After many years at livejournal, I've jumped ship.

I moved it over to WordPress - no hard feelings!

Find me - http://yogavet.wordpress.com/

See you on the flip side!

As my sister reminded me today, I am one of the few lucky people that actually has their dream job. Minor fantasies of singing on Broadway not withstanding. I am aware of this, and I try not to diminish that fact when my job gets hard. Being a horse vet, especially one at the beginning of her career, means long hours, demanding conditions, and ( Read more... )

I remember when a big snow storm was a reason to celebrate - maybe you got the day off school, you could spend the day sledding and drinking hot chocolate and waiting for it all to melt. I grew up in the Northeast, so we knew how to handle snow. Within half a day of the snow stopping, the roads would be pretty much clear. Enough people had ( Read more... )

Aaah, what do you do after you drive someone to the airport for a 5:45am flight? I thought I'd be all set to snuggle back in bed with my kitty and sleep for the next 4 hours, but I'm too awake for that. So, Felix and I are snuggling on the couch with some holiday tunes and a mug of coffee with eggnog and cinnamon (my newest creation... pretty ( Read more... )

The little muscle disease filly steadily improved... so much so that she was ready to go home this morning.  Unfortunately, her owner had another (larger) horse that was experiencing many of the same signs.  ::sigh::  So this morning, we made a swap - they brought us another down horse in a trailer, we hooked him up to fluids for round 2.  And the ( Read more... )

This week has been hard on my body, and it's only Wednesday.  I love medicine, but wish sometimes that my patients were not so flippin' LARGE... such as when they cannot get up on their own.  1,100lbs of floppy horse = not safe or fun for anyone.

Thankfully, the filly that came in Monday morning unable to stand on her own is only about 500lbs.  But ( Read more... )

Whew... I'm on call this weekend, and if things keep up the way they have been, it's gonna be insane.

So far this week I have seen one chronic laminitis who is likely suffering from Cushing's disease (a metabolic disease), and then an acute laminitis that is likely suffering from an infectious disease.... who I have been going out to daily to run ( Read more... )

Being on call pretty much all the time really does make you appreciate any and all time off ( Read more... )

Good morning and happy day off to myself  :-)  
I'm sitting here on the couch with a very snuggly purring cat on my lap, drinking coffee and eating Ezekiel toast with butter and blackberry jam... mmmm.  I could do this all morning.

Had a great night last night - went out with Matt to our very favorite bar (which happens to offer $1-2 burgers with ( Read more... )

Fall is my very favorite time of year, and fall in Virginia is just lovely.  So warm you can still grow food until nearly December, but cool enough at night that you can sleep with the windows open, and we still have apples and pumpkins and fall leaves (eventually) and all that jazz.  Virginia is a lovely state, you should come visit sometime.

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