Don't Bail from the Trail

Some of you know what news I received this morning which made my day very difficult. I tried to concentrate and focus on work, but found it quite challenging. Luckily this morning, we spent time in a Diabetes Patient Education lecture that took most of the morning and kept me distracted. We headed to lunch after that where I discovered how cheap food is on base - WIN! Plus, we had a "lunch-and-learn" aka drug companies feed us lunch and educate us at the same time. 


Our Captain assigned us projects to work on during the course of the month. I was assigned with 3 other students from Ohio, Arizona, and New York to make infomercials on how to give patients IM (intramuscular) and SQ (subcutaneous) injections. This is when I really miss Cole and Jon to help out with editing. It's going to be used on base for patient/provider education so we want it to look official! 


It was a pretty full day already, but we decided to enjoy the evening. When speaking to my grandma (Adele) last night, she told me that her and grandpa had never been to Alaska and she wanted me to enjoy ALL of it. As my grandparents loved to travel, I thought it was fitting that myself and 9 other pharmacy students went on a true Alaskan Adventure (to again keep my spirits up and my mind distracted). Therefore, we headed to Flat Top Mountain for an evening hike. It took us from around 7:00pm to 10:00pm to hike all the way to the top and back down plus a TON of pit stops for pictures - well worth it. 


At the start of the hike, the Flat Top trail warning stated: Don't Bail from the Trail. I innocently thought that meant "don't give up". Apparently it means keep to the trail, so I immediately broke that rule and wandered right off trail from the start to pave my own path. At times it was probably more difficult, but I'm in for the challenge if it has the potential to be an adventure.


Pictures and video of our hikin adventure will soon follow.