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I'm also fluent in spanish. And i know enough Dutch to get buy, for when i decided to finally go visit my heritage. (My generation on my dad's side, is the first to be completely born in canada).
And i would love to learn japanese or mandarin.
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Stem-cells can be engineered to kill HIV!!!!!!!
http://www.advocate.com/UCLA_Stem_Cells_
"We have demonstrated in this proof-of-principle study that this type of approach can be used to engineer the human immune system, particularly the T-cell response, to specifically target HIV-infected cells," lead investigator Scott Kitchen, assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the Devid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said in a release. "These studies lay the foundation for further therapeutic development that involves restoring damaged or defective immune responses toward a variety of viruses that cause chronic disease, or even different types of tumors."
One small step for man, one giant leap for man-kind. See this is why stem-cell research is IMPORTANT people. It's definitely something i'm considering going to work with in the futur.
All i have to do now is right my final exams. Fun.
We went to pick up our real christmas tree yesterday. We always have one real one on the main floor, and a fake one in the basement that holds all the knick-knack ornaments. Because my mom tends to believe she's martha steward or something and makes the real tree look all fancy.
I felt a migraine starting to form after we got the tree. So i pretty much just swallowed some tylenol and headed off to my dark bedroom to sleep. The only thing that can stop it, is sleep. Which i did from 8:30 pm to 9 am this morning. Woke up with no nausea or headache, so i definitely won this battle.
- Location:bedroom
- Music:watching dawson's creek
Amazing news got confirmed for me today. My aunt and uncle are disgustingly rich and a few years ago they bought a house in Palm Springs to go live at during the winter time. And so this spring break which is the second or third week in february this year, i'll be going to down to visit with them with my mom and my cousin Ghyslyn (because it's his parents lol). I'm pretty excited, i get to go back to california and have a break from winter. I'm pretty sure i'll be able to convince everyone to go spend a day at disneyland. It's fun going with my uncle because he has MS and requires to be in a wheelchair or scooter, so we get to skip ahead of the line! Which is pretty sweet.
- Location:bedroom
After the social finished i convinced my friends to go to the park close by. Who doesn't love going on swings at 2 am right? Me and Aaron decided to play with the tic-tac-toe, and the winner would be the ruler of the universe. Unfortunately we ended up with a tie, so we decided to split he universe and that i would be in charge of the east side, while he got the west side lol.
I love my friends, these people make me belly laugh, till i have tears in my eyes all night long.
After the park, we went over to Tabi's house. She has the most amazing basement in the world. Her parents remodeled it to look like old school england style, like with the knights and marble. It's beyond wicked. There's even a sword in a stone, and a knight, and a round table.
- Location:work
Yesterday i did a 12 hour shadowing shift at the emergency at the children's hospital. I had to be there at 7:30 am. Which is beyond brutal. As exhausted as i was when i got home, it was a pretty amazing day. I saw lots of things that's for sure.
I hadn't even been there for 15 mins, when one of the mother's fainted. I ended up hooking her up to an IV , taking some blood and staying with her little 14 month old girl, for the next hour while she was being transferred to the adult emergency. Oh and the mother was also 6 months pregnant. The little girl was beyond adorable. She had a high fever and was coughing up a storm. But was still in a good mood. I even managed to get her to fall asleep while i was holding her.
There was one little boy who was 5, that i needed to put an IV in. When your dealing with a little kid, instead of asking what hand they write with, we ask 'what hand do you play with?' and he responded with 'Both hands!'. I couldn't stop laughing, i had to calm myself down before i could do anything lol.
When i got home i pretty much just inhaled food then crashed into bed and didn't wake up till 8:30 this morning. I'm not used to having to get up so damn early.
Tonight i'm going to go see the new moon movie with mina. Hopefully the idiots in the theater can shut up and not scream and squeal every two seconds. That drives me insane, and also gives me a headache.
I went to go christmas shopping today, who doesn't love that? Urg. I bought the new star trek movie for my dad. And then i gave up. I suck, and hate, shopping for other people. I just ask them what it is exactly what they want and i'll buy it. With mina and my brother i just take them shopping, and let them pick something out. Then we always make a big show of them guessing and trying to figure out what it is when they have to open it.
I hate surprises that aren't actual surprises. Case closed. Unless you take me completely off guard, and i wasn't expecting it all; then i love it. Like 'Surprise, i got tickets to this concert you wanted to see!'. That is a surprise. But i hate it when you know it's coming before, you just don't know what it is, doesn't make it a surprise in my book. It's just an annoyance. It drives me nuts not to know things. Which i guess where my obsessive thirst for knowledge comes from.
Tabi's cousin is having a social this saturday. I'm hoping she also invited Terance.... I'm not allowed to touch certain foods for the next month or so. Like alcohol, spicy foods, etc. Because i can't aggravate my abdomen, in case there's any fluid lying around in there, that still hasn't made it way out.
- Location:bedroom
- Music:watching men in black
I finally got to see the 'Inglorious Basterds' movie this week. Loved it. My mom kept freaking out beside me at the really gory parts. I was half laughing at the scene, half at her. I also went to see the hangover, yet again. I'm going to end up buying that movie the day it finally gets released on dvd.
I thought i would share this video, whenever i'm feeling 'blah' or down, i'll just go on youtube and watch either funniest home video clips, or clips of babies laughing. I can't help smile and laugh when i watch them.
- Location:bedroom
- Music:watching super troopers
I'd rather be doing fun stuff, like watch movies or tv on the internet. But at least this way when i get home from work i can do things, or just relax. And not have to worry about my homework.
It's pretty funny that i pretty much get paid to do my homework. It just sucks because i have this important paper for one of my classes that is due on thrusday and i had barely done anything for it because i had a whole broken down plan of what task i had to do everyday. That way it would get done in time and i wouldn't be stressed or overwhelmed with it. Unfortunately, this plan was suppose to start on sunday the 1st of november. Which was the morning i got sick. And i haven't even looked at anything school related all week.
So i brought all my stuff to work, and i'm determined to do all the prep work, all the outline work, all the highlighting and side note taking on my articles. And write my entire paper in my two shifts of this weekend.
Elle
They sent me back down to the ER, where i had to wait 3 hours in the waiting room, because i needed a private room apparently. Which is crap, i would have been more then willing to push two chairs together right in the middle of emergency and had them examine me right there.
I then got visited by 3 doctors. And they were able to determine that i had a 'Ruptured Ovarian Cyst'. And it explains a lot about why i've had such painful periods lately. I had a fucking cyst sitting on my right ovary.
The doctor was like 'when a cyst erupts, it will cause a severe amount of pain' and i said 'no shit doc, i think i'm aware of that little timbit'. Which he laughed hard at.
I got to the hospital at 8 am this morning thinking i was just going to pop in for a ultrasound and walk right back out. Ended up leaving at 3:30 pm. Oh well, i'm just glad it's all over and done with.
I'm also hoping that now that the cyst has ruptured, that my periods wont be as painful. Fingers crossed!
Elle
- Location:bedroom
-Walk to clinic, in the cold, try not to throw up
-get to clinic only to get a 12:45 pm appointment
-walk back home
-force myself to eat some grapes, lie in bed and watch t.v
-walk back to the clinic by 12:30, only to get in a room at 2
-talk to the doctor, he checks out my abdomen and back
-sends me to the emergency at the hospital close by right away
-i get to the emergency at around 2:45, my mom is there at 2:55
-we wait to get into a room till 5:10
-once the process started i talked to 2 nurses, 2 doctors, answering millions of questions
-both doctors checked my heart, abdomen and back. Which hurt. Alot. Pushing and poking to see where the pain was
-they then took some tests with a machine, a urine sample, and a blood sample
-they scheduled me for 8:15 am tomorrow to go to the ultrasound floor
-they were able to determine that it was not my appendix, but that maybe it's something with my reproductive or digestive systems
-and then sent me home
I have a headache, and i'm going to bed.
Elle
- Location:bedroom
So tomorrow morning i'm going to go to the walk-in and see if they can do anything.
I tried to go to class today, and ended up throwing up half way to school. So i sat on a bench freezing my ass off until the nausea passed, then just walked back home. Good times.
Elle
I woke up sunday morning to a blinding/throbbing pain in my lower right abdomen. And felt so nauseous and weak. I didn't understand what the hell was going on. Then the right side of my lower back started to hurt too. At first i thought it might have something to do with my period, since i don't have the greatest history with that. But nope, not that.
Then when the pain and the nausea, were getting worse through out the day, i thought maybe my appendix might be inflamed. But nope, not that either.
I've ran through a million possibilities through my mind, and it could be an ulcer, a growth of some kind, or maybe even cancer. Everyday it hurts a little less, but only as long as i'm laying in bed, lying on my left side. As soon as turn over or get up or walk. The pain and nausea return with guns loaded.
My doctor retired, and i haven't managed to get another one yet. So i'm scrambling trying to find one as soon as possible, because i can't do anything. Tomorrow i'm suppose to have an observation day, and i'm the lucky one that got placed into emergency at the biggest hospital in the province. I was really excited about it. But there's no way i would be able to run around an ER for 8 hrs, when i can barely go down the stairs without wanting to throw up.
The sucky thing is that i need a doctors note to explain why i can't go to observation day, and i don't have one right now. So worse comes to worse, i'll just end up going to a walk-in clinic. Because this day counts as 10% of my final mark.
On a better note, i had lots of fun on halloween. Good thing too, seeing as how it was my last night of freedom, without even knowing. One of my classmate's daughter, who is 4, got diagnosed with leukimia this summer. So so threw this huge fundraiser for her on halloween. Me, cory and josh ended up going. And we laughed and danced like crazy all night. Even then i was feeling a pain in my stomach and bit nauseous, but i didn't really think anything of it. I dressed up like a fairy, wings, curly hair with ribbons, cutesy dress. Mina works part time in a cosmetics department, so i went over at 7:30 and she did my makeup in glittery greens and purples. Cory dressed up as a slutty cop lol, and josh was her inmate. It was pretty funny.
I'm going to take yet another nap now, all i seem to do these days.
Elle
- Location:bedroom
I even jumped at one part, and my heart was pounding for a few minutes lol. But i'm still dead set on seeing paranormal activity.
I talked to colin after the movie, and apparently in his excitement that i agreed to go see a movie with him, he completely forgot he was already going to a concert that night. So he tried making plans for another day, but i already have plans everyday. He was disapointed to say the least.
Elle
- Location:work
- Location:work
I somehow agreed to see a movie with colin next friday. He wanted a chance to prove himself. Well no, technically he wanted to go out on a full blown fancy dinner date. But i pulled the breaks on that pretty damn fast. I think the movies is the best place for a first date, when you don't really know someone, and your not comfortable with them yet. That way there's time to talk before and after the movie, but you still get 2 hours of not having to make conversation, just in case things aren't clicking for whatever reason.
Elle
- Location:work
I'm going to Boo at the Zoo tonight. Should be fun, i loved it last year.
Stalker boy a.k.a colin, is annoying me again. He keeps trying to get me to go out on a date. But i'll only hangout with him, if there are other people there, so it's not a date. I do have to give him props for not giving up though. Annoying as it is.
Elle
- Location:bedroom
- Music:watching season 3 of One Tree Hill
I can't wait for this week to be over already.
The good news is that on friday my mom's having her annual crib tournament with her co-workers. So that means me and my bro are getting kicked out of the house. I'm going to mina's for the night. Even though she's working till 11, i'm just going to hangout at her place anyway lol. I'll have supper with her parents, then just laze around till she gets off work. I'm glad her house is like a second home to me.
Elle
- Location:dinning room
Anyway, i was able to switch my evening shift yesterday to the morning shift, so that i could go to my mom's side for thanksgiving. Usually my dad's side does it on monday, thanksgiving itself, but for some odd reason my uncle chose to do it on the sunday instead. So my parents were each going to their families' side, and me and my brother had to choose which side we'd be attending. We both chose my mom's because every year for thanksgiving, we rent out this arena in the country so we can skate. This is usually the one time a year i get to skate, so i wasn't going to miss that.
The food was amazing, as always, ate my heart out, went to skate for 2 hours, then came back to eat some more lol. I was teaching two of my little cousins how to skate, it was so adorable. And hysterically funny, when they fell. I always have a good time with them, we all love to laugh. I'm also thinking, Sofie might be pregnant....we'll see about that...i hope she is lol.
I'm pretty sure i caught my dad's cold, because i woke up this morning with a sore throat and felt pretty crappy all over. Which sucks, because i've only been at work for an hour and a half, and i'm already ready to crash and sleep for twelve hours. It's hard to study and memorize things, when your head hurts and all you want to do it lie in bed. Bleh.
Oh big freak snow storm on friday. Oh the fun of slippery, wet, impossible to see roads. I was out with mina all day, then we finished the night off by seeing a movie. Went to see 'Couples Retreat', and that's pretty much 2 hours of seeing the bahamas. Then to walk out into that, was insanely depressing. Plus there was some jackass who thought he was too cool to drive safe in a snow storm, and almost crashed into me.
Elle
- Location:work
