A "Trust Exercise"

As I've slowly come to learn, one of the greatest benefits of being a medical student's wife is that I have access to all of Matt's medical knowledge and resources. This is an incredible opportunity for me because as a pre-PA (physician assistant) student, I'll have to know most of what he's learning, so why not get a head start? Unfortunately, it took me an entire semester to embrace this idea due to some envy/jealousy/inferiority complex, but that's a story for another day. 

Tonight, one of the WSU physicians held a casting clinic. She gave a short presentation on fractures and then showed us how to cast the lower arm with fiberglass casting tape. We did a fairly simple cast, but it was much easier than I thought it was. I think Matt and I did pretty well on our first casts!   

                                       

I took my cast off before it hardened, but Matt left his on so I could cut it off with the saw. Matt thought it would be a great trust exercise. Who needs to fall backwards when you can have your partner take a saw to your forearm? :) I was so nervous I would burn him. The WSU physician had warned us that patients can get burns from the blade being too hot. It didn't help that Lauren, Matt's classmate, yelled "ouch!" as I was cutting the cast off - I think I nearly hit the roof! Luckily, Matt survived :) 

Goodbye Candy Crush!

Last August I became addicted to the game Candy Crush after a coworker introduced it to me. I loved the game - the levels are quick and can be played at any time. Candy Crush was also very entertaining during breaks at work. Matt never understood my fascination with it, and overtime became annoyed with how much I played it. I tried to kick the habit, but I only seemed to put the game away when I was out of lives - I refused to pay for more. Recently, a friend from PLU posted the following article about how King.com (the company that owns Candy Crush) was fighting a legal battle to patent the game, while also putting an independent game developer out of business who created a very similar game called Candy Swipe two years earlier. 

Isn't that an interesting comparison? Snopes looked into the issue and has mixed reviews, but overall it appears that King.com is a greedy company focused on eliminating their competition. As much as I loved the game, my values wouldn't let me support the company any longer. Hence, I deleted Candy crush off of my phone and facebook account (and I would encourage you to do the same as well!) Plus, I have to admit, it's nice not having the distraction anymore. Matt certainly appreciates it :) Now I just need to figure out how to stop the candy crush facebook requests...