Everyday I ride a public utility jeep for me to go to school (OLFU), it takes 1 ½ hour (and I tell you that my everyday trip is tiring and boring!)…To fight my boredom and to make myself busy, I do a lot of things. While at the jeep here are my vices: reading my nursing books, reviewing my notes, sleeping and sometimes I make music video but just in my mind…just emoting. hehe. But now I have my new vice and that is correlating all the things I see on the road to nursing or medicine.

This is my last semester in college and I will have a lot of upcoming nursing exam that I need to pass like the comprehensive exam and board qualifying exam given by our university and the most dramatic of all, the Nursing BOARD EXAM… And one way of preparing myself, is to study in advance through reviewing whatever I do and wherever am I.

Last Monday, I saw a warning sign; it says, ROAD UNDER CONSTRUCTION, unconsciously I read it this way: Road under VASOCONSTRICTION…hmmp.. Am I freak?!hehe.Back to reality, medically speaking, vasocontriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, particularly the large arteries, arterioles and veins. The process is the opposite of vasodilation, the widening of blood vessels. When blood vessels constrict, the flow of blood is restricted or decreased, thus, retaining body heat or increasing vascular resistance…From that instance, I begin to career my vice I also now reviewing medical abbreviation through reading plate numbers…How? For example, I saw a car with a plate number of ARF 530, in medical-surgical nursing ARF stands for Acute Renal Failure. ARF is a rapid loss of renal function due to damage to the kidneys, resulting in retention of nitrogenous (urea and creatinine) and non-nitrogenous waste products that are normally excreted by the kidney.

Am I freak?…No I’m not! I just want to use my time productively. I don’t want to waste my time making music video or do reminiscing…hehe..minsan lng kapag hindi ko na kaya at kelengan mag-emote.

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