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before i forget

i just want to remember forever how ridiculous my day was yesterday. it involved an old hobo man asking me for a ride to 711 bc he needed an atm, a fire drill & getting stuck in a building, and seeing mexico from an unexpected drive 3 hours later from thinking i would have been home. i went from incredibly pissed to pissing scared to laughing hysterically. all this adventure by myself. lol, oh life.

ps. okay last anatomy test, let me do uuuuu! but i haven’t studied today and our date is in a couple of hours! goodness, gotta get myself ready…

As much as i love studying Nutrition..

phil-time:

having to listen to podcasts on Diabetes is making me terribly emotional thinking about my mom.  i keep thinking about my metabolic biochemistry professor from last spring and how he said its our generation’s responsibility to find a cure for things like diabetes and cancer, which are beyond the scientists of the past.  i can see how we might find a cure for cancer through recombinant dna technology like RNAinterference, but cures for circulatory complications caused by diabetes don’t seem to be of any great focus.  

mom, i pray we’ll grow old together, cure or no cure.

me too, diabetes runs rampant in my mom’s side of the family and it probably didn’t help with my grandma’s passing from colon cancer. in the ER i see the repercussions of diabetes all the time which combined with obesity, lack of exercise, and other medical problems is pretty killer. i heard some crazy statistic that over 50% of latinos are diabetic, thats nuts. don’t fret though, since the pharmaceutical research industry is (sadly) pretty driven by the monetary rewards of their findings i know they are trying to find ways to get this disease controlled since so many are affected by it. also i think with the mechanism of how diabetes happens, which is well understood and simpler than other genetic type diseases or diseases that are influenced by environmental factors and such, i have faith that someday someone will find a cure. just think about it they are actually fashioning organs in vitro! though i know a fatty pancreas with all the working glands may seem out of question, maybe an implantable organ that releases insulin so people who are noncompliant with their meds/shots have a better shot at life. plus, i think our generation is more aware of exercise and obesity altogether, next year i plan to get my mom and my fam to get a regular exercise routine going, maybe you should suggest it to your mom?