About the Header

Every two weeks, or so, my class has nearly-compulsatory attendance at Careers in Medicine seminars. In these seminars, doctors representing one or two fields in medicine come during lunch and tell us about their specialties. This information includes residency requirements ["We prefer the top 10% of the class, which I'm sure you all are...], average salary, information about lifestyle, etc.

Last week, one of the seminars was Psychiatry. It was a really interesting seminar, for various reasons, but my favorite part was the end. The speaker ended his presentation with a few interesting images, one of which was an advertisement for some psychiatric drug [unfortunately, I can't remember which]. The image in the advertisement was a head--inside the head, there was nothing but a circle filled with sunshines, smiley faces and thumbs up. My friends and I got a huge kick out of it, and since then, we have been joking that my medicine has replaced my brain with smiley faces and sunshine.

Cue today, when I went to see my psychiatrist. We agreed that the best thing to do about my swings--whether they are caused by stress or by the addition of the birth control pills--would be to titrate up 25 mgs, which brings me from 75 mg to 100 mg. This is convenient, too, because it actually decreases the number of Lamictal pills I have to take from 3 to 1. I came back to the house, and as I was walking up the steps, I thought of the new 100 mg Lamictal pill, and I started giggling. On this, the very first day of April, I start filling my head with more sunshine and smiley faces. Thus, the header. The pink, as happy horseshit and overly bubbly as I find it, seemed like a perfect match.

I thought people might think all the pink is an April Fool's day thing. But it's not. We'll all deal with it together.