Days 9 & 10

This is a combined late post for Thursday, Feb 15 and Tuesday, Feb 19.

Day 9 was a short visit day to Dr. Cheng's office. He was out doing errands but he left instructions for his assistant to tell me what to do. All I had to do was remove more staples out of patients' records again. I only stayed an hour because I think the assistant had to close the office since Dr. Cheng had not come back yet. I  was only there for a short hour.

Day 10 was different from most days. Sure it started off removing staples from records again but I also got to watch Dr. Cheng do a physical to a patient who recently got into a car accident. This patient already had a previous injury he was dealing with and according to Dr. Cheng, could be a permanent injury. He aggravated  his previous injured areas plus the left side of his back and neck. Dr. Cheng asked him what happened in the accident. The patient told him his story and Dr. Cheng drew a diagram of the accident. He later told me that this would be evidence if the patient ever wanted to file a law suit. Dr. Cheng started the physical test by stretching joints of the patient, testing what movements will cause pain. Dr. Cheng used a measuring instrument that the patient can pinch to measure the applied for in a single pinch. Then he had the muscle simulator attached to his back. The point of this machine was to tightened muscles and make them work so that when they recover quickly because it simulated the muscle. After observing that, I headed on home and called it a day. Until next time...

-Ya boii John!!

Combined logged in time: 3 hrs
Total Time: 17 hrs

1984 Chapter 1-3 Write Up

Winston Smith's biggest possible conflict so far would be thinking badly of Big Brother where in this case would be a thinkcrime. Winston writes "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER!" multiple times in his diary page. He was probably one of the few people who thought this and he did not agree with how the government is running the society. He believes that the government will erase his memory if they ever find his diary and every thing he wrote in it. This was said in the book: "Only the thought police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence." Oceania is ruled by a totalitarian government where everyone is expected to do the same things. They are made to have a time where they yell and curse at someone who was considered to be a traitor. Winston hates how the people who run Oceania are making everyone else live in a crappy society.

Stranger than Fiction Write-Up

After watching the film Stranger Than Fiction, I can connect the roles of being an author and a narrator of a story. I know for a fact that the author controls the story and and has the power to decide what will happen next. The narrator is basically the author's voice and is reading what the author wrote. Just like how in the movie whatever Ms. Eiffel typed in the type writer was narrated and actually happened to Harold Crick. Originally, Harold was supposed to die until Karen discovered that Harold was a real person. Karen, being the author, had the power to change how her book was going to end and came up with a new ending that saved Harold's life. So I believe that the author has a lot more power than the narrator, who just reads what the author wrote. 

Well since we had to write a research paper and not a speech, I had to leave out any personal nouns. I imagined my self as a narrator to avoid writing in any pronouns. It helped because I had that narrator who narrates books in third person omniscient. I think who ever reads my paper might be hooked after they read some of the information I found researching. I think they may find it interesting how steroids will be affecting people. 

Day 8

Day 8 was a Saturday afternoon and was my first time working on a weekend. Dr. Cheng says Saturdays are usually his busiest days and wanted me to come see for my self. Unfortunately, this particular Saturday was a slow business day. I did the usual removing staples and filing papers for about hour and a half. Dr. Cheng only had one patient who came in while I was there. After I finished with a big stack of files, Dr. Cheng showed me an old file of a prisoner. In 2009 Dr. Cheng volunteered to do a physical for a prisoner who was in poor health. Lets call her "Maria" This was an interesting and sad story, Maria had a rare recessive gene disorder that affected her height and her mobility; she is a legal dwarf I think is the correct term and is on a wheelchair. She was convicted for murdering her 2 year old son after pleading guilty in court even though Dr. Cheng think she's innocent. She pleaded guilty because she found out that she would only spend a few years in jail instead of 10 years. Dr. Cheng said that the son was beaten to death but he said it was unlikely that the mom killed the son because she had a difficult time doing simple tasks because of her condition (he confirmed this after he did her physical and she was unable to throw a ball, let alone beat her own child). They think the real suspect was the woman who let Maria live with her and her children. Now this is where the story gets even more interesting. The woman's kid's father was the man who raped Maria and Ivan, Maria's son who's deceased, was the fruit of that act. In my opinion, that woman let her anger out on Ivan because she was mad that the father made him. After Ivan's death, the woman disappeared and was never tracked by L.A Police Dept. Dr. Cheng was pretty skeptical on how the justice system down in L.A handle this case because barely no common sense was used. Maria could barely throw a ball, how can she possibly cause damage to her son? The sad thing was that Maria was almost deported back to her parent's home country even though she spent most of her life living in the U.S and she had a green card. So yeah this was very interesting and sad at the same time, it made me wonder the corruption and the carelessness of the higher authority that is suppose to be protecting our rights. This was the highlight of my visit to Dr. Cheng's office has certainly got me wondering about what I read. I never knew how much interesting things a chiropractor can do. I'd like to have more visits like this in the future. That's all for now folks, until next time...

-Ya boii John!!


Time logged in: 2.5 hrs
Time logged total: 14 hrs

Day 6 & Day 7

This is a post for Tuesday February 5 and Thursday February 7 2013.

Day 6 was another filing and removing staples day at Dr. Cheng's office. Those papers are records of his patients since the late 90's and I'm helping Dr. Cheng prepare them to be scanned to be stored in the computer. I had only 5 files but they were pretty thick ones and it took me about an hour to finish removing staples and another 45 minutes doing another stack. It's pretty boring work but the Jazz music in the background helps me through the job. It was a slow afternoon as only a couple of people had appointments and one of those people was Coach Oca who is a football coach and a teacher in South City. Other than that it was a slow day. I hope I could do more in the future so I could get an idea what to do for my presentation.

Day 7 was another file and removing staples day at Dr. Cheng's office. I filed for the majority of my visit but I did other things as well. It was a pretty busy afternoon/night, there were a lot of patients who came in. I saw a couple of girls from South City who had a physical scheduled. One of them was having fun with the massage chair. I know this because I had to observe what was going on in the office. Dr. Cheng had me listen in while he worked with a patient. I picked up his techniques and methods of diagnosing injuries while i listened. He asked the patient questions and had them go on different positions checking for any pain. After  that he gave his diagnosis  and recommended what was best for the patient. He then explained that he doesn't like skip steps or procedures when he does his job unlike some doctors and physicians. That seems to be a pet peeve of his. This visit was much more interesting and I hope to have more visits like this.

Until next time,
-Ya boii John!

Time logged (Day 6&7): 4 hrs
Time logged in total: 11 and 1/2 hours

Day 5

This is a late post done earlier last week on Thursday January 31, 2013. I thought I had posted it but it seems that I'm wrong. Day 5 was an interesting day, Dr. Cheng allowed me to watch him do an adjustment on two patients. Before that I was removing staples off of old records to get them scanner ready so he can have those records saved in his computer. Dr. Cheng introduced me to one of his long term patients who was cool with me watching her getting adjusted. It was really interesting, it looked like it felt good and painful at the same time but the patient looked so relaxed the whole time. I was surprised on how much force Dr. Cheng applied and he later explain that if he only work with little force then it won't be effective. The patient was more lively after the back adjustment and she described it "It's the best thing since peanut butter!". This experience was very interesting and every visit with my mentor gets me educated more about chiropractic. Till next time....

-Ya boii John!


Time logged in: 2 hrs
Time logged total: 7.5 hrs