Farewell!

This will be a short post as I need to be packing and we are soon leaving for our Farewell Dinner tonight! We gave our presentations today and received lots of compliments! They said they were the best ones ever by Tennessee students.

Tonight, we have a farewell dinner and tomorrow, we head for a 2.5 week adventure to Alice Springs, Cairns, New Zealand, and Hawaii. I can't believe that I have finished my last rotation and that in less than one month, we will graduate!

We had a wonderful patient interaction yesterday. We went on a home visit with a pharmacist as part of the HOMR program (Home Outreach Medication Review). This lady had been admitted to the hospital 3-4 times in the last 6 months and she wasn't feeling well. She was on metoprolol (for blood pressure) and digoxin (for those of you non-pharmacy people, it is just to help control your heart, especially if you have atrial fibrillation). She was complaining of nausea, diarrhea, and had HALOS IN HER EYES (which are classic signs of digoxin toxicity). I measured her pulse and it ran 52 bpm and she hadn't taken any of her medicine since yesterday. The pharmacist called her doctor and got an order for a stat EKG and digoxin level. We had to gently convince her to go to the office because she wasn't feeling well, poor lady, but she did finally agree to go and we drove her. I don't know if we will find out exactly what happened, but I think we were in the right place at the right time, if you know what I mean.

I will post and upload pictures during our trip. Thanks for reading and all of the comments!