OK so along with severe flooding in most of Minnesota, enough to make National news which really sucks because I maybe stuck at home and not be able to get back to college, I didn't get MCAT scores back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :( :( :(  I am really upset about this!!!!!! I was all nervous for nothing! I won't get them back until at least tuesday. Brianna

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Its so cold and windy in Minnesota today. I thought I was going to get blown over. I am really nervous because I should get my MCAT scores back today.... Hopefully they will be good enough, if not I can study up and retake it again.... Brianna

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Hey! So I saw my dr.'s partener yesterday because he was gone. I didn't like her very much :s She didn't know how to handle my OI which in all fairness not too many doctors do so she isn't alone in that, but it was her attitude in everything else that made me not like her. She told me that my leg and toe didn't look bad at all and that I didn't need to...

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Oh dear infection I wish I was rid of you!!! If I could tell my body one thing that would be it. Not that I want it work right or break less or even breathe right ( though I know there are times I am tempted to tell it that), No I would tell it that I wish for the infection to be gone. I feel like Sh*t today. I am running a temp, have...

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Hey everyone!! I just wanted to let all my doctors friends know that I am got an on campus Job at college. I am super excited. I will be working at an all girls charter school that has a STEM (science, technology, enegineering and math) focus. I will be coordinating the tutoring between my college, the school, the teachers and the parents and kids. I am very happy to get a chance to get to...

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Hello everyone!!! So I just got some amazing news today that made me cry and I knew I needed to share it with my doctors friends right away!! As of 2 P.M. eastern time today The Committee for Newborn Screening Has voted to do a pulse oximetry and other screening for Critical Congenital Heart Defects before Newborns leave the Hospital!!! THIS IS AMAZING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This should have been done long before now!!! Congenital Heart defects...

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So a couple of nights ago I scraped my knee. It was a tiny little scrape like smaller than the size of most pen caps, but still I washed it out really really well and put on prescription antibiotic cream to try and prevent an infection. I have been doing this a couple of times a day for 3 days, and apparently it didn't work. I noticed last night that it was getting red around...

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Hey everyone!! I hope everyone is doing well!! So today I got a call from my neurologist's nurse and she said she had talked to him about what he wanted to do since Mayo had refused to take me. She said he was refering me to the U of M ( University of Minnesota) for more testing. Specifically a doctor who specializes in Neuromuscular disorders such as MS. He still strongly believes I have MS, although...

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Hey everyone!! So It's been almost year that I've been on Forteo and What a crazy year it's been.  I've broken my Femur and Tibia and ended up in the hospital. However those two breaks are the only ones I have had the entire year!!! OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!! In years previous I have had upwards of 6 breaks and now I am down to two. In all apperiences the Forteo is working... Now in a...

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Hey everyone OK so I put some energery into this with some regularity. I want to raise awarness of Osteogensis Imperfecta and I want help get more research done! I want to educate people about OI because of the role it plays in my life. That's right... I have OI... now you wouldn't really know it looking at me unless you know what to look for.  Here are the telling features... I have a slightly...

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Hey everyone, My holter revealed nothing but a couple of little blips that weren't overly concerning according to my cardiologist. However my BP has been up so I have to monitor it for the next month and if it remains high I need to let either him or pediatrician know and one of them will initiate treatment.  Both are amazing men whom I respect deeply.  Besides that I have to go back in a year...

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Today is my first day without my holter of monitor.  I feel weird not having it and I also worry a bit. Before I knew if I had an attack I at least could record it and then send it in to my cardiologist. Now I worry that something is going to happen and I am not going to be able to record it and we aren't going to know exactly what happened. I have to...

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Ok so I know not everyone can appreciate Weird Al's humor but I recently saw his concert when he was here at the Minnesota State Fair and it was the best Concert of my life.  It beat out the American Idol Live concert I saw last summer.  The thing about Weird Al is you laugh you A** off the entire time and who doesn't need a little more laughter??   You have really got to give...

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Hey everyone!! So I got an MRI of my shoulder because it has been bugging me for about 8 months... Since January.... I did 3 months of PT and it didn't really... quite to the contrary it just p*ssed it off more I thought. Most days I left PT with a swollen shoulder that hurt to move at all and I wasn't too happy. Because of this when PT failed after three months and I...

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OK so I need to vent and to gain so perspective on this and I think this is probably a great place to do both. Today in the mail I got a letter from the Neurology department at Mayo... Actually to say I got a letter would be inaccurate. I got a copy of a letter... The letter was to my neurologist saying that they were denying his request for a consult with them because...

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Hey everyone!! I am so so excited!! On monday I get to shadow an infectious disease doctor at a children's hospital. The doctor that I am shadowing is very very intelligent.  She is board certified in infectious diease and in Immunology.  She knows her stuff!! I should know... She was my doctor once upon a time. When I was in the hospital in April, Chris as I shall call her since I don't have her...

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Hey ALL!!   I took my MCAT today and it went really well! I feel good about it. I won't know my scores for ove a month but that's ok.  Next week I am going to shadow a dr. Now It is on to finishing some stuff for my internship and then looking forward to school. Brianna

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Hey everyone! So I have a really big family on my mom's side. She has 9 brothers and sisters. There were suppose to be 14 but my grandmother had 2 misscarriages and two died shortly after birth :( So I have two uncles up in heaven. This means all together there are 19 aunts and uncles including my parents, 28 first cousins including me and whole bunch of second cousins( some of whom are older than...

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Hey! A month or so ago I started working with a different kind of brace at Physical Therapy.  Its called a protonics brace.  Basically its a brace that is suppose to be used with people with hip problems but my PT is using it with me with my feet. This brace is different but I love it!! This brace goes from just below your hip to your ankle and wraps all the way around. It...

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Hey all... So a couple of months ago I got my vitamin D tested and for the first time in over two years it was normal. I had been taking 100,000 IU of Vitamin D3 a day in order to get it there.  So my endocrinologists decided to take me off of all vitamin D for 2 months and see how low my vitamin D dropped and use that to determine my maitenance dose.  Well...

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