For more that the last month I have been hulled away in my room studying. They are trying to test my mental endurance this year. I didn't write anything because it would have been the same post over and over and would have gone something like this, "I am once again studying tonight and will probably be getting up at 5 am to study some more. I really can't wait for the weekend so I can study some more, but actually get a full nights sleep and if I'm really lucky, I can go to the grocery store." So since it would sound like I was just whining about it, I didn't write anything.
This weekend really gave me something to write about though. Friday night we had a "Optometry around the world" where each class had to represent a country and cook food from that country. We were Canada. We made putene which is french fries with cheese and gravy and Caesars which are kind of like bloody mary's. The first years were Mexico and they all wore these cute little black mustaches. It was pretty funny. They also had a DJ and there was dancing and karaoke.
Yesterday was the real story. We went Zip lining at a place called Toro Verde (Green Bull) and it was really fun. The zip lines are some of the longest and highest in the world. We were really looking forward to doing this one called "The Beast" which was one where they put you in a different kind of harness and you go across superman style.
Everything was fine for most of it, other than the harnesses aren't terribly comfortable, until our last regular zip line. It was the longest of the 8 we went on at 2500 ft long and at least 400 ft high. Kerri went right before me and they told her that if she felt bumps in the line, she needed to take her breaking hand off of the wire so she would have enough speed to make it all the way across. When she took her breaking hand off the line, she twisted and was coming into the landing area with her back to the landing platform. This had happened on many of the other lines and no one had a problem. But this time Kerri turned her head to see when she was going to hit the break and ended up taking the wooded block covered in foam to the eye. We don't know if she actually had a concussion, but her pupils were still not the same size when we got home last night. What we do know is that we spent 10 hours at two different hospitals.
There was a physician on the tour with us who looked at her first and then the Toro Verde medic looked at her. The first hospital that we went to was small and they didn't have xray equipment supposedly. I didn't really object to going to a different hospital as Kerri and I both thought the doctor was stoned. His eyes were really red. Thank god two guys from Toro Verde stayed with us the whole time. Jeffrey was awesome. He translated some when we needed him to and he had us follow him to the hospital. Those mountain roads are crazy and not marked. We would have never made it without him.
We had an awesome guy named Calvin who did Kerri's CT scans at the next hospital. He let us look at the CT scans and showed us the fluid in her maxillary sinus. It was pretty crazy. Kerri said it made her day, which was a good thing because she was a hurting unit.
The reason that we were waiting for so long is because the radiologist wouldn't answer his phone, so there was no one to look at the scans for 7 hours. We don't even know for sure if it was the radiologist that ended up looking at them. We brought a set of film back to show some of our professors.
It was another 1 1/2 hours drive home so we finally pulled in at home at almost 3 am. It was crazy. We didn't get any pics of us in our gear because we were a bit preoccupied, but I have a nice pic of Kerri's shiner and a video of Toro Verde.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0RnO4kiDm4
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