The dangers of coffee

[Leonardsmom,LPN]

As a pre-nursing student or even a student in general most of us love our coffee, myself included. Sunday night I came home to find out what disastrous combination of love for coffee, cats and my anatomy lab manual could come to. I have already started doing some studying for my summer anatomy class that is starting at the end of next week and of course what goes well with studying... coffee. I had left to go to work on Sunday afternoon and left a coffee cup on my desk that had been about a third full. My books and note cards where on the desk also. I came home Sunday night went into my room to find that someone had knocked the coffee cup over and the bottom edge of my anatomy lab manual was sitting in the mess. Now I have a lab manual that is coffee stained on all of the pages and the dilemma of what to do now? Do I contact my instructor letting him know what has happened and see if the manual will still be okay to use (I have been in contact with him already about the materials that I was going to need for the class and he does know that finances are an issue for me) or do I figure out how I am going to come up with the extra $100 to get a new lab manual which I just don't have? Even if he says that it will be okay, all of the pages are still legible it goes against my nature to turn something in that is not perfect, which I feel reflects upon my professionalism. As much as I love my cats Sunday night I definitely was not feeling much affection towards them in that moment.

[lakmom12]

After it dries, see if you can make copies of the pages. Then you don't have to worry about turning in coffee stained papers (even though they might still show on the copy, not nearly as bad or as brown as the actual coffee itself!) and you don't have to buy a new book. Sadly I've had this happen to me before, with two cats and three kids its kind of inevitable lol

[Leonardsmom,LPN]

I sent an email to my instructor yesterday and waiting back for a reply. Unfortunately the pages are in color, so copying them might not be an affordable option (had thought about that myself originally) depending on how many pages needed to be turned in. I don't have access at home to making color copies so it would be a place like staples and if enough copies needed to be made I could end up paying as much in copies or more than I did for the lab manual. Will have to wait and see, just feel like I am that kid in school that tells the teacher they can't turn in their homework because the dog ate it :)