A Pain in the Eye

My wife had to get a benign growth removed from her eye last week. The Dr had to cut it out and stitch her eye back up. If you look closely you can see the four stitches. She has been in pain all week and is taking steroids to keep the inflammation down.

As for school it was actually a bit abnormal as I actually learned a little bit today
1. CCB's (med chem)
2. Statins (IPDM)

The stress this quarter is building and we have our first test on Friday. Up to this point I have "failed" all three of the quizzes we have had. Sadly our class lost 5 members due to a horrific test during the fall quarter.

Mammoth 2009

Here is some pictures from our annual Mammoth trip. This is the first year that we have taken the kids

Above is the family at a lake in Mammoth

This is a picture of Porsha making a valiant effert at snow skating

Steelers in the SuperBowl

As I sit here studying for my Endo Test (on friday) the only thing I can think about is the Steelers in the SuperBowl....I can't wait until the game

Son Of God

Yes I did have a son, he was born on June 28 at around 1pm (it's all still kind of fuzzy) he was in the NICU for 12 days which was about 11.5 days to long. I still don't really understand why he was in there so long. Originally they wanted to run some cultures to make sure he didn't pick up any bugs on the way out. So that was supposed to take about 72 hours. He continued to have some breathing "episodes" (by episode I mean he stopped breathing for 10-15 seconds, hardly an episode) so they kept him in the NICU. Finally after the holiday the decided to do a sleep apnea test on him. He passed with no problem...and finally they let him out.

Would you like to know his name?
Maika Pu'u U'la Ahi K. Dittmar
still can't remember his middle name fully it's kamakala or something close to that

He has been home for about 6 days now and is doing great

Here is a few pictures with many more to come over the next few weeks

My goal is to post every day in an attempt to make this a habit

Is it Summer Yet?

I just logged onto my school email for the first time in about a week and I received an email that said our Medicinal Chemistry books are a must for next quarter. So they went ahead and bought the books for us and they will just charge our student accounts once next quarter starts. How nice force us to buy a book we will probably never look at. They did the same thing to us with Pharmacy Law and I never cracked the book and still was able to get an A...imagine that

I'm also a little irritated that my school just had to send us an email about next quarter less then a week after our end of the year assesment

Give us a break

My Daughter and Me

MIA: This is me

I have been gone for a long time so let me recap the last 9 months

1. Started Pharm School
2. Found out we are having another kid
3. Finished 1st quarter of Pharm school (barely)
4. Holiday Vacation
5. Started 2nd quarter of pharm school
6. Found out the baby is a Boy
7. Finishing up midterms
8. Preparing for daughters 3rd Birthday
9. Hoping to pass 2nd quarter of pharm school

Let's Take A Drive

The new car, finally!!! Its been two months since our honda has been gone. It's nice too have two cars again

Dejected: Out of the House

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Thats a bunch of **** love sucks

The Beginning

It has started! My first day of Pharmacy school has finally ended... Well it was orientation but long none the less. It was cool to see all of my future classmates and to see what is going to be expected of me over the next four years. The day was completely planned out so I thought I could give a rundown of the day and what I thought of each part of the schedule.

9-915: Welcome; this was the most awkward part of the day as we all found a place to sit and checked out the class. The class sponsor was very nice and seemed like she knew each of us very well.
915-930: Devotional; Same old SDA propaganda, although the pastor did a good job of catching my attention by talking about the NFL opening weekend. The Pastor talked about new beginnings and seeing things through to the end. I think his point was that we as humans aren't capable of seeing challenges to the end without God's help.
930-1000: Message from the Dean; Mostly he talked about his life and how he ended up the Dean of Pharmacy. He was interesting and it was good to know where he was coming from.
1000-1030; Welcome from upperclassmen; Basically, they introduced themselves and told us too hold on for the wild ride ahead
1030-1045 Break; After a summer with no school I was not used to sitting at a desk for hours at a time, this break was needed
1045-1130; History of LLU; The LLU historian gave a lecture, it was boring and long
1130-1200; Introduction of Faculty and Staff; They all came up and introduced themselves and gave a brief history. There was a lot more then I expected, and I think its going to be several years before I can sort them all out in my head
1200-130; Lunch; We had some sort of mexican dish with beans and chips. Of course I spilled my drink all over the ground and my desk. There was also a Q and A session with all the faculty and staff
130-145; Finacial Aid; Nothing new they just rehashed FinAid stuff that every undergrad should have learned years ago
145-215 Uncovering the mysteries of IPPE; Basically they explained to us What IPPE was and how it works. They are like mini rounds that should help us get ready for our fourth year.
215-300 Professional Organizations 101; They explain all the different organizations that we can join and told us that we need to join at least three.
300-345 Blackboard Tutorial; Since I've been using this system in undergrad for the last four years it was nothing new
345-400 Break
400-430 Elective Info; they just gave us a rundown of electives available for PY1
430-500 Some final thoughts from the instructors and gave us the game plan for the rest of the week

Even though there was no offical classes there was still tons of info to digest. Tomorrow we are going on a retreat sounds interesting but we shall see.