Unit 6 blog

I think that some of my ideas that I have about medical marijuana can be used in later research. I think if they, the researchers, take into consideration of the patient history of marijuana use to consider the dosage level that the patient may have. it is known that when marijuana is used for a long time, high toleration can develop. This may cause the therapeutic effects diminish unless the patients dosage is upped. Also, people have different toleration rates of their symptoms. Some patients may need a higher dosage than others. It just depends on that individual.

As My Patiences Grows

Recently, my brother and I decided that it would be better for my parents that I go up there and help them because I have a medical background.My brother is an graphic designer so he kind of do not know what to do. My mom has been a diabetic for some years now. She was managing it ok but recently develop fibriods on her ovaries. These fibroids are SO huge that they are pressing down on her uterus and causing her to bleed a lot. Well she was bleeding so much that on Valentine's day she was admitted into the hospital. She had to recieve 3 pints of blood through a blood transfusion. She go out that following Wednesday but she went back for a D & C on that Friday. While she was in the hospital, her blood sugar flucuated a lot. Now she is on insulin and on a very strict diet, something she is not use to. My dad spoils my mom by giving her whatever she wants to eat which is not good. So, I am here in Cleveland while my husband and son is in Columbus. I am helping my dad pick foods and showing him how to cook certain things to help my mom diet. She cannot have NO fried foods! I feel bad for her. We are Hispanic and love fried foods. Soon She will be ok. Her blood sugar has been lower than it has been. It's still kind of high but at least it is under 200. She is taking less and less booster insulin shots, which is great! Soon she will have a total hysterectomy or a Salpingo-oophrectomy with a hysterectomy. This kind of put me behind in my school work a little more but that is okay. My parents need my help and I can always make my classwork up. I do not like to be behind but stuff happens in life that we cannot control like this situation. And that is okay.

I like that I can write what I feel in this format. It helps me a lot with stress and expressing my feelings. I think that I will keep blogging after this class.

Peer Reviews

I like peer reviews. Now, I haven't always did. At one point, I thought my peers were just criticizing my work in a negative way. I thought of it of putting my and my work down instead of helping me. I was stubborn and did not like people telling what was wrong with my work. That has all change for me now. I know that peer reviews can help me. I like it because people can catch things in my work that I may have not notice. Also, others can help me just make my paper better. Some peers that had review my work in the past had help me by giving me tips on how I can fix things in my work.

People that do peer reviews need to have an open mind and remember that this can help them more than anything. It always help me especially when I had an open mind.

Issues!

For the last 6 weeks, I have been going through some stuff. In my last post, I posted some of the stuff that had been going on. But there is much more. My refrigerator decides to die after we just bought food. We end up throwing out a lot of the food. Then the computer starting acting up. My car got fix and broke down again from a different problem. My brother-in-law (that is 30) is living with me and my fiance' for the past 3 weeks. He eat up a lot of stuff and don't budget. My fiance' is irritated from this situation and his job lost. So he has this issue with redirect anger and I am the one that gets it. He yell about the dumbest stuff. I am use to it. I just ignore it and move on. I just started working and trying very hard to catch up on bills and rent. The good thing is that I finally got help on rent and that is good enough for me so I can catch up on the bills! I know that everything will be better eventually. It has already started !

Challenges

I had many academic challenges lately. First, my internet started to act funny. Then we had a huge snow storm, so I could not go to the library. Then my brother-in-law was shot in the foot from a bounce-off-the-ground bullet. Then he had to stay with us because the assailant was still out the police want him to safe (whatever). It just have been 3 crazy weeks. I am happy that now I can catch up and get everything up to par again.

Plagiarism

I think that the internet do blur the lines of plagiarism because people can copy other people stuff and add to them without stating where they got the information from. People can go on wikipedia and write whatever they like and copy others information without giving those individuals the due credit.

If someone used something that I created and did not gave me the credit, I would be angry. I would not know what I would do, honestly. If it was in a school atmosphere them I will tell the administrators what had happened and confront the person.

Me as a Student

I like being an online student. It gives me the flexiblity I need to get everything that I want to do done. I do not have to worry about gas because my classes is in my home. I do not have to worry about a babysitter or trying to pick classes that fit into my work schedule. Being an online student makes life easier for a busy parent who wants to get a degree.

I love that can schedule, some what, when I can do my work and read my assignments. It helps alot, for me, that I am in an environment (the classes) that many of my classmates are in the same situation as I am. For example, there are parents, or even grandparents, that are trying to get the degree that they want.

I think when we discuss our everyday life in the dicussion boards, the blogs, and sometimes seminar, I think that it creates a closer community between us students in our classes. I know that doing this have made me good friends in past classes. I believe the more you talk to anyone in any way, in person, on the phone, or online, it can create close communities.

I love being an online student! This past weekend, my cousins came down, from Cleveland, to visit me. One of my cousins brought his fiancee' and their son with them. My brother came up from Cincinnati to visit as well. that is the picture of my cousin's son. He is 10 weeks now. the flexibility of this online school has let me spend tim with my family and help me alot. I use to procrastinate alot. I still do from tim to time but being on online classes has helped me stop procrastinate alot. I do not know how but it did.

My son's pet turtle

Today was an interesting day today. My son has this pet turtle. He had it for about 7 months now. (We take care of it more than he does.) Oh by the way my son is 7 years old. This is a current picture of him. Anyway, we clean the turtle tank out today. We got him some fish to add to his tank. Let me explain that first that we thought giving our son a turtle was better for him to have for a pet than a dog because of our small apartment and that it is less work to do to keep up with the turtle. Anyway, after we clean the tank out and put everything back in it, but the turtle, we added the fish to that tank. Now we have an aquatic turtle that eat fish and other things. Personally, I never saw it eat the fish, the fish always just disappeared. Well that was going to change today. There were 10 fish. There was one really big goldfish that was in the group. I thought that that fish was TOO big for the turtle to eat. As soon as I put the turtle in the tank, it went for the big goldfish. The turtle attacked that goldfish just like a shark attack it's food. It tore it apart! It ate all the pieces too. I never saw anything like that except on TV. My son, of course, thought that was the coolest thing. Well, now we only got 8 fish. I can barely look at the tank now because I really do not want to see that event happen again! You would think that I would be find because I am in the medical field but that was far from surgery or emergency issues!