Wednesday June 22nd -
Today was presentation/projects day meaning at 2pm we headed to the conference room at the AFB to show our IM and SQ injection videos to the the other students and pharmacists from the base. It was hard for me to watch/hear myself on screen but they all seemed to like the videos. After the other students presented, Captain brought us cake to celebrate and our Sargent agreed to teach us a dance (apparently from some childhood show I did not watch). We have video and pictures of this floating around somewhere. Overall, it was a fun and random afternoon at work.
This evening we went to Kinley's Restaurant and Bar for a Pharmaceutical Rep dinner. Here, we were educated on Pradaxa (anticoagulant drug) which after his presentation I'm still weary of. There is no known antidote to the drug unlike Coumadin/warfarin which has Vitamin K as an antidote. Regardless of the presentation, the steak I enjoyed was delicious. We also had crab cakes and bacon wrapped dates that were also quite tasty. After dinner, Captain took us out to play foosball, billiards, and table shuffleboard. Mallory and I dominated at shuffleboard probably out of pure luck rather than actual skill. It really was a great night to spend outside of work with the other interns.
Thursday June 23rd -
Today Becca and I had the day off, so we decided to hike Mt. Baldy which was recommended to us as a fairly easy hike with some harder spots. Since our classmate Kyle has a rotation here in July, he flew in early to explore Alaska, so he also came with us on our hike. Boy, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. It was an uphill battle that I was not ready or in shape for. Kyle, on the other hand, had no problem traversing the side of the mountain. Last month he spent some time in Utah hiking the Blue John Canyon same place Aron Ralston, 127 Hours, was trapped and had to amputate his arm. Therefore, he was more prepared than Becca and myself. When we finally made it to the top, the view of Eagle River was beautiful! I still like when we hike further away from the developed cities where you can't see/hear the highway though, but it was still nice. We went beyond the peak some to Blacktail Rocks where we abandoned the trail to play in some snow. I pitched Kyle a couple of snowballs and he used his walking stick as a bat. After that, we decided to go back a different way than we came up the hill, so we found a downhill path that was pretty fun for trail-running. By the end of the hike, I was really ready to rest my legs while working on a paper for my Honduras trip.
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