It's not every day that a blogger shows you her pancreas, is it?

Since my pancreas (and to some degree, my procrastination) had sent my neuro grade spiraling into unacceptable territory, Monday's exam warranted a lot of praying, a friggin' huge amount of studying (well, huge for me) and all possible appendages crossed. Aaaaaaand ...

It worked out okay. My grade on the lecture exam was acceptable-ish (I wish I was doing better, but what are you gonna do when you're borderline stupid?) and I actually got an A on the lab exam. So YAY. Yay for God (Who is always good, but Who was particularly good during my lab exam!), yay for me, yay for Tamika and Onala, my official encouragers. And today was sunny, with two more minutes of daylight than yesterday, and I had a good lunch with a bunch of people and it was fun. (I won't go into the misheard discussion about pinnas.)

In conclusion, life is good today and I'm happy.

My pancreas is still evil, though. I had a CT scan last week to make sure there's not a cyst or something that's causing all of my pain (although I really think it's all of the stress that has it all riled up - medical school doesn't agree with chronic pancreatitis.) And the radiology guy made fun of my turnip-like veins, but then he gave me a CD of my scan. It's cool because I can scroll right through myself on my computer, see my aorta give off my hepatic artery and splenic artery, and then bifurcate into two common iliac arteries, all of that. I only know a wee bit of what I'm looking at - we had a little bit of imaging stuff during anatomy lab last semester, but I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. Anyway, I THINK this is my pancreas (see previous statement about lack of expertise):

If you're smarter than me and know that that's not my pancreas, please comment and let me know. Because I'm going to blow that picture up to poster size and fling large objects at it regularly, and I'd hate to take out my rage on an innocent artery or something.