How many tries?

I'm curious how many attempts you get in America to pass a medic exam. Internet search came up with 3, then a remedial course, then 3, then you must take the class again. So, 6? (Apparently you can re-take with 15 days between, I had to wait 30 by law but the re-take was not available until 60 days had passed.)

Also the bar exam and the medical boards, it would seem you get 6 tries. Is that correct?

If I had 6 tries, wow.

In my own language, that would be great.

J just told me that no first-responder agency in Germany would offer this any differently, because all of them comply to the same standard, it's a government test).  I cannot just switch to the German Red Cross and hope they offer me more options. So...no idea. 



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J and I are both sick (with colds) at the same time, for the first time. I blame the germ-factory he works at, not him. It's so weird to be sharing packs of tissues and pots of tea and just hanging together on the couch all day, day after day, coughing and sneezing and feeling miserable. He's 2 days ahead of me so he's past the worst of it.

It SNOWED off and on the last two days so going outside to feed/clean was ridiculous because the wind was buffeting my ears painfully, it was 3C. What can you do, when you keep horses at home, and you're sick, you're out in the snow.

My nose doesn't work. So when I picked some lovage from the greenhouse, I thought it was bad lovage cuz normally it has a powerful smell. J assured me it does smell. I had to have him check my bay leaves too. Then he had to tell me I was smoking up the house with a greasy pan in the oven. He was in the living room, door closed, and I was sitting here next to the oven. Mag was afraid of me when I went out to give him an apple, backing away, cuz I stunk like smoke. OK then, something new about Mag. Don't smell weird and expect him to be chill.

I'm gonna go to the pharmacy tomorrow and hold up my 10-year expired Sudofed box and say, "More please" though there is virtually no chance Germany gives that stuff over the counter. ACC is not helping.

I must say, though, this is nothing compared to that sinus infection I had last year, where I thought I was bleeding out of all my head orifices.

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Question for you guys, what does it mean when a horse gallops around, seemingly for fun (no reason that I could find), one end of the pasture to the other in giant loops, nickering/vocalizing breathily the entire time? Baasha used to do it, and Mag does it too. Soft nickers, not neighs. The donkey was grazing in the middle of the loops, ignoring him.