Time keeps on tickin' (x3), into the future...

Alice managed to write this note to my mom just after her 17th birthday. She is more or less out of the coma but still very incapacitated and will need a lot of physiotherapy to get her strength back. The last immediate hurdle she still has to overcome is the 2nd operation to reimplant the section of skull that they removed a month ago to allow her brain room to swell.

To be honest, things have been quite brutal the last few weeks - I think this ordeal is taking it's toll of myself and my family more than we could have even realized. I had a bad exam last Monday and embarrassed myself by breaking down outside and getting hugs from classmates. Rebounded for some good exam results later in the week but have another major one in two days - LOADS of stuff to do before spring break. When I think of how carefree I was this time last year, heading to Spain tomorrow...just reinforces that fact that you can never predict what the future holds!!

On the upside, I got offers for interview at 4/5 med schools I applied to - UBC, UofA, USask and Queens - the later is going to set me back some in airfare, but them's the breaks! Dunno what happened at UofC, particularly since they had that NWT spot, but on an expected-value basis I'm still even. I am having a lot of trouble scheduling flights right now, particularly getting to Edm to see the family and then getting back from Vancouver the following weekend.

As a side note, 7 courses this term is not something I shall ever visit upon myself again, the last one has not even been touched, and it looks like I will have to complete it after final exams - I have until June.

An old aquaintance of mine is in Tanzania right now, according to his facebook pictures (what he's doing there I have no idea), and as cliched as it sounds flipping through them I still get a great deal of perspective on how things, compared to 80% of the world's population, are still pretty rosy on my side of the pond. So I will, as I always do, buckle down and pull through.

Anyone feel like giving me a backrub though?
hehe
Stewart