Category Archives: Medicine

Pharmacology

I just dropped Sabre Fencing (sorry Mary!) and added a Pharmacology class to my schedule next fall.

Benefits include an extra credit and not having to go to class. The main negative will be homework, exams, and not a guaranteed A.

I really hope I like the class. It looks very interesting, as I’ve always wondered about how drugs interact in the body. (Maybe I’d enjoy pharmacology more than say going to medical school?… here’s my chance to find out).

Regressive Party

Everybody’s favorite Maddox takes an interesting stance on abortion and the political system in one of his latest posts:

Looking for a safe stance on abortion? Me neither.

I’m tired of political candidates pussy-footing delicately around the issue of abortion. Every time I turn on the TV, there’s always some group of hippies protesting “for choice” or “for life.” Each group pisses the other off, and no candidate will take a strong enough stance on the issue of abortion, so I’ve decided to form a political party of my own:

The Regressive Party

I have a different stance on abortion: I’m against abortion, but for killing babies. That way everyone loses, and I win. I’m neither pro choice, nor pro life; I’m pro you-shutting-the-hell-up.

??Via: Maddox??

Personally I’m pro-choice but abortion is a woman thing and I don’t really shouldn’t have any say in the whole affair.

Pharmacology

The Department of Pharmacology here at the U of M is offering a new course next fall called Mechanisms of Drug Action. I’ll have to admit the topic fascinates me and I’m really thinking about signing up for the class. It meets for 1 hour twice a week, which is very manageable. However, it would be at the same time as Sabre Fencing (so I’d have to drop that one). That wouldn’t be the end of the world because I’ll still have Ballroom Dance (maybe Fencing wasn’t for me anyway).

I don’t quite meet the prereqs for the class (Biology/Biochemistry classes), but I’ve had Organic Chemistry II which they said would be sufficient for understanding what was going on. The class looks like it will be pretty small as well—maybe 20 students.

If nothing else, it might spur an interest for me to consider medical school again—something my parents have been pushing for but I’ve been rejecting.

My Head Hurts

The plastic surgery wasn’t too bad. They just numbed me up and sliced away. I had 2 moles and one cyst removed. The other two moles will have to wait until the summer (they were smaller/less irritating). The topical anesthetic is starting to wear off (which sucks), but I just took some tylenol and I’m hoping that’ll help with the pain. And I’ve got some vicodin left over from my wisdom teeth removal that should help me fall asleep easily tonight. Just seven days with the stitches until I can get them removed :).

Mole Removal

11 hours until I get some moles removed on my head. I’m a little nervous, but I’m sure it’ll all go well.

Sorry the updates have been so sparse, but there’s just nothing that important going on in my life currently!

Ooh, when school starts up again be prepared for the new revamping of my self-hosted website, at which point I’ll move my blog there. For a preview see http://froehle.dyndns.org:88/ during the hours that my computer is on (ie noonish-midnight).

(Or for an older (but partially abandoned) and similar project, see http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/~froe0071/).

Todo: Mole Removal

In 11 hours I’m having a mole removal procedure for a couple moles on my head. They won’t have time to get to all of them, but at least they should take care of the couple really big ones.

Here’s to hoping that all goes well!