strawberry tongue??

today at work turned out to be an ok day...and sortof depressing too, because it started POURING down rain, and it got dark around 3:30 which was weird. the weather was super eerie this afternoon...

i'm finding that i have alot of free time to blog at night now, so i try to think of things that come up at work that i can remember to share if i feel like they're worth sharing with the blogging world. well today one of my patients had an odd looking tongue, which freaked me out when she first opened her mouth. good thing i had my mask on, because i'm not sure what my face looked like under it when i first saw an image that looks similar to the picture posted above. i mean, i've never seen anything like it in real life...only in textbooks. i decided to keep quiet and not say anything about it to the patient (who was a 15 yr old girl). so instead, i waited til after i finished cleaning, and i asked dr. n. he said that it was most likely not "strawberry tongue"...which is what i thought it was. that is the first thing that came to mind, because it looked like a strawberry. he said that those were associated with bad systemic diseases...like scarlet fever. haha. the other thing that had come to mind was median glossitis or geographical tongue, but this didn't look like the normal kind of those to me! but he asked if i thought it could be geographical tongue, and i was like...umm, it looks weird to be that? well he took a look, and as i was writing her note for the dr., he asked the patient if her tongue had always been like that. to which she replied that it had been like that since birth and it was called "geographical tongue". haha. this patient was pretty smart...she even knew what it was called! i felt silly of course, but i said, "i wish it was strawberry tongue! because then i would have noticed something rare in a patient's mouth!!"

that's all that was interesting about today. and michael's (wiggins') last day as an intern at barnhart crane was today. he said everyone at work was saying he was the hardest working intern they'd seen, and they want him to come back when he graduates. they didn't for sure offer him a job, but it is sure looking in that direction!

auburn bound tomorrow...YAYAYAYAYAYA!