Was K.O.
Phew, my physiology weekend lies behind me once
again... this time we only had three practicals to do, the other two will follow
in may. I had five hours on friday and ten on saturday - yesterday I just went
home, ate something and fell asleep for the next 12 hours! Also, I missed my
brother's 23rd birthday on saturday because I was away. Last year same happened
with my sister's 18th birhtday. It's always the physiology HA-practical! Another
side effect of these long weekends is that you tend to feed on chocolate
exclusively, and neglect drinking totally - so you end up dehydrated and with a
sugar shock!
The horrible friday. We had a biochemistry exam from
12.30 to 13.30. Then we went to the practical from 14.00 to 19.00, after that I
went home with my fellow HA (Hilfsassistent= auxiliary assistant) Marcus to
prepare for the next day's subjects. We had some nice filled paprika and chicken
with rice before we faced the remaining exercise booklets. This turned out to be
n o t amusing as one subject covered the whole span of physiology (Energy- and
Performance-Physiology), and the other was full-on covering physics (Senses -
Hearing and Sight).
Sigh! I arrived home around 1.15 and was accordingly tired when we started again on saturday morning, 9 AM. The day stretched and stretched and by the time we got to the eye-sight examinations I was so worn out that I got most horrific results! I decided to ignore them as I have my new glasses and know that they are correct.
There are some nice things to say about the practicals as well: I didn't have to take an oral exam - will do that in may/june.
In the "energy change"-practical we did a funny experiment ("direkte Kalorimetrie") with a guinea pig that had to stay 30 mins in an airtight copper tube with cooling water loops around it, and we had to measure how much cooling water was needed to keep the temperature equal. By measuring the degree that the cooling water has been warmed up and comparing it with the amount of cooling water needed we could calculate how much energy the guinea pig has used. So that was interesting. Kinda.
The audiometric part was fine too, because I was the one who's hearing was tested and it was excellent, hehe.
Then there was the colour tests (AllfarbenAnomaloskop), one for red-green and one for blue-green. I got 100% in the red-green distinction (Reyleigh), meaning that from all samples I picked the right one (you had to match semi circles until they matched perfectly) instead of just a narrow range :D
Unfortunately, in the blue test (Moreland) I was diagnosed as "Tritanomat G" which is not so good, I guess. But then there was a manual test to do if you had bad result, and I turned out to be within the normal range. I advise not to do tests like this when you have throbbing headache ;-)
We also did some funny things with ophtalmoscopes and stared into each other's eyes until we felt blind, but only few managed to see something like a vessel. But then we were not allowed to use atropine to keep the pupil open and that explains it all :D
[Hmm. that reminds me of somehing. Yesterday I read that furosemide and gentamycin can cause deafness in older people. We used furosemide in last year's practicals, and although we are not *that* old, I would have liked to know about that before taking it, had I been the examined one. Especially because there was a choice between Cola and the stuff. (kidney practical)].
Sigh! I arrived home around 1.15 and was accordingly tired when we started again on saturday morning, 9 AM. The day stretched and stretched and by the time we got to the eye-sight examinations I was so worn out that I got most horrific results! I decided to ignore them as I have my new glasses and know that they are correct.
There are some nice things to say about the practicals as well: I didn't have to take an oral exam - will do that in may/june.
In the "energy change"-practical we did a funny experiment ("direkte Kalorimetrie") with a guinea pig that had to stay 30 mins in an airtight copper tube with cooling water loops around it, and we had to measure how much cooling water was needed to keep the temperature equal. By measuring the degree that the cooling water has been warmed up and comparing it with the amount of cooling water needed we could calculate how much energy the guinea pig has used. So that was interesting. Kinda.
The audiometric part was fine too, because I was the one who's hearing was tested and it was excellent, hehe.
Then there was the colour tests (AllfarbenAnomaloskop), one for red-green and one for blue-green. I got 100% in the red-green distinction (Reyleigh), meaning that from all samples I picked the right one (you had to match semi circles until they matched perfectly) instead of just a narrow range :D
Unfortunately, in the blue test (Moreland) I was diagnosed as "Tritanomat G" which is not so good, I guess. But then there was a manual test to do if you had bad result, and I turned out to be within the normal range. I advise not to do tests like this when you have throbbing headache ;-)
We also did some funny things with ophtalmoscopes and stared into each other's eyes until we felt blind, but only few managed to see something like a vessel. But then we were not allowed to use atropine to keep the pupil open and that explains it all :D
[Hmm. that reminds me of somehing. Yesterday I read that furosemide and gentamycin can cause deafness in older people. We used furosemide in last year's practicals, and although we are not *that* old, I would have liked to know about that before taking it, had I been the examined one. Especially because there was a choice between Cola and the stuff. (kidney practical)].
Posted: So - April 25, 2004 at 02:44 Uhr
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