Warning: May cause excessive daytime sleepiness

What is up with me and pathology? We’re now right in the middle of our Cardiology block, so for the past couple of weeks we’ve had a few lectures in cardiovascular pathology from this one doctor. Now don’t get me wrong, I find pathology pretty interesting (considering I had a specialist DEGREE in pathobiology), but every time this guy lectures, I fall asleep. And no, it’s not the subtle head-nodding or even brief eye-resting. I have a full-on snoring (if I snored), limb paralyzing, REM sleep.

So today I was fully ready for this. I propped myself up, I had a snack of cookies ready for a good jolt of sugar. But I couldn’t fight the inevitable loss of consciousness.

Doctor
“…ischemia in the epicardial coronary arteries… blah, blah, blah…”

Me to self
[eyes closing] Fight it! Fight it! NOOO! Cannot help it, eyes will not open…cannot fight it…okay give up…nap time for me

Yes, so I fell asleep. Completely unconscious, body horizontal onto the next seat, drooling from side of mouth (no I kid…at LEAST I didn’t drool). I think I even had a dream. I finally woke up when my pen fell from my hands.

I feel very embarrassed about my obvious narcolepsy. I don’t do it on purpose. But it’s almost like my body knows it has to sleep as soon as he opens his mouth. What’s worse, I saw him in the halls today. We made EYE CONTACT! And I knew, I just knew that he recognizes me as the girl who never stays awake. I guess cardio-pathology won’t be in my future anytime soon.