My weekly blog #7
It was a more easy going week for me, finally I am getting the hang of things for my classes, yeah, now after more than half of term done. It is because I have never taken an online classes before and ironically, the toughest classes, HSC 3593, was the one I got the most help as far as online questions.
I have been keeping busy with school administrative paperwork that needed to get done, they all had their requirements to fill and I am so relieved I got them all finished by the end of last Friday. I had homework and house shores but I am so happy because what’s more important was done.
I tell you this, I don’t think I would never, ever take online classes unless I have no other choice, definitely it is not my thing. I get confuse easily, I miss the person to person interaction, I am more visual, hand-on person. I feel I am very independent but on my schooling I guess I need more pampering than I thought.
I am trying to get used to the idea of me traveling 90 minutes round trip four times a week for this coming summer. Hopefully I get my car tune-ups and other maintenance taken care by then. Yes, I know I have to move closer to UCF, I am also working on that. I love VCC and I will be doing my 5 chemistries at their campus which is like 8 minutes away from home. You see, I need a middle ground between the two before I go insane.
Do You Know
HIV Drugs Provide Breastfed Babies With Some Protection
WEDNESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Antiretroviral drugs appear safe and effective in helping prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child through breast milk, a new international study has found.
The researchers found that “giving daily antiretroviral syrup to breastfeeding babies or putting their HIV-infected mothers on highly active antiretroviral drugs significantly lowered the child's chances of contracting the virus that causes AIDS. The chance of a mother with HIV transmitting the virus through breastfeeding is about one in five.
The results of the Breastfeeding, Antiretroviral and Nutrition (BAN) study, conducted in more than 2,000 HIV-infected mother-child pairs in Malawi in Africa, are scheduled to be presented in South Africa Wednesday at the 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention“ (Medicine Net, 2009).
Breast milk is “the source of infection for about half of the 420,000 infants who are infected with HIV annually, the study authors noted. This is a particular problem in some poor countries where HIV-infected mothers risk infecting their babies or having to use more expensive formula that is also subject to contamination from local water supplies.
In the BAN study, HIV-infected mothers and their babies were randomly assigned to one of three groups: infant antiretroviral syrup, maternal medication, or no treatment following birth. After 28 weeks, 7.6 percent of the infants in the group that did not receive any treatment had HIV or died, compared with 4.7 percent of infants whose mothers took antiretroviral medication, and 2.9 percent of the infants taking the antiretroviral syrup, the researchers found“ (Medicine Net, 2009).
Web: McKeever, K. University of North Carolina School of Medicine, news release, (July 22, 2009). Retrieved March 20,2010, from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=104025
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Doesn't the east branch of VCC offer chemistry or the branch of SCC that is close by to UCF? I would look into both of those and then find something near UCF so you don't have that long commute.
ReplyDeleteGood information to know about breast feeding. I know a lower viral load will help reduce transmission via the umbilical chord, so I should have made the leap to breast milk as well.
Wow that is going to be a long commute. That is some real dedication. I understand what you mean about the interaction with the class. I felt the same way when I first did online classes, but now I am an online class junkie. Keep in consideration that this class is a lot more demanding than usual and a lot more informative. My father always told me that no reward is GREAT unless there was a struggle. The commute will be a struggle but the reward will be GREAT.
ReplyDeleteI commute 35 miles back and forth from Sanford to UCF. Trust me after a while, you get used to it. It used to feel like it took forever to get to school, but now I blink and I'm there! It's not so bad, plus you can listen to class recordings on the car ride. The only downside is the gas and tolls, I sugest buying a hybrid or a horse! It seems like gas and toll is where most of my money goes, I need to get rid of my truck. Good Luck!
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