Middle of Semester 2

We have recently been studying pharmacology and nutrient-drug interactions in my clinical nutrition class and a few things have stuck out to me. Whenever we discuss the medication Levodopa (L-Dopa) used for Parkinsion's disease it reminds me of the line in "Harry Potter" with the wingardium leviosa spell.

And we have been introduced to a medication derived from the always controversial marijuana plant, Marinol. Mainly used for cancer patients to increase appetitie, decrease nausea and give a euphoric feeling. Of course we all get a good laugh at this.

And our intestine lining have been compared to happy sea urchins sucking nutrients out of the food we digest.

And of course things like this now stick out to me:

Working at the hospital this semester with foodservice has given me some insight with patients attempting to "cheat" the diet order system and not be compliant with the diet best selected for them. We had a patient who needed to be on a low sodium, heart healthy diet, but refused and would choose instead to order chicken fingers, hamburgers, french fries, and multiple desserts. We also had a patient request to be on a "diet" menu and chose all the dessert options available. I assume they felt better about doing this since it was a "diet" menu.

One of my units that I recently completed involved taking physical inventory of the food and supplies. Part of inventory was done in the freezer, and brrrr it is cold in there, especially for more than 5 minutes. While literally "chilling" in the freezer, I was taking notes and realized the ink in my pen had frozen and I was unable to write. Proof that those walk in freezers are no joke and now I see why pencil is used instead of ink.

On a side topic, my husband and I just celebrated our one year wedding anniversary! We stayed at the Gaylord Texan and were upgraded to a suite!!! (Sweet!!) It was so much fun and felt like a mini version of the honeymoon all over again. And of course, as tradition goes, we took a bite of our one year old wedding cake, and shockingly it was good!! Either the cake holds up really well, or I just did a really good wrapping job. (3 layers of saran wrap, 2 layers of foil and 2 airtight freezer bags.)

Up next: Site Swap!!!

~Brittani

"Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine." ~ 1 Timothy 5:23