Hello everyone and happy new year. I'm back from my winter break which I spent in Ohio and Wisconsin. I actually got myself stuck in Wisconsin, but to tell you about that lets go back to last year.
I went to Ohio for my friend's wedding, and for his bachelor party (on Dec. 28th), one of the groomsmen decided that we should play broomball. For those not familiar with this game, broomball is like hockey, only without he skates, played on ice, and instead of puck there is a grapefruit-sized ball, along with sticks with stubby plastic ends that you strike the ball with. When I found out that we were playing this game, two days before the wedding, I had a bad feeling. I told my friend Scott as we were driving to the game "I know somebody is going to get hurt." So ten minutes go by in the game and it's fun. The ball is rolling my way and I wind up to slap it towards the goal. I swing, and in my follow-through my feet slip out from under me (it is ice, believe it or not it's slippery) and as this happens I feel a distinct pop in my right knee. I hit the ice hard, get up quickly trying to shake off the fall, but in doing so I know something is wrong. I limp off the ice and my knee swells quickly.
Now I'll summarize. The knee had been dislocated and popped back into place, in the process chipping some bone. I was on crutches for my friend's wedding and new years (not to mention percocet), rehabbed at home in Wisconsin, and was finally able enough to drive myself, nearly a month after the fall, back here to the cities. Also during that time, my mom fell and broke her wrist and needed surgery, and the Packers lost in OT to the Giants in the NFC Championship. How do you think I feel?
So it could have been a better winter break, but I do feel recharged for this, my final semester. Oh yeah, I should mention I passed all of my classes last semester, just in case you doubted me. Now all that is left is three classes and my master's project. The three classes are the following:
PubH 6020 - Social and Behavioral Science
PubH 6741 - Ethics: Practice and Policy
PubH 6726 - Medical Device Industry
And of course there is the Master's Project Seminar that meets every other week, just to make sure we're not falling behind. Next week when I have more of an impression of these courses I'll write about them.
Until then, I'm going to keep working on the master's project before these classes and a job search start to demand more of my time.
Good to be back. See you around the blog.