One last final to go
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alee_grrlAnd I cannot seem to focus.
My thyroid has been yo-yoing a bit the last few months, which has not been fun. When my doc rechecked it a few weeks ago it was too high, so she increased by dose of armor thyroid. I was nervous about this because I am very sensitive to thyroid medication. But I went with the increase. My Lyme doctor was also concerned about the increase (it doubled what I was on) and told me to look out for being overheated and feeling like my heart was racing. Well this past week I noticed I felt flush a lot. My face felt constantly hot, and I experienced several very weird instances where I felt as if somehow all the blood had both rushed out of my head and rushed to my head. I do not have any better words to describe it, but it was not a fun feeling. I have also been feeling very fatigued again. Then a couple of nights ago I started having trouble sleeping. I was itchy all over, feeling as if my skin was crawling. This is a feeling that I have gotten when overstimulated in the past, either by too much anti-depressant or too much thyroid. I am at the lowest dose of my anti-depressant now, so thyroid seemed the more likely culprit. It was yesterday evening that I really clued in, and a friend thankfully reminded me that I could call the on-call doctor for my primary care physician. I always forget that is an option. So I did that. The on-call doc had me skip this morning's dose of thyroid and wants me to go back to taking the 30 mg armor thyroid tomorrow morning. Hopefully this will help. I need my focus back.
My last final is a take-home that is due Wednesday at 5:00. It is an absolute beast of a final. I've glanced at it, but haven't really sat down to tackle it just yet. I am nervous because this was a class I did not pay much attention to. I can use all the materials that were provided for class (powerpoints, handouts, etc) as well as the casebook and supplement. My goal is to at least spend a couple of hours on it today. Read through the first problem set, note all the issue and draft an outline for response. I will set an alarm to get myself up a little earlier than I would naturally Sunday-Wednesday. This way I can still do my normal waking routine of internet catch-up and breakfast before I sit down to hack away at the final. I'm doing my best to break it into small steps so that I don't get overwhelmed and have a panic attack. I keep reminding myself that it doesn't have to be great or perfect, it just needs to be good enough for me to pass the class.
Thankfully the second draft of my paper on predictive coding usage in e-discovery was accepted as the final, so I do not have to do any additional rewrites for that class. There are a few things that I can tweak and improve if I decide to shop it around for publication, which I am thinking about. But those can wait until after finals and be done at my leisure. It is somewhat hard to believe that once I turn in my corporations final on Wednesday I will be done with traditional law school courses. The only thing I have left is my fall internship, which does include a small classroom component, which requires some journaling and short papers but no final. So this is it for the most part. I get to walk with my classmates on the 18th of this month, and will get my official slip of paper certifying my degree once all my work is submitted for the internship program next December.
I will be packing up my house in a couple of weeks and heading to Virginia to start the next adventure. It feels surreal, as this moments of transition often do.
My thyroid has been yo-yoing a bit the last few months, which has not been fun. When my doc rechecked it a few weeks ago it was too high, so she increased by dose of armor thyroid. I was nervous about this because I am very sensitive to thyroid medication. But I went with the increase. My Lyme doctor was also concerned about the increase (it doubled what I was on) and told me to look out for being overheated and feeling like my heart was racing. Well this past week I noticed I felt flush a lot. My face felt constantly hot, and I experienced several very weird instances where I felt as if somehow all the blood had both rushed out of my head and rushed to my head. I do not have any better words to describe it, but it was not a fun feeling. I have also been feeling very fatigued again. Then a couple of nights ago I started having trouble sleeping. I was itchy all over, feeling as if my skin was crawling. This is a feeling that I have gotten when overstimulated in the past, either by too much anti-depressant or too much thyroid. I am at the lowest dose of my anti-depressant now, so thyroid seemed the more likely culprit. It was yesterday evening that I really clued in, and a friend thankfully reminded me that I could call the on-call doctor for my primary care physician. I always forget that is an option. So I did that. The on-call doc had me skip this morning's dose of thyroid and wants me to go back to taking the 30 mg armor thyroid tomorrow morning. Hopefully this will help. I need my focus back.
My last final is a take-home that is due Wednesday at 5:00. It is an absolute beast of a final. I've glanced at it, but haven't really sat down to tackle it just yet. I am nervous because this was a class I did not pay much attention to. I can use all the materials that were provided for class (powerpoints, handouts, etc) as well as the casebook and supplement. My goal is to at least spend a couple of hours on it today. Read through the first problem set, note all the issue and draft an outline for response. I will set an alarm to get myself up a little earlier than I would naturally Sunday-Wednesday. This way I can still do my normal waking routine of internet catch-up and breakfast before I sit down to hack away at the final. I'm doing my best to break it into small steps so that I don't get overwhelmed and have a panic attack. I keep reminding myself that it doesn't have to be great or perfect, it just needs to be good enough for me to pass the class.
Thankfully the second draft of my paper on predictive coding usage in e-discovery was accepted as the final, so I do not have to do any additional rewrites for that class. There are a few things that I can tweak and improve if I decide to shop it around for publication, which I am thinking about. But those can wait until after finals and be done at my leisure. It is somewhat hard to believe that once I turn in my corporations final on Wednesday I will be done with traditional law school courses. The only thing I have left is my fall internship, which does include a small classroom component, which requires some journaling and short papers but no final. So this is it for the most part. I get to walk with my classmates on the 18th of this month, and will get my official slip of paper certifying my degree once all my work is submitted for the internship program next December.
I will be packing up my house in a couple of weeks and heading to Virginia to start the next adventure. It feels surreal, as this moments of transition often do.
