Little sharing of my study life

After struggling for a week,
finally the burden for this short period of time had gone "temporary".
We had 2 tests in a week!
Pharmacology on Monday,
MCBT (Molecular and Chemical Basis of Therapeutics) on Thursday.
The schedule for my hospital visit to RAH (Royal Adelaide Hospital) was rather wrong-timed.
It went on Wednesday which was in between the 2 tests!

I was busy revising my pharmacology notes last week.
All loads of notes spreading around my room.
Sympatholytics, cardiovascular disease, ACE inhibitors, heart failure, diuretics, vasodilators, angina and ischemic heart disease, ...
It's fun to understand all of those diseases and MOA (mechanism of action) for all the drugs,
but it's really brain snapping.

For the first test (pharmacology), I was quite confident.
I prayed for wisdom.
I believed that God will give me wisdom to attempt the questions.
30 questions within 30 minutes,
the time passed so rapidly.
I think this test was pretty good.

It's time for preparation for the second test which was the MCBT.
Unfortunately I had a bad gastric pain and headache that night.
Gastric - over production of gastric acid
~didn't manage to have meal on time.
Headache - O2 demand > O2 supply in CNS
~the blood just couldn't flow to my brain efficiently.
I couldn't study at all. I slept.
So I planned to finish up studying all the notes on Tuesday.
However,
I have no idea what's going on to me.
Maybe I'm over-worked.
I'm so tired and my brain just cant concentrate.
I started to pray, listen to God's songs, reading His words.
Then again, I slept. I hope that my energy can be refilled.

I'm worried actually.
What's am I going to do if I couldn't finish studying?
It was Wednesday morning.
I spent some times doing my pre-lab preparations.
That afternoon, I went for the hospital visit which was thought to be wrong-timed.
After all these done, it was late in the evening.
It's tiring indeed.
I prayed. I hope that God would give me strength and wisdom and wakeful brain to study.
I studied, I listened to God's songs, and I just dozed off suddenly.
I was shocked when I woke up at 4am in the morning and I just jumped out from my bed!
I had not finish my revision!!
The test was on Thursday morning!
What should I do now?
"Don't worry. It will be fine. You can finish them on time."
I knew that God was talking to me.
Without any panic, I started my revision.
Recombinant DNA, natural products, enzyme inhibition, enzyme induction, pharmacogenetics, combinatorial chemistry, structure activity relationship, ...
All the drug-drug interactions, and Ala-Ala, Gly-Gly thingy...
Aspart (change of Asp B28 from Pro),
Lispro (change of Lys B28 from Pro, change of Pro B29 from Lys),
there were so much to know, to study!
Actually I just flip through the notes.
Thank God. I assumed that I had finished my revision.

Without much confidence, I went for the test.
Again I prayed. God will help me, I know.
The test was not easy.
I just try my best to attempt the questions.
This time was much better,
20 questions in 45 minutes.
Everyone said that the test was more tricky this time.
And yes, I agreed.

The result just released so fast.
In the evening when I was back from Uni,
my friend told me that the result was out.
And thank God for the result.
I considered it's not bad.
All the glory to Lord!

I believed that God is always there to help us.
It's only the matter that whether you're willing to seek Him or accept Him.
God always listens to our prayer and He knows what we need.
He is ready to help us indeed.

Remember:
If God answers your prayer,
He is increasing your FAITH.
If God delays your prayer,
He is increasing your PATIENCE.
If God doesn't answer your prayer,
He has something better for you!

Yvonne
23rd May 2008
9.00 am