I feel funny. My head hasn't been working to it's best ability all day. I'm trying to study the kidney here and all I can do is chew on my lip and concentrate on important things like monkeys and pilgrims. I realized that I didn't take my anticonvulsants this morning and I had a hell of a diet last night, so that might have something to do with the fog. I wonder what life will be like when I come out of the fog at 7:30am to be tested on glomerularnephritis and nephrotoxic disorders. Should be interesting.

Ah, the kidney. Fun thing about medical school is that you get to learn about how toxic all the drugs you take are. I'm finding out how my kidneys are reacting to my anticonvulsants. Neato. This makes my wee ears peak a little more than the liver because I've been banking on my liver to just rejenerate after medical school. Kidneys have a little harder of a time with that part. It's an odd feeling to be sitting in class hearing about the side effects of the various medications I've been on over the years. What do you mean that makes your gums grow over your teeth?? My kidneys are these quivering little beans within me. They hold such delicate structures, balancing ions this way and that like an assembly line at a sushi bar.

...too bad I'm poisoning them.

In Chinese medicine, I have problems with my "kidney" which isn't really talking about the organ exactly. It's this enigmatic thing that I refuse to double major for. Some of my friends are going for their Chinese medicine degrees as well, so they told me that grey hair reflects your kidney chi and whatnot. I'm the shortest in my family, only one with epilepsy and the only premature gray goose. Wonder where all that started - meds or pre-meds? Ah, I just had flashbacks to being a premed... that's probably where the gray started.

So, I'm going to drink more water. This helps every system in the body & I'll probably rave about the magical substance several thousand times in hope that my one fan - I know you're out there mom - will read it and drink more. The laundry list of "thou shalt change this" for epilepsy is VERY long. I've got plenty of places to start, lemme tell ya. Water's a good one. At least my kidneys don't have to work to recycle water while I poison them. Hold on little fellers!

Anyway, there's a gruesome picture of a dissected kidney staring at me from a book, so it's back to it!!