getting flowers from Brad on Valentine's day and thinking I need to post pics of them, and the next thing I know it is March already!  It's been a pretty hectic month.  Brad has been home for the past month trying to figure out what is wrong with his shoulder, and finally had surgery on Monday.  They scoped him and found that he had a bad case of bursitis, so they cleaned up the inflammation and shaved a 1/2 inch off the end of his clavicle - everything else looked good. They sent him home the same day and is doing well, but pretty sore. Poor guy.

I have been slacking a bit in my studies this week, so I will really need to kick it up this weekend.  Last Sunday we came over to Wichita to watch a baseball game up in the sky box.  It was really foggy and the longer we were there, the closer and thicker it got.  Two innings in it started pouring rain and hailing!  We watched it for a bit, and another person I work with asked if we wanted to go watch the women's basketball game.  She had two free ticket vouchers, so we said why not. We went over and watched the Lady Shocks beat Drake, and Bo even caught a mini-basketball the cheerleaders threw into the crowd.  After the basketball game, we drove by the baseball field and they finally resumed the game, so went back up to the sky box and finished watching.  :o)  It was a pretty fun day - and it was all free!

I wanted to post some pictures of the really pretty flowers my honey got me for Valentine's day.  The pictures really don't do them justice, but here they are anyway.