CPP on a friday night...

so they told us, that there was much to be done for the registration and setting up at the opening night of the Billings Conference. bollocks, no one was to be seen when we got there at 6pm. The conference was organised to begin at 730pm, so we tried to leave uni as soon as class ended. But we found ourselvs to be relatively early. after 10mins or so of setting up soem laptops and projectors, we were pretty much done. driving 30 kms all the way to heidelberg just to do that, was quite a wate of time.

fortunately, we got a chance to have a mini discussion with Dr Mary Martin, who is a Gynaecologist who is in provate practise in the United States. The session we had with her was really insightful and enriching. I must say, having a very experienced gynaecologist come in to spend some time with 2nd year medical students was really time well spent. not only did we get her insight on the Billing's Method, but also some lessons in medicine. The pill...end ovulation...hyperinsulinaemia...... increased insulin and its effects on circulating androgens...metabolic syndromes...pre-diabetes in women, and the relationships with fertility. It was quite a bit in that one session, 60% of medical jargon that I did not understand one bit, even after 1.5 years in medical school. This is why I chose the Billings Method for CPP last year, not to be some slave worker, packing hundreds of envelopes and photocopying 100s of door bags. i'll give this another chance, hopefully once the conference ends and the teacher-training session begins, we'll all get what we were orginally looking for..

the next 2 weeks are rural week, so the urbanites like me wil be having a more relaxed time-table. I gotta make sur eI use this time wisely, get alot..and I mean ALOT of studying done, as well as some HPKM stuff. perhap sI could get a few rounds of golf in the 2 weeks. we'll see.