The Fee-Fee Cascade: Or, How Med School Makes You Lose Your Mind

So here's what happened today. Well, I guess you'll need some back-story first. I have this friend Kyle. Let's call him Lyle. Lyle is an all around ridiculous boy who's in my class. We have an inside joke because last year during a block of exams he made me cry. Later when we were talking about it, he asked if he'd hurt my fee-fees. Not my feelings, y'all, my fee-fees. Those two hysterical syllables made me laugh maniacally (which had nothing to do with being in a strange mental state because of grueling hours of preparing for exams). It has since been something we jokingly say when we tease each other / other people / I say it to my cat.

Which brings me to today, when we are preparing for not one but TWO (well, 1.5) back-to-back (or back-to-ba) weeks of exams. In my normal conversation with Lyle (the cubicles we like to occupy are next to each other) at the time when he usually insults me for being a girl / not being good at school / baking things other than chocolate chip cookies, he gave me a rare compliment! Something to do with how he wouldn't look as good in my wedding dress as I will (hey, it's mostly a compliment). So here's how the rest of the conversation went:

Me: Lyle! You gave me a compliment!

Lyle: I did?

Me: You didn't hurt my fee-fees! You did the opposite. Instead of breaking my fee-fees up, you put them all together. ... You activated the fee-fee cascade!!

***MEDICAL ASIDE FOR ALL OF THE NORMAL PEOPLE WHO THINK I MAY BE CRAY:
There's a thing your body does called the coagulation cascade. Basically it causes platelets to aggregate to form a clot to stop bleeding and to begin to repair damaged blood vessels. So it's a very good thing that happens where you make a big glob of something to keep from dying of exsanguination. Thus, the parallel fee-fee cascade would put my fee-fees together, the opposite of hurting them.***

Now I'm not sure, but I don't even think this joke is that funny. It's definitely no match for the "Apple-anche" Joke of 2012. But I thought it was the most clever thing ever and Lyle thought it was pretty funny. Or at least ok. Well, he didn't insult me for making it, which I interpret as approval. I even made it into his facebook status.

So, that long and winding story was just to let you know that I'm pretty sure med school makes us delirious. I wonder what the DSM classifies that as.

If any of you want to have a laugh in the next two weeks, text me a simple math problem / ask me to name the branches of the internal carotid artery in the neck (TRICK QUESTION) / ask what the difference between a porcupine and a hedgehog is. I promise I'll flounder hilariously. But I may cry, so bring me a hanky...and a blankie while you're at it. Every building is freezing during test time!

Speaking of hilarity, you NEED to go read this blog written by the fabulous [future] PP, MD. I aspire to be as funny as this girl. You guys will love hearing about her awful dog and the loved ones she tries to diagnose.

Off to try to learn some stuff. Toodle-oo!

Oh, hello again!

So, you should have known getting into reading this blog that I would be prone to taking long absences. A bunch of really funny stuff has happened since March (the ridiculousness of getting CPR certified, final exams, being awkward at a preceptorship this summer, more Junebug hijinks, starting my second year of medical school, planning a shindig of a wedding!) but I just never quite got around to telling you about it!

With all of that, I surely have been super busy. But today as I procrastinate before block tests in the next few weeks, I thought I'd come by to say hello. Also, I'm an awful perfectionist, so if I can't write it perfectly in my head, I get frustrated and don't even start. I just need you to think I'm funny, anonymous interwebs readers! If I promise more hilarity soon, will you come read my blog? What about if I promise you cookies? They can be the eating kind!