I had a great time at home, but as I expected, it put me behind schedule by a few days. I’m now officially 2 days behind and am forced to study extra each day to catch up! So far I’ve gotten through 11 of 18 chapters in First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK and 11 of the 30 chapters I was planning on going through for Crush Step 2. I essentially read First Aid and then add the bits from Crush Step 2 that were missing. I’ve also been annotating from the respective chapters in First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 2, which is a nice way for me to do some application of my reading. At the end when I re-read for review, I will only have to focus on reading one book. In addition, I have done 6 of the 13 subjects in the Kaplan USMLE Flashcards. The disappointing part is that I have only gotten through about 450 questions in the past week and a half. I have 9 days to go and 1790 questions to go! I guess I was so caught up in the reading/flashcards/annotating, that I neglected the questions. So I’ll be picking up the pace and averaging 200 questions a day to catch up… along with my reading.
Man, maybe I should’ve just waited until Christmas to see my family 
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I don’t think you have anything to worry about. You’ll do great! For what it’s worth, my roommate used Crush plus USMLE World plus First Aid and felt well prepared (she took it yesterday).
How did you study from First Aid for CS? I started reading it tonight and got through everything up to the Mini Cases. Will start the cases tomorrow. Hopefully 5 days total is enough. I’m getting kind of nervous about it, lol.
Thanks for the encouragement!
As far as Step 2 CS, I used the First Aid book as well. I did all of the mini-cases first. Then I would go through the main cases and try to come up with as many questions as possible without looking at the check list and see how I did. (I had my boyfriend pretend to be the patients to help with this). Then I actually wrote the patient note including the 5 differentials/5 tests timing myself at 10 minutes to be sure that I would be able to get everything in there and stay on track. I haven’t gotten my results back yet, but I felt ready after that.
I’m sure that 5 days will be plenty. As long as you know how to talk to the patient and develop the differential/plan (which I know you are great at) you will do great!